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A delegation of three senior Essendon players have met with AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan as the landmark Bombers anti-doping tribunal verdict looms.
The AFL website has confirmed a Seven Network report that captain Jobe Watson, Brendon Goddard and David Myers went to the league boss’s home on Monday of last week.
“The Essendon players requested a meeting with Gillon, and he agreed to that meeting,” an AFL spokesperson said.
“It was a private meeting and we have no further comment to make.”
Apparently, potential tribunal verdicts were not discussed at the meeting.
The tribunal is deliberating over 34 current and former players who were charged after a joint ASADA-AFL investigation into Essendon’s controversial 2012 supplements program.
All 25 players from Essendon’s 2012 list who are still at the club, including Watson and Myers, are sitting out this pre-season while the tribunal decides the verdicts.
That is to protect the anonymity of the charged players among them.
The charged players will not play until the verdicts are handed down so they can protect potential backdated suspensions if the tribunal finds them guilty.
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