The paperwork in terms of what was given and when, invoices, etc was never the responsibility of the players anyway and should not have been used against them as such.
The club weren’t even granted the request to be a party to the hearings.
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They do it differently in the UK. UKAD dropped one of those Team Sky cases because the medical records went missing ( allegedly, sole records on doctor’s computer, allegedly stolen).
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Exzacery!!! Sitting ducks.
In the meantime, yet another non Essendon footballer gets a 4 year ban after testing positive to steroids.,whilst everyone in the media likes sympathising with Willie Rilio despite two infractions (substituting a urine sample and testing positive).
The hypocrisy of the football media is breathtaking.
Former SANFL star Josh Glenn has been banned for four years for testing positive to performance enhancing drugs by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
Two types of anabolic steroids were detected in the ex-Gold Coast Suns midfielder’s sample following Norwood’s round 11 match against Glenelg on June 16, 2018.
Glenn has been provisionally suspended since August 10, 2018 – the date he and the SANFL were advised of the adverse analytical finding – and had been under investigation since.
The 25-year-old will not be able to return to any SANFL or AFL-recognised football competition until August 10, 2022.
Glenn tested positive for prohibited substances 19-Norandrosterone and 19-Noretiocholanolone – both are types of anabolic steroids.
Norwood president Paul Di Iulio said “the decision Josh made” occurred well before his arrival at the Norwood Football Club.
“Josh admitted to taking the substances when he was not listed with any SANFL club and was therefore not bound by the code.
“However, the ongoing presence of the substances on 16 June 2018, while participating in a match for Norwood Football Club, constitutes an anti-doping rule violation.
“As a club, we can only speak positively of Josh’s behaviour during his time spent at Norwood. Josh has been an excellent teammate and demonstrated professionalism and commitment to the playing group.
“Norwood will continue to support Josh however will not be any making further comment on this matter.”
SANFL chief executive Jake Parkinson said the league had zero tolerance for prohibited drug use in its competitions.
“This sanction, the first to be imposed to a SANFL player for breach of the Anti-Doping Code, reinforces the league’s strong stance in maintaining fairness, safety and integrity on behalf of its participants,” Parkinson said.
“SANFL provides extensive drug awareness and education, including presentations every year to all senior and under 18s players at SANFL clubs about their responsibility under the AFL Anti-Doping Code.”
Glenn joined Norwood for the 2018 season and went on to play 10 games, kicking 21 goals and being named in the club’s best players three times.
He polled three Magarey Medal votes in round five after kicking eight goals against his former team, Central District.
During the round 11 match against Glenelg, Glenn collected 20 disposals and kicked one goal.
His last game for the Redlegs was the round 16 clash against Woodville-West Torrens on July 27, 2018.
Glenn missed the following two matches – Norwood cited the flu as the reason for his absence – before the Redlegs announced he had made himself unavailable for selection.
He has not played for the club since.
In October 2017, Glenn received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to an aggravated charge of recklessly causing harm.
Glenn had broken the nose of an Australian Defence Force employee when repeatedly punching him after he was kicked out of the Gawler Exchange Hotel in March last year.
He had begun the season with Barossa, Light and Gawler football club Willaston, which dumped Glenn after the assault incident.
He joined Norwood a month later.
Glenn was playing for division four amateur club Elizabeth in 2012 before starring for Central District over the next two seasons then getting rookie-listed by Gold Coast.
He quit the Suns and returned to SA in 2015, citing homesickness, then played for Willaston in 2016 and Central again in 2017.
In August 2018, the SANFL charged Willaston with breaching regulations for upfront payments of $3000 to Glenn for seasons 2016 and 2018.
Willaston was fined $8,000 ($2000 of which was suspended) and stripped of six premiership points – two for 2018 and four for 2019.
Glenn did not face any penalties after co-operating with the SANFL investigation.
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So hush hush he could have been a magpie. If he was a bomber it would be headlines along the 2nd blackest day in Australian sports.
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SANFL might have stricter privacy provisions than AFL, preventing disclosure of provisional suspensions.
Going by the ASADA statement, Glenn might be up for criminal charges as well as the doping ban. According to ASADA, as the substances are entered in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, it is lawful to suppply them in Australia, but as they are under Scedule 4 of the Poisons Standard, possession without authority is an offence. If he imported them himself, it could be an offence under the Customs Act relating to prohibited imports without a permit.
Must have been a very small window when he took them while not listed, as he went from Central to Norwood at the end of a season. He acted alone!
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No doubt it is worth a try. They can’t hide behind the reason for rejecting a request as being “it is not in the public interest”
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Sharpe’s disclosures have been one of the more remarkable revelations so far. He has spoke in general terms but needs to be nailed on specifics. He claims to have carried out up to 5 reviews of the Essendon case that has uncovered “mistakes”. It would appear that the manipulation of the Check your Substances database was not one of them. He also elaborated on the catch all paragraph that was added to the 2010 WADA Banned list being made up of unspecified substances because it is impossible to place all the substances on the Banned List. Such a pathetic comment. What mistakes did his reviews not pick up because internal reviews are often not worth the paper they are written on?
