ASADA Discussion Aug 2014 - Show Cause Notices sent

[the_yuk]

So reni and sailor get wiped out for 2 years for recreational drugs, but these clowns get a few weeks for deliberate drug cheating???

The nrl has sank to yet another new pathetic low!

 

[Trendsetter]

Playing for Cronulla is probably the worst punishment any NRL player could be subject to. Getting time off playing for that club is actually a bonus...
The only satisfactory punishment would be forcing all players to play out their entire careers at the Sharks.

 

[south of heaven]

They would be in the sheds now singing their team song having a good old laugh at everthing.

 

[marsh43]

Im guessing asada didnt have strong enough evidence so they bluffed and told the players either take the "3 month" suspension or risk it and get a 2 year suspension.

 

[Slick]

Making them play for no points next year, if that's an option, is dumb.

Bans are fine, but you should, if anything, strip all their 2011 points as opposed to making them play for none next year.

 

[south of heaven]

So 3 weeks for drug cheats
A 12 month holiday for sexual assault
But piss in your mouth and your gone.
Nrl you are a total joke

 

[The DoggFather]

So every other club should take peptides and only cop a 3 game ban. It's worth it.

I really hate the joke that is the nrl.

 

[LordSidious66]

So reni and sailor get wiped out for 2 years for recreational drugs, but these clowns get a few weeks for deliberate drug cheating???

The nrl has sank to yet another new pathetic low!

If I was either man I would be spewing this is such a joke.

 

[LordSidious66]

So every other club should take peptides and only cop a 3 game ban. It's worth it.

I really hate the joke that is the nrl.

Same here man

 

[fingerman]

So more players have been named..

Matthew Wright - North Queensland
Luke Douglas - Gold Coast
Jeremy Smith - Newcastle
Albert Kelly - Gold Coast

Speaking of which, this guy doesn't get injured. He's played all the games from 2006-now straight i think?

 

[Mr Invisible]

How long was Watmough suspended for for being on Stillnox?

 

[Kaz]

Sharks ASADA case: Cronulla ASADA saga far from finished as WADA gets involved


THE Cronulla saga is as far from closure as ever with revelations late on Friday that WADA is set to exercise its right to intervene in the ASADA doping sanctions.

Although lawyers for the Cronulla Sharks players claim they received a guarantee from ASADA that the World Anti Doping Agency would not interfere in the process, The Daily Telegraph can exclusively reveal WADA’s chief executive is yet to review or receive the evidence from the 17 doping cases.

Former WADA boss John Fahey said on Friday the penalties make a joke of anti-doping integrity in Australia.

He has strongly urged WADA chief executive David Howman to review and over-rule the “light: sanctions handed to the players.

Howman said on Friday the matter was far from resolved.

“The matter is not concluded. WADA has not received a brief of evidence and is yet to determine if the sanctions are appropriate based on that evidence and the application of the code,” he said in an email to Fahey.

“If they are not satisfied, we will ask to take the matters to the Court of Arbitration of Sport.”

Fahey is extremely angry at the light penalties meted out to the footballers, given they have been backdated.

“It is farcical that this is effectively three weeks,” Fahey said.

“It makes a joke of anti-doping integrity in Australia, something I have spent six years trying to improve. The code is very clear — if you dope, you face heavy sanctions. It is a very clear cut thing that has been made arbitrary by this decision.”

WADA has 21 days before they need to respond to the ASADA evidence.

If they find the penalties were too light, the players will be faced with a Court of Arbitration of Sport hearing and the possibility of much heavier sentences or suspensions.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...033617768?nk=a45b77cceee63680a5e4b2dd07dd122a

 

[Slick]

That makes things rather interesting.

 

[rissolerob]

So ASADA had nothing. Conned the the players (by offering them a three week ban) into admitting they were guilty, something ASADA could not prove, knowing that WADA would then step in and take them out for a couple of years. Sly, sneaky bastards.
Sure I heard that idiot Ray Hardly saying on the radio the other day that WADA could not intervene (and he is god and knows everything..just ask him) oh well wrong again.

 

[south of heaven]

Will the nrl act and hand out its own punishment

 

[Izy]

This is strong evidence that ASADA needs to fold.

 

[marsh43]

If I was either man I would be spewing this is such a joke.

Mad dog and robbie o'davis would be pretty upset aswell.

 

[rainman]

So 3 weeks for drug cheats
A 12 month holiday for sexual assault
But piss in your mouth and your gone.
Nrl you are a total joke

Now that you put it that way

 

[Wearnze]

Has Paul Aiton and the other guy in super league who is a wembley final still playing? Last I heard they were...How can this be allowed???

 

[Özil]

So ASADA had nothing. Conned the the players (by offering them a three week ban) into admitting they were guilty, something ASADA could not prove, knowing that WADA would then step in and take them out for a couple of years. Sly, sneaky bastards.
Sure I heard that idiot Ray Hardly saying on the radio the other day that WADA could not intervene (and he is god and knows everything..just ask him) oh well wrong again.

ASADA do have something, they have already shown evidence. The bans are justified but the length of those bans are a joke. only 1 month? I do hope WADA get to the bottom of this increase their bans