organised crime and juice of the elephant pt V

[SharkShocked]

ahh how good is the Essendon club statement

Essendon statement:
"The club is currently digesting the decision and we will provide a further update later today." Lindsay Tanner

Let me interpret that.

"We don't know what to say, we just got throat f**ked"

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Surprised they never said it was this dude's fault for getting them on the sauce.

 

[El Diablo]

Bigpoofy in meltdown

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

It's a shame the AFL media are still on holidays because hearing their reaction to this would have been gold.

 

[drago brelli]

Essendon should have cooperated with investigators when this first happened. WADA brought in the expert who investigated Lance Armstrong. Essendon players will now probably sue the club. This has a long way to run. What of that anti aging clinic owner?

 

[butchmcdick]

Looks like the NRL played the whole situation so much better than the afl

 

[Pig Champion]

Looks like the NRL played the whole situation so much better than the afl

Yep, it would have been a bitter pill for the Sharks players to swallow (excuse the pun) but way more preferable to this.

 

[El Diablo]

the AFL's credibility is shot. they now realise they're a pissant sport that can't control outcomes when it comes to the big boys like WADA

they interfered at every level here to get their cheats off even trying to do a deal with Labor

 

[chigurh]

https://twitter.com/andrewbogut/status/686666394037911552

Andrew Bogut ‏@andrewbogut 20m20 minutes ago
Positive for @AFL : Easily the most poorly handled prolonged scandal of any pro sport EVER! (Or so it seems) So at least there is that......

 

[drago brelli]

The players at Cronulla and at Essendon are now left with the possible long term side effects.

 

[madunit]

AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL WADA APPEAL AGAINST 34 CURRENT AND FORMER PLAYERS OF ESSENDON FOOTBALL CLUB UPHELD; VIOLATION OF ANTI-DOPING RULES ESTABLISHED; PLAYERS SUSPENDED

Lausanne, 11 January 2016 –

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today issued its decision in the arbitration procedure between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and 34 current and former players of Essendon.

The appeal filed by WADA against the Australian Football League (AFL) Anti-Doping Tribunal’s decision of 31 March 2015 is upheld and the appealed decision is set aside.

The 34 players concerned are sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years, commencing on 31 March 2015, with credit given for any individual period of ineligibility already served.

Thus, most of the suspensions will come to an end in November 2016.

The arbitration procedure was conducted by a panel of CAS arbitrators: the Hon. Michael J. Beloff QC, barrister in London, United Kingdom (President), Mr. Romano Subiotto QC, Solicitor Advocate in Brussels, Belgium, and the Hon. James Spigelman AC QC, barrister in Sydney, Australia and London, United Kingdom.

The Panel held a hearing with the parties in Sydney, Australia from 16 to 20 November 2015.

In its Arbitral Award, the Panel found to its comfortable satisfaction that Clause 11.2 of the 2010 AFL Doping Code (use of a prohibited substance) has been violated and found by a majority that all players were significantly at fault.

The full Arbitral Award is published on the CAS website.

Here are the 34 players who face bans:

STILL AT ESSENDON
Jobe Watson
Dyson Heppell
Michael Hurley
Brent Stanton
Tom Bellchambers
Tayte Pears
David Myers
Travis Colyer
Michael Hibberd
Cale Hooker
Heath Hocking
Ben Howlett

WESTERN BULLDOGS
Stewart Crameri

MELBOURNE
Jake Melksham

PORT ADELAIDE
Paddy Ryder
Angus Monfries

ST KILDA
Jake Carlisle

NO LONGER IN AFL
Corey Dell’Olio
Alwyn Davey
Ariel Steinberg
Alex Browne
Luke Davis
Dustin Fletcher
Leroy Jetta
Mark McVeigh
Brent Prismall
Nathan Lovett-Murray
Ricky Dyson
Sam Lonergan
Kyle Hardingham
Scott Gumbleton
Brendan Lee
Henry Slattery
David Hille

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...e/news-story/f34f161721b0d0806273808da5dade18

 

[Usain Bolt]

And Gallen was crying about being banned for a few games lol

 

[Wizardman]

The Cronulla Sharks are a very lucky football club in all of this. Poor record keeping and no funds to fight the bans pretty much worked out for them in the end.

 

[no name]

The Cronulla Sharks are a very lucky football club in all of this. Poor record keeping and no funds to fight the bans pretty much worked out for them in the end.

I think it's more the fact they threw their hands up and said 'you got us'

The ego of Hird and co cost the players and the club dearly.

As bad as Cronulla has been run, they played the right card on this one.

 

[drago brelli]

Some Cronulla supporters are still blaming Labor, Gillard, the ABC, the SMH, the Unions. In their view the whole thing was a conspiracy set up by Labor to have them rubbed out or moved to Perth.

 

[no name]

ST KILDA
Jake Carlisle

He can spend more time snorting 'unknown substances'

 

[Pierced Soul]

bwahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahah

thats what you get for being deceitful merkins who continually tried to sidestep asada and blame the nrl

 

[jargan83]

While Cronulla ended up accepting a plea deal Essendon fought ASADA at every turn.

Can't wait for James Hird to pop up at some stage today.

 

[Packy]

So do the players sue AFL or the Club?

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

They will probably only be able to sue the club for pain and suffering and negligence. Essendon will suffer greatly and for years.