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Bruce Francis the former cricketer? Yeah I’ll pass, not exactly a very qualified or unbiased opinion.
AFL commission lacks courage when it counts
So this Bruce Francis (who the heck is he?) sent ASADA Science and Results manager, Dr Stephen Watt an inquiry (where is that original letter?). Who then sent his own inquiry to WADA, ostensibly to get clarity on Bruce Francis query.
1. Where is WADA’s reply?
2. Where is Dr Stephen Watt’s subsequent reply to this mysterious Bruce Francis?
3. How do we know that WADA didn’t reply with a correction that thymomodulin IS NOT a thymosin (because it isn’t)?
Sorry but your claimed checkmate is more like a house of cards in a hurricane. It fell apart at the slightest look.
AFL players to appeal doping bans
Intent is irrelevant. If you haven’t learned at least that much by now, then it is (even more) patently obvious you only see/hear/read what you know will suit your agenda.
What is the point of a doping control form if players do not have to accurately fill it out? That’s right, there is none. It’s nonsensical to say ‘it’s optional’. Its not, never has been.
AFL players to appeal doping bans
1. there was more than 1 text message. Go back to what the AFL published when they sanctioned EFC for governance.
2. You conveniently failed to address the fact that thymomodulin is NOT a thymosin as you continually allege. You also conveniently left out it is NOT thymosin alpha 1 as you also allege.
AFL players to appeal doping bans
Kangaroo court? That was the AFL’s hand-picked ‘tribunal’ designed to get the verdict they deemed necessary long before any witnesses were heard or testimony taken. Funny how you Essendon apologists can spend 18 months bashing the AFL for anything and everything, but suddenly their hand-picked ‘tribunal’ is the second coming of Lady Justice herself?!?!
AFL players to appeal doping bans
Ahh, the old ‘Lindy Chamberlain’ deflection. Only gigantic, enormous, massive, huge difference. Lindy Chamberlain knew without a doubt she didn’t commit the crime. The Essendon 34 can say no such thing. They can ‘believe’ all they want. They cannot name every single substance that was administered to them, therefore, they cannot say with any certainty that they are innocent.
AFL players to appeal doping bans
“Thymomodulin is used to support the immune system. Dank believed that it would help prevent colds and flu by strengthening said immune system. I sincerely doubt it does by the way, nonetheless that was its purpose for the players. Indeed Dank had often pointed out that colds and flu were the players’ biggest enemy (rightly or wrongly). The only plausible explanation is that he used thymomodulin. And even if for some inexplicable reason he didn’t, the players clearly believed that that’s what it was.”
Stop trying to RetCon. That is NOT what Dank wanted the ‘thymosin’ for. Dank said in text messages, ‘…so effective in soft tissue maintenance.’ Only ONE form of thymosin meets that criteria. That is TB-4. Not thymomodulin and not Thymosin Alpha-1.
Also:
Thymomodulin is not Thymosin Alpha-1—and, in fact, is not a variant of Thymosin at all. It is an extract of calf thymus, which has historically been produced by grinding up the thymuses of dead calves; it contains a vast array of different proteins and substances. At some point, Thymosin Alpha-1 and Thymosin Beta-4 were ‘fractionated’ (meaning divided or separated into parts) from Thymomodulin, and purified to the extent that they are considered single substances. Their amino acid sequences are small enough to be produced synthetically by machines.
AFL players to appeal doping bans
Thymomodulin DOES NOT, let me repeat that again DOES NOT even come close to providing the benefits Dank was looking for. That is FACT. No matter how many times you try to deflect it does not change the FACTS.
A critique of the Essendon CAS verdict (Part 2)
What records do you have that prove only 8 received injections? Remembering or admitting to it doesn’t mean the rest didn’t have it too.
A critique of the Essendon CAS verdict (Part 2)
Seriously when did Treloar and Adams become A grade? They may have potential, but yet to prove it. Swan is on the downslide, I reckon by seasons end he’ll just be B+ at best. If Cloke kicks 50 it will be with 100 behinds (we’ll 60 behinds and 40 completely miss the lot).
How your AFL team will fare in 2016: Collingwood
Same the AFL has never come up with a War or VoRP stat.
Is Alex Rance the best player in the AFL?
“Is there a difference in basketball culture between playing for a NBA franchise in Boston versus Chicago versus LA? Do the cities of Seattle, Denver and Miami have a different attitude towards the NFL?”
Absolutely there is. Why do you think some franchises are constantly the source of ‘relocation’ rumours? Do you honestly think its the same playing for say Toronto Raptors vs. LA Lakers or NY Knicks? There is a massive difference between playing in a football mad town like Green Bay versus a place like Tampa.
