Essendon deny doping admission

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Statement ... Essendon denies the club conceded their players took banned substances.

Essendon deny they have made any concessions that their players took banned substances under the AFL club's controversial supplements program.

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As the game awaits the release of the first report on the club's ongoing scandal, club chairman David Evans hit back at the latest claim to rock the Bombers.

The Herald Sun on Wednesday said Essendon had conceded players took banned substances last year through the supplements program.

That regime is now the subject of a Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) and AFL investigation.

"Contrary to media reports, Essendon have never conceded that our players have been given banned substances in 2012,'' Evans said in a club statement.

"We asked for the ASADA and AFL investigation and out of respect to the players, those investigations must be completed without prejudice.

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"I want to repeat, our club has not conceded that our players have been given banned substances in 2012.''

Stephen Dank was reported as saying he has an email from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that stated substances in question were approved for use.

Channel Seven said the sports scientist, who is no longer at the club, would produce the email from January last year in court.

WADA emphatically deny giving Dank that approval.

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Essendon are on the verge of releasing the independent report by Ziggy Switkowski into the club's governance.

That was commissioned in the wake of the ASADA and AFL investigations, with Evans at the time citing "irregular practices''.

But the Bombers are now unlikely to release the report until next week because of a legal matter.

It is unclear what details will emerge from the Switkowski report or whether it will recommend the dismissal of Essendon officials.

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Earlier on Wednesday, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the ASADA and AFL investigations could take another three months to complete.

Demetriou also refused to be drawn on the Herald Sun report that some Essendon players were prescribed weekly injections of the banned anti-obesity drug AOD-9604 for all of last season.

"My reaction is the same as it has been all along: we will continue to get a running commentary obviously in the media ... but there is currently a joint investigation by ASADA and the AFL and we really need to let that investigation proceed,'' Demetriou told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.

Demetriou questioned how a newspaper report said Essendon players had admitted the weekly injections when they had yet to be interviewed by ASADA.

It is understood ASADA officials will start interviewing Essendon players next week.

"It's only a report in the newspaper that there is an admission,'' he said.

"And I'm not going to comment on the investigation.

"We need to await the outcome of the ASADA report. I know that is frustrating to people.

"People should be very careful about some of the commentary, particularly in light of the fact that we haven't even had one player interviewed as yet.''

Demetriou added that the AFL received a copy of the Switkowski report on Monday.

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