Former Essendon star Brendon Goddard says many of his ex-teammates who were involved in the club's supplements scandal are "scarred for life".<\/p>\n
After 205 games at St Kilda, Goddard joined Essendon as a free agent in the summer of 2012, unknowingly walking into what became one of Australian sport's biggest scandals.<\/p>\n
34 Essendon players, both past and present, were suspended for 12 months in 2016, but Goddard was left wondering why it took so long for the case to be finalised.<\/p>\n
"It's staggering when you go back and think about what happened at the time and how long it dragged out," he told SEN.<\/p>\n
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"When I look back on it, it destroyed a number of men.<\/p>\n
"We know about Hirdy (James Hird) and his struggles, but there's some guys out there that were fighting at the time and it probably had a long term effect on them mentally that we probably didn't know about, because they were hiding it and didn't want to talk about it.<\/p>\n
"Don't worry about the footy club, the footy will bounce back because of the supporters and its rich history of success, but a lot of the individuals that were involved have been scarred for life."<\/p>\n
Despite walking head-first into the scandal, Goddard stayed true to the Bombers, playing another 129 games for the club before retiring at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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