Crows contacted ASADA

[jangofett]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/ca...r-doping-worries/story-fnelctok-1226743081022

We contacted ASADA requesting a list of prohibited substances, which i would assume is a pretty standard operation. Yet this journalist has dragged us in to the saga by saying we had "worries" and "secret documents" were involved. What a piece of garbage journalism.

 

[Kerleys Ghost]

it says we called them as the 2013 season kicked off, no doubt the essendon scandal is what prompted us to do so.

as for secret documents? wouldnt be a first at our club, but i believe this is merely cheap, sensationalistic writing.

 

[jangofett]

it says we called them as the 2013 season kicked off, no doubt the essendon scandal is what prompted us to do so.

as for secret documents? wouldnt be a first at our club, but i believe this is merely cheap, sensationalistic writing.

They have basically written a small as possible sentence about what actually happened, and the rest is about how secret phone calls and emails were made, basically trying to avoid the truth and highlight garbage. The journalist also seems to have a whinge more than a few times, poor journalism

 

[dylan123]

The third was a January 18 email from the Adelaide Crows seeking a list of prohibited substances.

Well we're screwed.

 

[Kerleys Ghost]

They have basically written a small as possible sentence about what actually happened, and the rest is about how secret phone calls and emails were made, basically trying to avoid the truth and highlight garbage. The journalist also seems to have a whinge more than a few times, poor journalism

it's not journalism, it's just writing.

 

[Deaneus!]

How many draft picks are we losing?

 

[CrowAboutIt]

*Insert Trigg joke"

 

[Mismatched]

So in other words this punce spent most of the year trying to dig up dirt on other clubs, but in the end came up with sweet FA.

Ah the good old Sunday Fail.

 

[MRB37]

I knew Scott Thompson was on something after I did a pushup and didn't have guns as big as his.

Silly article, says the Crows "contacted ASADA over concerns about prohibited substances", but then says all they asked for was a list of banned supplements, which I don't think would be out of the ordinary for any sporting team to do.

 

[AFC3000]

Writers obviously graduated from the Rucci school of journalism. I would think clubs would be irresponsible to not contact ASADA for up to date information. Also replace the word secret with confidential and it's half the story it is again.

 

[1990crow]

Pathetic journalism. No doubt Rucci had his hands in it somewhere.

 

[Dangerzone_19]

Pathetic journalism. No doubt Rucci had his hands in it somewhere.

Not yet he isn't, so we will just have to wait for his follow up article tomorrow morning

 

[magtrev]

to be fair to rucci, I heard him on radio and he seemed as disgusted with this piece of 'journalism' as anyone on here.

How ridiculous that a phone call exercising due diligence in asking for a list of banned substances is reported as suspicious.

 

[weirdtim]

What trash. So we emailed them asking for a list of banned substances just to exercise the regular standard of care every club should adhere to, and the Mail tries to link it to Essendon's dodgy behaviour. How do these people have jobs? Probably afraid that if they don't smear Adelaide once a week their malevolent overlord Rucci will get them fired.

 

[Truck25]

It would actually be more relevant to say which clubs didn't do due diligence and obtain a listing from the authority's.

 

[Marty64]

to be fair to rucci, I heard him on radio and he seemed as disgusted with this piece of 'journalism' as anyone on here.

Was he most pissed off by missing the story though?

 

[Jack is Back]

We contacted ASADA requesting a list of prohibited substances

I didn't know ASADA were a supplier.

 

[adelaidecrows]

Apparently being a responsible club and asking for an up to date list of prohibited substances should be linked to possible doping worries? (like duh, any professional club worth its salt short have rung or emailed ASADA after the Essendon Saga broke requesting current information to inform players). That entire article is gutter journalism and the AFC should be requesting a please explain as to how our clubs name gets linked to such an article that is clearly trying to create a link. In fact I think the AFL on behalf of all clubs other than Essendon in that article should be requesting an apology from that journalist.

 

[ManInTheArena]

The third was a January 18 email from the Adelaide Crows seeking a list of prohibited substances.

Well we're screwed.

Did it tell them not to tell the AFL? I reckon Trigg should keep all the incriminating emails and other evidence and open up our books/data.

 

[magtrev]

Was he most pissed off by missing the story though?

erm, no?

 

[Crow-eater]

ADELAIDE'S fitness and medical program is not being questioned by either the Crows, the AFL or the government’s anti-doping authority despite contact between the SA club and ASADA.
And the AFL’s confidence in both the Adelaide and Port Adelaide football clubs’ programs is measured by both Crows club doctor Andrew Potter and Power medical officer Mark Fisher advising the league on how to avoid a repeat of the Essendon supplements saga.
Adelaide was left bewildered by how the Crows were labelled as a club that contacted the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority before the season began “over concerns about prohibited substances”.
The Crows say their call to ASADA - by a team medical officer in January - was simply to ask the doping authority for the latest version of the banned substances list. ASADA responded with advice to check its website.
“We made a call on a clerical issue - how could we get an electronic version of the banned list,” said Adelaide chief executive Steven Trigg. “Now that question to ASADA has been left open to all sort of interpretation.
“We weren’t concerned about prohibited substances. We wanted an electronic version of the banned list.
“Are we concerned about our program? Not in the slightest.”

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...-medical-program/story-fni5f4l8-1226743406688
A clerical issue, you say? Well...that bodes well

 

[cmndstab]

I love the way the print media can write a story about nothing, and then follow it up with a second story about how, despite the first story, nothing is happening. And then after a few of these "two for the price of none" stories, they can print a further story about how "evidence is mounting!", only to follow it up with yet another story about how nothing is happening after all... but WATCH THIS SPACE!!!


I wish I could adopt that model for the papers I have to write for my job

 

[little graham]

If you read the article, we contacted ASADA on the 18th of January, a fortnight before the story broke and a week and a half before Essendon got tipped off (allegedly). You'll also read that there's 12 clubs been believed to have supplement programs that lacked accountability but didn't dope (believed).

My first point is ASADA regularly update there list of banned substances, what is the normal protocol? Do we contact them or do they contact us directly or provide the AFL with the updated list and the AFL passes it on?

Remember we're free to use what ever we want Before it gets banned.

Second point.

Watching the abc investigative pieces on the doping scandal, it's quite clear that more than 1 of the 12 clubs perceived to lack accountability in their supplements programs, used dank style practices.

Third point.

If guilt by association holds any truth, off to the gallows we go. look at our history of sport science, where it came from, that sports history...etc etc...

But guilt by association is very weak circumstantial evidence if not accompanied by more solid fact.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Just look up an article earlier in the year quoting Kevin Norton about Dank. He mentioned that Dank had approached us and Norton's advice to our science and medical committee was not to go near Dank. I doubt any of those other clubs have that type of committee set up. The sports scientists who work with us have mostly come from Uni environments where ethics approvals are required and if you want to publish results, must have ethics.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Who is Peter Mickelburough? Apparently Senior Journalist - FOI Editor at Herald and Weekly Times

AFC should ban providing him any information in the future as a pathetic article. Join 1 & 1... & make an outlandish statement "journalism"