This thing won't ever stop. The only thing I've heard that remotely connected with me through all this crap, was Fahey, as past president of WADA telling Koche that the AFL has to wake up to personal responsibility.
Swimmers, divers and track athletes are all part of teams and often train as such for big events. They share doctors and trainers. The onus is on all these individuals to ensure what they take is ON the list. Regardless of what a doctors tells them. Would you trust Lance Armstrong's postal team doctor?
Essendon players are trying to hide behind media-fanned issues of youth, pressure, admin approval and anything else that removes personal responsibility for what they take. If you don't understand what you being asked to take and can't find it on the list, then don't take it. Plenty of international swimmers way younger than these blokes who are more savvy. If they're cheating, they know it.
Yes, AFL clubs have had a strong culture of 'do what the club tells you'. But they have to realise, in this area, they are not special or unique.
If this is what it takes for the AFL and clubs to get it through their collective thick and self righteous heads that they are somehow exempt from established rules in pro sport, when wake up.
