The AFL says it is aware of only two specific cases where players or clubs may have breached the league's WADA code.
Minister for Home Affairs Jason Clare admits that players have come forward in relation to doping, following the ACC's damaging report.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou and chairman Mike Fitzpatrick answer questions about the ACC investigation. Picture: David Caird Source: Herald Sun
THE AFL has known for several years that random testing of footballers for performance-enhancing drugs has almost no chance of catching dopers using cutting-edge substances.
The revelation means statistics showing players have not tested positive in recent years is almost irrelevant.
AFL Commission chairman Mike Fitzpatrick said on Thursday: "We feel the WADA testing was relatively successful to about 12 months ago, and it's become clear today it's not."
But the AFL's integrity department has known there is little to no chance that single random drug tests will find performance-enhancing peptides in a player.
The AFL has been aware of this for some time, which is why many players are not tested while others are subject to a battery of tests under target testing to form a biological blood passport.
While football codes are under siege, the AFL has been target testing players it suspects for at least three years, using sophisticated analysis, and is promising to catch drug cheats.
That analysis includes intelligence from police bodies including the Australian Crime Commission.
Now wire taps, forced interviews with the Australian Crime Commission and a potential paper trail can form part of a case against transgressors, potentially including in the Essendon case.
It is known a key Essendon figure spoke to the ACC in November last year, with the ASADA inquiry into the club to include seizing documents that may prove what peptides were given to players.
There is growing speculation Essendon consultant Stephen Dank may have been caught on wire taps by the ACC.
The AFL conducted about 1100 tests for performance-enhancing drugs last year, but some players can go several years without testing.
Someone with intimate knowledge of the system said this week: "It's not about the number of tests, because we can't test for peptides. It's about using an intelligence-led approach."
One AFL sports scientist said it was impossible to detect peptides and drugs replicating human growth hormone for several reasons.
Some are in the system for only a matter of hours, while cutting-edge designer drugs have molecules changed so they are indistinguishable in modern testing procedures.
The Herald Sun revealed on Friday that a group of players from a Victorian AFL club had regularly been target-tested in recent years.
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