Age Reports 15 Players Test Positive To Drug Use

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The Melbourne Age will report tomorrow that 15 players have tested positive to the use of recreational drugs. With one player testing positive twice. This player has one more positve test before the AFL Drug Policy comes into force.

From RealFooty

At least 15 AFL players have recorded positive tests for recreational drugs after less than a year of the league's new testing regime.

One player has been confirmed to have returned two positive readings under the tests, which cover drugs including cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines and marijuana.

The second positive reading leaves the player one step from a "third strike" and being publicly exposed and suspended under the Australian Sports Drug Agency's out-of-competition testing system.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson would not comment on the specific number of positive tests, but said yesterday the league had more than doubled the number of tests last year, which led to more positive results.

Players were told of the figure in a confronting presentation on illicit drugs by ASDA, the Victoria Police, club doctors and the AFL medical commissioners during the pre-season.

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AFL players are tested under two systems, ASDA and WADA. ASDA rules apply for out-of-competition (or non-match-day testing) and a player is given three strikes. On a third positive test he is publicly identified and faces suspension.

Under the WADA in-competition or match-day testing a player is summarily suspended for two years for any positive test.

 

[Altum Volantes]

It's 3 positive tests before anyone gets named is it?

Glass houses and stones Embers..

 

[Quinz]

Damn. There goes our starting line-up.

 

[DynamoUltra]

Damn. There goes our starting line-up.

Haha. At least you got in before others. Seriously, what players do with recreation drugs is their problem, it's te performing enhancing drugs that affect the playing level. Surely recreational drugs negatively affect the ability of the player.

 

[MeeSo]

Only 15. What are players doing with all that money?

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

If they are all Carlton players, it would explain a lot about our performances. However, it may be the final straw. I'd have to take up supporting a more worthy sport .... extreme ludo or something.

 

[Embers]

Only 15. What are players doing with all that money?

Spending it on masking agents

 

[Quinz]

15 is quite a lot. Have any names been released?

 

[- PC -]

15 is quite a lot. Have any names been released?

I think this has been answered already

The AFL drug policy ( as I believe it) is 1st positive is kept inhouse by the AFL, 2nd test is released to the club and the 3rd positive test is released to the media

I could be wrong

 

[Falchoon]

So now that they have finished with Carlton, who's next?




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[JeffDunne]

What sort of society have we become when our fittest and finest youth can't enjoy themselves with the odd stimulant?

And they wonder why they're waving knives and kicking their girlfriends in the head (allegedly), ********ing on them in bars and sometimes doing the business without bothering to ask. We have created emotional wreaks when these guys should be in the prime of their lives.


Anyone want to put up odds that it was Run Ben Run who has recorded two positive tests? Would make his decision to run a smart one.

 

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Link posted

 

[zero]

i totally fail to see what recreational drug use outside of football has to do with the AFL.

i mean, if there is a body preparation or professionalism issue then it is an issue for the club and player, like boozing it up before a game or turning up to training drunk or high, but other than that its got ******** ALL to do with anyone else.

fascist bull********. i see it as a massive invasion of their privacy.

get belly on the line, strike time.

 

[- PC -]

i totally fail to see what recreational drug use outside of football has to do with the AFL.

i mean, if there is a body preparation or professionalism issue then it is an issue for the club and player, .

Actually you have probably hit the nail on the head. The issue is that the clubs WERE NOT doing anything about it.

Maybe its the AFLs duty of care..or like warnings ona cigarette pack its a feelgood thing to make parents happy.

I see it as a possible duty of care issue in that if a player plays drugfked and goes boonta and roid rages on someone and ends another players career then that player can sue the AFL.

Trivial but the world is run by lawyers

 

[zero]

Actually you have probably hit the nail on the head. The issue is that the clubs WERE NOT doing anything about it.

Maybe its the AFLs duty of care..or like warnings ona cigarette pack its a feelgood thing to make parents happy.

I see it as a possible duty of care issue in that if a player plays drugfked and goes boonta and roid rages on someone and ends another players career then that player can sue the AFL.

Trivial but the world is run by lawyers

if a players drug use doesent impact his football in any way, then the clubs really have no right to do anything about it.

as for the duty of care..... as far as i know about the concept, duty of care extends to while an employee is as work or doing things that are part of his work duties (for athletes, i guess that would mean diet and getting up early to go running)

every person has the right to have a personal life outside of his work. that the AFL feels the need to pry, punish or shame players for what they do when on their own time and with their own bodies to me is totally reprehensible. threatening their livelihoods no less

what next, "AFL to test for homosexuality", three positive tests and you are named, shamed and suspended from football

 

[Milkman]

I agree with Zero. I mean what bloody business is it of the AFL if a player has a couple of bongs in the off-season in the privacy of their own home? Totally outrageous.

 

[The Magenius]

It's 3 positive tests before anyone gets named is it?

Glass houses and stones Embers..

If I didn't know any better I would think you were trying to say something BJJ...............

 

[- PC -]

every person has the right to have a personal life outside of his work. that the AFL feels the need to pry, punish or shame players for what they do when on their own time and with their own bodies to me is totally reprehensible. threatening their livelihoods no less

I am sure miners on $100,000 a year would agree with you, but the reality is , whether you or I like it, is that the policy is in place. If they dont like it go play parkland football. I know if I was good enough and was earning $400,000 a year I could use a bucket for washing floors rather than dropping bongs.

 

[audas]

This is Sargeant Stedenko.............................sit down dave and swallow whatevr you're chewing !!

 

[zero]

your right, i guess if i had a job for 250k that required blood tests, id probably lay off the gear too.

but its still puritanical bull********

 

[Silvagnis]

your right, i guess if i had a job for 250k that required blood tests, id probably lay off the gear too.

but its still puritanical bull********

Think of the children!

Who cares if they are earning $250K, professional athletes shouldn't be doing this to their bodies. The little kiddies will hit the bongs all night long because they want to be like their idols.

Marijuana has been known to cause schizophrenia amongst users and I think the footballers should stick to hitting the legal caffeine tablets.

And everyone can apologise to Dale Lewis again.

 

[McPhee]

Does anybody have any names?

Few mates at school reckon they see Tarrant popping that ******** regulary. Don't take my word for it though.

 

[Hard Ball Get]

posted this on the other one may as well post it here too.

If true, I guess the whole testing issue will be big news again,
they are going to test so players should just get it through the thick head IT IS ILLEGAL, just don't do it! If you speed you deserve to be caught, if you park illegally you deserve to be caught if you use drugs you deserve to be caught. If you get caught then you deserve to be punished.

 

[Coin_Toss]

OMG, OMG!!!

How many West Coast players have done wrong this time?
Any predictions...

 

[Flag Man]

The little kiddies will hit the bongs all night long because they want to be like their idols.

If kids are "hitting the bongs all night long because they want to be like their idols", then their parents are morons and they are doomed anyway.