Former ASADA boss Richard Ings says the length of time taken for ASADA to bring charges showed red tape needed to be cut. Source: News Corp Australia
THE AFL is expected to demand big changes to the way ASADA deals with professional team sports, but has vowed to stick with the anti-doping watchdog.
A third AFL season could be badly damaged by the Essendon drugs saga, as 34 current and former Bombers await their fate at the hands of the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal.
The Herald Sun understands there have been high-level talks at AFL House regarding how the league could best proceed with its anti-doping code when the Essendon case finally concludes.
There has been speculation the league could walk away from the Federal Government spots drug watchdog ASADA and enforce its own rules.
With the league's anti-doping tribunal expected to deliver a verdict later this month, AFL general counsel Andrew Dillon — the league's executive in charge of integrity matters — told the Herald Sun the AFL was committed to the national and international authorities.
"The AFL will continue to be signatories to the ASADA and WADA code," Dillon said.
"We remain committed to the anti-doping code in its strongest forms."
WADA Director General David Howman meets with then Sports Minister Senator Kate Lundy in 2013. Source: News Limited
WADA director general David Howman said any break from the WADA rule book would be a bad look for footy.
"I think it sends a terrible message," he said. "It sends all the wrong messages to kids and to other sports."
Much of the current frustration with ASADA has been because of the length of time taken to bring matters to a head and that its regulations are better geared to deal with Olympic and individual sports.
It is understood that the AFL will insist on an overhaul of the system so it is better able to cope with the demands of professional and highly commercial team sports.
Former ASADA boss Richard Ings said the length of time taken for ASADA to bring charges showed red tape needed to be cut.
"While the AFL would be well advised to continue adopting the WADA code, that does not mean that it has to accept the status quo in its dealings with ASADA and government that has seen these matters drag on publicly for three seasons," Ings said.
"That we are three seasons into a process that has every probability of dragging into a fourth season is indicative of the massive room for red tape reduction in streamlining Australia's anti-doping processes."
The league was reluctant to hand over control to the anti-doping authority in 2005 but risked losing about $3 million in funding if it did not.
The AFL has already made changes to its anti-doping code that go beyond the WADA prohibited list. Last year, it enforced its own prohibited treatment list — banning drugs such as failed anti-obesity peptide AOD-9604 and other substances linked to the Essendon saga.
grant.baker@news.com.au
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