Essendon 2013

[The Sleeping Giant]

Maybe not. Asada may have a say in that.

[Turbo]

I wonder if they keep Hird now. he will be back at round 22 next year if he stays. He cannot enter an AFL ground for 12 months though.
The draft sanctions will hurt as alot of bombers players will want out now and their contracts will be void if they do

Do the sanctions start effective immediately or do they start October 1? I thought the latter

[daysofourlives]

I wonder if they keep Hird now. he will be back at round 22 next year if he stays. He cannot enter an AFL ground for 12 months though.
The draft sanctions will hurt as alot of bombers players will want out now and their contracts will be void if they do

Do the sanctions start effective immediately or do they start October 1? I thought the latter

Corcoron starts Oct 1st Hird last sunday 25th Aug

[The Sleeping Giant]

Hird a no show. Gutless.

[tigerpie]

Jim ya namesake got off light.

Proven to be guilty of compromising the health of his players in order to effectively cheat!
12 months is a joke!
As i wrote previous Connolly got 12 months for tanking?

ASADA still going....really?

[Turbo]

I wonder if they keep Hird now. he will be back at round 22 next year if he stays. He cannot enter an AFL ground for 12 months though.
The draft sanctions will hurt as alot of bombers players will want out now and their contracts will be void if they do

Do the sanctions start effective immediately or do they start October 1? I thought the latter

Corcoron starts Oct 1st Hird last sunday 25th Aug

Cheers. Missed that bit. Also when asked questions by the media did Vlad say that this was about sanctions for a club using banned substances??? Not an exact quote but he definitely said something about banned substances. It wasn't in the bit where ASADA's ongoing investigation continues either

[Jim05]

Very soft at the moment remembering that connolly got 12 months for not tanking. Hird will come back in 2015 as if nothing has happened.

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Don't remember Chris hiring human rights lawyers to fight his battle.

Hird will be back before finals next year

No he wont the club wont allow it.
They will appoint someone to coach for the whole of next season similar to what Hawthorn did with Allan Joyce.
Joyce coached for 1 year, won a flag and then moved on

[Jim05]

Our VFL side is free to play finals, not sure what the rules are regarding qualification but guys like Davey, Daniher, Gumbleton can still play

[Blue Baggers]

WOW how pathetic are the AFL? I thought the Crows got hit with a wet lettuce leaf for their misdemeanor (which they did), but in relation to the nature of disreputable activity, the Bombers have waltzed through this. Surely the AFL (or more to the point Demetriou or Mclachlan) have made their own mistakes in this fiasco to for the penalty to be so light??

SOFT ...... Why not just send them to stand in the naughty corner. Absolutely GUTLESS. Player admitted to being injected with a Banned substance, but the club doesn't admit it ???? Looks like the VFL ...Oops AFL look after their own local clubs. If it was an interstate club the book would have been thrown at them. Hird gets ONLY a 12 month ban back dated to Aug 25th ..... but still allowed to go to games, where as Trigg, Connolly etc were barred from going to games. DISGUSTED !!!

[Jim05]

Cheers. Missed that bit. Also when asked questions by the media did Vlad say that this was about sanctions for a club using banned substances??? Not an exact quote but he definitely said something about banned substances. It wasn't in the bit where ASADA's ongoing investigation continues either

Not sure but Little in his press conference stated that all charges that related to drug use were dropped and Essendon pleaded guilty to bad governence only

[Jim05]

WOW how pathetic are the AFL? I thought the Crows got hit with a wet lettuce leaf for their misdemeanor (which they did), but in relation to the nature of disreputable activity, the Bombers have waltzed through this. Surely the AFL (or more to the point Demetriou or Mclachlan) have made their own mistakes in this fiasco to for the penalty to be so light??

SOFT ...... Why not just send them to stand in the naughty corner. Absolutely GUTLESS. Player admitted to being injected with a Banned substance, but the club doesn't admit it ???? Looks like the VFL ...Oops AFL look after their own local clubs. If it was an interstate club the book would have been thrown at them. Hird gets ONLY a 12 month ban back dated to Aug 25th ..... but still allowed to go to games, where as Trigg, Connolly etc were barred from going to games. DISGUSTED !!!

This is a fallacy
You need to listen to Watson's exact quote, he said he believed the drug given to him was AOD. Without Dank speaking we will never know what drug Watson was given

[Rik E Boy]

Hird a no show. Gutless.

This.not in keeping with how he played the game.

[Rik E Boy]

Hang on. What had been happening with the bombers?

Been too focused on voss getting sacked from the lions.

Brisbane are ****** but Essendon have been gangraped.

regards,

REB

[daysofourlives]

Well for all of us who think these penalties are a joke we just have to hope that ASADA/WADA finishes what the AFL couldn't.

I'm hoping the AFL did a deal with ASADA for them to lay low whilst the AFL wrapped up this saga with the club before finals and that ASADA are now free to go BANG!!!

[Jim05]

Hird a no show. Gutless.

This.not in keeping with how he played the game.

Perhaps under club orders he didnt attend

[Jim05]

Well for all of us who think these penalties are a joke we just have to hope that ASADA/WADA finishes what the AFL couldn't.

I'm hoping the AFL did a deal with ASADA for them to lay low whilst the AFL wrapped up this saga with the club before finals and that ASADA are now free to go BANG!!!

You may be right but I have a feeling its the opposite.
Wouldnt be surprised if the AFL's penalties are sufficient

[dedja]

Little explicitly stated that Hird elected not to attend the press conference ...

[Jim05]

Little explicitly stated that Hird elected not to attend the press conference ...

Fair enough, thats poor then.
Hope he does something in the coming days

[tigerpie]

James wouldnt hear the word "no" very often and i think he's heard that word a lot this week, so he's spat it.

[daysofourlives]

Little explicitly stated that Hird elected not to attend the press conference ...

Fair enough, thats poor then.
Hope he does something in the coming days

I think he's cracked a tanty and he won't speak publicly until Aug 25