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Thread 3…for those who like a good saga on a Twitter long thread…
For the best part of three years the AFL controlled management of the affair, preventing Hird and others from speaking freely.
Only 48 hours after the blackest day press conference, the spotlight was already being focussed on the #Essendon players and coach Hird.
Only 48 hours after the blackest day press conference, the spotlight was already being focussed on the #Essendon players and coach Hird.
With reports head office wanted the players to be protected, Hird was asked in the 2016 interview whether he believed he had become the scalp they were after.
“I don't believe, I was told I was going to be the scalp,” Hird said.
Who told you that?
“I don't believe, I was told I was going to be the scalp,” Hird said.
Who told you that?
While still waiting for a decision from the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the #AFL decided to draw its own line in the sand on the eve of the 204 finals series, not willing to have the saga hang over another season with all the negative headlines and associated brand damage.
Essendon was fined two million dollars, withdrawn from the final series and Hird was handed a one year suspension – not for doping but for failures in governance oversight.
Ok, friends…I wrote a story that might interest some of you regarding the blackest day in Australian sport and a decade on, whether it is time for absolution/redemption for those involved. This time the story is not on ABC, it is here as a @twitter only LONG thread😁
Remember the blackest day in Australian sport? Two federal government ministers, with the bosses of Australia’s major professional codes lined up behind them, told the Australian public they would be ‘shocked’ and ‘disgusted’ by a Crime Commission report.
📸 in @smh Alex Ellinghausen 
