Scandal Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

[Chief]

Trafficking Accusation:

Scandal - Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

Trafficking Accusation: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/joel-smith-melbourne-cocaine-trafficking-accusation.1373812/post-82421629 MFC and AFL Statements: Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further...

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MFC and AFL Statements:

Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith

The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations have been asserted against Joel Smith by Sport Integrity Australia.

The Melbourne Football Club is not authorised to make public comment while this is an ongoing matter that is being investigated by Sport Integrity Australia.

It should be noted since the article has been published on the Herald Sun website, Joel’s management has contacted the Club on his behalf to advise that the comments made by the source within the article are not reflective of Joel’s views and the source is not speaking on any authority from Joel.

Joel has made it very clear that he has no issues or concerns with anyone at the Melbourne Football Club.

As the Club has previously stated, we will wait for the investigation to be completed before we update our supporters further.

AFL STATEMENT – JOEL SMITH

The AFL confirms that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) have been asserted against Joel Smith of the Melbourne Football Club under the Australian Football Anti-Doping Code.

Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has notified Smith that three ADRVs for “Trafficking or Attempted Trafficking” of Cocaine to third parties are asserted against him.

Under the Code, Trafficking in an anti-doping context is relevantly defined to be “Selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering or distributing a Prohibited Substance, by an Athlete … to any third party [but] shall not include actions involving Prohibited Substances which are not prohibited in Out-of-Competition Testing unless the circumstances as a whole demonstrate such Prohibited Substances are not intended for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes or are intended to enhance sport performance” (Article 1 of the Code).

Further, SIA has notified Smith that an ADRV for Possession of a Prohibited Substance (Cocaine) on 9 September 2022 is asserted against him.

These ADRVs are in addition to that previously asserted against him (in connection with a sample provided by him after the match between Melbourne and Hawthorn on 20 August 2023 which tested positive to Cocaine and its metabolite, Benzoylecgonine).

Smith will continue to be provisionally suspended pending the finalisation of all of these matters, meaning he is not permitted to be part of Melbourne’s football program, including Melbourne’s pre-season training that is currently underway.

Under the Code, the new asserted ADRVs will be further investigated by SIA and these matters may ultimately be heard by an AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal in the coming months.

Due to the ongoing nature of the anti-doping process, the AFL and SIA are unable to make any further comment at this time.

 

[windyhill]

Good player, took the risk. Suprised there’s not more testing positive.

 

[Toump Ass]

Yes common sense is one thing but WADA have it banned for a reason... otherwise it wouldn't be on there.

Anyway, would have been better off doing LSD. That isn't banned by ASADA.

It's ridiculous isn't it. Big Maxy Gawn lives out in the Mornington Peninsula, so does King Lever. Shrooms literally grow on the bloody nature strip out that way. Selfish to do cocaine, really selfish, especially when he's got unfettered access to the best psychedelic in the world. Better for you, healthy even.

 

[YeoShuey]

Hopefully gets to where he needs to be, and comes back more motivated to win the Premiership and Norm Smith. Big loss for them if he doesn’t get back on track.

 

[Anja_Nees]

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[Lance Uppercut]

It's ridiculous isn't it. Big Maxy Gawn lives out in the Mornington Peninsula, so does King Lever. Shrooms literally grow on the bloody nature strip out that way. Selfish to do cocaine, really selfish, especially when he's got unfettered access to the best psychedelic in the world. Better for you, healthy even.

spot on. Shrooms should be a part of every persons mental health plan, and Mornington is marvellous for finding them, as you say

 

[FuManchu]

He'll be gone for 3 months.

https://www.sportintegrity.gov.au/news/integrity-blog/2020-12/changes-2021-prohibited-list

match day, it would be hard to reconcile he only gets 3 months.

Is it? Really?

If so I retract my statement, but I have never heard anyone claim it helped you perform better in sports.

Classified as a stimulant.

WADA's Prohibited List Expert Advisory Group (ListEG) has identified the following substances as Substances of Abuse in the 2021 Prohibited List. Cocaine (S. 6a – Non-specified Stimulants); •

 

[BringFevBack2021]

Classified as a stimulant.

WADA's Prohibited List Expert Advisory Group (ListEG) has identified the following substances as Substances of Abuse in the 2021 Prohibited List. Cocaine (S. 6a – Non-specified Stimulants); •

I see reading isn’t your strong suit mate

 

[Toump Ass]

spot on. Shrooms should be a part of every persons mental health plan, and Mornington is marvellous for finding them, as you say

Higgs Boson tells me it combines well with golf, and the Dees love a bit of time on the green...

