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Australian Football League Side Essendon Braced For Player Compensation For Doping

Two of Australia’s leading personal injury law firms "are preparing compensation claims" against Australian Football League side Essendon on behalf of footballers banned for doping, according to Chip Le Grand of THE AUSTRALIAN. A group of six players, including captain Jobe Watson, ruckman Thomas Bellchambers and Port Adelaide forward Angus Monfries, "is receiving legal ­advice from Holding Redlich managing partner Howard Rapke, who has begun the complex task of calculating each player’s financial cost and injury from the three-year drugs scandal." Western Bulldogs forward Stewart Crameri, coach Brent Prismall and former Essendon player Sam Lonergan, who will be unable to take up a coaching job in Launceston as a consequence of last week’s Court of Arbitration decision, "are being advised by rival firm Slater and Gordon." AFL powerbroker and former union boss Bill Kelty "has emerged as a key figure behind a push to ensure the players’ claims are ­resolved pragmatically and without further court action." Kelty has made his view known to senior figures at the AFL and Essendon that the game will need to find a substantial sum -- between A$10M ($6.9M) and A$20M ($13.8M) -- "to redress the ­financial and reputational loss suffered by Essendon players." The alternative, Kelty has warned, "is drawn out litigation" that would potentially cost A$50M ($34.5M). The claims from each player "will vary." The two-year bans "will cost players on fixed salaries and former players working outside sport less than those who supplement their incomes with match payments and coaches barred from doing their jobs." Some players "remain torn over whether to sue Essendon ­because of concerns they will damage their relationship with the club." AFL Players Association CEO Paul Marsh said that "a compensation claim by some, if not all, of the banned players found guilty of taking a banned peptide was inevitable." Marsh: "The industry accepts there is going to be a compensation claim, the club accepts that. It is just a matter of what it looks like" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 1/20).

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