'Bombers players used as guinea pigs'

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James Hird ... watches on as Essendon Chairman David Evans delivers the findings. Source: DAVID CROSLING / AAP

Not surprisingly, Ziggy Switkowski's report found Essendon to be a basket case last year.

From November 2011 to August 2012, the Bombers were unaccountable in their supplement program, lacklustre in their reporting processes, and too secretive about what was happening.

Those responsible for the debacle came for all corners of the club.

Switkowski's report did not recommend administrative change, but that's not to say it won't happen when the joint ASADA-AFL investigation is completed in several months.

Tellingly, chairman David Evans said on Sunday he couldn't guarantee anyone's future.

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That included himself.

Evans, who continuously apologised throughout a robust press conference Monday , revealed he would stand for re-election in November.

It was an interesting strategy, because it's highly unlikely Evans would be voted out.

But at least he took responsibility and his apologies to the players, the families and fans was deeply genuine.

He had reason to apologise.

Letters and emails have emerged as critical to the investigation.

Club doctor Bruce Reid detailed concerns in a letter about the supplement program, led by Dean Robinson and Stephen Dank, but it's unknown where that letter ended up.

It certainly didn't get to the board.

It's at the core of the internal breakdowns.

The Dank email, which he claims came from the World Anti Doping Authority, continues to be a source if intrigue.

Evans refused to discuss Dank today, but that email is also core to the entire investigation.

Dank has consistently denied any wrongdoing.

Unbelievably, we learned there was a ''lack of clairty'' about who ran the football department - football manager Paul Hamilton, who is no longer at the club, or Danny Corcoran, who had a liasion type of role between all departments.

The irregular practices Evans had previously alluded were fully detailed.

They included ''rapid diversification into exotic supplements'', an increased number of injections, use of off-site injection rooms, the emergence of ''unfamiliar suppliers'' and the marginalisation of traditional medical staff.

It combined ''to create a disturbing picture of a pharmacologically experimental environment never adequately controlled or challenged or documented within the club''.

In other words, the players were being used as guinea pigs.

Clearly, there was a breakdown in relationship between Dank, Robinson and Reid, with Switkowski believing the new personnel considered Reid and Co as ''yesterday's men''

In the end, whether the players unknowingly took banned substances remains unclear.

Evans said he is increasingly confident they didn't, and Switkowski said in his report that he ''has no basis to form any other view'' that illegal or banned drugs were not given to the players.

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