The "comfortable satisfaction " standard lies between the "beyond reasonable doubt" of criminal cases and the "balance of probabilities" of civil cases.
Heppel at a KIA event tonight...
Problems?
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-01/suspended-don-steps-out
Kia obviously major sponsor of essendon but apparently Dysons personal sponsor too...
yep.
2 wild cards to be the 2 teams with the best record overall that arent in the top 2 of their group.
RE group composition - Make it a TV event. Draw balls out of a hat or something. the fixtures can follow later.
its not really about that. its more about the attitude.
"well if we get an injunction they will be able to play and then itll take years so theyll probably all be retired by the time its over"
ie even if they did do it the punishment will mean nothing as they will still be able to play footy
Nail them on the fact that wada can pretty much say they had tb4 but ess cant offer any alternatives with proof of what they took.
Which is what they did.
This club is a bloody disgrace.
Has there ever been a bigger example of cheats trying everything to get away with it?
Talk about bringing the game into disrepute.
As for the AFL
They are a disgrace as well - from the second they tipped off essendon they havent had the game as a whole as their best interest.
Yuk.
If it wasnt for the dees id be out
The guy genuinely thinks he is innocent.
The club, the AFL and the AFLPA have told them the whole time that they are innocent, despite the fact that not one of them can say what the players were injected with (because the club obviously got rid of the records).
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/subscribe/news/1/index.html?sourceCode=HSWEB_MRE170_a_TWT&mode=premium&dest=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/jeffrey-browne-says-jobe-watson-should-be-allowed-to-keep-his-2012-brownlow-medal/news-story/aabec6e2b2b172d3683b11a60d6217ea&memtype=anonymous
How about the other 600 clean athletes??