Essendon players found guilty, will miss the season

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Originally Posted by Narangga

That relates to being reported by an umpire or the video review process.

AFAIK this issue does not relate to that law of the game.

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could be, but thats not the way i see it written

Wikipedia news:

In Australian football, 34 current and former players with the Essendon Football Club are banned from playing in the Australian Football League during the 2016 AFL season after the Court of Arbitration for Sport finds that they took the banned substance thymosin-beta 4.

The only ones smiling are the lawyers.

Legal threat: how the Essendon 34 could proceed | The New Daily

In the end, it was the players responsibility to inform the team Doctor that they were being asked to take injections, they did not, now they must pay the consequences.

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