Congratulations Essendon

[Hiss]

Love them or hate them, they stood their ground and held out to ultimately defeat the incompetence of ASDA to be declared not guilty over this banned substance rubbish! There is a lesson in this for all Clubs now: Stick together and you'll win out in the long run! To his credit Coach Hird took them on and won! Made fools out of the authorities in the end. We need to do the same with our players and hold out til victory! Don't give in too quickly. We as Pies fans should be proud of the Essendon strategy and adopt the same ! In many ways I hate Essendon but on this one they deserve praise for having the guts to take on the incompetent authorities

[Dave The Man]

How can you Support these Cheats and let the AFL and ASADA get away with such Dodgy Work

[Bruce Gonsalves]

May have been different if Dank hadn't been paid off.

[Dave The Man]

May have been different if Dank hadn't been paid off.

and Charters

[Piesnchess]

Its all a conspiracy.

[ANNODAM]

I really don't understand:


WHO exactly found Essendon to be innocent?



The AFL or ASADA?

[Woods]

Its not over yet.

Today and tomorrow is Essendon's time in the sun.

But the year will not end well for them, or the AFL and perhaps a few fellow travellers in the sports media who are or have been Dank clients.

[think positive]

I really don't understand:


WHO exactly found Essendon to be innocent?



The AFL or ASADA?

Neither, the useless afl found the case"not comfortably proven"

Which means, we know you are guilty, but thankyou for doing such a superb job covering it up, so we can continue to pretend we have it all under control.

Congratulations Essendope, you win, and footy loses.

Just a complete disgrace.

[pablo]

I really don't understand:


WHO exactly found Essendon to be innocent?



The AFL or ASADA?

Conversation between The Age and The HS as news broke that the World Health Organisation had become involved.....

Caro: WHO exactly found Ethendon to be innothent?
Robbo: Yes

Caro: Are you a journalitht?
Robbo: I've been called that

Caro: And you're Jameth Hird's mate
Robbo: Definitely that

Caro: And you don't the organithationth' nameth?
Robbo: Well I should

Caro: Well WHO found Ethendon to be innothent
Robbo: Yes

Caro: I mean the organisation's name.
Robbo: WHO.

Caro: The organisation that found Essendon innocent
Robbo: WHO

Caro: The only group in Essendon's corner
Robbo: WHO

Caro: The organisation that...
Robbo: WHO is the organisation!

Caro: I'm asking YOU WHO's the organisation.
Robbo: That's the organisation's name.

Caro: That's WHO's name?
Robbo: Yes.

Caro: Well go ahead and tell me.
Robbo: That's it.

Caro: That's WHO?
Robbo: Yes.

PAUSE

Caro: Look, Essendon's got only one ally?
Robbo: Certainly.

Caro: WHO's their ally?
Robbo: That's right.

Caro: When they pay off the ally every month, WHO gets the money?
Robbo: Every dollar of it.

Caro: All I'm trying to find out is the organisations's name supporting Essendon.
Robbo: WHO.

Caro: The organisation that gets...
Robbo: That's it.

Caro: WHO gets the money...
Robbo: They do, every dollar. Sometimes they send an intern down to collect it.

Caro: WHO's intern?
Robbo: Yes.

PAUSE

Robbo: What's wrong with that?

Caro: Look, all I wanna know is when they thighn for the money, how do they thighn?
Robbo: WHO.

Caro: The organisation.
Robbo: WHO.

Caro: How do they thighn...
Robbo: That's how they signs it.

Caro: Who?
Robbo: Yes.

[Troppo]

Pablo has just presented us with the most sublime version of 'WHO's on First' by Abbott and Costello ... so well constructed from the original's sense of chaos in meaning while at the same time taking the mickey out of Caro's speech infirmity ... Classic

[Bob Sugar]

Get over the essendon crap, we have our own problems.

[didick]

I really don't understand:


WHO exactly found Essendon to be innocent?



The AFL or ASADA?

Essendon, the club, were found guilty.
The players were exonerated because there was no evidence to show exactly what they were injected with.
They were fortunate that the club had destroyed any records of what was taken, possibly after being tipped off, or they didn't keep any records, which was probably strategic rather than mismanagement.
They are cheats of the highest order.

[Jezza]

What are we congratulating them for....Oh yeah that's right they got away with cheating the system!

Celebrations all round!

[thebaldfacts]

Overall the right outcome.

Club was punished with draft penalties, fines and missing finals.

Players were duped and rightly have gotten off. Glad that players were not penalised as they relied on the club and the club assured them that no banned substances were administered.

May not be a popular view, but I am pleased. Fortunately job made easier because could not prove what they took, but this was always the correct outcome.

[Jezza]

I only agree with the outcome in the sense that there wasn't enough evidence to prove Essendon were guilty for administering substances to their players in 2012. This is the presumption of innocence and it needs to be upheld no matter whether you think the club is guilty or not from a personal perspective.

However it's a disappointing outcome overall as important documentation was never retained and key individuals like Dank, Charter and Alavi were unwilling to cooperate with ASADA's investigation so therefore the truth of what occurred behind closed doors in 2012 will never be ascertained sadly and a precedent will be set from this decision and I don't think it's a positive one either to be honest.

Essendon are not guilty but they're NOT innocent either! There's a key distinction that needs to be made here and Essendon supporters seem to struggle to grasp this concept if their reactions from the last few days are anything to go by.