WADA are a joke, the only best way to beat this, is to come back and win games, show our strength which we have.
Credit to the current players and coaching staff, happy to be a Bomber supporter
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The one thing I’ll never understand about this is how Geelong’s flags somehow draw no suspicion at all.
Four GFs for three wins in fives years with all the same personnel running the fitness department, but we get the book thrown at us in a year where we probably finish 6th.
Oh, and McGuire can suck on a fat one for life. “Sarah” made him persona non grata in my eyes forever.
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"Release AFL Drug Documents"
"The transcript published by the Herald Sun also brought the Geelong Football Club into the supplements saga by formally linking the club with Mr Dank.
"In spite of this evidence, Geelong denied any involvement with the sports scientist when the Herald Sun put questions to the club on Monday.
"Hours later, Geelong fessed up. The club admitted ordering a drug from Mr Dank that was injected into its players during its 2009 premiership season.
"The sports scientist at the heart of the Essendon drugs saga said he sourced a calf’s blood extract, Actovegin, from a company in the Ukraine. Actovegin, which is legal, is believed to have been widely used by other AFL clubs. Mr Dank says he was paid for the drugs and for advice on how to inject it, which was done by a Geelong club doctor.
"According to Mr Dank, the Melbourne Football Club injected up to 12 of its players with drugs when the sports scientist acted as a consultant to the club in 2012.
“Mr Dank says he gave the same advice to Melbourne as he gave to Essendon and that it included the drug Thymomodulin, which ASADA and now WADA believes was the banned substance Thymosin Beta 4. There are still questions to be answered by the Gold Coast Suns.”
Source: Herald Sun editorial, 12 August 2015
Note: Actovegin used at Richmond, Geelong and Collingwood. Used at Essendon and all hell breaks loose.
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Can’t be so as we were told by Gerard Whateley:
“Essendon acted alone”
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So they know Geelong was doing it; they just didn’t care.
Figures.
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They claimed it; I will never accept that they actually believed it.
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Former Liverpool soccer player Sakho is suing WADA in the English Courts for damages. There are some parallels in the higenamine and TB4 issues. Written up by Andy Maher on the sports integrity site.
sportsintegrityinitiative.com
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And he been amply rewarded with more $$$ via AFL butt licking MSM outlets aka SEN and FOX
Geelong can flat out lie about it. Then admit it. And still no one cares. It’s all about the afl controlling the optics. People in general are no different to sheep.
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Parallels in the Sakho/E34 cases:
-Substance not specified in the WADA Code
- Substance not idenified in the labelling
- No evidence of performance enhancing effect
- Sport Tribunal exonerated the athletes
The differences:
- There were stronger scientific arguments in the Sakho case, casting doubt on the WADA classification
- WADA did not appeal the Sakho decision
Reportedly in the English cases, the Judge will determine whether WADA was negligent. In the event of such a finding, WADA science would be further exposed
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Sakho was represented by Mike Morgan at the Anti-Doping tribunal - Morgan has a big reputation and it’s unlikely WADA would mess with him.
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What was happened at the GCS wasn’t known about until a long time later.
ASADA did not come into the picture at all then they when they did an investigation and they gave it all the big thumbs up. Boak just disappeared from footy and everything up there was hunky dory. Robinson and Dank were cleared to work at Essendon.
Who’s counting that makes Geelong, Melbourne, GCS, Essendon involved with Dank and Robinson using some sort of injections we know of. Earlier the Brisbane Lions in 2001 and Hawthorn also using injections. That is a third of the competition.
And yet, it was reported, it could be up to a dozen clubs who were using and injecting “supplements.” But Essendon acted alone. How people can actually keep believing this rubbish? It simply shows just how dumb the public are.
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Imagine if the 3 greasy afl amigos had some foresight and they realised they had the option of accepting that Dank & Robinson were employed by them at GC, so they should accept some blame, direct the rest at Dank & Robinson (who initiated the programs at each club), remove GC from the competition after crowds collapsed in 2013, fine us for poor management and oversight of Dank & Robinson, appease ASADA & WADA, and not have to endure a 5 year saga or destroy innocent people.
But of course they would need to accept some responsibility for information they had and we didn’t, and not acting on it, and the rodeo clown would probably have been lost to the world of high finance and forensic accounting.
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“When players get injuries, clubs are very good at reaching beyond their own medical staff. . . They will search for different ideas to get players on track.”
— Gary Hocking, “Painkiller use normal”, The Age, 30 Sept 2003
“It is believed the practice is common across the AFL, but it is kept quiet by clubs because of the negative perception of injections.”
— “AFL brings in ‘Chappy’ rule on blood injections”, HS 18 Nov 2009
“Coughlan was injected 102 times with Actovegin, which improves the circulation of oxygen in the blood and is manufactured using an extract of calf’s blood, and Traumeel, which offers anti-inflammatory relief of soft- tissue trauma.”
— “Mark Coughlan receives radical hamstring treatment”, Herald Sun, 4 June 2008
“Andrew Demetriou takes no responsibility for the Essendon supplements scandal because “I never injected anyone”. But under Mr Demetriou, the AFL door opened to greater use of injections… In 2012, the year Essendon administered its program of supplement injections, the prohibition was relaxed as the AFL adopted the World Anti-Doping Agency’s revised prohibited list, allowing the more liberal use of injections.”
— “Relaxed code led to AFL’s dark days” Chip Le Grand, The Australian, 7 March 2014
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Simple fact of the matter is we did no more or less than the other clubs. People who can’t see that this was the biggest stitch up in sporting history, have horse blinkers on.
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Boak is still playing.
Bock was the GCS player
Off topic, but interesting .