Organised crime and drugs in sport investigation part III

[Spot On]

So. no breaking news as predicted by some in this thread and the media?????? No charges??? I thought this was the week it was all going to happen??????

Hmm. what are the odds something will happen after the Origin squads are announced?

 

[SharkShocked]

No one has a f**king clue on any of this, not one journalist has accurately predicated anything since this whole shit fight began.

Better off just watching the football and ignoring it until the NRL or a club calls a press conference.

 

[thorson1987]

No one has a f**king clue on any of this, not one journalist has accurately predicated anything since this whole shit fight began.

Better off just watching the football and ignoring it until the NRL or a club calls a press conference.

Thats pretty much all I've been doing.

Only time I see anything about it is in this thread.

 

[Miller was a legend]

Can somebody please inject 45 litres of Warfarin into Tom Waterhouse.

FFS over this crap on nine!

 

[Brutus]

No one has a f**king clue on any of this, not one journalist has accurately predicated anything since this whole shit fight began.

Better off just watching the football and ignoring it until the NRL or a club calls a press conference.

Fully agree

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Bourbon at her finest this morning. Sounding more and more desperate each week.

 

[El Diablo]

she was the original denier http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...etting-desperate/story-fn7r8ye7-1226619397056

 

[Spot On]

Backflip Becky. She's now taken every side possible. Some incredible statements in that article.

Kate Lundy and her darkest day colleagues are still being chased for interviews by radio sports programs (as has been the case for months now) but for some reason keep dodging the requests.

 

[millersnose]

Good news guys

Asada have been successful in getting a surf life saver banned

After that amazing success a holiday is in order

So more than one asada official are flying to Colorado to ask some guy there what the f**k it is they are supposed to be doing


http://www.smh.com.au/sport/asada-taps-leading-us-doping-crusaders-20130517-2jrtn.html

Apparently phones don't work at those high Colorado altitudes

 

[Pete Cash]

Its the craziest thing about the way these drug agencies work. They are so slow that players will be retired before they are done.

 

[Parra]

Good news guys

Asada have been successful in getting a surf life saver banned

After that amazing success a holiday is in order

So more than one asada official are flying to Colorado to ask some guy there what the f**k it is they are supposed to be doing


http://www.smh.com.au/sport/asada-taps-leading-us-doping-crusaders-20130517-2jrtn.html

Apparently phones don't work at those high Colorado altitudes

Don't f**k with the gravy train.

Higher profile for the agency means more money and more gravy.

Look how upset John Fahey got when the idea that his QUANGO was threatened.

 

[Tommax25]

God those losers at the DT must be loving life right now. They can re-hash the same stories over and over for, in Bourbon Becs own words, 6 weeks and still keep a job and get paid. Honestly, how many of the same type of article have they written? I feel like this must be at least the tenth article where they have either complained about people complaining about their own unethical or at the very least inappropriate articles or defended ASADA in saying that the problem is there, its real blah blah blah. Half the time I see the same quotes repeated. Today's had some from Paul Gallen that I had seen more than once already, let alone another again today.

You'd like to hope that with the amount of effort they are putting in to this, their absolutely adamant stance that they are the only sane mind in all of this, that if this turns out to be a load of BS that they would lose their jobs.

 

[flamin]

Thats pretty much all I've been doing.

Only time I see anything about it is in this thread.

Yeah me to.

A few weeks after the investigation broke it became clear that nothing was going to happen for a while so I never bought into this "dark shadow over the game" that the media keep harping about.

 

[Perth Red]

The fckng irony! From bourbon becs piece complaining about fair fax coverage:


They have published without considering the ramifications for those involved or the fact that a serious investigation is allegedly under way across two football codes.

 

[magpie4ever]

The fckng irony! From bourbon becs piece complaining about fair fax coverage:


They have published without considering the ramifications for those involved or the fact that a serious investigation is allegedly under way across two football codes.

Wilson obviously suffers with multi-personality disorder - she is a deadset lunatic.

 

[Perth Red]

Wilson obviously suffers with multi-personality disorder - she is a deadset lunatic.

All I can think is the years of alcohol abuse have led to korsakoff's setting in. Either that or she has no idea what is being written and published in her name by her paper!

 

[Parra]

Wilson obviously suffers with multi-personality disorder - she is a deadset lunatic.

You could be the same person.

Nothing either of you has written to date indicates otherwise.

