Pretty much, it's an issue of perception. Adhering to the WADA code is seen as adhering to minimum acceptable standards in sport that ensures the detection and removal of drug cheats. The AFL could tell them to get stuffed but there would be much more commercial interests at risk by doing that. The government for one would not be able to give any grants to a sports organisation that isn't seen to be doing enough on performance enhancing drugs.

Yep, government and corporate pressure are also factors.

34 drug cheats have been banned.
It is day to celebrate because justice has been served.

Aussies dont cheat :)

I only feel sorry for the younger players at the club who obviously would've put faith in the coach/s, doctors and senior players that what they were doing was above board.

What pisses me of is hirdy fucking has the gall to say its an injustice. He has tarnished his reputation , just to get us into finals. He sold his soul, the hird name is synonymous with essendon and now the name is dirt

Yes initially I felt that way but the CAS report describes how the players tried to deny and cover up what had happened. Those that did that I don't have much sympathy for.

interestingly
watching AFL footy classifieds on CH9
one of the panelist, damien barret ( ? ) ... mentioned , afl heirachy tried to manage this is in their own inner sactum .... but it backfired big time once WADA was involved ( he mentioned the big end of town )
also the other panelist, gary lyon, mentioned how the AFL dealt with tanking( is that cheating ? ) and if that was handled hypothetically by the world anti tanking commission, would of slammed the way the AFL did backroom deals..

in essence , it has made the AFL look very amateur....

One of the things that turned me off the AFL was how they kept doing this. As a crows supporter I was pretty dissatisfied with how they dealt with the Tippet fiasco. Then the tanking situation with Melbourne and finally Essendon.

All about protecting their brand rather than integrity.

Of course it is, all major sportting codes do it , it is all about protecting their image than the game istself

Protecting their brand rather than integrity is how Lance Armstrong got away with his cheating and it is how many more cheats get away with it.
Messi, Ronaldo and the likes are just to big to fall unless something goes seriously wrong. They are probably all on something.

and its gets better
now the ALFPA senior Paul Marsh, is considering the prospect of the AFL not being part of WADA/ASADA code

what are the implications if they do ? this is showing how amateur they are in some regards

LOL

AFLPA supports drug cheats
WADA and CAS convict drug cheats.
Of course they are not happy to be part of the WADA code, their members might be subject to JUSTICE.

Now Jobe Watson needs to be stripped of the Brownlow Medal he cheated to win.

The AFL would lose a lot of government funding

The AFL should not get government funding.

All american sports dont follow wada . But they do have their drugs code. Asada if it wasnt so useless needs to be beefed up as letting essendon off shows how incompetent they are.

How do the NFL and NBA get around WADA?

Iirc they aint signed up to wada. But they have their own drugs codes. Same as baseball.

We have an LNP government now so who says they will abandon the AFL.

So they can do what they like then. :)

Kindam

He doesnt run the country. His party runs the country.

If those bolded sides are using performance enhancing drugs then fark me :lol:

This.

It is not only winners who dope, it is not only the successful who dope. Some dope just to stay in a sport, some dope to be the best in the sport.

The chances that no AFL teams has had players doping in the last is zero.

It is almost certain there are dopers in the AFL, there are dopers in the A-league, there are dopers in the Big Bash, there are dopers in NRL, there are dopers in the NBL, WNBL, the netball.

Drugs, nude photo scandals

On a totally unrelated matter the afl starts off in 3 and a half months...

Anti Muslim Banner at AFL game

Not that this has anything to do with AFL, its the plurality of 'Australians', society or community, those who go by the belief that "afl is great - if its their thing" its stuff like this which stirs discontent- although when Gerard Whately often says that the MCG is the Mecca of the sporting world: Mecca is Mecca, not the MCG

Hence the banner...

Edited by condemned666: 2/4/2016 10:34:09 AM

Looks like AFL are condemning the banner.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/stop-the-mosque-mcg-banner-enrages-fans-on-social-media/news-story/d221cfb129eed0b59a72dc7a4890eadd


Looks like......can never trust their paid media partners



Edited by bitza: 2/4/2016 10:53:52 AM

Next afl themed round...

Edited by condemned666: 2/4/2016 11:14:51 AM