Essendon has released the following statement on Jobe Watson's decision to hand his 2012 Brownlow Medal back to the AFL.
Essendon Football Club Chairman Lindsay Tanner has issued the following statement in relation to Jobe Watson and the 2012 Brownlow Medal.
“Jobe has remained unassailably dignified under the most extraordinary pressure over the past four years,” Tanner said.
“The Club takes responsibility for placing Jobe in this position and unreservedly apologises to him and his family.
“Jobe is a person of the highest integrity and character and has the total support and admiration of our membership, staff, executive and board.
“The Essendon family has been, and will continue to be, incredibly proud of Jobe Watson.”
The Club will not be making any further comment at this point in time.
all Hird can say is Jobe didnt cheat….yet it was under Hird’s watch that our football club was destroyed….we will never be the same again…most disgraceful sporting episode in world history and apparently University classes are already using EFC and this saga as what NOT to do when an organisational crisis hits…..inept management, zero duty of care…..the AFL should have kicked us out of the competition for bringing the code into disrepute…as for me, I can’t even get excited about our team any more after what we did to those young men in their prime. Hird was a great player but has undone all of that by destroying our club as the man in charge of these young men.