At least two other Melbourne-based AFL clubs are believed to have taken their players to special locations for what they termed "vitamin boosts". Source: adelaidenow
OFF-SITE injecting is common place in the AFL.
The Herald Sun can reveal at least two other Melbourne-based clubs are known to have taken their players to special locations for what they termed "vitamin boosts".
The players were told they were receiving vitamin B or C injections straight into the bloodstream.
It is also believed at least one interstate club has followed similar procedures and even led the way in "cutting edge" medical practices with their players.
There is widespread speculation in the football world that the supplement at the centre of the Essendon drugs scandal is the peptide GHRP-6, which promotes muscle growth and thus has similar properties to human growth hormone.
GHRP-6 is classified as a banned substance by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
It's understood the Essendon players were given their injections at a clinic close to the club's headquarters at Windy Hill.
Recently retired Essendon defender Mark McVeigh yesterday confirmed he had been taken off-site to a "sterile environment" to be injected last year.
"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," he said.
"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."
Supplement use in the AFL has gone through the roof in recent years with one former player revealing he had "between 10 or 15" different tablets when he woke up in the morning.
"It's no wonder vitamin companies are booming because they're making it all out of the AFL," he said.
"We would have powder supplements and protein shakes after every training session and on game day.
"You were forever popping pills."
Leading sports doctor Peter Larkins has labelled the Essendon scandal "the most serious drug story the AFL has ever had".
"The allegations of a dramatic program at a club, designed to improve performance using any agent or product that alters a player's physiology by stimulating components is widely recognised as one of the biggest anti-doping challenges in world sport," he said.
"So for a club to go down that path, if it's true, is the biggest drugs story the AFL has ever had.
"This is about a whole club using a strategy, allegations of anyway, that raises all sorts of questions of what is the medical supervision of that particular program.
"And if they are getting players off-site and sign indemnity forms that to me is completely out of line."
Dr Larkins said the players could not claim ignorance as they should have raised questions immediately.
"To be going down some method chemical manipulation of your body, whether it's through a supplement or a hormone ... the content of the allegations is without precedent." he said.
The man at the centre of the allegations, Stephen Dank, is not a credited sport scientist despite being hired by Essendon as an expert in the field.
He is not accredited or have a professional membership with the Exercise & Sports Science Australia.
"There is no record of him being an accredited sports scientist," Professor David Bishop, a board member of ESSA, said.
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