Surely Sam De Koning jumps aboard the Blues bandwagon as the Cats approach the cliffs edge …
Traded Elijah Hollands [Traded to Carlton with #28 & F4 for #26 and F3(Ess)]
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Surely Sam De Koning jumps aboard the Blues bandwagon as the Cats approach the cliffs edge …
Scotty_222
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Anything else? I’m sure the afl is listening to you
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Future 3rd makes a whole lot of sense now
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I’m really not bothered. He’s just unlucky to get caught, such a large percentage of the league dabbles from time to time that it’s a non issue. The percentage would be about the same as the general population of the 18-30 age bracket which is sky high. Yes some would stay away due to testing but that’s balanced out by the amount of cash they have.
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'family reasons'
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I agree but some of the comments by people on here about the suns is terrible but now the truth is out it's pretty quiet in here hahahahaha
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Makes a lot of sense. The club even knew a month ago. If anything I'm impressed the Blues were still willing to take the risk, we're pretty anti bad boy these days. Get him in line and hopefully he can turn it all around.
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One of our in the know posters mentioned the other week that it was known he had fallen into the trap of the Gold Coast party lifestyle and that they were confident and hopeful that a change of club and being around his brother and family could get him back on track.
Good for the club to get on the front foot. Not ideal IMO, but trust the club knows what they're doing and will give him the support he needs.
Effectively a future 3rd downgraded to a future 4th, so no issue at all with the cost of getting him in and has massive upside if he can clean up his act. The charges might have been a wake up call for him given his VFL grand final performance.
Good for the club to get on the front foot. Not ideal IMO, but trust the club knows what they're doing and will give him the support he needs.
Effectively a future 3rd downgraded to a future 4th, so no issue at all with the cost of getting him in and has massive upside if he can clean up his act. The charges might have been a wake up call for him given his VFL grand final performance.
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Gold Coast player gets done with drugs and traded for peanuts and this makes Gold Coast the winners out of this??
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Wonder if Gawn has any spare rooms?
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We’ve all seen many players out and about on a night out completely cooked to the gills.
Hollands just unlucky to be caught.
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Explains a bit.
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He’s a goose for getting caught but to everyone moralising, at every club at least 30 percent of players would’ve taken something at some point and that’s a conservative estimate.
I don't think anyone is a winner out of it, it makes more sense now though.
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Caveat emptor and all that but he told the club before the trade so it is what it is.
Not a fan of players doing drugs in season, that's for another thread
Not a fan of players doing drugs in season, that's for another thread
Scotty_222
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Yeah go down to Melbourne, there’s no drugs down there..
No doubt he wasn't dabbling in it alone. Just unlucky enough to be caught. Going to a new club away from his existing mates might enable him to reset.
Not suggesting there is a specific problem with the suns culture. I'm sure it happens at every club.
How many teammates you reckon were doing it with him? 6-7 minimum? Who was supplying?
Dimmas got a lot of cleaning up to do it seems.
Are we pretending that this (i.e. players dabbling in 'illicit substances') doesn't happen at all AFL clubs?
Some clubs are a lot worse than others.
