You are cleverly sidestepping my question - ASADA's legal advice could be that they put the Show Cause notices on hold till the result of the Federal Court Appeal - It doesn't make sense to offer deals etc, in the off-chance that Hird succeeds - Where would that leave ASADA ? - I suggest that could leave ASADA in a world of pain - And then if Hird's Federal Court appeal fails the players have to go through the process and they could be forced to miss chunks of the season.
There is no valid reason for Hird to appeal to the Federal Court - Then again his house is run by loonies.
they offered a deal or deals whilst we were going to the federal court didnt they?
why would they change now? As hutchy says, they have form, they will throw out deals.
As I posted earlier in the thread - refer to the cases and judgements of the relevent CAS appeals - contrary to popluar media belief, the hurdle ASADA has to jump is actually fairly high, in fact Id say its very high - that is precedent law.
If a cyclist can have empty viles of a banned drug and labelled as such all through his apartment, and still not satisfy as a
finding of fact he even had possession of the drug - I have no idea what ASADA has in this case which is even close to getting up for a start.
Your question re the reason for Hird appealing is a good one - I simply rationalise it as it is his honest belief tha what ASADA did was unlawful and wrong, and he standing up for what he truly believes in.
Im not sure anyone else in this whole saga has acted as per their honest beliefs, but rather bowed to the 'pressure' around them. That includes Vlad, Little, Gillon, Asada, the AFl commish and the EFC board etc. Maybe Hird is just naive, I dunno.