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Macca cartoon. David McArthur cartoon. IF IT WAS BUSINESS THEY'D ALL BE SACKED. THIS IS BUSINESS AS USUAL. (Jeff Kennett. Essendon. Supplements. Doping.)
FORMER Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett says heads should have rolled at Essendon months ago.
Kennett yesterday told a Melbourne charity lunch the football world was far too busy protecting its "personalities" to do the right thing by the game.
"The failure of the duty of care (at Essendon) in terms of the processes is so clear," Kennett said.
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"And if it had been at my club, there would have been accountability from the moment it became public.
"You can't treat your employees (the players) in the way that they were treated by the management of Essendon. It's just not good enough.
Essendon chief exectutive Ian Robson and Bombers coach James Hird watch from the back row as chairman David Evans reveals the Switkowski report. Source: Getty Images
"I understand the white line, on edge trying to win. But you do have a duty of care and I think that failed dramatically.
"People should be held to account for it, and if you were in the private sector I can assure you, you would be held accountable.
"But in football, where we tend to support individuals, we often forget we have a responsibility for the long-term success of the code.
"That is what the administrators of the AFL or at any club level should be focused on - rather than the personalities of the day. The code must be secured."
Bombers chief executive Ian Robson, coach James Hird, senior assistant Mark Thompson and football boss Danny Corcoran were all indirectly fingered in Ziggy Switkowski's internal review into Essendon's practices in 2012 - released on Monday - but have kept their jobs.
Kennett repeated his view that the AFL had compromised the standing of the game with recent decisions on the Melbourne tanking saga, the sacking of Adelaide recruiter Matt Rendell and Stephen Trigg's survival from the Crows' salary cap rort.
"I think we've seen standards diminished over the past two or three years - and once you reduce standards it is very hard to ever rebuild them," Kennett told the 500 Supporters' Group lunch at the MCG.
Asked later to expand on his comments, Kennett said: "If I had been president of Hawthorn and that had occurred under my watch - and I genuinely didn't know about it - then I would have acted very quickly.
"I know we are all not perfect and we all make mistakes, but in terms of procedure, this has been so appalling and so totally unacceptable.
"I'm not against Essendon, I'm not against Adelaide, I'm not against any individual - to me it's about standards.
"And my great concern is that the AFL has been so successful that they have allowed personalities to increasingly dominant the decision-making process."
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