Form ... Essendon's hot start to 2013 has been called into question. Source: Quinn Rooney / Getty Images
THE AFL claims substances Essendon players may have taken could aid performance for longer than a year, raising questions about the club's fast start to the 2013 season.
The Bombers have denied substances taken last year under its supplements program would have given an on-field advantage this year.
But the AFL yesterday released circumstantial evidence alleging some Essendon players were given Thymosin Beta-4. The summary of charges against Essendon for bringing the game into disrepute said potential effects could last "many months or even up to a year or longer".
Thymosin Beta-4 is listed as banned for use by all athletes under the strict S2 provisions of the WADA code.
The charges makes it clear substances like Thymosin Beta-4 can have long-lasting effects. It makes the same claim of Hexarelin, a substance allegedly brought into Essendon's Windy Hill headquarters by sports scientist Stephen Dank.
The AFL charge sheet said: "The club failed to reasonably satisfy itself Hexarelin ... was not being administered to players."
Dank has previously denied any wrongdoing at Essendon.
"If Hexarelin is administered in sufficient doses or in repeated doses to cause sustained growth hormone release, the effects (including recovery from post-treatment withdrawal effects) may last many months or even up to a year or longer, depending on dose and duration of use," the charges state.
"Thymosin Beta-4 is even less well understood, and while not a growth hormone releaser, it could well have equally sustained effects, again depending on dose and duration of use."
Essendon and Dank have denied that players were given either substance.
Leading athletics coach Nic Bideau told the Herald Sun in May that any advantage from performance-enhancing drugs would have a lingering beneficial effect.
"If you have a really good training year, it helps you forever or until you start to decline," Bideau said.
"It is foundation you are trying to build. It takes people two or three years to become a fit league footballer, and if you add another layer on, it has to help."
Essendon chairman Paul Little was adamant yesterday players had taken no prohibited substances and said that should never have been alleged by the AFL.
"We maintain our belief that no player was administered either harmful or prohibited substances, and assert there is insufficient evidence upon which any such allegation should have been made," he said.
The Bombers were 13-3 this year, winning a number of games on the back of late-game revivals, but have lost the last four games.
While the status of AOD-9604 continues to be contested, there is no debate about Thymosin Beta-4 being restricted.
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