So they are playing finals?
Unbelievable
Which bit of this don't you understand bent?
Hearing scheduled to be held on Monday 26 August at AFL House.
No penalties were going to be handed out today.
they get charged and have 14 days to put together a defence and they face a hearing, no great surprise. Between now and then they will try an negotiate a penalty just like Melb & Adel did. Don't come up with something and they face a hearing and they are risk points, fines, draft pick loss and suspension of the great one
This is rubbish.
Wada have admitted its a banned substance, however the players aren't going to be served with infraction notices.
I don't think they will lose points now.
This is utter rubbish this is.
Daniel, there are 2 very separate issues here.
First one is the behaviour of the EFC, their program which is what the AFL charges relate to. Very separate to the players and what they took
As bents said the current ASADA report is an interim report. As I mentioned earlier today ASADA now have new powers since Aug 2. This mean they can force anyone to be interviewed eg everyone's favourite sprots scienctist S Dank. ASADA are still investigating and trying to determine who took what. Can't issue an infraction notice to someone if you don't have concrete proof of what they took. From what has been reported the interim report ASADA have confirmed that banned substances were adminsitered but because the EFC haven't kept proper records ASADA has been able to establuish who took what.
Yes Jobe Watson said believed he took ADO-6904 or whatever it is called but the key word here is "believed" because that's what was on the consent form. Jobe knows he took sometihng but he isn't sure what it was and either is Essendon.
So while the ASADA investigation is still on going the players aren't going to be served YET.
Let ASADA do their job with WADA looking over their shoulder and let that take its course. Far better for them to keep digging and get it right than serve an infraction notcie now based on an incomplete invesitgation and let the players off when they appeal to the Int'l sports arbitration board
And let's just let the AFL process take it's course and see what happens - a whacking is coming. Whether it be for season 2013 or perhaps 2014
Going ot get very interesting indeed