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.
โJobe has remained unassailably dignified under the most extraordinary pressure over the past four years,โ Tanner said.
โThe Club takes responsibility for placing Jobe in this position and unreservedly apologises to him and his family.
โJobe is a person of the highest integrity and character and has the total support and admiration of our membership, staff, executive and board.
โThe Essendon family has been, and will continue to be, incredibly proud of Jobe Watson.โ
The Club will not be making any further comment at this point in time.
all Hird can say is Jobe didnt cheatโฆ.yet it was under Hirdโs watch that our football club was destroyedโฆ.we will never be the same againโฆmost 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 hitsโฆ..inept management, zero duty of careโฆ..the AFL should have kicked us out of the competition for bringing the code into disreputeโฆas for me, I canโt 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.