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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2522775, member: 8215"] Alrighty. I missed the first couple of minutes & I didn't record it, so correct me anyone if I get this wrong. They had Cullen there giving his perspective intermittently. * (walked in at this point) pretty much confirmed that Gallen and other players were the recipients of the two particular (illegal) peptides, originally injected, and then via creams & tablets. As we knew. * Named the Doctor/Chemist who is believed to have mixed up the peptides - and added that he got a warning in 2007 for improperly prescribing drugs of addiction / drugs for children, and also late last year (or early this year, can't remember) that he had his license stripped. Apparently Dank stopped his involvement with him when he received a 'bad batch'. * As to how it was funded, I didn't hear at the start because my daughter was making a racket, but it sounded like there was absolutely zero money trail of it on the books. Which obviously was odd for substances at the cutting edge, etc. They did manage to dig up a bank account though, that was linked to the 'High Performance Centre'. Interestingly it was with Westpac. Cullen confirmed that he's never seen the account in question, and that the club uses St George. When pushed, Cullen said that it was very alarming because with a club every cent coming in & going out should be accounted for (intimating that he should have known about it and therefore it was possible it was an attempt to keep it off official books). As for Gallen: * They originally showed an email from a sponsor (a security company) who was pissed off at having his contract cut short. He wrote that it it becomes a legal battle, the off-the-books payments to <a particular player> would definitely become public knowledge. It was given credence when Flanagan himself forwarded on an email to the club (the directors?) alarmed at this, and on confirming the player in question was Gallen, that the club needed to be agreed upon that the payments were requested by the club & not Gallen. Basically the club taking full responsibility & Gallen had no knowledge of anything untoward. * They didn't clarify whether it was a totally off-the-books rort, or whether it was just sloppy paperwork. Cullen's comment was that whether Gallen was paid in cash, cheque, or jars of vegemite, it was not handled correctly in regards to the salary cap process. The fact that Flanagan's original email named two areas of concern, one being the club & its tax situation, the other being Gallen & the salary cap, makes it sound like it was more than a mere oversight. That enough bullet points? ;) PS> GODAMNIT GCBRONCO! NINJA'D [/QUOTE]

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