The ACC nukes Australian sport

[the crow]

Meanwhile Sharks haven't scored a point in 3 games.... Is this penance enough for their discretion.

[dibo]

No, they should be sentenced to 47 years of winning f**k all.

[yob]

7:30 has just smashed the doors off:

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4033234.htm

[Simmo79]

Dank looks as guilty as sin, but this report could be spun as the 'rogue operator' without further info on what Essendon officials knew. Maybe Essendon should sue him for his incredibly damaging conduct...but they haven't made the slightest move against him in 16 months because they need to keep him out of a witness box like nothing else. The survival of their club could depend on him keeping his mouth shut.

[yob]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/a ... zslso.html

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

[yob]

Essendon coach tries something new to keep the Essendon players' minds off ASADA:

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-06-26/t ... ks-address

[yob]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/a ... 6975763998

“You might ask, why did the AFL team up with a NADO (National Anti-Doping Organisation)? The real reason was that under individual contracts all players are contracted to the league, rather than the clubs.

“It is quite effective because it gave enormous power to ASADA to look at mobile phones, digital records, files, and coerce interviews.’’

[yob]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl/afl ... zstsp.html

He said ''substances like a Mexican drug for the treatment of muscular dystrophy was given to the players without knowing exactly what it was'', while he claimed human growth hormone-releasing substances had also been used, among other drugs.

Hardcourt said there was probable use of performance-enhancing drugs.

"But without documentation and knowing precisely what was done, we can't be 100 per cent certain. But there was clear risk of use,'' he said.

"One thing we have to deal with, and this is the sobering element, my job now is to work out a program to monitor the players for the next five to 10 years, because they were given such exotic substances, many of them growth factors, which means that we are looking at potential hormonal issues or cancers.

"So now we have to go through a process of looking after these 35-odd players just to make sure nothing really nasty happened to them from this crazy activity that individuals allowed to occur at the club.''

[dibo]

jeebus.

[Simmo79]

AFL360 now, Robbo is using the above info to blame the AFL for not stopping Essendon earlier - it's a variation of the well-established common law defence of "the cops should have caught me earlier", established in R v Dumbfuck. Gerard should get paid by Essendon as a spinner. I used to repect his journalism

[Simmo79]

Full video of the AFL's Chief Medical Officer explaining the doping investigation to an international forum in Zurich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5dlqJPWBwk

[yob]

AFL360 now, Robbo is using the above info to blame the AFL for not stopping Essendon earlier - it's a variation of the well-established common law defence of "the cops should have caught me earlier", established in R v Dumbfuck.

Now Essendon's running with it.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/a ... 6977097705

“We as a club knew nothing about the decision to take the unusual step of sending these samples off,’’ Little said. “The need for doing that, the decision to do it, what they were testing for, how many samples; we have got none of that information.

“It is fair to say we have some real reservations about duty of care, about a whole raft of issues.’’

To be honest, Paul Little is quite a boring person. You see, his position is you're wrong, and he's going to sue you. And that's basically Paul Little.

That position might kick you a few heads in business, but it makes you a terrible advocate.

[yob]

This may or may not be anything. We'll know more about it judging in hindsight:

http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/esse ... zsvpx.html

The identities of the 34 Essendon players issued with show-cause notices will not be revealed in the Federal Court after a lawyer representing the group said they would not be joined to proceedings.

David Grace, QC, representing the "current and former" players, told the court on Friday his clients had chosen not to join Essendon Football Club and suspended coach James Hird as applicants in their case against the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

Hird and the Bombers claim the joint probe run by ASADA and the AFL that investigated the club's supplements program of 2011-12 was unlawful.
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Had the players wanted to join Hird and Essendon as applicants, their identities would have been publicly revealed.

But Mr Grace told the court that step was now no longer necessary, as the players did not want to be joined as applicants.

He said the players were prepared to give an undertaking to the court and to ASADA that they would not initiate legal action in any other form, regardless of the decision reached by the Federal Court following the trial, which is scheduled to start on August 11 and run for three days.

[Boba Fett]

AFL360 now, Robbo is using the above info to blame the AFL for not stopping Essendon earlier - it's a variation of the well-established common law defence of "the cops should have caught me earlier", established in R v Dumbfuck. Gerard should get paid by Essendon as a spinner. I used to repect his journalism

Yep, same. I still find it hard to see how anyone can blame the AFL ahead of the club. As far as I can tell, the AFL didn't inject anyone. And yet the AFL are being portrayed as the big bad wolf?!? Bizarre.

Nobody seems to be arguing the fundamental point that players were injected, and that it was done 'officially' by Essendon. The arguments seems to be about who specifically authorised the injections, and what was in the injections. Essendon's best hope seems to be that there is no record of actually what was in the injections, and so therefore can't be charged with injecting anything illegal. But if that's the case then they clearly breach the duty of care the club has to the players. I wonder if it will end up with either individual players or the players collectively taking legal action against the club?

[yob]

Looking a bit too far in to it to be honest. It's confirmation bias - everything that suits the club is blasted in to the public domain with a howitzer.