The possibility of Essendon innocence: a travesty of justice or conspiracy theory for the ages?

[lollol]

ASADA responds to Bombers drugs twist

The drug administered to Essendon players that led to their suspension in 2016 was only listed as a banned substance several months after the injections were stopped, the Herald Sun reports.

www.news.com.au

Thoughts? In your opinion, does this change the initial mainstream narrative about the Essendon drug saga?

 

[The Falcon Strike]

Robbo needs to let it go - they let a rogue man systematically dope within their 4 walls and paid the price.

 

[Boristown]

Give Jobe his Brownlow back and take Andrew McGrath off them.

 

[andrewb]

Regardless of what you think of the club, Hird, Robinson or Dank, the players have been utterly stitched up.

- pushed back against the program to get clarity that it was in line with wada
- interviewed with asada without the presence of legal counsel on the basis that the investigation was about Dank, not about them
- names smeared in the press through a coordinated leak of exaggerated information and often complete untruths
- banned from the 2013 finals series after a 14 win season
- twice cleared by Australian tribunals in 2014 and 2015
- banned again in 2016 by a Swiss court based on a ‘strands in a cable’ analogy that has no legal precedent
- Dank and Robinson suffer no penalties
- Abused (both them and their families including children) publicly in the streets for being drug cheats

A stitch up and a disgrace.

Fair enough go the club, fair enough go the people in charge, fair enough to the blokes who did this at cronulla, GCS, Essendon and probably Geelong, but the players don’t deserve this miscarriage of justice.

 

[Underarm]

A) it's not a new twist.
B) they literally explain why it's not a justifiable defence in the article.

 

[Buzzasto DaSilva]

If this means James Hird returns as their coach then I'm all for it.

 

[Pykie]

The end.

Let it go Robbo, let it go.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Robbo’s new gig.

 

[blue harvest]

Lol this old chestnut, it's not explicitly listed on the 'banned' list, so they think it's okay to use, conveniently ignoring the other parts of the doping code which do prohibit its use.

 

[deck]

A) it's not a new twist.
B) they literally explain why it's not a justifiable defence in the article.

And it was brought up at the time. So this was known by Essendon and the public.

 

[woosha24]

Yeah nah.

Jab on, Essendon.

 

[Ron The Bear]

They've had people digging for years in a bid to prove Essendon's innocence, and the best they can come up with is confusion over where TB4 is banned under the code? "Scientist Bob O'Dea"... is that like scientist Stephen Dank?

Not worth the time it took to read.

Maybe the AFL is considering withdrawing from WADA over the Rioli thing, and this (poll on Royal Commission etc.) is an attempt to discredit the doping authorities and curry public favour.

 

[Milkshaker]

I have a contact at the National Crime Authority. They are far from innocent. End of story.

 

[blue harvest]

Bombers should be telling these people to STFU.
It's all disingenuous playing around with words and unfortunately it will suck a lot of lemmings in and cause further pain for everyone involved.

 

[raskolnikov]

I have a contact at the National Crime Authority. They are far from innocent. End of story.

Sure you do.

 

[Milkshaker]

Sure you do.

He worked there during the entire scandal. There is more to this saga than anyone is aware of.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

"Scientist" Bob O'Dea. In other words, the bloke who has been running a conspiracy angle, who presents his information on youtube wearing an Essendon members top and dabbles in alternative medicine. Finishes his presentation with "Go the Mighty Bombers".



Can't find him in Google Scholar. Can't find a paper that he has written.

Scientist, my arse.

 

[Andrew Mc]

Not this s**t again...

 

[Boristown]

"Scientist" Bob O'Dea. In other words, the bloke who has been running a conspiracy angle, who presents his information on youtube wearing an Essendon members top and dabbles in alternative medicine. Finishes his presentation with "Go the Mighty Bombers".



Can't find him in Google Scholar. Can't find a paper that he has written.

Scientist, my arse.

Lol nice find. I think the only one who’s been stitched up here is Robbo.

 

[lollol]

He worked there during the entire scandal. There is more to this saga than anyone is aware of.

Interesting mate, anything in particular?

 

[dmc333]

This came out last night. It's taken until 9:30am until someone bothered to post about it on bigfooty. There's like 18 posts an hour later.

Safe to say no one cares about Mick Warner's scoop on sloppy website administration.

 

[lollol]

Not this s**t again...

What do you mean? It’s been big footy’s favourite topic for over 7 years.

 

[Bojangles17]

I just can’t imagine the AFL could have stuffed Up they rarely get much wrong

 

[lollol]

This came out last night. It's taken until 9:30am until someone bothered to post about it on bigfooty. There's like 18 posts an hour later.

Safe to say no one cares about Mick Warner's scoop on sloppy website administration.

Come on mate new.com.au is at the forefront of journalism. Your broadside attacking their professionalism is outrageous....

Anyway, someone needs to give the Essendon fan base a voice. This is the perfect forum with which to defend their club.

 

[DapperDon]

Give Jobe his Brownlow back and take Andrew McGrath off them.

Then we get back our original picks where we choose Bont and Cripps