Count me in as one who would support Hird even if players are suspended.
It is simple. Hird did no wrong. Players suspensions, or not, will depend on what Dank did or didn't do, and ASADA's ability to prove it to a tribunal's "comfortable satisfaction".
Irrespective of the twists and turns in the prosecution of charges against the players, and the eventual outcome, Hird did no wrong.
He trusted Dank and Robinson to do what he, and others, instructed them to do - implement a cutting edge, legal and safe sports science program. I don't hold him responsible if they failed to adhere to the legal part.