The deadline for the submission of additional Qns on Notice has lapsed so that avenue is gone (unless the Greens Senators have done so).
The details of Sharpe’s 5 reviews would appear to be crucial. It would be interesting to know if during the discussions Sharpe has allegedly had with the Club if these matters discussed. I don’t believe that the club has ever disclosed meetings with Sharpe about the saga, anybody know? Put it the list of questions to ask Lindsay and Xavier at the AGM next month.
I don’t expect Natrat’s case is at a stage where he can commence action. The database tampering is one piece of evidence and I would contend he needs a lot more because the opposition will throw everything at him, ala AFL vs Jackson Taylor. Not a lawyer but one of the critical evidence elements that was crucial in Jackson’s case was disclosure of documents and the AFL threw every legal tactic at him which added enormously to his costs.
Media pressure may help but someone in Canberra needs to lead the charge and expose the skulduggery of ASADA in the Essendon case (and Cronulla for that matter - why was Gallen tested over 100 times).
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Hadn’t seen this yet.
Bolt & Hird Snr
Seems to be a different culture in the NRL - extracts from Gallen’s book, including the doping issues, have been featured on the NRL site. Apart from NatRat and Jobe’s tweet, no retired banned Essendon player has put his head over the parapet - could be the end of any future career prospects in the AFL.
This reeks of get someone onside before have a chance to come after him / knows what was done by the AFL.
Essendon CEO Xavier Campbell tapped for key AFL job
He helped mend fences after Essendon’s disastrous supplements scandal and put the club in a strong financial position. Now Xavier Campbell could be joining Gillon McLachlan in AFL HQ.
Michael Warner , Herald Sun
Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell has been tapped for a plum job at AFL headquarters.
Campbell, who helped steer the Bombers through the ASADA drugs scandal, is being sought to fill a spot on Gillon McLachlan’s revamped executive team.
The league last week announced the creation of a new executive position “to drive the ongoing integration and redevelopment” of Marvel Stadium.
Campbell, 39, took control of Essendon in July 2014 after the departure of interim chief executive Ray Gunston.
Gunston, who has also since joined McLachlan’s executive team, replaced Ian Robson, forced out of the Bombers’ top job in mid-2013 amid fallout from the supplements saga.
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Dylan Shiel gets a pat on the back from Essendon CEO Xavier Campbell. Picture: Michael Klein
Campbell, a SANFL premiership player with Sturt, oversaw a strong recovery of the club’s financial position and helped mend relations between Essendon and the AFL after the Bombers were fined $2 million and banished from the 2013 finals.
He was named in the ASADA interim report, handed to the AFL in August 2013, for self-injecting the artificial tanning drug Melanotan II during the 2012 season while heading up the club’s marketing department.
Sounds ideal. I’m sure he would drive it purposefully. And would be without the pressure to “win a flag.”
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You don’t reckon a pile of Thymomodulin invoices paid by EFC wasn’t exculpatory, to some degree?
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What a surprise.
I am gobsmacked!
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I know Josh very well and he made a poor choice (not his first BTW).
He was playing in our local league up here and was on the juice like many are. 4 years is just too much and he will regret it forever
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That might explain the unusual ASADA statement, which laboured the health effects and the potential domestic legal consequences. If ASADA tests are positive for certain WADA banned drugs, you might also be subject to criminal investigations for possessing the drugs, as well as importing them without a permit.
If, as you say, so many are on it at the lower level, what is ASADA doing about it?
When my lad was playing u17’s in the local league and SANFL u18’s half the kids on his sides were gym junkies and some dabbled in steroids and supplements.
Up until a couple of years ago SANFL players never got tested and plenty of them would have been taking banned substances
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Yesterday (4 November) Michael Warner , Herald Sun said:
“Essendon chief executive Xavier Campbell has been tapped for a plum job at AFL headquarters.”
Last Tuesday (29 October) Bruce Francis said this in an email to Tanner and Xavier Campbell:
‘Or would you say “let’s move on” and hope that the AFL rewards you for sycophantism and appoints you to the commission and gives Xavier a job at the top of the table and anoints him as Gill’s replacement?’
Bruce obviously still has his spy / whistle-blower deep inside the AFL.
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If you are asking me whether Thymomodulin invoices paid by the EFC would have cleared the players, my answer is 'probably not’.
ASADA and WADA argued, and CAS accepted, Thymosin was TB-4. Like Thymomodulin, Thymosin is not prohibited. The prosecutors’ argument was that when Dank said Thymosin and when the players signed consent forms to take Thymosin it really was TB-4. They based this proposition on the benefits Dank spoke about in emails to Robinson sent before Dank was considered for the Essendon job. ASADA substituted Thymosin for TB-4 in documents used to convict the players (why not do the same for Thymomodulin?)
Dank gave sworn testimony to the ACC where perjury could lead to two years jail. He categorically denied giving the players TB-4.
Once ASADA (and WADA) had determined they wanted convictions, and once AOD9604 fell over, ASADA was always going to latch on to any word that started with THYM, whether it be Thymomodulin or Thymosin.
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Here is an easy way to catch up on some of the facts
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