The many dimensions of the McCarthy situation
How about the millions of kids in military forces around the world? They get no choice where they go an often have no ability at all to go home for a visit for 6-12months. How about anyone who signs up to be on a national police force? Or even a state policeman? They rarely get a say in what part of the country or state they get posted to. Anger the wrong person and you can end up with the worst posting possible. Professional athletes are far from alone in not being able to choose where they work, however, they are likely to be the only ones who get paid massive dollars to ‘deal with it’.
The many dimensions of the McCarthy situation
Maybe what the AFL needs is American sports anti-tampering rules. I bet a lot less kids would suddenly get ‘homesick’ if they weren’t being dangled dollars and contracts while still under contract to another. If Cam never knew what Freo was offering him do you still think he would have tried to leave GWS? I doubt it.
(For those unfamiliar, in American sports teams are not allowed to have any contact with a player or players representatives while a player is under contract with another, without getting that teams permission (which may or may not be granted) to get caught doing so is called tampering and results in very large fines and loss of draft picks)
The many dimensions of the McCarthy situation
Doesn’t happen with any regularity, in the NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL and all have draft systems.
GWS grant Cameron McCarthy idefinite leave
Good point, how will Sloan handle being tagged? Also if you assume Sloan just steps into Dangerfields vacated role, who is going to be the next Sloan? I don’t see Adelaide having the midfield depth be as good as they were last year.
How your AFL team will fare in 2016: Adelaide Crows
Sorry but Brisbane gets as many players requested to be traded to it as traded out. Not buying it any more. Too convenient to only look at half the story.
GWS grant Cameron McCarthy idefinite leave
No ‘we’ don’t all agree. He signed a contract, he should honour it. When that contract is up then he can go into the draft as the rules state.
GWS grant Cameron McCarthy idefinite leave
What’s the point of asking if no one has to tell the truth? Why bother handing back a form at all if one ‘doesn’t feel like’ filling it out? If the substances were known and legal there would never have been a collective decision to withhold information. That whole ‘not required’ to is a load of rubbish.
A critique of the Essendon CAS verdict (Part 2)
As I said, why didn’t EFC try to get the records he allegedly has? Hird and his spin doctors have said Dank could exonerate them in the past. Little hinted to as much as well. Yet neither of them made a single attempt to get Dank to turn over those records or testify. Why is that?
As an employee of the EFC any documents created or used by Dank are work product and property of the EFC. EFC could have very easily gone to court and gotten a subpoena for any work product from his time employed there. Yet they made no such move. Why? Only logical conclusion to draw is EFC never wanted any documents Dank may have had to ever come to light.
Clubs of former Essendon players should seek further compensation
If Dank knows so much and you and the EFC are so convinced he can prove the players innocence, why has the EFC and Hird done, well nothing, to try and get him to testify? EFC players can put up their own witnesses, why didn’t they call on Dank? Why is only up to the AFL/ASADA/WADA to get him to testify?
Clubs of former Essendon players should seek further compensation
I wouldn’t say Chappy, Stevie or Pops are in the Cats top 30 any more. Nearly everyone said the Cats made a HUGE mistake when they let Chappy go. Two years on and no one even talks about it because he was a shell of the champion player he is at Essendon. Time proved the Cats correct. Time will prove them correct again.
Kelly dons the Bombers' sash
Nah, pretty sure Gordon (and Slater) has chased even easier ambulances. Thing is MF, you sound exactly like you did when Hird’s appeal went to Judge Middleton. Supreme confidence Hird would win that. Except he lost on every single point that you staunchly defended, brought up and beat to death for months. Now here you are at it again. This time back Gordon. You keep telling everyone else to open their eyes and wrap their head around things. It’s time you opened yours.
You sit there and say with a straight face you think CAS and WADA are too close and CAS is compromised, solely because it gave you a fair verdict you just don’t want. At the same time we’re supposed to believe the AFL tribunal, appointed by the AFL to get the verdict the AFL wanted is more fair and their verdict was right?
The Essendon 34: Can CAS’s decision be appealed?
Why didn’t Gordon bring up any of these alleged issues BEFORE the verdict went against his players? Why wasn’t he complaining about the make up of the panel BEFORE the verdict? Why did he not complain about CAS and the WADA appeal BEFORE the verdict? Why didn’t he complain about double jeopardy BEFORE the appeal ever started?
The only answer is he had no issue with any of it, only now that the verdict went the opposite way then he guessed, is he grasping for straws.
The Essendon 34: Can CAS’s decision be appealed?
Geelong doesn’t play slow, they just don’t rush things when there is nothing worth rushing to. They are patient when they need to be and play on straight down the Geelong highway when it’s called for.
Geelong will hold Adelaide to it’s lowest score of the year.
Adelaide vs Geelong: Friday night forecast