Kane Cornes just tweeted it was brilliant news, suppose he blames Hird and the club for the situation

It'll be very interesting to hear the ASADA/WADA statements now.

This is good for football.

..isnt it?

It is good for the players because Hird and the Club forced them to do it, although you think some would have questioned what was going on?

Eddie won't be happy....

oh well, lets start the team on a regeme of Anabolic steroids.... as long as we tell 'em it is Vitamin b and hide the evidence they will get off right?

If the players are found not guilty then Dank would also have to be not guilty.

You'd think so but that was from The Age.

oh well, lets start the team on a regeme of Anabolic steroids.... as long as we tell 'em it is Vitamin b and hide the evidence they will get off right?

Just make sure not to keep records. What a farce.

oh well, lets start the team on a regeme of Anabolic steroids.... as long as we tell 'em it is Vitamin b and hide the evidence they will get off right?

Yeah mate, all we need to do is store them in a green house so we can pretend they were damaged by sun light.

Have you Hird? It's all over and Don with.

I'll let myself out.

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ASADA have 21 days to appeal the verdict. WADA have 21 days further than that. So, #ASAGA possibly over in 42 days.

I have a sick feeling they will either be cleared or the charges will be so minor that no one will be severely impacted.

My gut was right.

oh well, lets start the team on a regeme of Anabolic steroids.... as long as we tell 'em it is Vitamin b and hide the evidence they will get off right?

Yep, we'll just set someone up as the fall guy and pay them off handsomely after the storm dies down.

I was wrong.

Is anyone surprised?

A sad indictment on the integrity of the AFL.

I was wrong.

You are not alone. I was also wrong. I am waiting for the acronyms to kick in ASADA WADA CAS

I can only guess as to what Caro's next article will be like now. A diatribe of self-justification and absolution I'm guessing. Of course the issue is here, we cannot be privy to the evidence presented as the whole tribunal process was held in camera. However, despite my congenital dislike for Essendon, I smell a 'star chamber' with strong political overtones, given the way this whole thing was broken as a political stunt, during a press conference.

Now, let's play footy. Go Dees

Not comfortably satisfied TB4 administered!

It doesn't have to be administered.

Yep, also wrong. Can't see how Dank can be found guilty. Good for footy though.

Is anyone surprised?

To be honest I am a bit.

not that I trust the integrity of the AFL. but the shiitstorm that will follow, as well as the appeals from ASADA/WADA which will make the afl look like fools(or more so...) would have been prevented by a guilty verdict and I thought the afl would have been pragmatic enough to see that.

perhaps they have done it on purpose so when the ASADA/WADA appeal succeds they don't look like the bad guy(just inept.... which is better?? hrm maybe not)

It is good for the players because Hird and the Club forced them to do it, although you think some would have questioned what was going on?

That is a load of [censored]. That is why some of the players didn't take it. Absolute [censored] disgrace.

I was wrong.

Me too ... Looks like all you have to do to get off a doping charge is to make sure there's no record at your club of what you took.

If the not guilty verdict is allowed to stand, the entire regime of world anti-doping is in grave jeopardy.

At least every Essendon game this year is now going to be played on its merits and you won't have clubs winning by default.

ASADas evidence wasn't compelling enough obviously. End of (this part of the) story.

Now lets see if Dees2014 and BBs big bad WADA wolf enters the picture

I was wrong.

I wasn't - though i hedged my bet