It is time for Jobe Watson to be reinstated

[FrediKanoute]

No. To say he bore the brunt of poor of field decisions is a farce. 3 members of a 100m relay team being denied a medal because 1 cheats is a tragedy, what the Bombers did was deliberate and wrong and Jobe was part of that. The passage of time doesn't make it less so. Shame on Sheehan for suggesting otherwise.

[Happy Days]

I also wanna kiss Jobe Watson on the mouth! What’s a Brownlow?

[FrediKanoute]

At the time there was no rule against offsite injection programs. The rule was introduced subsequently. A sound decision but one that could easily have been done without the alphabet people. It could have been treated like Mathews' Brisbane team's fluid injections on the plane down. Stopped without a fuss.

Essendon did nothing wrong. They were not using performance enhancing substances.

Jobe was a tremendously fair player. Always has been and was a deserving winner. He, like Hird, would never cheat. He did nothing wrong or unfair.

On the basis of character, labelling Hird and Watson cheats is as untrue as applying that label to people the character of Bevo and Bont.

The topic has been done to death which is what makes Sheehan's article so appalling.

If you know that something is going on but say nothing you are as guilty of a crime as if you did the crime.

The substances injected were regarded as banned substances by WADA and Australia's equivalent ASADA. Performance enhancing has nothing to do with it. They were banned because they had the effect of masking performance enhancing substances. If they weren't taking performance enhancing drugs, why take masking agents? Its ironic that one of the central defences is that the substance they took was not performance enhancing.

Lt it rest and lets avoid revisiting a very dark chapter in AFL history.

[FrediKanoute]

Thank goodness we made sure we were so clear on that when we got our COVID shots!

Very, very,very big difference. I shouldn't have t point it out, but C-19 killed thousands of people. The vaccine was aimed at protecting the wider population rather than trying to get an advantage over the next bloke.

The analogy your draw is flawed .

[bulldogtragic]

I have nothing to say.

[Grantysghost]

You guys are mad and I bow down to Mike Sheahan, absolute god tier shitposter.

It's next level trolling.

[Grantysghost]

Very, very,very big difference. I shouldn't have t point it out, but C-19 killed thousands of people. The vaccine was aimed at protecting the wider population rather than trying to get an advantage over the next bloke.

The analogy your draw is flawed .

7 million at least and counting. Without a vaccine, hard to imagine what it might be.

[angelopetraglia]

The real question for me. Is that Mike or Robbo? Robbo writing as Mike's ghost writer to push his agenda. When was the last time Mike wrote an article. Mike is like Bernie, at Weekends at Bernies in context to this.

[Hotdog60]

This has all been done before and just on Hird as head coach he has the welfare and guidance of the charges under him he could have and should have know all the ins and outs of what they were planning on doing with the players.
So he either went along with it or he didn't have the guts to stand up against it.

[Bulldog Joe]

"Hey doc, what's in this needle?"
"That's your scientifically produced evidence backed covid shot"

Is a lot different to

"Hey Jobe what were you injected with?"
"No idea but it was definitely legal!!"

This has all been done before and just on Hird as head coach he has the welfare and guidance of the charges under him he could have and should have know all the ins and outs of what they were planning on doing with the players.
So he either went along with it or he didn't have the guts to stand up against it.

As head coach he was responsible for the football program.

Hard to see how the entire saga doesn't fall back on Hird.

At the time he repeatedly said something along the lines of "when the truth comes out" but always refused to provide any of that truth.

There can be no exoneration of any in the Essendon saga.

[Grantysghost]

It's next level trolling.

In fact, I have just obtained exclusive footage purporting to show the publishing of said article :

[Dog]

No reprieve for Jab Watson. Disgraceful actions are punished to form future precedent.

The fact that's he's allowed to exist freely in the media is dubious enough.

[Bulldog4life]

The topic has been done to death which is what makes Sheehan's article so appalling.

If you know that something is going on but say nothing you are as guilty of a crime as if you did the crime.

The substances injected were regarded as banned substances by WADA and Australia's equivalent ASADA. Performance enhancing has nothing to do with it. They were banned because they had the effect of masking performance enhancing substances. If they weren't taking performance enhancing drugs, why take masking agents? Its ironic that one of the central defences is that the substance they took was not performance enhancing.

Lt it rest and lets avoid revisiting a very dark chapter in AFL history.

He wrote it for his good buddies Timmy & Robbo.

[jeemak]

As head coach he was responsible for the football program.

Hard to see how the entire saga doesn't fall back on Hird.

At the time he repeatedly said something along the lines of "when the truth comes out" but always refused to provide any of that truth.

There can be no exoneration of any in the Essendon saga.

He's just waiting for the right moment. Any day now.........and counting.

The club doctor protested and got pushed to the outer edge of the football program. If that doesn't tell you how what was happening was dubious at best, beyond negligent and cheating at worst then nothing would.

[Before I Die]

Thoughts?

Reading that made me want to throw up.