I'm more than a little controversy shy but is the spokeswoman saying Dank had indirect contact with our players? (just a paranoid joke)

I think she meant he only passed the needles to the nurse who gave the actual injections.....

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I was reading a discussion where someone mentioned that AFL HQ has no discretionary powers over any bans handed down by the ASADA. Meaning that, depending on how many players where involved, there's a very real possibility of them not being able to field a team this season.

Can anyone confirm this?

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but I was reading a discussion where someone mentioned that AFL HQ has no discretionary powers over any bans handed down by the ASADA. Meaning that, depending on how many players where involved, there's a very real possibility of them not being able to field a team this season.

Can anyone confirm this?

Yep absolutely true. This is potentially the biggest crisis the game has faced. I sincerely hope they have not taken banned substances

Dank quietly left Essendon last year amid the fallout from the club's dramatic slide down the ladder.

Melbourne Football Club has since knocked him back for a job in its own football department - perhaps a rare stroke of fortune for the tanking-accused Demons.

You know the way our luck went last year we would have employed him and had this mess also fall onto our laps...our luck could be turning?

Glad to get confirmation he is not at the club!

A Melbourne Football Club spokeswoman yesterday confirmed Dank had applied for a job at the club. "He applied for a job at the club late last year but he was unsuccessful," she said. "He has never had any direct contact with the players."

Wonder if any of the Schwab haters knew about this at the time and thought we were stupid for not employing him...

If you have taken notice of the approach our club have taken to rebuild then you would know that there was no way we would employ him. Rare stroke of fortune my a... Craig and Misson know what they are doing and as Craig has been quoted as saying we won't reach the required levels until half way through 2014. Essendon were stupid enough to try and fast track something you can't do (legally and without complications). Even if they are not charged with anything here they are guilty of gross miss management and soft tissue injuries are going to dog that playing list for a long time to come.

Bring back a club hero with no coaching experience and this is what you get, someone who listens to the wrong people, someone who appoints the wrong people.

...and where is that DH David King who was lauding the Essendon approach as far superior to ours last pre season. The tortoise and the hare Kingky, a lot of people need to go back and read that one. Including some at our club who have us embroiled in another issue at the moment.

...By the way this wouldn't have been a CS appointment it would have been Misson and/or Craig who turned him down. I hope we can hold these guys along with Neeld for quite a time yet.

Well, Wilson has come out soft on Essendon, that's for sure.

Her article reads like Essendon are the victims of a clique within, that the senior people were so foolish to trust completely.

She's picked her targets - a handful of disparagingly titled 'Phys-edders'. Which is both denigrating to the elite sports science individuals allegedly involved, and to the profession of Physical Education, much like calling someone a 'retard' is denigrating to mentally disabled people.

Obviously there isn't anyone at Windy Hill she has a vendetta against. She could always get a job at Fox if this one falls through. They like 'fair and balanced' don't they?

Yep absolutely true. This is potentially the biggest crisis the game has faced. I sincerely hope they have not taken banned substances

Thanks. Pretty incredible stuff. Vlad will be having a few sleepless nights.

Dr. Dank to 1st year Essendon player....

Here, let me just lie you down on this table while nurse here gives you an injection...oh, and just pop this in your mouth and swallow. Now lie back down while we open a vein and feed you some nice bluey, red stuff...Nurse, another $10,000 donation from the club please....

I'm imagining a competition with no Essendon for the next two years.

It's bloody beautiful.

I hate them with a passion, you guys have no idea how much I am reveling in their player mismanagement.

I don't think anything can top this off. Maybe North filing for bankruptcy but lets just take it one sadistic fantasy at a time shall we?

*back to my popcorn and Bomberblitz lol

I'm imagining a competition with no Essendon for the next two years.

It's bloody beautiful.

I hate them with a passion, you guys have no idea how much I am reveling in their player mismanagement.

I don't think anything can top this off. Maybe North filing for bankruptcy but lets just take it one sadistic fantasy at a time shall we?

*back to my popcorn and Bomberblitz lol

I hate them so so much. I don't want them out tho, I enjoy beating them too much!

If this goes well,against those arrogant flogs, this could be my FLAG.With miracles like this it really does restore the faith.

OH and If Carlscum could somehow be incorporated I'd die a happy man

I read that the only players not to participate in this systematic doping were Watson and Fletcher.

2 year bans = no team to field.

This must be what a hard on feels like. I am bloody excited. I just wish I had have known about this before I went to work today. Oh how the Essendrug supporters at my work are going to cop it tomorrow lol :)

Wilson went very easy on such pathetic and disgusting behaviour...

The club obviously knew about it for some time, were concerned enough for a rep to ask about peptides at a sports medicine conference.

I don't know what will happen with this but ASADA has made it's bed wen it screwed Wade Lees so they have their options limited. Perhaps the AFL can push them either to punish the club to save careers or to destroy careers to save the club.

Or maybe the peptides were not banned...

