Essendon face AFL probe/Players found Guilty by CAS

[Judge Roughneck]

 

[one-eyed]

A group of Essendon players were injected up to 40 times each last season as part of the club's free-wheeling supplements program.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-players-were-last-year-urged-to-have-one-injection-a-week/story-fnelctok-1226595910515

[one-eyed]

Essendon employed Stephen Dank last season without reference-checking the discredited sports scientist with any of his previous three football employers, including Gold Coast.

Nor did the Bombers go to Suns chief executive Travis Auld - who worked at Essendon for close to a decade - before signing new high-performance boss Dean Robinson to a three-year contract worth close to $1 million.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/dons-did-not-check-dank-20130315-2g69u.html#ixzz2NfdLXlzi

 

[gerkin greg]

****ing scum are this club

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bombers-secret-deal-exposed-20130327-2guq0.html

A proposed deal between the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and Essendon whereby Bombers players would escape doping sanctions with zero penalty, while Cronulla players would be given a minimum six-month ban, was aborted after protests from lawyers acting for ASADA and Cronulla.

Question that needs to be asked is if the Bombers are innocent as they claim, why seek an under the table deal with ASADA?

[dwaino]

Can't wait until this all blows up.

[Judge Roughneck]

WD ASDA lawyers.

Take no prisoners

[1965]

Holy Crap

 

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/right-thing-for-hird-to-do-is-step-down-20130410-2hlvg.html

[DCrane]

Robbo is fighting a bushfire with a garden hose:


Essendon coach James Hird will fight claim he took substance banned for players

    Mark Robinson, Jon Ralph
    From: Herald Sun
    April 10, 2013 11:42PM

   
James Hird

A club source says Essendon coach James Hird is ''an honourable person''. Herald Sun

ESSENDON coach James Hird will deny allegations that he took a drug, which players are banned from taking, during the 2012 season.
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There is no suggestion that the drug is illegal or that Hird would be in breach of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority rules if it is proved he took the drugs.

Sports scientist Stephen Dank has claimed he injected Hird with a substance banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

But a club source told the Herald Sun last night: "James will fight this ... this is not true. James is an honorable person, these people are disreputable and the club will not rest until his name is fully cleared. This is an outrageous allegation."

It is also claimed that Hird was aware of the entire supplements program at Essendon, which included taking players off site for injections, and that the players signed consent forms listing the type of supplements they'd be taking.

It's been reported a number of players took a form of pig's brain peptides, and an anti-obesity drug.

It's believed investigations by the club and ASADA will see the Bombers admit to not doing due diligence on the employment of staff, and "irregular practices".

Dank, who is at the centre of allegations about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in rugby league, made the latest claims in an interview with Fairfax Media.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/essendon-coach-james-hird-will-fight-claim-he-took-substance-banned-for-players/story-e6frf9jf-1226617780563

[DCrane]

Hird is an honorable man I agree.
He might be the type of coach that would not ask the players to do something he wouldn't do himself. That is honorable.
But if this Fairfax story is true then it is not just a spotfire for efc to put out, Hird has been a fool and it will linger about the club like a foul stench until he goes.
A rare shout out to Caro for using this to try and drive a wedge through the Bombers hierarchy 

[one-eyed]

Hird injected drugs
Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker
The Age
April 11, 2013

Essendon coach James Hird has been accused of injecting a WADA-blacklisted drug in a program where his players were given another substance anti-doping regulators now say should be banned.

The sports scientist who ran the club's supplement program, Stephen Dank, said he injected James Hird with hexarelin - which WADA banned in 2004 - and that before and during the 2012 AFL season, players were given anti-obesity drug AOD9604.

Information gathered by ASADA corroborates this, but in a statement sent last night, Hird said: ''These claims are horrifying to me, and are being made by a person or people who appear determined to destroy my reputation.''

''I have at all times fully adhered to, and promoted the WADA code and the AFL rules, and the code of ethics of the Essendon Football Club.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hird-injected-drugs-20130410-2hlvx.html#ixzz2Q55kxMjO

[WilliamPowell]

Bet ya Mark Neeld will be happy reading the Age & HUN this morning while having his "Coco Pops"

Blow torch moves North/West to Essendon today and away from him   

[wayne]

The Age reporting that Hird will stand down this week 

[mightytiges]

Whatever Essendon do this year will be clouded forever. Hopefully they crash and burn again  .

The Age reporting that Hird will stand down this week 

Bomber Thompson to fill in as caretaker coach? That would be ironic given he got Dank to come to Essendon.

[Tigeritis™©®]

Is this history repeating?

I don't understand why so many journalists aren't looking into the "golden boy's" links with a convicted drug trafficker.


The Herald Sun can reveal Hird and Charter worked together for 12 months on his diet and fitness during the champion’s premiership and Brownlow Medal-winning career.
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/essendon-coach-james-hird-linked-to-convicted-drug-trafficker-shane-charter/story-e6frf9jf-1226572461168

It seems that only Caro and Patrick are the only ones game enough to call for him to step down.
If this was Matty knights I'm sure the bombers would've already did this before their first press conference.
You won't see Robbo say anything negative about the "golden boy" Hird. Bloody softie.

[mightytiges]

Demetriou said the other day the Essendon situation (I think based on the club's own internal report) was "ugly". Looks like Hird may be the first to step down. The CEO's head would be on the chopping block as well as all this happened under his watch.


Edit: SEN saying the Essendon media dept. has told them Hird will fly over to Freo and coach this week.