ESSENDON is out of the finals, coach James Hird has been banned from football for 12 months and the club was fined $2 million after a "deeply disturbing" chapter in the game - the supplements scandal.
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Essendon said sorry for their role in the saga but revealed they intended to give Hird his job back as senior coach when his suspension ends.
AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick has handed down the penalties after Essendon agreed to plead guilty to bringing the game into disrepute. He said Hird apologised to the AFL for his involvement.
The Bombers have been fined $2 million and will forfeit its place in the 2013 finals series, finishing officially ninth.
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The club is prohibited from exercising its first and second-round picks in next two drafts.
Hird is banned from working at any AFL club in any capacity for 12 months effective August 25 this year but is in contract negotiations to resume his career in time for the 2014 finals.
Essendon football manager Danny Corcoran is banned for six months - two of them suspended - effective October 1 this year.
Assistant coach Mark Thompson has been fined $30,000.
The case against club doctor Bruce Reid was adjourned to Thursday.
The Bombers pleaded guilty to bringing the game into disrepute and assistant coach Thompson and Corcoran agreed that as a consequence of their actions the club breached AFL rule 1.6.
FItzpatrick told fans the AFL "shares your anger" that the season has been dominated by the scandal, which he said was "deeply disturbing."
Fitzpatrick said the club never set out to submit a supplement program that stepped outside the WADA code.
But he said it was "experimental" and "inadequately vetted and controlled" and the club "failed to adequately protect the health of players".
"On behalf of the AFL Commission I want to send a clear message that nothing and no one can come ahead of the duty of care owed to our players and the integrity of the competition," AFL chairman Mike FItzpatrick said.
The decision follows two days of negotiations at AFL House.
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"This matter has been a wakeup call for our sport," Fitzpatrick said.
"A number of significant lessons have been learned, and changes made.
"I believe the AFL competition as a whole emerges stronger and far more resistant to the growing risks and threats that are challenging sports around the world.
"The outcome reached today, in addition to the support last week from the 17 other clubs and also the AFL Players Association, is a powerful and enduring affirmation that no single club or individual is above our great game."
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said Hird had accepted that his actions breached the rules by providing a risk that players could have taken prohibited substances - although there was no evidence "at the moment" to issue infraction notices.
"ASADA have made it very clear that their investigation remains open," he said.
Demetriou said the saga was a "complex issue" that the AFL had taken "very seriously".
"Hopefully we can all put this behind us.
"The AFL has a duty to all of its stakeholders that we look after our players."
He said the AFL needed to remind everyone that when young men go to a football club, they'll be welcomed into a "professional environment", and that no one in the industry has enjoyed this "sorry saga".
Hird did not front the media but Essendon chairman Paul Little said: "We are sorry. We have learned from our mistakes and made significant reforms."
Little added: "There is no doubt in my mind that James Hird agreed to accept these penalties tonight so that the club could move on.
"With his admission James has put the best interests of the players, the club and as a whole AFL football."
Little described the penalties as "tough but fair".
"I think the players probably do feel let down," Little said.
"All I can say to them is there is a clear way forward and ask that they forgive us for mistakes that we've made."
The club tonight accepted their penalties and admitted there were "failings" during the 2012 supplement program.
"We recognise that failings occurred at our club during this period. We must - and do - accept accountability and apologise for them," Little said.
"We have learnt from our mistakes and made substantial reforms to our governance and people management practices to ensure the club will never be in this position again."
But he stressed that the final settlement is significantly different to the allegations released by the AFL.
"The AFL acknowledges that neither Essendon Football Club nor any of the individuals charged set out to implement a supplements program that would result in players being administered prohibited or potentially harmful substances."
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