Essendon face AFL probe/Players found Guilty by CAS

[one-eyed]

UPDATE: THE 34 current and former Essendon players hit with doping bans last month will lodge appeal papers in a Swiss court today.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/essendon-chairman-lindsay-tanner-says-its-unlikely-banned-bombers-will-be-back-on-the-park-this-season/news-story/06dc142ed1dff5ef00acb3316012baa1

[one-eyed]

Another hit to the Bombers' bottom line ...

Essendon drops ticket costs as crowds start to fall

Grant Baker
Herald Sun
February 11, 2016 8:00pm

ESSENDON will cut ticket prices at several of its games this year.

Attendances fell in the second half of 2015 as the supplements scandal continued and the team’s performance declined.

The average Essendon crowd was about 45,000 in 2012 but only 40,600 last year.

Essendon, along with Carlton, set a $60 top price for tickets at the MCG last year — $5 less than most rivals — and they are again expected to set a lower mark this year.

Top prices at Etihad Stadium are expected to remain about $65.

The club is confident games such as Anzac Day and Dreamtime at the ‘G as well as the new Country Round theme match against Geelong will see it maintain good attendance levels in the first half of the season — despite fielding a greatly weakened side.

But a less commercially appealing fixture in the second half — including several Sunday afternoon games against interstate opponents — will present a greater challenge.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-drops-ticket-costs-as-crowds-start-to-fall/news-story/6b3e0cca86a147c2d151b81c8e52838d

[Stalin]

they were getting done by 100 points to the like of the saints

now the majority of the backline is banned lets see how they go

[Andyy]

If they fail their appeal then their sentences should not be backdated anymore, and therefore extended to include all of the 2017.

Pricks honestly just let it go. Their arguments are ridiculous.

[YellowandBlackBlood]

They have almost zero chance of winning the appeal. Paragraph 114 of the CAS verdict explains why they could do it de novo.

The question must be asked why the same 34, backed by their insurance, do not take Dank to court to order him to give information of where he purchased the drugs from so that they can go to those companies and get their records of sale. That would determine what they were given and finally we would have ann answer to the saga. We all probably know why this isn't going to happen…..

[mightytiges]

The fact they're trying to get off on some legal technicality rather than present new evidence to support their cause shows they're still deluded. If they were so confident CAS was wrong then they would seek an injunction but that would cost them 2017 as well when this appeal gets dismissed. It's pie in the sky stuff.

[one-eyed]

Leading AFL clubs are incensed that the salaries of five suspended former Essendon players are likely to sit outside the salary caps of their new homes.

The AFL has indicated that the bulk of the salaries of suspended Port Adelaide pair Patrick Ryder and Angus Monfries, St Kilda’s Jake Carlisle, Melbourne’s Jake Melksham and Western Bulldog Stewart Crameri won’t be included in their club’s salary caps.

Essendon is likely to pay the majority of the contracts for those five players under terms of negotiations.

Sydney, Richmond, Hawthorn and Collingwood are among the clubs concerned that this salary cap exemption would create an opportunity for those four clubs to use the space for recruiting.

While the AFL is yet to confirm the salary cap arrangements for the five players, the league has indicated that more than half the players’ salaries will fall outside the cap — an outcome that has riled rival clubs, which are hoping to overturn the AFL’s initial ruling.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/port-adelaide-melbourne-st-kilda-western-bulldogs-could-benefit-from-salary-cap-concession-on-exbombers/news-story/90698df596a7cfc7384cb9e76b679aa5

[Stalin]

Lol

[YellowandBlackBlood]

AFL thumbing its nose at the CAS decision….
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-03-02/asada-demands-banned-player-brent-prismall-stop-working-at-bulldogs

[YellowandBlackBlood]

It seems like the AFL can't even read its own rules!

[Andyy]

I'm all for the players not playing or training with their clubs.

But as a player welfare manager seriously does it matter? If it doesn't affect the fairness of the competition I think it's a bit silly...

[WilliamPowell]

It seems like the AFL can't even read its own rules!

Yep, it was their rules not the ASADA rules in this case

Although the it was crystal clear by the wording of the penalty that they were not allowed to be involved in AFL role. No grey area there

[Stalin]

I'm all for the players not playing or training with their clubs.

But as a player welfare manager seriously does it matter? If it doesn't affect the fairness of the competition I think it's a bit silly...

It's matter as drug cheating scum might rub off

[YellowandBlackBlood]

I'm all for the players not playing or training with their clubs.

But as a player welfare manager seriously does it matter? If it doesn't affect the fairness of the competition I think it's a bit silly...

Do we really want convicted dopers being the players welfare officer????? Seems like they are last people you want to receive advice from….

[one-eyed]

THE nightmare just won’t go away for Essendon Football Club.

On Monday night the ABC’s Four Corners is handing out another belting with the story of Hal Hunter, a young player who is taking the club to court to force them to release his medical records so he can find out just what was in the supplements he was instructed to take.


Source: Jon Ralph in the Herald-Sun