Thats how I felt in 09 all season. And then of coarse it rained on GF day.......
I'm more pissy they let Chapman play and WADA banned the procedure in November of that year due to player enhancement concerns.
Everyone was aware it was on the cards to be banned, but who gives a damn about an even playing field and instead lets ban blokes for smoothies instead of blood fixing. Without him, Cats don't win, and we miss a flag by less than 2 friggen months with citation.
With what we know Essendon ended up doing and rumours doing the round with several clubs around the time including Geelong, and the Sydney Doc coming out with "The technique was used by a lot of people in sport and correctly so because
it wasn't categorically banned, leave a poor taste in my mouth that they pushed that envelope as hard and far as they could because legalese had their backs for that month.
We know the AFL had NFI given what Essendon got away with 3 years later, it was all too hard so why not blood fix a bloke who end up kicking 3 goals in a match decided by 1 point wih a kick after the siren to make it 7 (discounting Hawkins deflection goal).
Winning is grand if you know that victory is not tainted with deceit.