 

[HairyO]

With Joel Smith having failed an in-competition doping test does this mean the result of the game against Hawthorn gets overturned?

In most other competitions around the world if a person tests positive they are disqualified and the results of the contest are updated.

Do we finish on 8 wins and Melbourne finishes on 15 wins?

Interestingly, this doesnt impact on the ladder, nor would it impact on the Finals series. But it does mean our players should get to sing the song one more time.

 

[gappa]

Maybe Hawthorn now win on expected scores?

 

[Cleavy]

moral victory?

 

[FuManchu]

I see reading isn’t your strong suit mate

Read it and listened to some in the legal profession on the radio today discussing the matter. He has a chance to prove its use was non PED enhancing, but because it’s a match day positive, he’s pushing a lot of shit uphill in trying to do so.

 

[BringFevBack2021]

Read it and listened to some in the legal profession on the radio today discussing the matter. He has a chance to prove its use was non PED enhancing, but because it’s a match day positive, he’s pushing a lot of s**t uphill in trying to do so.

Yeah wow, that’s interesting. I would’ve thought it was pretty cut and dry based on what I posted but I know **** all about the legalities.

Will watch this space! Thanks for the context mate.

 

[LanceRomance]

Yeah wow, that’s interesting. I would’ve thought it was pretty cut and dry based on what I posted but I know * all about the legalities.

Will watch this space! Thanks for the context mate.

Guess you don't read my posts either

 

[ThirtyFive]

I wouldn’t be getting too bogged down in the veracity of cocaine being a PED, or not. Fact is, that one of the effects of cocaine use is it’s impact on the circulatory system. It causes internal bleeding and makes blood much more difficult to clot. As someone who attends injured players on match day and had to manage ruptured spleens and kidneys on match day, it gives me the absolute chills and worries the heck out of me. Footy is a contact sport, these blokes get slammed. Cocaine is a serious drug. Particularly when it’s being abused.

 

[jimmy35]

Big deal, there'd be 20 footballers every week running around with coke in their system

And that’s just at Melbourne.

 

[FuManchu]

I wouldn’t be getting too bogged down in the veracity of cocaine being a PED, or not. Fact is, that one of the effects of cocaine use is it’s impact on the circulatory system. It causes internal bleeding and makes blood much more difficult to clot. As someone who attends injured players on match day and had to manage ruptured spleens and kidneys on match day, it gives me the absolute chills and worries the heck out of me. Footy is a contact sport, these blokes get slammed. Cocaine is a serious drug. Particularly when it’s being abused.

Not to mention the capacity to enlarge the heart under extreme cardiac stress and the resultant cardiac seizure issues surrounding that. Ultimately it is still a stimulant, probably not the stimulant you’d choose to elevate physical performance on a football field, but still a stimulant nonetheless.

 

[Foucault1989]

Can we now agree that Melbourne's culture is cooked and Goodwin is an absolute cancer in that footy club.

Glen Bartlett told us.....he bloody told us

 

[LanceRomance]

Not to mention the capacity to enlarge the heart under extreme cardiac stress and the resultant cardiac seizure issues surrounding that. Ultimately it is still a stimulant, probably not the stimulant you’d choose to elevate physical performance on a football field, but still a stimulant nonetheless.

Maybe he can say it was a medical procedure where they required cocaine as an anaesthetic

 

[Caligo]

Classified as a stimulant.

WADA's Prohibited List Expert Advisory Group (ListEG) has identified the following substances as Substances of Abuse in the 2021 Prohibited List. Cocaine (S. 6a – Non-specified Stimulants); •

I get that it is classified that way, but does anyone actually believe it would help you to play afl, or any other sport, better?

 

[jimmy35]

I get that it is classified that way, but does anyone actually believe it would help you to play afl, or any other sport, better?

Could help some players dominate.

 

[Caligo]

Could help some players dominate.

I genuinely can't imagine that, but I accept I appear to be in the minority.

 

[LanceRomance]

I genuinely can't imagine that, but I accept I appear to be in the minority.

Perhaps Chief can organise a double blind bigfooty experiment where posters can do lines and do a range of cognitive and football related testing?

 

[FuManchu]

I get that it is classified that way, but does anyone actually believe it would help you to play afl, or any other sport, better?

It doesn’t matter what anyone believes it to be or not to be, if WADA says it is, the most prudent thing to do as a professional athlete is to avoid it.

And in saying that you don’t think it’s a PE drug, it can cause cardiac issues when under extreme physical stress, to the point sportspeople have dropped dead whilst playing sport.

 

[AndyLucimitis]

Are you high ???