You have to take into account that most of them are mentally challenged.
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Jobe works for the AFL machine now doesnât heâŚ.will need to be very careful with his words Iâm thinking
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As soon as I saw that headline pop up on my notifications, I knew the sort of response it would get from opposition supporters, so that doesnât surprise me one bit. Jobe couldâve answered it more diplomatically and probably wouldnât have got that sort of reaction, something like âI still to this day donât feel like I cheated, however once the CAS decision was reached, there is no way I couldâve kept the Brownlowâ. But then again Iâm not him, I didnât go through the whole ordeal and have my name and reputation dragged through the mud for a good 3-4 years.
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Fark them all
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Iâm sure this documentary will cover Bock, and the Melbourne cover-up, and the Hawthorn blood doping, and the rooster comb, and the East German blue powder, and double jeopardy, and 12 clubs admitting to using experimental stuff AND having poor governance, and the deliberate lies told by the AFL and the media, and the âGood Stuffâ premiership coach will be stood down, and and andâŚ
No? Theyâre going to leave out the bits they donât need?
Oh, OK, as you were then.
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Why would they, itâs an EFC 150 yr doco.
From old mate Brasherâs members email this week:
â⌠a sneak peek into the clubâs landmark eight-part documentary series The Bombers: Stories of a Great ClubâŚâ
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Yep. 90% of AFL supporters on Twitter are Carlton supporters, who have a weird obsession with Nik Cox. They arenât normal at all
New Essendon documentary: Bombers revisit dark days of supplements saga
Jay Clark and Michael Warner
Essendon figures have lifted the lid on the devastating toll of the supplements scandal, saying it âdestroyedâ relationships and crippled careers.
Almost 10 years on from the first injection, Bombers list boss Adrian Dodoro said the drugs saga was a âblack cloudâ which had only begun to lift from the club.
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Essendon fought a bitter battle to clear the playersâ names but were shocked when 34 Bombers were ultimately suspended for one year because of a shambolic injections program led by sports scientist Stephen Dank.
In an eight-part documentary series, titled âThe Bombers: Stories of a great clubâ, celebrating the clubâs 150-year anniversary, which will be shown on Fox Footy and Kayo from October 19, Essendon players and key staff open up on the harrowing extent of the trauma.
Dyson Heppell says the playersâ maintained their innocence
Former midfielder Heath Hocking said it was hard to escape the intense scrutiny at the peak of the crisis.
âIt was a tough year,â Hocking said.
âEspecially early on going down to the shops and feeling like everyone was looking at you and (thinking) heâs a drug cheat and things like that.
âI know in my heart that wasnât true.
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âYou still have those thoughts that people are thinking that.â
Skipper Dyson Heppell said the playersâ maintained their innocence.
âYou have a decision to become a victim to the whole situation or you can stand up and face it and know within yourself we carried ourselves (well) ⌠and deep down knowing we absolutely did nothing wrong,â Heppell said.
An AFL anti-doping tribunal briefly cleared the players on March 31, 2015, finding them not guilty of using a banned substance, Thymosin beta-4. But relief turned to despair on January 12, 2016 when the World Anti-Doping Authority handed down the year-long suspension, forcing the banned players to train away from the club.
Coach James Hird resigned in August 2015 under fierce pressure, and admitted he faced a tough mental health battle in the following years.
Former chairman Lindsay Tanner said the 12 month-long penalty in the Court of Arbitration for Sport was much worse than they feared.
Jobe Watson was stripped of his 2012 Brownlow Medal.
âNobody realistically was anticipating the result that occurred,â Tanner said.
âWe did realise there was a risk of a decision that was going to go against us, but we were astonished at the severity of the penalty,â
Former coach John Worsfold, who took charge of the team as it slumped to the bottom of the ladder amid the fall-out, said the WADA verdict had gutted the players.
âIt hit them like a tonne of bricks,â Worsfold said.
âThey (players) have put their faith and their trust in a game that they love and they have been hurt.â
Worsfold said the club understood the detachment the players felt from the game and the club following the suspensions.
