Essendon face AFL probe/Players found Guilty by CAS

[WilliamPowell]

Needs a new catch-phrase tbh. 

Cannot see him uttering the phrase "I take full repsonsibility because I stuffed up" anytime soon

[Judge Roughneck]

The doping programs at both clubs were significantly different: Essendon's almost military, with 30-40 injections per player,

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/players-still-in-asada-sights-20130811-2rq9t.html

x 45 odd players on the list = 1800 injections

[tigs2011]

Needs a new catch-phrase tbh. 

Cannot see him uttering the phrase "I take full repsonsibility because I stuffed up" anytime soon

Yer I wouldn't imagine that would come out any time soon.

[Judge Roughneck]

kb alluding to the delay is due to essendon lawyers not happy with the punishment.

what kind of bizzaro world is this in that the criminals get to negotiate punishments 


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efc not wearing training gear - sponsers jumped off? https://twitter.com/JacquiReedAFL/status/367077810134716416/photo/1

[tigs2011]

kb alluding to the delay is due to essendon lawyers not happy with the punishment.

what kind of bizzaro world is this in that the criminals get to negotiate punishments 


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efc not wearing training gear - sponsers jumped off? https://twitter.com/JacquiReedAFL/status/367077810134716416/photo/1

Wearing the jumpers that they'll be wearing once their bans end and they're stuck in local leagues. 

[WilliamPowell]

HUN Web-site suggesting that AFL & Bombers are behind closed doors in "secret talks"
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"ESSENDON and the AFL are believed to be in secret talks as the footy world waits for the league to lay charges over the club's 2012 supplements program.
A large media contingent is waiting at AFL House but a rumoured 9am announcement did not happen.

The two parties are believed to be in talks discussing potential charges and negotiating any sanctions to be handed to the club and key officials including coach James Hird."

From: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-coach-james-hird-defiant-as-afl-charges-loom-over-supplements-scandal/story-fni5f6kv-1226695863049

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AFL web-site has a running commentary going which is telling us...........well not very much at all 

If it wasn't so serious and the biggest scandal in the games history it would be comical

[Judge Roughneck]

for the 100th and last time - the prosecute and the criminal having negotiations is utterly ludicrous


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From AFL.com.au


11.31am: James Hird didn't take training at Windy Hill and hasn't been sighted since leaving his house this morning, AFL.com.au's Jacqui Reed reports.

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gone to top himself doing everyone a favor 

[WilliamPowell]

for the 100th and last time - the prosecute and the criminal having negotiations is utterly ludicrous

But bents for the 101st time this isn't a criminal case. No matter how much you, me and others think it should be, may want it to be; it isn't and at this stage there is no suggestion it is ever going to be.

And BTW you are kidding yourself if you honestly believe that negotiations to lessen either sentences or even charges don't happen in criminal cases. It happens all the bloody time. Not saying it is right far from it but it happens all the time, everyday of the week

Rightly or wrongly there is a precedent here for their to be negotiations regarding penalties. The AFL did it with Adelaide and their salary cap cheating with Tippett, they did it with Melbourne over the "tanking" episode. They are doing it here because the AFL want to avoid this going to court.

[Judge Roughneck]

More grubby than the Rwandan Genocide

[WilliamPowell]

More grubby than the Rwandan Genocide

Bents, I am not disagreeing with you this whole sordid saga is a disgrace and blight on our game that is not in dispute.

Only people who seem to think otherwise are delusional Bombers fans and sympathsiers

[gerkin greg]

Teams? 

[tigs2011]

Teams? 

In: Zaharakis, Goddard
Out: Everyone else.

[dwaino]

Has anyone tried looking for Hird in some halfway house somewhere yet?

[Yeahright]

"and that we’re dealing with an interim report," Hird told Channel Seven.

"The report's not finalised so we're all probably sitting back staggered and shocked that any charges could possibly be laid on those points."

Secondly, the reason the ASADA report is only an "interim" report was explained to eveyone last week. With their new powers they can no force people to be interviewed, hence why they are keeping the invesitgation open. Your players are not off the hook yet.

If they have enough evidence to ream them from only the interim report (and the other stuff) wouldn't you take the punishment and run? Could find out a lot more when Dank has to talk

[Tigeritis™©®]

More grubby than the Rwandan Genocide

Ummm, I don't think so Bents.
After all its just a game of footy. 
What its not is a big deal compared to a million people tragically killed.
It's only just a local footy comp. really.