Eff them. Should be told if they don't turn up for the NAB don't turn up for the rest of the season. If banned anyway just add an extra 12 months
It has all comeback to bite Essendon, Hird, Little and their honchos on the backside and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving bunch
. They stupidly went to court on a deluded premise that the ASADA investigation was unlawful and as a result dragged this saga for at least 6 months longer. Now they've screwed their players for a 4th time, even the ones that had nothing to do with the 'supplement' program. First was pumping god knows what into them, secondly getting the players to follow their ridiculous legal advice, thirdly was stuffing up multiple footy season and now fourthly totally stuffing up a preseason. The fifth is still yet to come when the players eventually cop suspensions.
It's going to be farce whether they play in the NAB Challenge games or not. If they play with 15-20 ring-ins, good luck jelling as a team when 3/4ers of the side doesn't know the gameplan or each other. They ring-ins will also run out of juice (no not the TB4 juice
) halfway through the games and their skill level will be terrible. Even wooden-spooners, St Kilda, should romp home by 100 pts. Thank gawd, we aren't scheduled to play them during the preseason so we are unaffected by their utter selfishness and incompetence. I hope they do now cop a loss of premiership points and draft sanctions. They are a joke of a club lead by a narcissist of a coach and a chairman that's full of crap.
