It is time for Jobe Watson to be reinstated

[Topdog]

Thanks for the link. That is actually no standard at all. It is so open to corruption that it is unbelievable they can get away with it.

As opposed to drug masking agents and not having any idea what was injected into your body?

"I dont know what drugs I took BUT I know they weren't performance enhancing!"

[jeemak]

Simple. They show no evidence.

I see you know your judo well.......

[Grantysghost]

I see you know your judo well.......

Get your hand off my penis!

[Grantysghost]

He looked around. Saw that he was surrounded. Outnumbered. And with laser sharp arguments they were moving in for the kill.

Plaintively he cried, 'Okay I will park it at that.'

Haha gold. You've fought the good fight.

One thing we agree on, the media attention was disgusting.

[Bulldog Joe]

Simple. They show no evidence.

The evidence was in the records that Essendon were required to provide.

The fact that they lost/destroyed said records is prima facie evidence of guilt.

I remain very confident that if the records provided any hint of innocence they would have been located.

[Grantysghost]

The evidence was in the records that Essendon were required to provide.

The fact that they lost/destroyed said records is prima facie evidence of guilt.

I remain very confident that if the records provided any hint of innocence they would have been located.

But but....the truth will come out BJ.

[FrediKanoute]

Still waiting. Evidence not inference.

See, the lack of hard evidence is evidence in its own right.

Part of the duty/obligation sporting clubs have is to keep records of what they are doing. So whilst there is no evidence of what was injected, the burden of proof falls on the players/club to prove what they did inject (which there is evidence of) was not performance enhancing or designed to mask a performance enhancing product,

In summary waiting for something that doesn't exist is missing the point, because not having that something is evidence on its own that somehing wrong was done. Essendon tried the dog ate my homework defence not understanding that it wouldn't work!

[soupman]

Part of the duty/obligation sporting clubs have is to keep records of what they are doing. So whilst there is no evidence of what was injected, the burden of proof falls on the players/club to prove what they did inject (which there is evidence of) was not performance enhancing or designed to mask a performance enhancing product,

Especially when it's something as serious and health related as injecting players with substances. Not only is it morally good to have a record of what you have done, but a professional obligation as a "professional" sporting club.

This isn't walking through Coles with something you bought somewhere else but you forgot to grab the receipt for.

[EasternWest]

He looked around. Saw that he was surrounded. Outnumbered. And with laser sharp arguments they were moving in for the kill.

Plaintively he cried, 'Okay I will park it at that.'

I have no dog in the fight but I couldn't resist posting this.

[Bulldog4life]

And our legal system is not corrupt. Just ask Cardinal Pell!

You have to be kidding surely. Just leave it at that. That's not what WOOF's about.

[hujsh]

You have to be kidding surely. Just leave it at that. That's not what WOOF's about.

I took it as sarcasm

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

I took it as sarcasm

Me too