Sinclair Davidson (article attached) wrote: A few days ago we linked to Allan Hird’s interview on 3AW. There he made a very interesting comment – that a Herald Sun reporter got his AFL accreditation stripped by the AFL for his pro-Essendon reporting during AFLgate. The reporter has now confirmed the story. The Herald Sun’s Mick Warner confirms he was denied access to an AFL Finals series after reporting on the Essendon supplements saga. “I don’t know if it was the end of 2013 or 2014, I was denied an accreditation to the finals,” Mick told the FIVEaa sports show. “I suppose that was probably the direct result of some of the things that I was reporting on… but they pale into insignificance compared to what some other people in the game have said they’ve had to endure over the years.” “I wouldn’t call it support of Essendon, I would just call it reporting on the facts of what happened.” That puts another allegation made in the press into context (and the claim that the AFL intervened to prevent James Hird from getting a job at SEN Radio)". The context surrounding the AFL media coverage of this saga is now becoming crystal clear. Mike Warner interviewed of Danny Corcoran and released this in the Herald Sun on 13 Jan 2017: Danny Corcoran: “He (Fitzpatrick) never answered my question, he simply turned and said to me.... ‘Your mate Hird will never get back into football’.” “He told me that (league supremos) Gillon McLachlan and Andrew Dillon told him ‘James, you haven’t done much wrong, but we need to put a face to this as it is all about the optics’.” Corcoran said Hird and his family were “the victims of years of harassment, bullying, attack and intimidation”. Told of Fitzpatrick’s denial, Corcoran replied: “That just shows you what we are dealing with. I will sign a stat dec (legal statutory declaration) that those were his exact words”. Care: Paywall: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/more-news/afl-boss-ruled-out-fallen-bombers-return-claims-exessendon-football-manager/news-story/2bffa35868276e96e31cf0cd8d35b47d?utm_content=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=EditorialSF&utm_source=HeraldSun&utm_medium=Twitter The truth must come out. If you were interested in what may have happened during the ASADA/WADA investigation into 34 players from the Essendon Football Club, please go our YouTube channel to watch more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNG5xJW_SG0IhW86BoX0xVg Kindly support this Senate Inquiry into this whole sordid affair by signing this petition, and then asking others to support it. Thank you for your support and patience. For further information, contact Justice of the 34 via their Facebook page