Peter C Christie has written an essay 'Whats Don is Don. But is it good' about the plight of the 34 Essendon players. The following extract refers to Brent Stanton's evidence: “...How does ASADA claim to know, and how is CAS satisfied, that the 34 players who were infracted and eventually banned took TB-4 when the only thing they have in common that brought them into the “loop” of players who had allegedly doped was that they received “an” injection from Dank? Simple. At paragraph 126 of the CAS judgment, CAS states that Thymosin was the “jewel in the crown” for the regime and “for Mr Dank to have arbitrarily omitted to give any player injection [sic] of Thymosin would make no sense.” CAS uses an interesting choice of “evidence” in supporting this assertion. Dank sent a text message to coach James Hird which read: “all … injections completed” and a week later “all injections completed for the week.” To quote CAS: “this supports the inference that this was a program in operation for all the players…” Just re-read those messages and the conclusion that CAS arrived at. I pray that one day I meet a member of the CAS panel so that I can ask them what on earth brought them to that conclusion from those messages. That they could be seen as satisfactory evidence that all players were on a program (and not that Dank simply dispensed with his obligations for the week) defies belief. Furthermore, how this has anything to with TB-4 much less apparently proving that all 34 players took TB-4 is something I, despite my best efforts, do not understand. More interesting than what CAS uses is what they omit to rely on or even address at all. Brent Stanton is a senior player at Essendon. In his testimony, among other things, he gave evidence as follows: “And then he [Dank] sort of just went through the four supplements that we could possibly take. ‘You won’t be taking them all. It will be down to needs or how you’re feeling.’ And he will be doing regular blood tests to see your blood levels.” Six players stated that they received Thymosin (not TB-4). Six more weren’t sure or weren’t certain (two of these were seen as likely to have received Thymosin after the assessment of other evidence, primarily text messages). Even if all 12 of these players had been duped and received TB-4 and not Thymomodulin, 22 players have been banned because of what? Per CAS: “It wouldn’t make sense not to give TB-4 to everyone”. And this is in light of Brent Stanton’s evidence that the program was not administered as a “one size fits all” regime. ASADA and CAS know who Brent Stanton is. He is in the leadership group at Essendon. They read his testimony, because he is quoted at another point in the judgement. Bizarrely, CAS ignores this testimony and fails to even mention or provide an explanation for it. It’s not the only time ASADA and CAS ignores the evidence of the players without an explanation....” I encourage any impartial readers who have an interest in this topic to read Mr Christie’s paper. A link has been provided. Stanton was later interviewed by Herald Sun journalist Gilbert Gardiner on 19 May 2016. from Herald Sun. He said: “There’s always a little bit of anger because I’m not out there playing every week so that’s the toughest part,” “I know I’ve done nothing wrong along with them (Essendon teammates) and the supporters, how good have the supporters been this year.” “It’s a tough situation to be involved, I’ve spoken to John (Worsfold) and there seems to be a spot there for me,” he said. “I bleed red and black, that’s what I know and where I know to go.” WADA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport has come to a conclusion bizarrely unsupported by evidence and outside of any oversight of Australian law. A Senate Inquiry is needed. Kindly read, consider, and sign this petition. If you have already signed, please share this petition using any of the links below. Thank you for your support.