McVeigh denies illegal practices

Former Essendon defender Mark McVeigh has he and his former teammates took anything more than sanctioned vitamins. Source: Herald Sun

RETIRED Essendon defender Mark McVeigh is adamant the Bombers will be cleared in the AFL's drugs scandal, saying the only injections the players received last year were legal vitamin boosters.

McVeigh yesterday savaged Kyle Reimers, saying his former teammate's doubts about the club's supplement treatment stemmed from his own unprofessionalism.

"Every player knew what they were taking. It was listed and we knew it was within the rules," McVeigh said.

"If you don't know, you must have been asleep in the meetings, which, you know what, Reimers probably was.

"Reimers has come out and said some things which are untrue (because) he is a disgruntled player that was delisted from the football club that very rarely turned up to pre-season training in any sort of form that would resemble a professional footballer now."

McVeigh, 32, was "shocked" the club was subject to an ASADA investigation and had publicly been "dragged through the mud" amid concerns over the activities of former performance scientist Stephen Dank.

The 232-game stalwart said medical staff checked all supplements and medicines were within the drug code before being administered. McVeigh said players signed consent forms, not waiver forms clearing the club of responsibility.

"We'd never gone into some of the supplements ... that we were going to take (last year)," McVeigh said on SEN.

"So we asked for a consent form that WADA and the AFL doping code would make sure that it was ticked off and within the regulations."

McVeigh said he was 100 per cent comfortable with the supplement treatment and insisted the vitamin booster injections were simply to help lift immunity and energy levels.

"We were taken off-site into a sterile environment (because) footy clubs sometimes can be not that clean - filthy, absolutely filthy," he said.

"So we were taken into a sterile environment and the only injections that I ever had was a vitamin C or vitamin B injection, which would be at the time I had a little baby girl.

"I wasn't getting much sleep. I was run down. I had a bit of a cold.

"I had a vitamin C injection. It is not uncommon. Natural vitamins they are.

"That's all they were, nothing any more sinister than that."
 

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