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Nathan Sharpe (72)
I get where you're coming from & maybe Hird & the players should've had the right to silence. But they didn't, in fact they expressly gave it up so can't now claim its protection IMO.
and that's precisely why I said: "It appears that not enough was done to quarantine the material obtained under coercion by the AFL from ASADA."
They did not expressly give it up they merely failed to object.
The interaction between the right to silence and the coercive power of a sport's governing body, where the latter has involved ASADA, is ripe for consideration at the highest judicial level: it may not get there on the facts of this case.
It is a minefield for sportsmen.