Scandal Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

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Trafficking Accusation:


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.
 
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Goodwin was cleared by Pert and Roffey? They've been hurled out of the club on the trebuchet of shame as yet another drug raddled Dee came unstuck.

There was no retraction by Bartlet, so his allegations stand. The court case fell over because everyone ran out of money.

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Months before being unceremoniously hurled into the ether Pert declared Melbourne has the greatest culture he's seen in forty years. Perhaps he meant "purest, uncut, A grade".
Disco sh*t, pure as the driven snow.
 
You have literally no idea what you are talking about.

Smith was a backup role player who played a couple of good finals when literally every other more talented/reliable forward was out injured.

McAdam didnt get many games because he was injured for some of the year and in the games he did play, despite being slight he was neither fast nor seemingly able to kick further than 35 metres.

Your spell is lifted.
Is this account run by Melksham’s Dad?
 

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