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http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-ne...oping-cases-against-them-20141017-117yk6.html
Player representatives told Fairfax Media on Friday night that they had not in the preliminary examination unearthed any smoking gun in the show-cause letters, which averaged 350 pages per player and were delivered via computer disc to the legal team assembled by the players' union.
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McDevitt is expected to offer deals to players seeking to further hasten their fates in the coming days, but no player has yet moved to negotiate despite two – Western Bulldog Stewart Crameri and Brent Prismall, now playing in the VFL – seeking independent advice. ASADA has suggested any deal would involve at least a short suspension.
If true then it's likely nothing has really changed from what has already been disclosed publicly. So circumstantial case & unlikely to be able to prove to comfortable satisfaction that TB4 was injected? I suspect so.
Player representatives told Fairfax Media on Friday night that they had not in the preliminary examination unearthed any smoking gun in the show-cause letters, which averaged 350 pages per player and were delivered via computer disc to the legal team assembled by the players' union.
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McDevitt is expected to offer deals to players seeking to further hasten their fates in the coming days, but no player has yet moved to negotiate despite two – Western Bulldog Stewart Crameri and Brent Prismall, now playing in the VFL – seeking independent advice. ASADA has suggested any deal would involve at least a short suspension.
If true then it's likely nothing has really changed from what has already been disclosed publicly. So circumstantial case & unlikely to be able to prove to comfortable satisfaction that TB4 was injected? I suspect so.
So fantastic.. they appear to have built a really strong case that Dank asked Charters about TB4.. and a really really really strong case that a Chinese factory made some TB4.. and a great case to suggest that the TB4 was brought to Australia.. and a very convincing case that TB4 was, at some point, at Alavis Chemist....
Then it gets a little murky.. because they still haven't been able to find any evidence that the TB4 was ever destined for EFC, in fact there appears to be no record of the TB4 after it leaves Alavi's.. which doesn't mean they can go 1+1=4... it may have been destroyed.. it may have been onsold.. it may have been used in Dank's clinic.. it may have been given to Melbourne FC players for all we know...
So even if the tribunal accepts there is a 5% chance it ended up at EFC.. they have no evidence of players being given any injection labelled directly as TB4. They have no evidence of players admitting to receiving TB4.. the closest they have is "that sounds familiar" and "maybe, I don't know, maybe" oh and let's not forget the "he said there was good Thymosin and bad Thymosin and this was the good one".
But yeah that sums compelling and 'almost beyond reasonable doubt' to me..

