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Essendon high performance manager Dean Robinson worked at Geelong and Gold Coast, prompting the AFL to investigate those clubs. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
A SPECIAL AFL forensic team will investigate the operations of the two clubs who previously employed suspended Essendon high performance manager Dean Robinson.
Geelong and Gold Coast have been told the league's investigators will be putting the microscope over every aspect of their high performance departments.
Robinson, who was stood down by Essendon on Tuesday, joined Geelong in 2007 as its strength and conditioning coach before moving to the Suns at the end of 2010.
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Brisbane is also on the league's hit list after admitting Stephen Dank, the performance scientist who was brought to Essendon by Robinson and is the man at the centre of the scandal, had been briefly employed as a consultant to the Lions.
The AFL is planning to audit all clubs over their use of drugs and supplements with every training practice reviewed.
Geelong has maintained it has nothing to hide about the way it conducted its sports science and fitness departments during its stunning premiership run.
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"Everyone in this organisation is accountable," chief executive Brian Cook said earlier. "That accountability is a high focus within our footy club.
"I'm confident we won't be implicated. The processes we use are pretty sound.
"The doctors are the only ones allowed to give injections, the doctors have to sign off any vitamin purchases made and we have a supplement register."
Geelong Football Club CEO Brian Cook with the 1st Brownlow Medal returned to the club. Picture: Glenn Ferguson Source: Geelong Advertiser
Despite the latest scandal, Cook said the club would continue to remain on the cutting edge of sports science.
For the past three years the Cats have had their own sports science advisory committee which is made up of elite sports scientists from across the country, including the Australian Institute of Sport.
Cook said while that committee was always looking for the next competitive advantage in the sports science area, it operated in a "very ethical framework'' that complied with Anti-Doping regulations.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire yesterday revealed the Pies had already conducted their own audit of their sports science procedures including substances used by the club.
AFLPA CEO Matt Finnis says the roles of club doctors and medical professionals are being diminished sports science.
"We have already audited Collingwood two days ago and we are ready to come in with our ideas of what has to happen,'' McGuire said.
"After what happened in the last couple of days, we wanted to make sure everything is right and ship-shape at our club, to make sure we have the protocols in place.
"If there is anything to uncover I welcome it. One of the things that has been lost in translation is that we don't want to win a premiership by cheating. So we stand for sportsmanship. You have to stand up for that.''
Hawthorn has also conducted an audit which found players were only taking multivitamins and protein powder.
Brisbane coach Michael Voss said he was "not concerned at all'' about the club's links to Dank given the very "limited involvement'' the club had with him.
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