Im glad you posted that WJ..couldnt quite this damn phone to do it lol

Seriously. ..what a joke . Actually what an insult to decency and moraluty these obviously being traits not understood ib ANY Hird household. What an affront to the standards by which most upstanding folk live by.

Basically the Hirds dont like it when the ump blows the whistle. Tough [censored].

You know what IS un-Australian Hirds...to be a bunch of fcuken double standarded bastards abusing position ,privilege and trust and not giving a bloody fig about anyone other than yourselves.

Sespicable Disgusting comes to mind.

You Hirds are the cowardly happening in this debacle. Id say go take a long look in the mirror....but im sure you spend plenty of time there already.

You just dont get it.. but yiull be getting yours soon enough.

Apples dont fall far from trees . You can understand where Golden Boy learnt his ways.

And so the 'little' paper and its legions continue their assault . The only problem with online....hard to use the News for the dunny !!

Robbo creating new standards in journalism today ~Essendon doping scandal: James Hirds dad stands by his son

Contagious -

Prominent Melbourne lawyer Tania Hird has launched a devastating attack on the decision by the World Anti Doping Authority to appeal against the AFL Tribunal's decision to exonerate 34 Essendon players charged with using prohibited drugs in 2011 and 2012.

Claiming that it was disgraceful and unconstitutional for a party to a dispute to appeal against any tribunal decision, Hird described last Tuesday when the WADA appeal decision was announced as, "the blackest day in Australian law".

- The Essendon Daily News

Prominent ??

Claiming that it was disgraceful and unconstitutional for a party to a dispute to appeal against any tribunal decision, Hird described last Tuesday when the WADA appeal decision was announced as, "the blackest day in Australian law".

Contagious -

- The Essendon Daily News

Ha! Hypocrite!

-Where was she when her husband used his constitutional right of appeal to the Federal Court.

-If the AFL Tribunal had found against the players would they not use the very same 'unconstitutional' process to appeal to CAS.

A great image from today's Age article by Tim Lane: " Let's get one thing straight in this case, and all the other ones around the world that have frustrated athletes and brought odium on investigators: it's not the anti-doping agencies that caused the problem. They are not the ones to blame for the 6am knock on the athlete's door, or the six-year scrutiny of an athlete who tests clean in the lab but defies gravity on the track. It is not they who over decades have cheated their rivals and defrauded the public...It has to push back against the devious and intransigent national and international sports administrations that have put income and convenience first and integrity somewhere else."

WADA and the All-knowing Football League

The only thing missing from that image are the letters C A S writ big on the palm of the hand!!!

Tim lane has smashed that nail so hard on the head it's halfway to china.

Prominent ??

I only know who she is because of her husband.

Does that make someone prominent?

So if Tania, the prominent lawyer, hahahahahaha, thinks it is unconstitutional, should we expect to see a challenge to the high court?

Im glad you posted that WJ..couldnt quite this damn phone to do it lol

Seriously. ..what a joke . Actually what an insult to decency and moraluty these obviously being traits not understood ib ANY Hird household. What an affront to the standards by which most upstanding folk live by.

Basically the Hirds dont like it when the ump blows the whistle. Tough [censored].

You know what IS un-Australian Hirds...to be a bunch of fcuken double standarded bastards abusing position ,privilege and trust and not giving a bloody fig about anyone other than yourselves.

Sespicable Disgusting comes to mind.

You Hirds are the cowardly happening in this debacle. Id say go take a long look in the mirror....but im sure you spend plenty of time there already.

You just dont get it.. but yiull be getting yours soon enough.

Apples dont fall far from trees . You can understand where Golden Boy learnt his ways.

And so the 'little' paper and its legions continue their assault . The only problem with online....hard to use the News for the dunny !!

Yeeow! That post made my ears burn, imagine the damage to Hirdy's Dumbo flappers . .

BTW Essendon's got a new theme song for 2015 . . .

Who's the leader of the club

That's made for you and me

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there

You're as welcome as can be

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse!

Mickey Mouse!

Tim Lane absolutely smashed it out of the park in the age. His point is best proven by the antics on the footy show deriding WADA, the reaction of leaders in the game such as Eddie McGuire. They all just want it to vanish with no need to actually know what happened.

Tim lane has smashed that nail so hard on the head it's halfway to china.

Great article...how the EFC media fanclub have turned WADA into the bad guys and EFC into the victim is just extraordinary in this past week.

So if Tania, the prominent lawyer, hahahahahaha, thinks it is unconstitutional, should we expect to see a challenge to the high court?

No HIgh Court here. It stops at CAS for everyone, whichever way it goes. No further appeals.

They are smarting because ASADA outsmarted them all!

They thought if ASADA wasn't happy with Tribunal they would next go to another AFL Tribunal (as the process allows) and appeal the decision. The EFC and AFL PR machines would then go into overdrive with the 'we are innocent', 'waste of public money' etc campaign and whip up a local frenzy to see it get it buried once and for all. Hoping that by then WADA would also have had enough.

