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ESSENDON and its coach James Hird have demanded comprehensive details of how the AFL plans to prosecute the charges against them before they submit to judgment.
A negotiated settlement between the Bombers and the AFL appears the only possible resolution to the drugs crisis before the finals.
"I think if the AFL give us the time we need to prepare for this, there is little chance of it being finalised before the finals," Essendon chairman Paul Little said last night.
An AFL commission meeting on Monday that was to decide charges of bringing the game into disrepute will proceed without considering sanctions on the Bombers.
Essendon yesterday accepted an AFL offer for more time to prepare its defence.
Hird also accepted the offer, but maintained he wanted an independent body to hear the charges.
Hird said AFL boss Andrew Demetriou and the league had a "conflict of interest" because of their involvement in the investigation process.
Demetriou stands firm
A spokesman for Hird yesterday said the AFL's decision to abandon hearing the charges at Monday's meeting changed nothing in his fight to clear his name.
"Mr Hird's lawyers wrote to the AFL last week seeking certain undertakings, particulars of the charges, and asked the AFL what the basis of their case was ... who its witnesses were and what they were going to say in respect of the charges so that Mr Hird could properly prepare his case," spokesman Ian Hanke said.
"Other than not responding to those matters and thus accepting there could not be a contested hearing on 26 August, everything remains up in the air."
The AFL backdown averted a Supreme Court injunction threatened by Hird, but that could still happen.
Medicos allay parents' concerns
A Bombers spokesman said: "Lawyers for the club requested the AFL advise which witnesses it would be calling, the evidence it expected those witnesses would give and specified procedural matters.
"As the AFL has not provided that information the club is not in a position to proceed next week and that is why the matter needs to be adjourned."
Earlier yesterday, Demetriou had said he expected the charges to be heard at Monday's meeting.
The parents of Essendon players last night were updated on the progress of the supplements investigation and the club's prospects of playing in the finals.
The Bombers, Hird, assistant coach Mark Thompson, football boss Danny Corcoran and club doctor Bruce Reid were charged over the club's 2012 supplements program nine days ago.
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