Despite the fear of the needles, Jobe Watson took part in the 2012 injection program of being Bombers

“As a captain, a leadership position, it was also important to be behind it. When there were concerns raised by the players, there was a little two diligence, and there were people through it to say:” Look, this is something that has been approved, there is nothing that is illegal here and we have a level of comfort from that “.

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Dank, fired by the bombers at the end of 2012, had briefly worked as a part-time consultant with the Gold Coast Suns in the pre-stage of 2011, while the new head of the fitness of the bombers Dean Robinson had also been to the Suns and Geelong.

“Given the people who came from the outside of the football club that introduce these programs, there was a mentality (which) this is what is happening, and this is the standard practice in other football teams, since these people had been used elsewhere,” said Watson.

Watson’s teammate David Zaharakis was also afraid of needles and did not take part in the program.

When the scandal broke out, the bombers resided Robinson, who later successfully caused the club for an unfair dismissal for about $ 1 million.

Watson, who maintains a role in Seven’s football coverage, said he was confident that the players have not been administered drugs to improve performance and stressed that there have been no positive tests during the week or the day of play.

While he said that the evidence presented at the FL Anti-Doping Court and CAS, and the documents he had signed, provided him with a “level of knowledge”, he could not yet say “exactly what was given to me”. This aligns with the judgment that initially eliminated the players in March 2015 despite the search of the players did not have a real knowledge of the substances that have been given.

“At the time you are young, you feel as if you had this documentation you asked, that it was generated by the club, to say that everything that is administered was approved by Wada and Asada. You feel like if you went beyond,” said Watson.

“The other thing that makes no sense is that the administration of the program was so random. If it had been illegal, there would have been a positive test. It was not as if Stephen Dank knew that Asada is coming to test you these days, therefore … don’t come to the club today.

“He had no record and any diligence around the administration of supplements or injections. Therefore, there would be no control or parameters around their test. So the logical result is that there would be a positive test.”

However, this case has been decreed a violation of the anti -doping rule because it referred to the use of a prohibited substance, rather than in the presence of a prohibited substance, the latter generally demonstrated by a positive analytical test, such as a blood test or positive urine. CAS, after an appeal of the World Anti -Doping Agency, established that it was comfortably satisfied that the violation of the anti -doping rule had occurred.

Watson admitted on Fox Footy’s On the sofa In 2013 he had been administered the AOD-9604 anti-obesity drug. Wada had said two months before the drug had been banned, although a report from the Commission for Australian crime was less than clear.

Dank told ABC Television 7.30 A week after the scandal broke out that there had been no intravenous application of peptides and that any peptides administered to the players was “very, very legal” pursuant to the Wada code.

However, in 2015, the AFL court declared it guilty of trafficking in a number of illegal supplements and prohibited it from any association with AFL for life.

While the bombers were fined of $ 2 million and left the finals in 2013 for bringing the game in the absence, with Hird delivered a one -year ban, Watson said that the dearest victories of his career arrived in that turbulent season.

Hamish McLachlan’s complete interview with Jobe Watson can be seen Unspecified The seven on Wednesday, 9.30 pm.

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