ASADA didn't fall for that trick! They called the bluff and passed to let WADA take the lead.

AFL/EFC are now smarting in not foreseeing the ASADA/WADA strategy which explains why they were all so shell-shocked on Tuesday.

They are also sh-- scared because in reality it is not the Tribunal decision being appealed it is a brand new case.

Edited May 16, 201510 yr by Lucifer's Hero

Robbo creating new standards in journalism today ~Essendon doping scandal: James Hird’s dad stands by his son

What the mr hired senior and the rest of the ess side don't explain to the rest of us is, WHY asada are out to get essendon, they would have us believe, that asada's persistance is borne of spite, nothing else. Really?

Ha! Hypocrite!

-Where was she when her husband used his constitutional right of appeal to the Federal Court.

-If the AFL Tribunal had found against the players would they not use the very same 'unconstitutional' process to appeal to CAS.

A great image from today's Age article by Tim Lane: " Let's get one thing straight in this case, and all the other ones around the world that have frustrated athletes and brought odium on investigators: it's not the anti-doping agencies that caused the problem. They are not the ones to blame for the 6am knock on the athlete's door, or the six-year scrutiny of an athlete who tests clean in the lab but defies gravity on the track. It is not they who over decades have cheated their rivals and defrauded the public...It has to push back against the devious and intransigent national and international sports administrations that have put income and convenience first and integrity somewhere else."

WADA and the All-knowing Football League

The only thing missing from that image are the letters C A S writ big on the palm of the hand!!!

Brilliant article. A suitable and correct redress to the absurdity that is Hird elsewhere !!

No HIgh Court here. It stops at CAS for everyone, whichever way it goes. No further appeals.

They are smarting because ASADA outsmarted them all!

They thought if ASADA wasn't happy with Tribunal they would next go to another AFL Tribunal (as the process allows) and appeal the decision. The EFC and AFL PR machines would then go into overdrive with the 'we are innocent', 'waste of public money' etc campaign and whip up a local frenzy to see it get it buried once and for all. Hoping that by then WADA would also have had enough.

ASADA didn't fall for that trick! They called the bluff and passed to let WADA take the lead.

AFL/EFC are now smarting in not foreseeing the ASADA/WADA strategy which explains why they were all so shell-shocked on Tuesday.

They are also sh-- scared because in reality it is not the Tribunal decision being appealed it is a brand new case.

If the Hirds feel it is against the constitution, by that I mean Australia's, it would need to be challenged to the high court on the basis of the case not being in line with our constitution. It would be a hearing like the Hird one to the fed court, not actually about if they did it, but more about how it will be heard.

The urging of former AFL Players Association legal adviser Graham Smith that the AFL remove itself from WADA is in the same category. Does Smith seriously suggest the global anti-doping organisation, covering all the sports from all the nations of the earth, is conducting a witch-hunt against those who play the eccentric game of Aussie rules in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon?

From Tim Lane's article

What the mr hired senior and the rest of the ess side don't explain to the rest of us is, WHY asada are out to get essendon, they would have us believe, that asada's persistance is borne of spite, nothing else. Really?

I would not be surprised if his interview was scripted. An early shot in a long campaign to paint WADA/ASADA as cowardly, vindictive, un-democratic foreign meddlers and un-Australian as a causa belli for a possible AFL departure from the WADA code. All his words appear too well chosen.

Edited May 17, 201510 yr by america de cali

If the Hirds feel it is against the constitution, by that I mean Australia's, it would need to be challenged to the high court on the basis of the case not being in line with our constitution. It would be a hearing like the Hird one to the fed court, not actually about if they did it, but more about how it will be heard.

Change the constitution by Royal Decree, easy for the King and Queen of Australia!!

Great article Tim Lane

written as a true journalist should.

Change the constitution by Royal Decree, easy for the King and Queen of Australia!!

Watch out, Robbo might read that and get his next article idea 'Why the queen should step in to save Essendon from the evil WADA'. I can see it now.

Great article Tim Lane

written as a true journalist should.

difference being.. Lane IS a journalist. Slobbo is just something that scribbles from the bottom of the barrel he inhabits

i'm sure wada/cas really feel intimidated by all this hysterical media shytefest

if anything it should steel their resolve

it's also rather cowardly because they know wada/cas protocol is not to comment or respond

knock yourselves out, guys

The Hirds should read the article on the HSun about Neale Daniher.

He is a champion

The filthy snivelling narcissists at camp Hird wouldn't have a clue.

These idiots realise wada is exercising the same rights they did when they appealed the validity of the investigation in a desperate attempt to get off on a technicality and have evidence thrown out and failed miserably?

Amazing really

Mr Hird has repeatedly stated he has not heard any evidence that can proves the Essendon FC used any illegal substance.

After careful research I think I have discovered why

These idiots realise wada is exercising the same rights they did when they appealed the validity of the investigation in a desperate attempt to get off on a technicality and have evidence thrown out and failed miserably?

Amazing really

It's not amazing they do that since it works so well. What is amazing is the way Essendon fans and others lap it up.