Certified Legendary Thread Sympathy for *essendon - congratulations on '16 Wooden Spoon (RIP The Scales)

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"This is not about suppressing evidence, it's not about trying to get the players off on a technicality, it's about trying to get the players a fair system.

I know its been said many times BUT if the Club and Players are totally innocent WHY is there any issue with the system. If they are innocent bring on the evidence which should clear them and we wouldn't have the last year of shit.
The old "Why do you care, if you haven't done anything wrong?" question applies in spades.
 

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"This is not about suppressing evidence, it's not about trying to get the players off on a technicality, it's about trying to get the players a fair system.

I know its been said many times BUT if the Club and Players are totally innocent WHY is there any issue with the system. If they are innocent bring on the evidence which should clear them and we wouldn't have the last year of shit.
Funny how he didn't care about a fair system when he was injecting his players with a banned substances, but now that he's caught..... Sympathy abounds.
 

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Interesing that two of the key people * supporters have been hanging their hats on, the cricket rebel and sea kayaker had a falling out...

For those who can't be arsed heading to http://bombertalk4.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15660 see below for major LULZ

I am not sure that anyone is interested in reading about two adults fighting with handbags like two school girls. I have discussed this on bomberblitz. But here goes. I paid for Martin to fly from Geelong to Coolangatta in early March 2014 to give me a crash course on the law and WADA / ASADA regulations. Martin stayed in my home for six days. No one was supposed to know I was communicating with Martin. On day one he told Tracey Holmes and James Hird he was staying at my place. On day two he posted pictures, both external and internal, of my home all over facebook and twitter. At the time of Martin's visit I had written 250 pages of my book. Martin asked me to bin my book and co-author a book with him. I was quite put out by being asked to bin six months work but said I would think about it. A week after he returned to Geelong I said I wanted to finish my book but I would do all the research and dissections for him for his book. He was quite put out and subsequently claimed I never responded to his request to co-author a book. When I published my email which proved he wasn't telling the truth he got quite annoyed. I even sent him the contents page of my book and the first seven chapters.

His book is much more important to him than mine is to me. My brother-in-law is a scientist and a former university vice chancellor. He vets most of my work. He said it is important for academics to be writing books and papers. I suspect the money is also important to Martin. I was shocked when I read he was seeking donations to write his book. As no fee was mentioned in the $20,000 cost I'll be interested to see the final accounts. Martin tried to persuade Tracey not to write anything in return for helping her get the TV interview with Hird.

In fairness to Martin, he was obsessed with everyone protecting the players' rights to confidentiality. He went berserk when I said I intended publishing extracts from the Interim Report which proved ASADA had changed Robson's evidence to nail Hird. Although I didn't mention any player names he bad-mouthed me to everyone when I alleged ASADA had fabricated the player responses to the drug use questionnairre. As Dillon had quoted extensively from the IR I thought Martin was barking up the wrong tree and told him so. An adviser from the minister's office had also phoned me at home one night and hinted that I would not be prosecuted if I obtained a copy of the IR and quoted from it.

I exposed Martin's hypocrisy when he tried to get someone to expose Xavier Campbell for taking a substance in 2012. Eventually, the Governor agreed to Martin's request to send a note to Mark Robinson with the Campbell details. A friend sent me a copy of the Governor's email to Robinson.

The book will make a huge difference to Martin's life. A book will make no difference to my life. When I heard Mark Thompson was offered money by a publisher to write a book I sent a message to Mark that he could have all my material and that I would go ahead with my book.

In summary, Martin turned it into a pissing competition. He even told me that Hird didn't want to hear from me ever again. Something Hird has denied.
 
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