McVeigh lauds response to AFL probe Former Essendon vice-captain Mark McVeigh has lauded the ability of his former teammates to keep on winning while being subjected to intense questioning about the AFL club's controversial supplements program. McVeigh, who retired at the end of the 2102 season after a 232-game career, was interviewed by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) for several hours last week. He said some of the questions from ASADA relating to where blood extracted from the the players had been stored were "surprising and shocking." But the 32-year-old remained confident he and his former teammates had not been administered any banned substances. "Any sort of supplement I signed up for was WADA-approved," McVeigh told Channel Seven on Sunday. I was given the document I had signed and it certainly said that. The current Essendon playing group have also been grilled by ASADA in recent weeks. But despite the ongoing distractions, they have mostly succeeded in continuing to produce results on the field, coming back from 31 points down to beat Carlton in a thriller on Friday night and improve their win-loss record to 8-3. "Just the whole intensity of the investigation was quite serious," said McVeigh. I really felt for the young players who are playing at the football club and really respect what they're doing at the moment. To be able to galvanise that group and play under the pressure that they would be under, it's remarkable. McVeigh said the ASADA investigators posed several questions he was unable to answer, including where the players' blood was stored after they gave blood tests last year. "You'd hope that the club knew that and the inference was that they didn't," he said. I worry from that side of it. But I'm not fearful of the players being banned or out of the game because there's no way the players would have agreed or signed up to something that was illegal. The ASADA investigation is ongoing.