ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

[Twodogs]

This won't do a lot for the rumour mongering that's been persistent on this topic and Thompson for a number of years now.

Au contrare my friend. Very much to the contrary, I think it will do a lot to help propagate and spread the rumours. At this rate they should make the next series of Underbelly or the Wire about him if half of what I hear is true.

[jeemak]

Au contrare my friend. Very much to the contrary, I think it will do a lot to help propagate and spread the rumours. At this rate they should make the next series of Underbelly or the Wire about him if half of what I hear is true.

By not doing a lot, I meant not doing a lot to quell them........

[Throughandthrough]

A 54 year old "Port Melbourne man" arrested over drug trafficking.
More soon @theheraldsun

[bornadog]

A 54 year old "Port Melbourne man" arrested over drug trafficking.
More soon @theheraldsun

Always thought he was sus. Never liked the smart arse.

[bornadog]

Released without charge at this stage

[The Adelaide Connection]

Not strictly part of this thread title but a residence owned by Bomber Thompson has been raided by the police. No charges have been laid and while there is some speculation lets wait to see if anything can or will be confirmed.

This all sounds like it is pretty directly linked. Across the few articles I have read in the last few days there have been more candid, upfront quotes pulled than one would expect. I have read quotes from Danny Frawley (head of the coaches union during the doping scandal), Frank Costa, and his ex-wife and all have expressed that he is not in a good place and that he more or less hasn't been since his fine (anyone that watches AFL360 would have a strong understanding that the fine did not sit well with him). There is also a quote from Bomber himself that seems to be reprinted a lot where he mentions that the ongoing mental scars from the scandal will "probably end up killing him".

Here is an article that has a few of Frawleys comments:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/dan...3a31b04924e4ee

[ledge]

Seems both him and Hird have had mental issues over the journey.

[Axe Man]

Essendon court twist: Bulldogs president Peter Gordon acting for AFL supremos

THE Essendon drugs saga has taken another twist with lawyer and Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon acting for AFL supremos Gillon McLachlan and Mike Fitzpatrick.

It emerged this morning that Gordon’s law firm, Gordon Legal, had been retained by McLachlan and Fitzpatrick as separate legal advisers to the AFL’s in a Supreme Court case alleging misleading and deceptive conduct by the league during footy’s greatest crisis.

Global law firm K & L Gates will continue to lead the AFL’s defence in the case brought by Melbourne lawyer Jackson Taylor.

Gordon told the Herald Sun in a statement this afternoon: “Mike and Gill are not prepared to sit by and have their reputations trashed through the courts. This claim in our view has no social, or other utility whatsoever.

“Mr Taylor has no connection to the Essendon Football Club and no connection to the players. Those actually involved in the Essendon matter on all sides are trying to get on with their lives and their jobs.”

“Gordon Legal is happy to help bring this to a just and expeditious conclusion.”

The involvement of Gordon’s firm will add significant costs to a case that has run since last year.

In an affidavit filed with the court in February, lawyer Mark Dobbie for the AFL estimated the league’s costs in defending the matter would likely top $700,000.

McLachlan last month described the case as a waste of money.

Taylor is being represented by human rights lawyer Julian Burnside, QC, who represented James Hird during his own fight with the AFL.

Taylor’s legal team has also been bolstered, with top commercial lawyer and Adelaide United chairman Greg Griffin signing on as lead solicitor this week.

The legal teams fronted Supreme Court Justice John Dixon at a directions hearing this morning to set out the next procedural steps in the case.

An argument over a deed of release between the parties signed in 2015 will be heard later this year. A hearing was initially proposed in Grand Final week.

McLachlan and Fitzpatrick were represented in court today by commercial barrister Georgina Costello.

Gordon is also acting for the AFL in a sexual harassment and racial discrimination case brought against the league by ex-Gold Coast Suns player Joel Wilkinson.

The Dogs president was embroiled in his own bitter stoush with the AFL in 2015 over the league’s handling of an investigation into the club’s elimination final narrow loss to the Adelaide Crows.

Bulldogs chiefs informed the AFL they had obtained “independent corroboration” of allegations that disaffected Dogs defender Michael Talia leaked parts of the team’s game plan to his brother, star Adelaide backman Daniel Talia, in the days before the match.

The Talias, who have always maintained their innocence, were cleared by the AFL after a 63-day integrity unit investigation.

“There is a clearly sufficient basis for the AFL to find that there was an improper communication of confidential information,” Gordon asserted in the club’s damning submission to the league.

Gordon also issued a statement on behalf of 17 club presidents as the AFL’s war against Essendon reached fever pitch in August 2013.

“We resolved to unanimously express our support for the integrity of the AFL Rules and the need for those rules and the integrity of our competition to be preserved,” he said.

“In our view, it is of paramount importance that every effort be made to resolve these matters within the AFL industry.”

[bulldogtragic]

Charge them triple the normal rate.

[bornadog]

Must be a slow news day, reported that on WOOF some months ago.

[bulldogtragic]

Must be a slow news day, reported that on WOOF some months ago.

There's Tom Boyd contract stories too... Apparently original thinking/articles isn't rated highly these days.