Sorry Saga - “It’s actually quite funny people thinking they know more than they actually do”

If there was a culture at WC that they would cover up / not take action re off field indiscretions (essentially as a trade off for a tilt at a flag) then that is very concerning. Especially given that three players lives are currently in tatters post that behaviour being normalised/permitted.

Also Mick Warner is absolutely crushing it at the moment. He is on an absolute mission to expose the corruption/duplicity of the AFL and full credit to him.

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The serious question here is why has this report been suppressed for the better part of 10 years? Is it because they can now blame Fitzpatrick, or are they trying to imply Woosha is dirty?

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Grant Thomas‏ @Thomo_Grant

Mick Warner again - no surprises, he has gonads. Looks like there won’t be a media pass this year for you Mick. AFL will definitely ban you

Grant Thomas‏ @Thomo_Grant

I want to know if the leadership at AFL at the time - Fitzpatrick & Demetriou - will be called to account or asked reasons they didn’t act

Grant Thomas‏ @Thomo_Grant

Isn’t it interesting since Fitzpatrick/Demetriou “left the room” things get into public domain. Previously they guarded it with their life

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INJUNCTION INJUNCTION INJUNCTION!

Probably because the cut off for WADA to investigate an offence is 8 years (or two Olympic cycles) meaning WC can’t have their flag can’t be taken from them for doping.

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Or a Brownlow for that matter

what about Daniel Kerr?

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Kerr’s name is already mentioned in un-redacted part of the sentence.

‘Sarah’ should phone Eddie and say how relieved she is her son was at Essendon and not West Coast.

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I wonder if the AFL will ping the club for poor governance for not doing due diligence when the current coach was appointed? After all not doing due diligence on Dank was the reason we were kicked out of the finals in 2013, fined $1m and had our coach suspended for a year.

But maybe the club did do its due diligence. Did the club ask the AFL about Worsfold and was told it was ok to appoint him despite the Gillard report revealing he had been been warned by the police in 2002 about the illicit drug taking and he did nothing.

Demetriou and FitzPatrick have gone, time for McLachlan to follow.

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$2m

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No, Ham Mcloughlin quoted his brother as saying ‘thank god for John Worsfold’ in relation to him taking the bombers role.

Theydve known about this. Let’s face it they’ll play a straight bat until Thursday when the footy starts. And then have a fluffy interview somewhere.

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The AFL can fine themselves for hiring Hamilton!

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What exactly did ASADA do when it reopened the Bock investigation? Not much, according to FOI doc.

Philip Nelson
Australia- MAR 21, 2017

On April 14, 2016, Chip LeGrand, The Australian, reported:

“The Australian Sports and Anti Doping Authority will re-examine four year old doping allegations against Nathan Bock after sports scientist Stephen Dank publicly admitted to supplying the retired All Australian defender with a banned peptide whilst working with the Gold Coast Suns”.

“ASADA Chief executive Ben McDevitt, having spent five days defending his organisation over it failure to pursue a prima facie case against Bock and former Gold Coast and Essendon high performance manager Dean Robinson, yesterday instructed his investigations team to assess Dank’s claims”.

“The case against Bock was formally abandoned in 2015 after the AFL Tribunal handed Dank a life ban for multiple doping offences but cleared the sport scientist of trafficking the growth-hormone releasing peptide CJC-1295 to Robinson and assisting the use or attempted use of it by Bock”.

So…

What did ASADA do after 14 April 2016 when it said it had reopened the case?

Not much, it seems.

On 8 June 2016, three months after ASADA said they were re-opening the Bock investigation, an FOI request on the status of the Bock investigation indicates ASADA had not generated one addition document in relation the Bock investigation.

Not one.

See case file picture:

The Final Report on Operation Cobia into the Gold Coast Suns Football Club (AFL) was dated 29 October 2013 is a document comprising 104 pages.

ASADA has refused an FOI request to provide a copy of this document.

The CEO recommendation (possibly the decision to abandon the case) dated 19 May 2015, some 18 months later, comprises 34 pages.

ASADA has again refused an FOI request to provide a copy of this document.

Justice fo the 34 comments:

The anti-doping framework has to be a proper regulatory framework and not based on backroom deals.

ASADA do not appear to be accountable to the Australian Government.

Further, both the US Senate and UK Parliament have started inquiries, so should Australia, particularly because we have had the worst possible case.

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The most unsettling issue with the release of the quarantined WC report is their behaviour made the AFL take a hard nosed approach to any team based infraction - Hence, my take is the AFL came down on EFC like a ‘tonne of bricks’ because of WC’s mis-behaviour.

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Must’ve used up all the bricks, coz none were left for GC & Melb

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F U C K the AFL!

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I somehow think the leak to Warner on what happened with the WCE is aimed at Goyder, the new AFL Chairman - he was either on the Board, or Chairman of the WCE, at the time of their last flag.

Perhaps someone on the AFL Board isn’t happy with Goyder’s appointment and has had leaked the WCE report to Michael Warner.

Certainly Goyder has a vested interest in keeping the AFL’s “management” of illicit - and, by extension - doping drugs problem “in house”, under the covers and away from preying eyes.

Whereas a “cleanskin” Chairman perhaps wouldn’t and would seek to expose the corruption that has come before.

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Wasn’t Goyder Chairman of Fremantle?

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I thought the same.