Oral Task
Contention: James Hird has done wrong by both the game and his team, by not only supporting a program which goes against a code of the AFL’s official rules, but by also exposing his team to unsafe and untested drugs without the assistance of medical professionals on all occasions. While James Hird has done wrong by the game he has also opened a new gateway to the future of sport.
Points
James Hird should accept responsibility for putting his players at risk.
James Hird is protected by his hero status with the football club, however if it were anyone else they would’ve been kicked out of the game for life.
He has been given a million dollar lump sum for his time away from coaching, and his job has been secured at the club for his return.
He kept the practises away from the medical expert, Bruce Reid, whom protested that the program was clinically unsafe.
The club had “a culture of frequent, uninformed and unregulated use of the injection of supplements,” according to the ASADA interim report. We know dubious sources were involved, and some injections were administered in unsterile conditions without a medical professional.
James Hird had a paid for trip to france in which he had a business course, he could use this to his advantage to change careers.
Counter Points:
Hird has been a scape goat …show more content…
A few other cases of the AFL either bullying or buying out people and teams have been mentioned, these included a scandal at Melbourne football club and another scandal at the hawthorn football club. Tania Hird also claimed that the CEO of the AFL Andrew Demetriou tipped off the club that they were suspected of using performance enhancing