 

[magpie4ever]

You could be the same person.

Nothing either of you has written to date indicates otherwise.

Yeah whatever, dipstick; back to your sewer. :lol:

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-to-come-to-sharks-rescue-20130518-2jta9.html

Dank ready to come to Sharks' rescue

Date
May 19, 2013

Danny Weidler
Sport columnist

Sports scientist Stephen Dank has refused an interview with ASADA but he wants Sharks players and their coach, Shane Flanagan, to know he is in their corner in the strongest possible way. And the main reason Dank is so keen to help them is due to his enormous respect and strong friendship with their captain, Paul Gallen.

The pair hit it off when he was at the club and they remain mates despite everything that has happened. Dank has regard for Gallen's leadership and considers him the finest skipper he has dealt with during his time in the NRL and the AFL. Their relationship is one of genuine mateship and Dank says they have had no professional dealings since he left the club in 2011. Dank says he will give the Cronulla players whatever assistance they need should infraction notices be issued. Dank has sat back and watched his name get trashed - much of it based on leaks from the Kavanagh report, a document that contains some truth but is by no means even close to an accurate account of what happened in 2011 at the Sharks. Things have been taken as fact when they are plain wrong.

Dank has no problem supporting the players when the time is right. "Since early February this year, much has been written and said about the inevitability of prosecutions and that convictions will follow for doping violations, yet to date no specific allegation has ever been made detailing substances, persons involved, dates, places and how and why a violation took place. I can't make this any more clear and I don't know why people won't listen to this - no Cronulla player or coach Shane Flanagan have anything to fear,'' he said. ''It's as simple as that and that will be proved. If or when prosecutions are commenced I will be available to assist their legal teams, if asked, to meet the allegations.

I am confident that no wrongdoing has taken place." Despite the Kavanagh report having been made public and selectively leaked, it seems neither Dank nor his lawyers are able to access the document or obtain a copy. Requests have been met with either no reply or an answer that there are no instructions that allow it to be handed over. This is despite loud and repeated claims of the document containing significant information concerning the alleged role played by Dank and others in the Sharks saga.

 

[undertaker]

Who would've guessed it....Hooper and Wilson write yet another article

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/ex...was-axed-by-club/story-fndv2ypb-1226645988397

TWO Cronulla players allegedly continued to contact sports scientist Stephen Dank for supplements after the club axed his role in 2011.

A statement by sacked Sharks doctor David Givney alleges the duo privately contacted Dank and 'used his various supplements on occasions.'

Givney was the doctor who raised concerns about Dank and his offsider Darren "The Gazelle" Hibbert allegedly providing supplements to the club for 11 weeks in 2011.

In the statement, which forms part of an independent document detailing the club's use of injections, tablets and peptide creams, Givney claims: "It was my thought that this was the end of the drama, but have since discovered that some players (names redacted) continued to privately have contact with Steve Dank and had subsequently used his various supplements on occasions."

Givney's statement is now in the possession of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority and the NRL, and is dated February 13, 2013.

It is understood ex-Cronulla staff members have also revealed one player called Hibbert "the mechanic".

Hibbert has been alleged to be responsible for administering some of the four rounds of injections Cronulla players were given in 2011.

On the back of an independent document stating players were injected in the away dressing room at Shark Park, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt Cronulla players were also administered with injections in two corporate boxes at Shark Park and inside a kitchenette at the club.
DR DAVID GIVNEY'S STATEMENT

Dank and Hibbert have repeatedly denied giving players banned substances.

Givney's statement does not suggest the substances were banned.

One of the players mentioned by Givney last night denied having any independent contact with Dank.

A lawyer for "various Cronulla players" denied any players had ongoing contact with Dank "for the purposes of obtaining prohibited substances".

Givney's statement says his growing discomfort at the use of supplements and Cronulla's association with Dank had become a "sore point" between Givney and club trainer Trent Elkin.

Givney recounts successfully urging coach Shane Flanagan to end contact with Dank after discovering some players using equine drugs.

"Since that time I have been told by Trent (Elkin) that he thought Dank was keeping me informed at all stages. In fact I had no contact with him at all," Givney writes. "It is worth noting that at no stage has any player produced a positive result to any banned substance from the ... tests that we've done."

What's even funnier is that the DT tried to stop me from accessing the article stating I needed to have a membership to continue reading it, but managed to circumvent their restriction by going to the news.com.au website. Sucked in!:lol: