Essendon players were urged to have one injection a week. Picture: Hamish Blair Source: Herald Sun
EXCLUSIVE: A GROUP of Essendon players were injected up to 40 times each last season as part of the club's free-wheeling supplements program.
Some players were urged to have one injection a week, others two, as part of a regimen which ran from March to August.
"That's not astronomical, that's extremely astronomical," one club medico said last night.
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Players at most clubs average about one injection a year - for the flu or painkillers.
Essendon's injections program is understood to have been detailed in the controversial consent forms signed by the players at the start of the season.
The Herald Sun can reveal club officials have been interviewed by Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority investigators, but not the players.
No supplements given to the players and documented by Essendon have been found to be illegal by ASADA.
And the Bombers remain confident the substances injected were not in breach of anti-doping laws.
ASADA continues to investigate the practices of Essendon's former sports scientist, Stephen Dank.
Any doubts the Bombers still harbour centre on what took place at an anti-ageing clinic across the road from Windy Hill, where players were routinely injected.
The contents of those injections are being investigated by ASADA, as well as the medical techniques used during the first six months of last season.
The Herald Sun has learnt several Essendon players were caught on film by plain-clothes police arriving and leaving the clinic. It is believed the clinic was under surveillance.
Dank has denied providing Essendon players with anything illegal or banned.
The ASADA inquiry will also learn Essendon doctor Bruce Reid kept a detailed log of medical practices he was aware of at the club.
There are suggestions Reid was not aware of everything that took place, however he was concerned about players being taken off-site to receive injections - which involved a registered nurse and, reportedly, another doctor.
The AFL is considering banning injections as part of the massive overhaul of medical practices at clubs.
The Essendon coaches accused of taking substances by Dank are expected to tell investigators they did so to improve their appearance and fitness levels.
Regardless of the outcome of the ASADA investigation, Essendon expects to face sanctions from the AFL for poor internal governance.
Dank has been invited to appear before anti-doping investigators to explain his role in the saga, but is not obligated to attend.
The Bombers have conceded their supplement program was risky.
Chairman David Evans said: "Mistakes have been made, and I sincerely apologise that they have occurred."
Assistant coach Mark Thompson said: "When you live in an environment where you explore new territories - which that was for us - it was something we hadn't done before ... and obviously there is some risk involved."
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