What am I gonna do with this 150 catering roll of foil?
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Keep making hats.
Id like to think the media have learned something and are acting accordingly.
However I think its far more likely they are just displaying their usual double standards.
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There are no more standards.
The ‘media’ are soulless opportunist vultures.
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Careful Deckham, Dave Warner got fined $5750 by CA for a rant against two journos back in 2013. One of them, Malcolm Conn, now works for CA and stage managed Warner’s media conference yesterday, for which Warner is getting the blame for not answering questions - which Conn shut down.
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You’ll also find that the AFL accredited media had directives they had to abide to in the whole EFC saga.
The AFL would be laughing at Cricket Australia, about the fact they don’t have ‘Australian cricket accreditation’. As they don’t have all the journalists on a string.
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Fark that makes you angry
Government overriding what’s meant to be an independent statuatory body with legislation in place under the ASADA act as a result of the AFL wanting to get its own way.
You’d hope Aurora wouldnt be so forgetful if on the box next time now that she has no position in the public service anymore.
She wouldn’t issue the show cause notices as there wasn’t anything there to do so. McDevitt comes in and does it anyway, gets a scalp off no evidence AFP style.
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Was that who that big goon was? Looked like a bouncer.
Without wanting to sound absolutely negative, justice is basically a myth, the law and the rules were made to control the ignorant masses, not the top few percent who make the rules and share in the wealth of the nation and beyond.
The AFL is a very good example of how the system works in the microcosm.
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Proof the Department lied and is continuing to cover up its role in the Essendon investigation
“2. Consistent with Australia’s anti doping legislation, the Department was not a party to the original ASADA investigation”
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Thanks Stabby
The department and the minister, Kate Lundy set up the parameters for the ‘investigation’ with Demetriou’s and Evans’ help.
Hunt and indeed all of the Coalition Ministers have looked the other way and completely ignored this fact.
One has to ask why? what’s in it for the current government to cover this up?
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Madigan winds up and tees off
Madigan: “Governments have a duty to protect each and every Australian right to a fair trial”
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It’s all about mileage for the current government, just like it was for Gillard and that pathetic Clare and Lundy.
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Amazing what happens when the players/coaches have an association behind them that is independant.
In regards to the ball tampering, ACA commented that:
Was sure as hell no proper process or fairness in regards to what went on in terms of Hird and the players. Hird rolled out/forced into press conference to admit fault.
No care about what actually happened as per Lukin’s comments to our physio IIRC as the stitch up was already rolling on.
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Any one care to post the Herald Sun article about pentosan polysulphate sodium being used by players at seven clubs? From my understanding this is a non-TGA approved injectable drug - so therefore in my eyes this highlights another double standard by the AFL and ASADA - allowing (apparently) the use of non-TGA approved substances to be injected.
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Breakthrough pain treatment drug in use at seven AFL clubs
MICHAEL WARNER, Herald Sun
April 3, 2018 8:00pm
Subscriber only
ONE of the AFL’s biggest stars is among up to 50 players being injected with a breakthrough pain treatment yet to be made available to the general public.
The claimed wonder drug — Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium — is injected into the body twice a week for six weeks and, despite remaining in a clinical trial phase, is credited with eliminating crippling knee, hip and groin pain.
The interstate star has been battling complications from a knee injury and was in serious doubt of lining up in Round 1 until he began using the drug in late February.
The club’s football boss said on Tuesday night it would be inappropriate to discuss the player’s private medical treatment.
Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium has been used for decades to treat blood clots and painful bladder syndrome in women but only recently emerged as a treatment option for osteoarthritis, caused by the breakdown of cartilage in joints.
Carlton is one of six other AFL clubs using the substance on injured players.
The drug has been patented by Melbourne company Paradigm Biopharmaceuticals and is sourced from Germany.
Paradigm chief executive Paul Rennie said club doctors had been given approval to use the drug by AFL chief medical officer Dr Peter Harcourt.
Approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Canberra under a “special access scheme” has also been granted, Rennie said.
“That was all cleared,” he said.
Rennie revealed six AFL players suffering from osteitis pubis were treated with Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium over the off-season.
“They all went from pain scores of six or seven out of 10 to zero,” he said.
“It was completely resolved. There’s no doubt it works and the AFL doctors who have used it love it.”
Asked how many current AFL players were using the drug, Rennie said: “I think we would be pushing 40 to 50 at seven clubs.
“It’s on the market as a way of treating deep vein thrombosis and is registered in Europe for that purpose.
“It’s not registered in Australia, the US or Japan.
“The dosing regimen and the way we administer it is different.
“It’s administered by a subcutaneous injection, so just under the skin — not into the joint. It’s normally done around the abdomen … or the shoulder or the backside.
“It’s about 1.5 mils of liquid.”
Rennie said the clinical phase two trial involving 100 people was aimed at proving Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium works in the treatment of osteoarthritis.
Another 160 patients, including the 40-50 AFL players, are using the drug under the TGA “special access scheme”.
Four of the seven clubs using the substance are based in Victoria.
The TGA says its special access scheme “refers to arrangements which provide for the import and/or supply of an unapproved therapeutic good for a single patient, on a case-by-case basis”.
Harcourt was contacted for comment but was unavailable last night.
Retired Blues star Andrew Walker, whose AFL career was crippled by chronic knee soreness, was one of the first players to trial the drug.
“He could hardly walk between practice sessions and had every available therapy thrown at him — but didn’t respond to any of it,” Rennie said.
“He is now running between 20 and 30 kilometres a week and has no knee pain and is playing (country) football again.”
What the actual fark!
AOD9604 is created with a view to treating one type of issue - obesity, but found to potentially have other benefits, was no TGA approval as an injectable as yet & was still in phase2 of clinical trials IIRC … and people lose their minds over players being treated like “guinea pigs”
And now the AFL approves something in much the same light.
Alright so how much money did the company pay Harcourt to approve it through the AFL?
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