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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2522837, member: 8215"] Gotta say, in regards to the doping anyway, there is a very slight chance that they legit thought it was all above board. They're be stupid to think so, but I don't think we can rule out that possibility. Consider this: * Apparently the players & coaching staff were all huddled together on an oval, with a secret plan to seek the use of peptides. Even if they thought it was legal, there's a fair case to answer that, in a results-based competitive sport, you wouldn't want anyone knowing of any secret-squirrel advantages you had. Keep it secret and the advantage is yours and yours alone. * Remember the mysterious letter that Dank supposedly produced, seemingly from ASADA, 'confirming' that the drugs in question were not illegal? Whether it was a forgery or not, it could well have been enough to convince the club it was all legal. * So Dank was apparently working for free. But there were secret books behind a performance unit. Flanagan could well have been going above-and-beyond, using fund-raisers to raise money that the club didn't have, in order to purchase these peptides (Dank takes a cut of course). The reason it had to be secret? Everyone knew the club was bleeding money, they were almost bankrupt what, four times? If the club knew that extra money was being raised, it would have directed it where the club felt it was more vital. Yes, they'd have to be bumbling fools to all believe that, but remember this club hasn't has a CEO for how many years? Flanno going out, using his own time to raise money so that the players can enjoy just a fraction of the R&D budgets of other clubs, sounds like a pretty staunch coach. If this is all the case, you have to feel at least partially sorry for the people involved. It of course doesn't change the fact that they should have sought their own assurances of the substances being legal (same with the players having the same responsibility), and that when it all came to light they should have just come clean, admit they'd been duped, and cop what was coming to them. [/QUOTE]

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