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DUAL Brownlow Medallist Chris Judd says he hopes he would have rejected the kind of controversial supplements program administered to Essendon players.
The Carlton great has called for greater funding for the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Body to ensure AFL remained as clean as it could be.
He said he sympathised with Essendon's players, who were put in a "pretty horrendous situation".
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But asked at an MCG football lunch whether footballers should be exempt from responsibility, the AFL veteran spoke honestly.
"As a young person I don't think you should be expected to question what the football club wanted you to do. I don't know exactly what happened, but if someone said to me you are going to have multiple injections off-site at an anti-ageing clinic I would be able to say, no that doesn't sound right for me.
"I wasn't in that situation, so I don't know how I would have reacted. But at the end of the day we are all capable of individual thought.
"Real heroism is when you are able to stand up and be different to the crowd, when you get that feeling in your stomach that something is not right. Whether Essendon players had that feeling, I don't know.
"I don't know if they all knew what the others were doing but certainly if you are in your late 20s, I find it hard to believe you wouldn't have thought something was up, with that feeling you get in your stomach."
Judd's response drew warm applause from the room given few players have publicly expressed their true feelings about the contentious program.
He believes ASADA, which had just one investigator in its Melbourne offices through the summer, is drastically underfunded.
"I think the most important thing is ASADA need a hell of a lot more funding. That is an issue,'' he said.
Lets talk separately to Essendon, you just need to make sure the risk of taking it is much greater than the risk of not taking it. ASADA needs to receive so much more funding than they do.
"There are a lot of substances that professional athletes are using and can't be tested for. There really needs to be a lot more funding for not just testing, but more surveillance, to ensure our sport doesn't go down the path that some other sports have."
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