JOBE Watson will this week plan his submission to the AFL Commission ahead of the League's looming call whether he keeps the 2012 Brownlow Medal.
The star midfielder is set to front the League on November 15 when, in light of the past and present Essendon players' failed appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, a decision will be made on his medal.
"The AFL has been pretty clear on what this looks like and it's up to Jobe as to how he wants to approach it," Bombers CEO Xavier Campbell told SEN.
"We (Essendon) certainly have some views but we'll certainly be led by Jobe and where he's at and what he wants to do with respect to that approach.
"I think he's still contemplating that."
Watson won the game's highest individual honour in the season the club undertook its controversial supplements program, and was one of 34 players hit with 12-month bans by the Court of Arbitration for Sport earlier this year.
That ruling was challenged by the group of Bombers players, and the League chose not to make a call on Watson's Brownlow until an appeal result was confirmed.
AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan, who won't sit on the panel deciding Watson's medal, has previously said making that call would be "as hard a decision (as) they will ever have to make".
With judgement day on the horizon, Campbell was still hopeful Watson would keep the Brownlow.
"The club's made its position [known] in the past. We feel there's grounds for him keeping that – I'm not going to go into those reasons now, it's something we'll do in private with the AFL Commission in due course," he said.
If Watson is stripped of the Brownlow, it could be handed to joint runners-up Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin, or no winner might be declared.
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