Wouldn’t want to be playing for him, sounds like the kind of a coach that would blame the players for his own fuckups.
Thinks his Shit don’t stink, he should have been permanently banned from coaching after the peptides saga.... young players put their trust in him and he fucked them over without thinking about it and then blaming everybody else and whinging when he didn’t get away with it.
Every single article written about the peptide saga intimates that he did have knowledge of it and in fact was the author of a diagram outlining the so called chain of command. I have tried to locate a copy of it that was contained in various articles ( including the one below) but unfortunately am unable to do so. This document was put together and given to the Sharks at the beginning of 2011 three years before the revelations were made public. It would have been included in the article published at the time.
Hypocritical to say the least......
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/u...d/news-story/e4e89e4d8564cd572841c03d7d8d777b
SHARKS coach Shane Flanagan can hardly complain if he's deemed accountable for the maverick program of injections, tablets and creams that has inflicted so much pain on the battling club this season.
And here's the simple document - devised by Flanagan himself - that proves why.
Tendered to Sharks management at the start of 2011, this organisational flow chart reveals the chains of command that would govern Cronulla's football department for the coming season.
Sitting atop of the pyramid was Flanagan. The trainers, physios, doctors and junior coaches underneath were all expected to report to him.
News_Image_File: The damning chart drawn by Shane Flanagan.
As such, he presumably took responsibility for their decisions and behaviour.
But when it comes to the fateful call to welcome controversial sports scientist Stephen Dank - who has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing - into the club, Flanagan has eagerly sought to absolve himself.
Sitting on the rung below Flanagan, strength and conditioning boss Trent Elkin made the call to bring Dank on board after the biochemist offered his services free of charge in early 2011.
Elkin made sure Flanagan was fully aware of Dank's arrival, which at first was considered to be for the sole purpose of installing GPS and Hypoxi equipment.
But Dank's influence quickly extended to the supplement program. Within weeks he and Elkin were discussing a plan to inject players with "amino acids'', later found by an independent report to be the banned peptides CJC-1295 and GHRP-6.
Currently at Parramatta, Elkin has now spoken to ASADA numerous times about what transpired in 2011.
According to well-placed sources, he's alleged Flanagan was informed about the injections from the very start.
Flanagan maintains he knew nothing until club doctor David Givney alerted him five weeks into the program, at which time he called a meeting that resolved to cease all needles.
News_Rich_Media: ASADA have strengthened their case into alleged peptide use in the NRL after obtaining letters promoting specific peptides - given to as many as 20 implicated players.
The creams were introduced for the next six weeks, during which time Fox Sports cameras captured Dank - wearing Sharks clobber - on four separate occasions in the centre of the dressing room.
The vision proves Flanagan was aware of Dank's presence during that time and, worse still, the independent report also found the creams were a different form of CJC-1295 and GHRP-6.
Flanagan still maintains he acted appropriately, despite the fact another six weeks passed before Dank was dismissed after winger Isaac Gordon emerged from a game with horrendous leg bruising.
Exactly 10 months after Cronulla was informed of its starring role in the ASADA probe, the ARLC will today consider what responsibility Flanagan accepts for the 2011 program.
News_Image_File: Shane Flanagan. Picture: Brett Costello
Elkin, who has told ASADA that he gave players injections, will also be in the ARLC's sights, as will Sharks conditioner Mark Noakes.
Reinstated after his dismissal in March, Noakes was Cronulla's drugs officer in 2011.
He also tendered a statement to the independent Sharks report that nominated CJC-1295 and GHRP-6 as the two peptides, both of which have been banned under Article 2 of the WADA code since back in 2004.
Should NRL boss Dave Smith believe any of the coaching staff are not 'fit and proper persons' to be registered, because of what unfolded under their watch in 2011, deregistrations will automatically follow.
Although they won't be informed of the punishment until after today's ARLC meeting, Cronulla is braced to lose Flanagan. Kangaroos coach Tim Sheens has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Flanagan, but the Sharks have not discussed his appointment. Furthermore, Sheens would be a curious choice given he parted from Wests Tigers on frosty terms with Beau Ryan, Chris Heighington, Blake Ayshford and Andrew Fifita.
Sheens is also still in Europe following the World Cup and plans to continue sightseeing for the next month.
If required, assistant coach Peter Sharp will be appointed in the short term, with former halfback Brett Kimmorley likely to be recruited from Canberra's coaching ranks to fill the breach.
Sharp and Kimmorley are close from their days together in the Hunter Valley.
