ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

[Dry Rot]

It's starting

ESSENDON players have reportedly been issued with show-cause notices by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.

News Corp is reporting ASADA served the notices on players on Thursday following a 16-month probe into the club's 2012 supplements program.

Any players or officials found guilty of doping offences face suspension from all sport.

But the process of deciding whether anyone is guilty could take years, with legal action a certainty.

Show-cause notices require players to explain why they should not be handed infraction notices for breaching the WADA drug code.

If ASADA doesn’t accept the explanation they then compile a report on each player that may have breached the code. This report is then given to an independent group of experts who assess the evidence and decide whether an infraction notice should be issued by ASADA and the AFL.

If an infraction notice is issued, the player would be suspended immediately until the issue is resolved.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-06-12/dons-hit-with-doping-notices

[ReLoad]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

I wonder if Disco has been served too?

[SlimPickens]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

And here we go!!!

Wonder how they'll justify bringing the demigod back come years end?

[LostDoggy]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

I wonder if Disco has been served too?

Whilst we cling to the hope that he won't be, I think realism is going to win out over optimism in this particular case.

[Webby]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

And here we go!!!

Wonder how they'll justify bringing the demigod back come years end?

They can't possibly now. Hird's a dead duck.

[westdog54]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

So it begins. It will be interesting to see who had been served.

[Dry Rot]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Looks like other clubs involved ie with former Bombers players

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-12/essendon-players-handed-show-cause-notices-by-asada/5519856

[bulldogtragic]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

There were 40 players on the list. 34 have been hit so the rumours go.

Stew is odds on to have a show cause, moreso than not.

[Sedat]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

There were 40 players on the list. 34 have been hit so the rumours go.

34 players and all of them in relation to Thymosin Beta 4. Worst possible result for the Scum - all the hot air over AOD simply a diversionary tactic - TB4 was the end game for ASADA.

[LostDoggy]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

They can't possibly now. Hird's a dead duck.

You're trying to apply rationality and logic to the filth.

[SonofScray]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Good. I hope Essendon are decimated as a result of the next stage of proceedings.

[GVGjr]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Good. I hope Essendon are decimated as a result of the next stage of proceedings.

Good sentiment but it won't serve us or the league if that happens

[Sedat]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Good sentiment but it won't serve us or the league if that happens

I reckon it is a bitter pill that the game needs to swallow. If the 34 players (Crameri included) have been found to have taken a banned substance, the future health of the game demands that the players are suspended for the 2 year maximum and that whatever fats befalls Essendon, so be it.

On the surface, the Essendon doping regime is every bit as cynical and outside the rules as the East German athletes of the 70's or the cycling teams from the late 90's - if it means they close their doors, it is a price the game simply needs to pay.

[SonofScray]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

I reckon it is a bitter pill that the game needs to swallow. If the 34 players (Crameri included) have been found to have taken a banned substance, the future health of the game demands that the players are suspended for the 2 year maximum and that whatever fats befalls Essendon, so be it.

On the surface, the Essendon doping regime is every bit as cynical and outside the rules as the East German athletes of the 70's or the cycling teams from the late 90's - if it means they close their doors, it is a price the game simply needs to pay.

Agree. If it hurts us as well, so be it. Our league is already compromised in many ways, which also needs addressing, but I'm not prepared to cop doping at all. There has to be consequences. Harsh enough that it ensures no Club tries it on ever again.

It'd be a great piece of football history to have Essendon fold as a result of being outed as blatant cheats (again). The game would survive, one way or another.

[westdog54]

Re: ASADA issues show-cause notices to Essendon players

Where the Bombers of 2012 are now.

PLAYERS STILL AT ESSENDON
Mark Baguley
Tom Bellchambers
Alex Browne
Jake Carlisle
Travis Colyer
Lauchlan Dalgleish
Alwyn Davey
Cory Dell'Olio
Courtenay Dempsey
Dustin Fletcher
Kyle Hardingham
Dyson Heppell
Michael Hibberd
Heath Hocking
Cale Hooker
Ben Howlett
Michael Hurley
Leroy Jetta
Elliott Kavanagh
Jake Melksham
Jackson Merrett
David Myers
Nick O’Brien
Tayte Pears
Patrick Ryder
Brent Stanton
Ariel Steinberg
Jobe Watson
Jason Winderlich
David Zaharakis

PLAYERS AT OTHER CLUBS
Stewart Crameri (Western Bulldogs)
Scott Gumbleton (Fremantle)
Angus Monfries (Port Adelaide)

PLAYERS NO LONGER ON ESSENDON/AFL LISTS
Luke Davis
Ricky Dyson
David Hille
Hal Hunter
Brendan Lee
Sam Lonergan
Anthony Long
Nathan Lovett-Murray
Mark McVeigh
Brent Prismall
Kyle Reimers
Michael Ross
Henry Slattery

From the AFL website.