Play Nice WADA v Essendon 34: Guilty, 2 Yr Susp. (backdated to Mar 2015). Affects 17 current AFL plyrs.

[The_Wookie]

This thread will hold all official statements, links and what not.

Thread will open for discussion at 5am, at which point all other threads to do with the Verdict will be locked.

At this stage we're led to believe there will be some sort of announcement about 8.30am, however this has not been confirmed by the AFL, Essendon or otherwise.

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CAS Statement

Lausanne, 11 January 2016

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today issued its decision in the arbitration procedure between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and 34 current and former players of Essendon.

The appeal filed by WADA against the Australian Football League (AFL) Anti-Doping Tribunal’s decision of 31 March 2015 is upheld and the appealed decision is set aside. The 34 players concerned are sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years, commencing on 31 March 2015, with credit given for any individual period of ineligibility already served. Thus, most of the suspensions will come to an end in November 2016.

The arbitration procedure was conducted by a panel of CAS arbitrators: the Hon. Michael J. Beloff
QC, barrister in London, United Kingdom (President), Mr. Romano Subiotto QC, Solicitor-Advocate in Brussels, Belgium, and the Hon. James Spigelman AC QC, barrister in Sydney,Australia
and London, United Kingdom

The Panel held a hearing with the parties in Sydney, Australia from 16 to 20 November 2015. In its Arbitral Award, the Panel found to its comfortable satisfaction that Clause 11.2 of the 2010 AFL Doping Code (use of a prohibited substance) has been violated and found by a majority that all players
were significantly at fault.

The full Arbitral Award is published on the CAS website.

Player - Expiry of ineligibility

• Thomas Bellchambers - 13 November 2016
• Alex Browne - 13 November 2016
• Jake Carlisle - 13 November 2016
• Travis Colyer - 13 November 2016
• Stewart Crameri - 13 November 2016
• Alwyn Davey - 15 February 2017
• Luke Davis - 13 November 2016
• Cory Dell’Olio - 14 November 2016
• Ricky Dyson - 13 November 2016
• Dustin Fletcher - 21 November 2016
• Scott Gumbleton - 13 November 2016
• Kyle Hardingham - 13 November 2016
• Dyson Heppell - 13 November 2016
• Michael Hibberd - 13 November 2016
• David Hille - 13 November 2016
• Heath Hocking - 13 November 2016
• Cale Hooker - 13 November 2016
• Ben Howlett - 13 November 2016
• Michael Hurley - 13 November 2016
• Leroy Jetta - 15 February 2017
• Brendan Lee - 13 November 2016
• Sam Lonergan - 13 November 2016
• Nathan Lovett-Murray - 15 December 2016
• Mark McVeigh - 13 November 2016
• Jake Melksham - 13 November 2016
• Angus Monfries - 13 November 2016
• David Myers - 13 November 2016
• Tayte Pears - 13 November 2016
• Brent Prismall - 13 November 2016
• Patrick Ryder - 13 November 2016
• Henry Slattery - 13 November 2016
• Brett Stanton - 13 November 2016
• Ariel Steinberg - 13 November 2016
• Jobe Watson - 21 November 2016

Full List of Statements

• CAS Statement
• Full CAS Hearing Document
  
• ASADA Statement
  
• WADA Statement
• Jobe Watson Statement
  
• Essendon preliminary statement
• Lindsay Tanner (Essendon Chair) Statement
  
• AFL CEO Statement
• AFL Chairmans Statement
  
• AFLPA Statement
• Melbourne Statement on Jake Melksham
  
• Bulldogs preliminary Statement
• Port Adelaide Statement
• Western Bulldogs Statement
  
• St Kilda Statement
  
• Hird Statement
• Northern Blues Statement on Alex Browne
• East Perth Statement on Brendan Lee
• South Fremantle Statement on Corey DelL'Olio
• SANFL Statement

Some good analysis

 

[Satan]

Present

 

[The_Wookie]

Forgot im in SA and my 5am isnt your 5am. lol

 

[DERIBERATE]

Forgot im in SA and my 5am isnt your 5am. lol

what the hell does that make my 7pm monday then

 

[Dan]

Forgot im in SA and my 5am isnt your 5am. lol

Thread ban yourself for trolling.

 

[Satan]

Its 8pm here

 

[DapperJong]

Hi

 

[Satan]

Everyone else are wimps

 

[manboob]

Percel I've got the picnic rug and wine, but forgot the cheese. Can you bring something soft and French?

 

[DERIBERATE]

Its 8pm here

lol at all these peasants having to wait until tuesday

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[Chameleon75]

need some Percel inspiration for the thread title

 

[Akka76]

Present. My 320am phone call to CAS HQ was a global masterstroke

 

[Satan]

lol at all these peasants having to wait until tuesday

Would have been 2am but a sick child (who is better) means another few days in a pretty nice spot

 

[SBYM]

This thread will be the basis for my conclusion when I write this thing up.

Please be effusive.

 

[Satan]

Time wasting

 

[Satan]

Did richard fly to london? For release

 

[jenny61_99]

Morning.

 

[DERIBERATE]

EFC players have the decision. If they were not guilty it would've been screamed off the Eureka observation deck by now.

 

[Mister Carlton]

Morning.

 

[The_Wookie]

Did richard fly to london? For release

frankly i dont even know when he sent the tweet. My times are all off.

 

[Satan]

frankly i dont even know when he sent the tweet. My times are all off.

At 453 am sa time your entitled to be confused

 

[The_Wookie]

its only that now!

 

[jenny61_99]

At 453 am sa time your entitled to be confused

4:25am Qld time.

 

[manboob]

CAS site is still swapped with Canoeing related news