GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

[Greystache]

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This is probably where they shot themselves in the foot the most. How could Dank have done something so bad to receive a lifetime ban yet the players he was in charge of had nothing done to them?

They had to come up with some finding to show it wasn't a kangaroo court set up for a home team decision. Unfortunately like most AFEL contrived events these days they made a hash of it and produced an outcome that all but the most simple minded wouldn't buy. The days of people blindly believing whatever the AFEL throws out are long gone and they're the only ones that don't realise it. They absolutely shot themselves in the foot.

Without looking up the findings, I remember that they were comfortably satisfied that Dank successfully secured TB-4 from his network, and he injected it into players under his care as sports scientist, but only in roles that didn't involve AFEL players. Hence he's guilty and so is everyone else accept for our guys.

[Sedat]

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One thing you don't want to do is make an enemy of City Hall - I suspect that Grubby Allen did so with his handling of the Treloar trade and this is the AFEL's way of payback. They are frantically trying to concoct an outcome that completely exonerates Whitfield, slaps Lambert with a wet lettuce leaf and kicks Allen out of the competition for life (or a few years at least).

AFEL Makey Uppey at its finest.

[Bornadog]

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One thing you don't want to do is make an enemy of City Hall - I suspect that Grubby Allen did so with his handling of the Treloar trade and this is the AFEL's way of payback. They are frantically trying to concoct an outcome that completely exonerates Whitfield, slaps Lambert with a wet lettuce leaf and kicks Allen out of the competition for life (or a few years at least).

AFEL Makey Uppey at its finest.

Penalty is 4 years for avoiding a drug test.

[1eyedog]

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Sleeping with the enemy. Problem for Lachie is she knows everything, it's the perfect ASADA witness really.

[Doc26]

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I love that 'AFEL' has caught on as an acronym.

I truly thought it had become a humorous reference to the Australian Football and Essendon league, as if the AFL and Essendon had become a single entity.

[Sedat]

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Penalty is 4 years for avoiding a drug test.

AFEL will try and downgrade it or call it something else to get Whitfield off. But they'll hit Grubby with a ton of bricks - he is the Dank of this episode, and every episode needs a villain. They already have the scapegoat with the ex. girlfriend plastered all over the papers as some sort of scorned lover.

[Twodogs]

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Penalty is 4 years for avoiding a drug test.

2-4 years I thought. If true then this would be about as 4 years a case as you could see. Ham fisted cowboy antics right through to outright dishonesty. No self respecting tribunal could hand down anything less.

I wonder what the AFEL will come up with?

[Bornadog]

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I wonder what the AFEL will come up with?

They will say it was a misunderstanding, and a vindictive girlfriend got it wrong. All in the AFL will be warned and end of story.

[Remi Moses]

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Don't stress, everything will come out in the coverup

[comrade]

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Vince will be hoping ASADA botch this up as badly as they did the Essendon case, and will be praying that WADA keeps their nose out of it.

[westdog54]

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They will say it was a misunderstanding, and a vindictive girlfriend got it wrong. All in the AFL will be warned and end of story.

Also Kyle Cheney will have to retract his statement, even though he hasn't made one in this matter. They'll find a way to bring him into it.

[comrade]

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Also Kyle Cheney will have to retract his statement, even though he hasn't made one in this matter. They'll find a way to bring him into it.

Plot twist...Kyle Cheney is the girlfriend.

[Bornadog]

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Plot twist...Kyle Cheney is the girlfriend.

I laughed out loud when I read this.

Maybe his sister.

[bulldogtragic]

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Plot twist...Kyle Cheney is the girlfriend.

But he was joking!

[Twodogs]

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Also Kyle Cheney will have to retract his statement, even though he hasn't made one in this matter. They'll find a way to bring him into it.

They could offer to let him out from under the bus for a bit. Long enough to make and retract a statement.