BREAKING: AFL charges Bombers (1 Update)
Update 13/8/2013 at 7:33pm: THE Essendon Football Club, James Hird, Mark Thompson, Danny Corcoran and Bruce Reid have been charged over the supplements program for bringing the game into disrepute per...
View ArticleHird suffered side-effects from Melanotan II injections
NOW that the AFL has released the Statement of Grounds against the Essendon Football Club we can finally see the full extent of the case against the club. According to the statement, on or about...
View ArticleBombers fire back at AFL
ESSENDON Football Club chairman Paul Little and coach James Hird addressed the media this afternoon to respond to the charges levelled against them by the AFL in the Statement of Grounds released...
View ArticleBombers coach James Hird rejects 12 month suspension
ESSENDON coach James Hird wants to fight a 12 month suspension that was offered by the AFL for his part in the supplements scandal. As revealed by The Age today, the AFL was also set to hand down a...
View ArticleJames Hird takes action against the AFL in the Supreme Court
LATE yesterday Essendon President Paul Little and coach James Hird came out fighting against the AFL and its charges against their club. Today the heat has been turned up even further with Hird’s...
View ArticleEssendon crushed out of finals, loss of draft picks and fined
ESSENDON has been fined $2 million, will be out of the 2013 and 2014 AFL drafts in rounds one and two and more immediately is out of the finals race for the 2013 season. But the most compelling news on...
View ArticleStatement by AFL Commission – Essendon Matter
WHILE the sanctions that have been imposed on Essendon have been well reported already, for those of our readers that are interested in the full official statement that was released by the AFL, here it...
View ArticleStatement by AFL Commission – James Hird Matter
HERE is the official AFL Commission statement on their findings and the penalties issued against James Hird: The AFL and James Hird agree that in 2011/2012 EFC implemented, while Hird was Senior...
View ArticleA sense of relief
FOOTBALL NATION OPINION SO here we are, on the 27th of August 2013. The day Essendon learned it’s fate. As an Essendon supporter , a punishment had to be handed down to the club for some of the poor...
View ArticleMark Thompson to coach Bombers in 2014
ESSENDON has announced that Mark Thompson will take on the role of interim coach for the club while James Hird serves out his suspension for his role in the club’s supplements program. The...
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