News Dons ASADA scandal (Latest: Pg 101 - CAS verdict. Guilty, 12 months.)

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They are just another corporate entity. Their priorities are to continue to exist, to grow and to make money. They lack a moral centre. The fans are the ones with true heart in this system and actually hold all the power. The way for us to vote is to withhold $. Watch how quick the AFL will change its tack if <5000 people turned up at Anzac day and ratings dropped.
and All they Coperates care about is the Almighty $$$$$
 

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A league wide choice by fans to boycott Don's games would do a hell of a lot more to sort out the mess that is the afl than ASADA/WADA can/have. At least ANzac day and all their home games.
Considering most of our gate takings are already paid for in membership it won't make much difference.
 

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Stoked the players got off, they didnt deserve to cop it for the club ****ing up. What I can't deal with is the Essendon supporters celebrating like they won the flag and putting up those stupid memes saying Collingwood, St Kilda and Freo are drug cheats and Essendon aren't. Regardless of the legal outcome, their club single handedly has led the AFL down its darkest years in history, and put an asterisk over 3 years of high quality footy. I'd be ****ing ashamed if that was my club.
 

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How can a panel appointed by the AFL and supposedly paid by it be considered impartial and above all approach?

Every time Essendon and Hird have faced a body independent to the AFL whether it be ASADA or the courts they have been accused of doping violations or have failed in there quest to have the allegations thrown out.

Yet this time the outcome is exactly what the AFL wanted.

Honestly is anyone really that surprised?

You get what you pay for I guess.
 
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Stoked the players got off, they didnt deserve to cop it for the club ****ing up. What I can't deal with is the Essendon supporters celebrating like they won the flag and putting up those stupid memes saying Collingwood, St Kilda and Freo are drug cheats and Essendon aren't. Regardless of the legal outcome, their club single handedly has led the AFL down its darkest years in history, and put an asterisk over 3 years of high quality footy. I'd be ****ing ashamed if that was my club.
Ashamed of what? Of not being guilty? Of ASADAs incompetence? They have every right to celebrate as the club was found not guilty.
 

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It's all starting to make sense now, ASADA was never going to prove which players got what without confessions and couldn't go down the intent route due to two vital witnesses pulling out at the last second.

Essendon verdict: ASADA case failure likely caused by witnesses not appearing.

Both anti-ageing clinician Shane Charter and pharmacist Nima Alavi declined to swear statements or appear before the tribunal judges.

Charter on Tuesday told the Herald Sun: “Given the process that ASADA led, the case they took to the court was never going to get over the line.

“Any way you look at it, the players were duped.”

Both Charter and Alavi had detailed their knowledge of the supplement program to ASADA prior to the authority’s decision to issue infraction notices against players last year.

Their information had been so crucial to the ASADA case, the doping watchdog went to the Supreme Court in an unsuccessful bid to force them into the witness box.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...es-not-appearing/story-fni5f22o-1227286648242

Not guilty?
nah just blessed.
 

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james is willing to overlook an apology....from the AFL to him..

paul little should probably take over the reins of ASADA..
 
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