Time for some reality...
The biggest myth in the entire doping saga, is that players and officials had their head in the sand and didn't know what was going on.
They all knew.
They all knew why Dank was there.
They all knew what his job was.
They all knew why the players were getting jabs offsite.
They all knew why they were recieving scripts from Doctors other than Reid for their injections.
They all knew why they were not to declare the injections to ASADA.
They all thought that the EFC had employed a 'guru' who knew his way around the code.
They all thought they had found a loophole, and had gotten one up on the rest of the comp.
Two things continue to shit me about how the media speak about this saga....
1. It's not a "supplements scandal" it's Doping. Pure and simple.
2. There's no possible way that an AFL club in 2012, would employ a man to oversee a regime of involved and specific injections without numerous people being involved and monitoring the outcome.
How else would they have been able to quantify the program as a success two months into the season ...if no one involved knew what it actually was that anyone was getting.
Anyone who has set foot in Waverley can see the numerous whiteboards which record weight sessions, sprint times, vertical jump heights...the list goes on and on, and the fitness and conditioning staff take it to a whole other level, monitoring sleep, time on the ground, time sprinting, time jogging.... It goes on and on as well.
Does anyone truly believe that clubs record skinfolds, running patterns, time on the ground etc, but don't record what injections each players has received?
The AFLPA's complete reluctance to challenge the statement from the AFL tribunal that "the players will never know what they were injected with" said enough. No Union in the world sits idle when its members are treated in such a way....unless that union knows more, and recognises that it's members are best served by buttoning their lips.
As I say above, the idea that the Essendon players and those in the football department had no idea what Dank was doing is completely and utterly ridiculous. It's a fantasy.
The texts to Hird about players injections, who was in the program and what drugs would be administered next prove this.
And it's why not one of those involved, nor the players union have squeezed Dank for info.
/rant