There are questions Bombers coach James Hird must answer today. Source: Herald Sun
Cartoon by David 'Macca' McArthur. Source: Herald Sun
ESSENDON coach James Hird will be interviewed by ASADA officials today. Here are the questions he must answer.
1) WHY did you put so much trust in Stephen Dank, and why didn't you, or the club, do due diligence on him? High performance manager Dean Robinson said, when he was appointed, that he'd bring his sports science offsider. It was Dank. The Bombers trusted Robinson. The concerns are: Why didn't the Bombers know about Dank's colourful past, or, if they did, why did the club employ him?
2) WHY did you sack Dank months before the club instigated the ASADA investigation? The Bombers initially said it was because he was a rogue element, poor with time management and had lost trust of his colleagues. Since, we have found out the sports science department was $100,000 over budget, potentially ordered banned substances on the Essendon account, and that he injected players off-site, used separate doctors and a nurse.
3) WHY didn't you take action after club medico Bruce Reid first raised concerns about ``irregular practices'' in January last year? This is difficult. Hird would've had to have known about the letter, given his relationship with Reid, and the letter went through several hands before, we understand, it landed on the desk of chief executive Ian Robson. It's not known whether the board received the letter.
4) WHAT information did Essendon receive for the club to call in ASADA? Sketchy here. The AFL is vehement it did not speak to Essendon, ASADA wouldn't have, so the suspicion is it was the either the Australian Crime Commission or the Victoria Police. What did they tell the Bombers? The same week, on the ``blackest day in Australian sport'' in Canberra, it was revealed criminal elements had infiltrated the AFL and NRL, and that trafficking of drugs had skyrocketed. Dank maintains he's no criminal.
5) WAS there anyone at the club checking what Dank was injecting into players? The Bombers cannot tell the players for sure what they were injected with. Consent forms outlined what the Bombers intended to use, but the club's concern is: Did Dank use anything else? This was Robinson's domain.
6) WHO do you think is to blame for the lack of governance? Heads will roll. That is the one thing for certain to come out of this mess. Football manager Paul Hamilton left, Robinson has been stood down, chief executive Ian Robson is at the head of the chain of command and is the likely big scalp. Danny Corcoran was not at the club from November-January after losing his wife, and was not a major player in the governance of the department. Hird clearly set out strict guidelines, but they were not always followed. And Dank? Essendon blames him for the lot.
7) WHY were you comfortable having young men injected with supplements, and were some players injected up to 40 times in 2012? ASADA deals with the content of the injections, the AFL will deal with the perception. The AFL isn't happy and it seems likely that words such as ``bringing the game into disrepute'' and ``prejudicial to the interest of the AFL'' will be used to whack Essendon.
8) WERE the consent forms to protect the player or protect the club? The club says this was about professionalism and about making sure the players knew what what they were taking, and for what reason. But there's also a feeling that Essendon was protecting itself against rogue elements outside the club. That the club did not tell the AFL Players Association added to the mystery.
9) WHAT about the text messages between you and Dank talking about the supplements program? Well, he is the coach. He helped set it up, he set guidelines, with every supplement to be ticked off and overseen by Reid. Hird will say there is nothing in the texts that discredit him.
10) WERE you injected with a banned substance for 16 weeks last season? This is the bomb. He claimed to have injected Hird with Hexarelin which is on the WADA banned list. Hird denies this, saying on two occasions he was injected with a harmless amino acid and a vitamin.
11) WHY did you got to Dank for injections and not your family doctor and long-time friend, Bruce Reid? Only Hird can answer this.
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