Dons could face two-year AFL ban: Healy

Robson said both ASADA and the AFL - through its integrity unit headed by Brett Clothier - will launch an immediate probe into the allegations.

Tonight on radio station 3AW, respected commentator and one-time physiotherapist Gerard Healy said he had been told 12 months ago from a reliable source that some Essendon players had been linked to a human growth hormone peptide, known as GHRP-6. He had passed on this information to then AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson. His suspicions became aroused, he said, when he saw the size of Jake Melksham's arms during a NAB Cup game last year.

Come back Cale. All is forgiven.

I would hate to see the Bombers banned for two years, we need them for easy wins haha, but seriously it's all happening in the AFL at the moment, hopefully this saga will dominate the media enough to slip in a dees have no case to answer for headline and not kick up too much fuss! Hopefully both of these saga's blow over without too much damage.

Essendon won't get banned for two years.

What would happen is the individuals would get banned. The problem is, the worst case where nearly their whole list is implicated sees 30-odd players suddenly gone for 2 years.

They'll be forced to emergency draft players who nominate out of the VFL, WAFL and SANFL. Guys like Gartlett and Manson would probably get a crack.

Robson said both ASADA and the AFL - through its integrity unit headed by Brett Clothier - will launch an immediate probe into the allegations.

Rumour has it that Clothier and his sidekick Haddad are preparing for this investigation by boning up on waterboarding and the old bamboo under the fingernails trick. Can you imagine the Bombers playing against us in round 2 after a night of electric shock treatment and torture at the hands of those two?

I suspect that the afl.com.au site is down. Haven't been able to read the stories about the Weapon's apparent demise but it looks like there's an element of damage control there ATM.

The bloke I feel really sorry for is James Hird. Saw him on the Fox Sports News bulletin and he looked absolutely shattered. I hope he stays away from Caro's article.

Crooks do tend to look shattered when they get caught

Dank quietly left Essendon last year amid the fallout from the club's dramatic slide down the ladder.

Melbourne Football Club has since knocked him back for a job in its own football department - perhaps a rare stroke of fortune for the tanking-accused Demons.

If you have taken notice of the approach our club have taken to rebuild then you would know that there was no way we would employ him. Rare stroke of fortune my a... Craig and Misson know what they are doing and as Craig has been quoted as saying we won't reach the required levels until half way through 2014. Essendon were stupid enough to try and fast track something you can't do (legally and without complications). Even if they are not charged with anything here they are guilty of gross miss management and soft tissue injuries are going to dog that playing list for a long time to come.

Bring back a club hero with no coaching experience and this is what you get, someone who listens to the wrong people, someone who appoints the wrong people.

...and where is that DH David King who was lauding the Essendon approach as far superior to ours last pre season. The tortoise and the hare Kingky, a lot of people need to go back and read that one. Including some at our club who have us embroiled in another issue at the moment.

...By the way this wouldn't have been a CS appointment it would have been Misson and/or Craig who turned him down. I hope we can hold these guys along with Neeld for quite a time yet.

The Nuremberg defence, "I was only obeying orders", didn't work.

The dons are in deep sh&t. And i must say i am enjoying every second of it.

I read that the only players not to participate in this systematic doping were Watson and Fletcher.

2 year bans = no team to field.

This must be what a hard on feels like. I am bloody excited. I just wish I had have known about this before I went to work today. Oh how the Essendrug supporters at my work are going to cop it tomorrow lol :)

Fletcher has been carrying them for years another couple won't matter...

Rumour has it that Clothier and his sidekick Haddad are preparing for this investigation by boning up on waterboarding and the old bamboo under the fingernails trick. Can you imagine the Bombers playing against us in round 2 after a night of electric shock treatment and torture at the hands of those two?

And they've got a new tape recorder with an unbreakable on-off switch.

Im still so excited, I cant wait to play against the bummers in the EFl div 1 this year.

I'm imagining a competition with no Essendon for the next two years.

It's bloody beautiful.

I hate them with a passion, you guys have no idea how much I am reveling in their player mismanagement.

I don't think anything can top this off. Maybe North filing for bankruptcy but lets just take it one sadistic fantasy at a time shall we?

*back to my popcorn and Bomberblitz lol

Add in Collingwood losing every single game by at least 10 goals... The footage of Eddies face would keep me going for many years to come

Interesting.

In the Hun this morning it says Mr Danks applied for a position at the MFC late last year.

A spokesperson for the MFC says he was unsuccessful

Well, Wilson has come out soft on Essendon, that's for sure.

Her article reads like Essendon are the victims of a clique within, that the senior people were so foolish to trust completely.

She's picked her targets - a handful of disparagingly titled 'Phys-edders'.

Yeah right. I did say last night we had only a few hours to see how honest and principled she really is. Well we have our answer.

A clear lack of bottle, insight, and vitriol. That must be what happens when someone who has not previously [censored] you off does wrong.

Watson been dobbed in on triple m. Bye bye brownlow