Port Adelaide player Angus Monfries at training. Picture: Sarah Reed Source: News Corp Australia
FORMER Essendon-turned-Port Adelaide player Angus Monfries is under advice not to confirm nor deny if he has been served a show cause note from ASADA – even to his current AFL club.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has informed 34 players they have a case to answer over the club's 2012 supplements program.
Power chief executive Keith Thomas was told by Essendon at 10.30pm on Thursday that the legal advice to the Bombers players from the contentious program, which included Monfries, was that they should not tell their club if they were on the ASADA investigation list.
This is to keep the legal work for the players at arm's length from the football club.
This also leaves Port blind to Monfries' position and frustrated at being kept in the dark on a player vital to its premiership chase this season.
Despite leaving the Bombers at the end of 2012 as a free agent, Monfries is to be represented by the same legal group advising the players still at Essendon.
ASADA notified players by email and texts, detailing that they face "show cause'' notices and will now have to prove why they should not be cited for doping.
The dramatic move, which follows a 16-month probe, throws the AFL season into turmoil.
Essendon sources last night revealed the club will hit back , by seeking a Federal Court declaration that the joint AFL-ASADA investigation was unlawful.
An application to the court, arguing the joint probe breached disclosure laws, could be launched by the Bombers as early as today.
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