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    An excellent article, but I doubt that those who don't want to know would bring themselves to read so much detail. A damming fact new to me was:
  2. sue
    From the article: Am I right in recalling that here was no need for the EFC players to be under the spotlight if they hadn't 'self-reported'.
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    In mid to late 2013 Martin Hardie, a legal academic from Deakin University who has conducted long-term research into the anti-doping regimes in Australian and international cycling, was approached to provide assistance to the Essendon Football Club following the claims made about the club's use of supplements during the 2011-2012 season. Surely this can't be the same person who wrote objective academic articles about how innocent Essendon was? I wonder if Hardie has any explanation as to what happened to all the records of the program which he claims was carefully documented. Other than the obvious one that it showed that his claim that it was all legal is baloney.
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    Some of these AFL people beggar belief - anything rather than considering that the players might just perhaps have been guilty. No, they can't be - they're our boys, not Chinese or Russians. It's really quite sickening.
  5. sue
    Very interesting. I hope we make a fuss too. I bet the AFL did not offer Port, Saints and us the top-up option in case we diminished the stock of players that EFC could pursue. Then again, maybe I'm ascribing too much foresight to the hapless characters running our game.
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    Gotta love Hird's choice of words in his latest foray into blame everyone but himself. In the Age he is quoted saying: "There was no directive from the club and I think you read - I think that was a mistake by some of the players. If you read the CAS report, it says the 34 players didn't disclose," he said. "Well, 34 players weren't tested in that year. Only 21 of the players were tested. That absolves - there's 13 that weren't tested. " I dimly recall the CAS judgement did not say 34 didn't disclose, just those who were asked. Is that right? And what does Hird think the 13 are absolved of? http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/essendon-34-james-hird-says-players-made-a-mistake-in-keeping-quiet-20160119-gm8vrf.html
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    Labor run ABC ??- that's why the person who used to run the highly influential national breakfast radio news program had a 'promo' spot interview for John Howard every Friday when he was in the wilderness and she then went on to be a Liberal member of parliament in NSW with thoughts of moving federally, why Amanda Vanstone has a regular hour program, plus a couple of others similar, eg. TS. Just because the ABC reports differently than Murdoch doesn't make it labor. Just makes it not biased in the Murdoch direction. To avoid hijacking the thread further, I won't comment on anything in reply.
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    From her response below Ms Holmes does not know that what makes an interview hard-hitting is the follow-up questions. Disgraceful that the ABC used her for the sort of pap we except on some commercial media http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/viewers-slam-tracey-holmes-joke-abc-interview-with-james-hird-20160117-gm7vi2.html
  9. sue
    Glad to hear Hogan is working on his marking. As good as he was last year, i had the impression he ran under the ball quite often. Might be a wrong impression.
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    Did she ask him why no records were kept?
  11. sue
    It would only be fair if the AFL supports Lovett-Murray in some way like they plan to do for those still playing. Will be interesting to see if fair is in the AFL's vocabulary.
  12. sue
    because there has hardly been even a whiff of investigative journalism done in this saga. The media generally reported little but leaks from self-interested parties plus articles designed to bring comfort to EFC supporters or those who think only Chinese athletes deserve examination for drug cheating.
  13. sue
    But is it any better for us spectators?
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    I'd love to see him interviewed by the BBC radio guy who runs "Hard Talk" interviews (serious ones, not Tom Gleeson). When someone waffles on he interrupts and says, "Please answer the question I asked, not the one you'd like to answer".
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    I'm not assuming it either. Just on my relentless crusade to turn up improbable excuses for the players.
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    I've tried and failed to think up plausible excuses for the players not reporting the injections. Here's a new attempt (boy am I leaning over backwards for these cheats): I wonder if they didn't report it to ASADA partly (if not wholly) simply because of embarrassment caused by not knowing what they were being injected with. What would you do if faced with a form which stated "please list any supplements you have had in the last x months' and you had no idea what they were?
  17. sue
    Is there any chance that the interviewer might surprise Hird (and us) by really going for him in an attempt to make a big splash and perform a breakthrough in her hum-drum career? Odds 50:1?
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    I think this from that article is a wise move which I think we have now made: The sorry saga showed sports boards needed to conscript independent directors, rather than high-profile and powerful fans unlikely to topple a hero such as Hird.
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    It will be interesting to see if any of our AFL opinion 'leaders' have anything to say about this latest scummy behaviour of the AFL & EFC.
  20. sue
    DITTO. Absolutely disgusted. This is the sort of story those Current Affair type TV programs would usually do hounding people to their front door. Will it happen - no.
  21. sue
    I haven't followed this at all, but if the above is the compete story, why has the club fined him?
  22. sue
    I agree with much of what you wrote, but not with the sentence above. It was more than not asking questions. Why did they not mention the perfectly 'legal' injections when ASADA made its regular inquiries if they had nothing to hide? There is no innocent answer to that as several posters have demonstrated,
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    I'm not going to waste my time either reading the HUN or watching that interview. But from the above accounts of Hird blaming everyone but himself I'd say he is paying with fire. If he alienates someone in the know, that person may blow the whistle and reveal all just to get back at him. Here's hoping.
  24. sue
    I'm still totally bewildered about what the AFL Tribunal made of the fact that the players did not reveal the totally legal injections they 'thought' they were getting to ASADA's regular monitoring process. Has anyone in the media addressed this critical point which I think makes it clear the players knew they were up to no good. One of the players said to CAS we didn't want to reveal info that would be of use to our competitors. While that has a veneer of plausibility, it beggars belief.
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    Russian Bomber

    sue replied to stuie's topic in Melbourne Demons

    As much as I wish Jamar well, I'd be much happier if no ex-MFC player helped Essendon out of their self-dug hole. Wil be hard to watch especially when they play us.
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