Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance (Opposition supporters tread carefully)

[masai]

Ryan has signed up to be the next James Bond.

The leadership group is peeved with him as he hasn't negotiated parts for "Jaws" Sandilands, "The Nose" Pav and "Pesterer" Ballantyne.

Ross has sent him away for a big think, Moneypenny v Freo ?.

 

[Apenesslike]

Ryan has signed up to be the next James Bond.

The leadership group is peeved with him as he hasn't negotiated parts for "Jaws" Sandilands, "The Nose" Pav and "Pesterer" Ballantyne.

Ross has sent him away for a big think, Moneypenny v Freo ?.

Hard to see him playing Bond when he has been shortlisted for a one-way ticket to Mars.

Apparently Ablett was going there to try to shake his hard tag.

 

[pokerspiv]

Ben Cousins says, "Hi!"

Not everyone who takes drugs recreationally ends up like Ben Cousins. Chances are his life was going off the rails before he ever started on drugs. I think you'd be shocked how many people you know actually take recreational drugs, but you'd never know about it unless they told you.

 

[salim malik]

Not everyone who takes drugs recreationally ends up like Ben Cousins. Chances are his life was going off the rails before he ever started on drugs. I think you'd be shocked how many people you know actually take recreational drugs, but you'd never know about it unless they told you.

The point is if you don't partake there is no chance of ending up like ben.

 

[Pusswah]

Well this thread is well and truly done. Conspiracy theories, poor trolling attempts, it's got the lot.

 

[AAACockburn]

Ben Cousins says, "Hi!"

How high?

 

[pokerspiv]

The point is if you don't partake there is no chance of ending up like ben.

That's not really the point at all, since as I said, his problems probably have less to do with drugs than they do with existing mental issues.

 

[Purple Jesus]

Or it's absolutely none of the above and you're all speculating poorly.

 

[peppy la pew]

That's not really the point at all, since as I said, his problems probably have less to do with drugs than they do with existing mental issues.

Of course that is the point.

As the paki said, if you don't dabble in drugs you wont get addicted to them, like Cuz is.

He may well have underlying mental health problems that led him to drug taking, but drugs are the reason he is where he is.

There again he may have started doing drugs because they are fun, and it just got out of control, then took no 1 priority in his life.

Not really that far fetched is it.

 

[Arcassius]

Interesting article I read recently on drugs and addiction m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6506936

You might draw a string and suggest that it was Ben's environment that failed him, and not the drugs

 

[george2]

I have heard rumours that there is a story behind the whole Crowley not playing issue. The strongest rumour being linked to depression

 

[clogged]

Every club would have a significant number of players using recreational drugs. They're young men with enormous amounts of cash. Those two together inevitably ends up in drugs.

What happened at the Eagles in the mid 2000s is something different entirely. There are a reasonable number of former players who are broken men. Cousins is the most obvious, but Kerr, Hunter, Chick and Fletcher have all had troubles with the law and drugs post-football, and even complete nobodies like Ben Sharp have gone on to lives of crime. And that's without getting to a former club champion's death from drugs around the same time.

Eagles fans can sugar coat it or make false equivalence arguments, but what was happening there destroyed the lives of far too many young men. They should have been deregistered.

 

[Mr Fonebone]

I heard that Ryan jumped the fences at the SAS Barracks and is now in the loony bin.

...oh hang on

 

[Sweetback]

The point is if you don't partake there is no chance of ending up like ben.

I think the other point is that, if it wasn't drugs, then it would be something else like gambling, alcohol, sex, exercise, smoking – whatever is going to get the pleasure receptors going. He can't just choose not to do something, his compulsion is to be attracted to all those things.

 

[youmewe]

I’m a great believer in never closing the door when you see people making wrong decisions in life. Even if the decisions they make are so mind numbingly stupid. Even if they have only one clear path to follow and choose to ignore it.


With this in mind, remember it's not too late, hopefully they will see the light …

...
Eagles fans can sugar coat it or make false equivalence arguments, but what was happening there destroyed the lives of far too many young men. They should have been deregistered.

C'mon Gillon you know it's the right thing to do.

 

[beetz]

So after 10 pages, all of which I haven't read, has there been any substantial goss on why Crowley is not available selection?

 

[Kram]

Well we’ve got plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are *kinds* of evidence.

 

[Defacto]

Is the presser at noon by your pres and CEO in relation to this?

 

[Okinakashi]

So let me get this right
- the original question was : Anybody know what's up with Crowls??

and after 10 pages, the answer is still...


...No?

Whatever the "issue" is, I hope he, his family, friends and the FFC sort it out and we get to see him pestering Stevie J on a football oval soon!

 

[clivenator26]

Is the presser at noon by your pres and CEO in relation to this?

You'd think so, fingers crossed it is a sponsorship of some sort but I highly doubt it. The president has been overseas so now he is back perhaps we will get on the front foot about it.

 

[peppy la pew]

So after 10 pages, all of which I haven't read, has there been any substantial goss on why Crowley is not available selection?

I urge you to read them, there are some absolute doozies in there.

 

[MadDocker]

Worried about the noon presser. Please don't let it be so.

 

[freo_baby]

Tested positive to banned substance.... Not good.
EDIT: To a game last year.

http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2015-03-16/ryan-crowley-media-statement

 

[Seppo]

Wonder what the banned substance could be.

Could be similar to Saad from the Saints.

 

[Lach72]

Well isn't this a ****ing bombshell