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For what it is worth NRL has an automatic sin bin for punching
Higgins: Automatic punch bans coming to AFL
Lroy
Agree with you, particularly second last paragraph.
With the benefit of hindsight it is apparent that the players should have been separately represented. It is clear that the players who had the greatest involvement would have been the senior players and it would be in their interest to keep as a tight group where there may have been some players who had minimal involvement but are being tarred with the same brush.
There are varying degrees of culpability and presumably the penalties would have varied depending on the level of involvement. With only one representative ( for 32 players, I understand 2 had their own lawyers) it is clear that the players were going to be treated as a group and peer pressure would have kept them together even when it was against an individual players best interest.
If all had seperate representation although it would have been unweildy I would be surprised if the penallty would have been identical.
Hird takes some supplement saga blame
The article in The Age today about Hal Hunter where there is a lengthy quote from the AFL should be read by MF and all the other deluded Hird supporters, for those who haven’t read it here it is.
“The AFL has done whatever in our power to find out what the players were given in 2012. We have seized documents and hard drives, we have interviewed all relevant people who were willing to cooperate, we have analysed phone messages, and sought assistance from the anti-doping authorities.
“We are in the same position as the players that we are unable to identify many of the substances used in the program in 2012, or determine which player received which substance. We are concerned for the players and are talking with the players’ association about welfare and support going forward.”
These two short paragraphs encapsulate the whole sorry saga and while the players were naïve they were certainly deceived by Hird and his merry men. If as alleged by the Hird fan club that nothing wrong was done and that the injections were harmless why were no records kept and why were the players coerced into denying that they had received any injections.
Hird: Dons chose wrong supplements team
If his arrival in LA is is anything to go by he is halfway there. He had an entourage and left in a black Escalade just like any us sports star
Can Jarryd Hayne succeed in the NFL?
Don, you are like a broken clock eventually you will get it right
The coaches under pressure ahead of the 2019 AFL season