â(We thought) it is going to be hard to get them to love the game again and have that trust of everyone around them,â Worsfold said.
The Essendon 34 werenât allowed to visit the club and were discouraged from talking about the specifics of the injections program.
Former chairman Paul Little said âthe players were totally lostâ.
âThey couldnât speak to their families, they couldnât speak to their girlfriends. They couldnât speak to anyone,â Little said.
âIt (that period of time) wouldnât want to have been much more turbulent.
âIt was a war that we were going through, and we were constantly on the back foot.â
The Bombers were stripped of three first and second-round draft picks in the 2013 and 2014 national drafts.
The club was also fined $2 million.
Dodoro said âto see young menâs careers torn apart was brutalâ.
âIt is a black cloud that is slowly lifting,â Dodoro said.
âIt was unrelenting, and to walk out of these offices every day, to see throngs of media, cameras.â
Captain Jobe Watson was praised for his leadership throughout the saga despite the significant personal toll.
Michael Hurley praised Jobe Watsonâs leadership. Picture: Wayne Ludbey
Veteran defender Michael Hurley said Watson was a pillar of strength.
âI often refer to Jobe as the guy that brought us together and got us through,â Hurley said.
âHe wore the brunt of it. He was the captain of the club, essentially the face of the club throughout that period. Him and Hirdy were the ones who copped a fair brunt.
âFor a teammate and captain he really got us through and led the way. Someone I couldnât have any more respect for.â
Jobeâs father, Tim Watson, who is an Essendon legend, said the impacts were far-reaching as club bosses tried to plot a path out of the mess.
âIt destroyed a lot of relationships, it disrupted a lot of peopleâs lives. It was a significant event,â Watson said.
Essendon was second on the ladder facing a top-of-the-table battle against Hawthorn in Round 17 of 2013 when things began to unravel on the field, five months after the club âself-reportedâ in February.
They were banned from the finals, replaced by Carlton, and then slid down the ladder in following years, racking up 12 wins (2014), six wins (2015) and three wins (2016).
Hird said he felt for the players the most.
âMy overarching thought throughout the whole process was to make sure the players were OK,â Hird said.
âAnd to try and get them cleared of anything that happened, which obviously in the end didnât happen, (but) emotionally and mentally to try and make sure they were OK.
âThere are players that lost three years of their career there and that shouldnât have happened.â
Campbell said the documentary series, which was led by Essendon board member Dave Barham and produced by Neil Kearney, âcaptures everything about our football clubâ.
âIt captures the people, the moments, the success, the challenges and the triumphs and 150 years is such a significant milestone,â Campbell said.
âIt does bring to life a lot of what this football club has stood for.
âIt is a family club, it is a successful club, it has a rich heritage, and it is a club which is always striving to do more, to be more and to win more.â
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Look forward to David Evans contribution.
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he wont say a single word moreâŚ
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From the Morrison âheroes of hindsightâ playbook.
Hird looks like heâs seen some â â â â . 
I donât think I can watch this. Iâm still so triggered by it.
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Fark Gil. Fark ASADA. Fark CAS. And fark all their cronies and enablers.
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Why did the Club accept the appeal to Switzerland by WADA ? Why didnât they appeal to the High Court on the grounds that this was an Australian case which needed to be determined according to Australian law and not by some tinpot foreign tribunal who werenât bound by the Rule of Law as constituted within the jurisdiction ?
Why did Little Paul and his businessmen pals not stand up against Vlad and his sidekick Gill ?
I doubt weâll ever get any satisfactory answers.
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BOCK.
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I have legal mates who were mystified by this.
Players and their Managers were quiet as well, James Hird didnât take this option. The Doc threatened legal action and AFL rolled over. One of the Lawyers I know reckon they were either scared off or bought off. He said it was the only way to explain, and he is a Collifilth supporter.
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Reid had the AMA backing , including his access to AMA funding. He was in a different position from the others and also had a different stream of income from his medical practice outside the club .
There were reports that, unless Hird and co settled, the club would sack them. There were also reports that the AFL had the numbers in the votes of other clubs to deregister the club
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