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Oh ok. when he was on I posted on MB that it was a stage managed and assumed club knew. Then Hird said he didn't expect it. Going by your post looks like it was after all.
If it was a ploy to bring ASADA into the debate Hird couldn't very well stand up and say as much could he? Better to make it look like an honest guy telling what he thought was a harmless detail.
IN any case it would appear to have worked if it was a deliberate ploy, the Ch7 guys tonight pointed out that ASADA and WADA may not be on the same page re AOD (and suggesting Jobe should be taking down the names of everyone who potted him), Doc Larkin has pointed out that ASADA have yet to clarify their position on the drug and Sheedy was on the ABC the other day saying the same thing. Some presenter on SEN today was also echoing those thoughts but those guys are pretty hard to take seriously tbh. The AFL's silence on the issue seems kind of telling. If they don't know almost every detail of the investigation I'll eat my hat, if it were a clear cut case they would have come out and at the very least made Watson sit out a few games. My bet is that they're waiting for ASADA to say something as well.
Anyway, regardless if this was a clever plan or a random act, we should be hearing something from ASADA sooner rather than later because I doubt they can stand up to this sort of media scrutiny for long.