They only grey area is the Essendon PR departments muddying.Johnny Member wrote:At the risk of being unpopular....
....rules are rules.
He took a banned substance. And has admitted to taking on many occasions.
So simply, that's 2 years. End of story.
As for Essendon, one can only assume that due to the greyness of the whole situation (ie. no hard evidence) it will take longer. But I'd be very, very surprised if they don't all get notices also.
As we know, there are three issues with the Essendon thing...
1) For whatever reason, there is a grey area clouding the AOD thing
2) There is no evidence that the banned Thymosin beta 4 was actually given to the players
3) It appears that no one that ASADA have interviewed, can categorically say what they were given
So for them, unless it's proven that AOD was banned, and/or they are convinced that the players were given Thymosin beta 4 or any other banned substances - then they'll be in the clear.
My personal thoughts are that they already have them on AOD, but are building the full case to ensure they get them on anything else also.
But for Saad, there is no grey. It's clear as day. It was banned, he took it, and was caught red handed.
There is certainly enough evidence to suggest they have injected multiple banned substances, they don't need a video of the players receiving the jabs.
There is clear evidence that Thymosin beta 4 was ordered, payed for and stored at the club premises, there are consent forms with Thymosin in them. Dank has said he injected players with Thymosin, though he later claims he used the non-banned version - which there is no evidence of them ever obtaining.
