No deal, coach: AFL

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THE AFL seems certain to call James Hird's bluff on his demand for an independent panel to hear charges against Essendon, and only after the Grand Final.

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Hird's lawyers set the Monday deadline when issuing a provocative challenge to the league's authority to have the AFL Commission hear the charges.

AFL boss Andrew Demetriou is adamant the AFL Commission is the forum for the Essendon charges to be heard, and says he will not stand down from the independent body.

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The league refused to comment on Sunday, but it is believed the AFL is not prepared to accede to Hird's demands and still wants the issue resolved before the finals.

While threats of a Tuesday Supreme Court injunction from Hird's camp linger, high-level negotiations will continue on a potential deal for Essendon.

Many of the key players believe the issue will never be resolved at an AFL Commission meeting scheduled for next Monday.

Parties representing Essendon and the four individuals charged - James Hird, Mark Thompson, Dr Bruce Reid and Danny Corcoran - met on Thursday night to consider their stance.

Essendon acknowledges it will be sanctioned for some of its confessed "significant gaps" in governance, but will not accept any penalty that infers drug cheating.

The Bombers' stance comes as Deakin University administrative law expert Martin Hardie, who has consulted with Essendon on its doping saga, said the AFL case was weak.

"I would have thought (the charges) are verging on an abuse of process," he told the Herald Sun.

"It avoids the question as what has brought the game into disrepute. If you look at any doping system or crime commission these things should be confidential and should be until any final determination by an anti-doping body.

"Someone along the line has caused these things to come out into the open."

The AFL said it was yet to confirm if the commission hearing would be open, or if it would release full details of charges. AFL boss Demetriou said on Friday he wanted the charges in the public domain.full details of charges.

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