Bruce is amazing and very determined. The reminder that only 8 players gave evidence they received Thymosin injections, should be shouted from rooftops. How is it possible that an elected member of parliament can ignore this evidence of ASADA’s stitch up?
And as for Demetriou, how is he able to sit on any board? You’d hope his mates are trying to distance themselves from his seriously tainted image. It would hurt him to experience being in Coventry like he encouraged the public to do to James Hird.
In 2015, Demetriou was appointed to the Indigenous Referendom Council, a position negotiated by Turnbull & Shorten. I wonder how that group benefits from Demetriou’s ‘experience’ and whether other members are content to be associated with someone of his ‘credentials’? I intend writing to my local member to object to someone who was party to ripping off Australian taxpayers, being on such an important committee.
Let me tell you one thing about Bruce. As annoying as he is to some people, he is dedicated to uncovering this supplement mess and clearing the players, James Hird’s and his assistant’s names.
As a result, he is not popular in some circles within our club and outside it. He will not stop until this is done or he dies which ever comes first. Hope to see him in the next couple of months to thank him because my family really appreciates all his efforts and the massive amount of time he has spent for our players, our former coach and assistant coaches in his quest for the truth. I admire the integrity of the man, he has ticker. Its a rare quality under fire.
The CAS panel was biased in that it often cherry picked the evidence. Inter alia, Dean Robinson made a number of contradictory and factually incorrect statements to the ASADA investigators. All of his comments should have been rejected by the CAS panel. However, incomprehensibly, the panel cherry picked Robinson’s comments to help make its case against the players.
Robinson told the ASADA investigators that he didn’t remember anything about Thymomodulin and that the word Thymomodulin “didn’t ring a bell”. The panel used Robinson’s comments in deciding that Thymosin was Thymosin Beta-4. However, according to the evidence, on 15 June 2012, Robinson emailed Dr Reid a list of supplements to be administered between the mid-year bye and the 2012 Grand Final, which included “Thymomodulin (my emphasis) weekly; two days pre-game; Cerebrolysin: two mil split fortnightly – two days before the game; and … two monthly intravenous immune booster”.
It is incomprehensible that Robinson could make such a mistake in claiming that ‘Thymomodulin didn’t ring a bell’. The mistake was so monstrous, it begs the question: ‘Was Robinson granted immunity from prosecution over his part in the Nathan Bock saga at the AFL owned Gold Coast Suns?
Bock even told ASADA the bank details of how he paid for the banned substance CJC-1295 that Robinson gave him. Obviously, Robinson should have been prosecuted for supplying a banned substance and Bock should have been charged with using a banned substance.
Clearly, the panel was inept and biased in accepting the untrue damaging Robinson evidence and by ignoring Robinson’s evidence that would have helped exonerate the players. It’s one thing to accept hearsay evidence. It’s another to cherry pick the evidence to secure guilty findings.
Sooo…‘Was Robinson granted immunity from prosecution over his part in the Nathan Bock saga at the AFL owned Gold Coast Suns?
Hmmm…lets explore this question with Sports Minister Greg Hunt?
If anyone needs to be investigated more than others, it’s that dam rodeo clown
Mcidiot would have had to signed off on the ‘non prosecution’ of the Rodeo Clown. There would be a paper trail on this as decisions of this weight are not taken lightly and must be signed off with substantial reasons articulated.
Robinson is now listed as a specialist advisor in the KPMG motor industry team. I’d say that a deal was done that he did not work in sport again. ASADA denied that he was given immunity, but where has the Bock case gone?
In regard to Hunt’s fourth pillar in his national sports plan ( integrity), the focus need to shift from the integrity of athletes to those bodies involved in developing and implementing the anti- doping rules.
A number of us have posted our belief that Robinson was granted immunity from prosecution - The difficulty is ASADA have the jurisdiction whether they charge or not, much like the Police and the DPP - I am unsure there is a mechanism to change the decision regarding Robinson - I doubt there is a will from the Institutions in Australian society.
But in order to ‘force the hand’ of Hunt and the federal government, it would be essential that THEY be directly exposed as doing nothing, when such overwhelming evidence appears to exist that this was a stich up!
What’s the bet, the information on Dean Robinson’s comments to Dr. Bruce Reid on Thymodulin and Robinson, Dank and Nathan Bock’s little deal at The Gold Coast Suns or; any pay off deals made for evidence given - won’t not available via FOI.
The evidence is there in black an white in plain view for everyone to see.
You would think Bock would be making a few noises to ASADA bout his case being finalized, one way or the other. Then again, more than likely no one has even looked at the case again and it will all be forgotten.