Couple of possibilities:
* Being told the only way out is to sit down and shut up.
* Being convinced beyond doubt that you've done nothing wrong.
It doesn't SEEM like the first - why would Jobe speak otherwise? You can bet the club was freaking right out when he did that.
So it might be the second. They've been TOO successful in convincing players everything is fine and no player will be sanctioned. Or it might be fact that they've been guaranteed no players will be sanctioned.
I think there is a strong case over AOD - we know players took it, let's not fool ourselves. But AOD has the most opportunity for muddying waters given it is S0. ASADA probably have a weaker case on the Thymosin and others.
What you need to worry about is something we haven't even thought of. Where were these drugs coming from? Calzada says there was a black market in these drugs. If they were coming from O/S who was importing them? Distributing them? What's all this talk about bikies visiting these clinics? What actually set the ACC off in the first place?
We're concentrating on the ASADA investigation - who else is interested? Surely a few footy players on possibly banned substances isn't enough to bring the Prime Minister into a press conference?
This is all pure conjecture, but something of that severity could be lurking in the details, waiting to take everyone by surprise. Any organisation can engage in such gradual, fragmented risk increases that they no individual realises that the sum total of the organisation's activities is risking destruction of the organisation's entire history.
The blinkers are well and truly on some supporters if they haven't considered this as a real possibility.
Which is why the idea that Whately says AOD is A-OK doesn't convince me. When everyone involved (including the relevant police investigators) gives thumbs up then you can breathe a bit better.
Can confirm I'm breathing better right now