Oppo Camp The Non-North Footy Discussion & Matchday Chat Thread (NNFD&MCT) VIII

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Devington said:
The Truth always comes out eventually!


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I'd just assumed it was the glass barbie.....does this kinda confirm it?:think:
 

  • AFL drug bombshell: Player from Melbourne-based finals team returns positive test​

    The AFL has been rocked after a player from a Melbourne-based finals team returned a positive drug test. Mark Robinson has the exclusive details.


    @Robbo_heraldsun

    2 min read
    October 19, 2023 - 9:42AM
    News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom


    A player from a Melbourne-based finals team has tested positive to drugs late in the home and away season.
    A urine sample taken from the player after a game in the weeks leading up to the AFL finals returned positive for a banned substance, believed to be cocaine.
    It’s understood the player took the drug just days out from a home and away match.
    He was tested after the game by Sports Integrity Australia officials as part of regulation in-competition testing for performance enhancing drugs.
    The result of the test wasn’t known until after the finals series.
    A source close to the issue said the player was from a Melbourne club involved in the finals, which means he would play for either the Demons, Collingwood, Carlton or St Kilda.
    The results of player’s A sample has only been known for a couple of days.
    It’s believed Sports Integrity Australia has informed the player he has returned a positive test.
    The AFL complies with WADA’s anti-doping code, which is governed in Australia by SIA, and cocaine is listed on the WADA in-competition prohibited list of stimulants.

    The AFL on Thursday confirmed the positive test.
    “The AFL is working with the player on this matter,” a spokesperson said.
    The penalty for an “in competition” positive test is up to four years’ suspension, although there are provisions for a lesser penalty in some situations.
    While a four-year suspension is possible, under the AFL’s anti-doping code, if the player can prove the violation was not intentional or there are other circumstances, the penalty could be reduced to as little as a month.
    The code was updated on January 1, 2021, whereby “an athlete who has tested positive to a Substance of Abuse’ in-competition (which includes cocaine), the sanction is only three months if the athlete can prove the substance was used out of competition and was unrelated to sporting performance’’.
    AFL rules dictate that the “in-competition” period starts at “11:59pm on the day before a competition in which the athlete is scheduled to participate through the end of such competition and the sample collection process’’.
    Also, a suspension could be reduced to one month if the ‘’athlete completes a Substance of Abuse treatment program approved by AFL’’.
    In 2019, Collingwood’s Sam Murray argued that he had inadvertently ingested a tiny amount of cocaine before he was given an 18-month suspension.
    In 2020, former Gold Coast ruckman Brayden Crossley accepted a 12-month suspension for an unintentional anti-doping violation.
    In 2015, then Collingwood players Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas accepted two-year bans for testing positive to the drug clenbuterol.
    They were tested in February of that year, which was out of competition.
    More recently, Willie Rioli, when he was at the Eagles, was suspended for two years after being found guilty of substituting his urine during two anti-doping drugs tests.
 

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Mav said:

  • AFL drug bombshell: Player from Melbourne-based finals team returns positive test​

    The AFL has been rocked after a player from a Melbourne-based finals team returned a positive drug test. Mark Robinson has the exclusive details.


    @Robbo_heraldsun

    2 min read
    October 19, 2023 - 9:42AM
    News Corp Australia Sports Newsroom


    A player from a Melbourne-based finals team has tested positive to drugs late in the home and away season.
    A urine sample taken from the player after a game in the weeks leading up to the AFL finals returned positive for a banned substance, believed to be cocaine.
    It’s understood the player took the drug just days out from a home and away match.
    He was tested after the game by Sports Integrity Australia officials as part of regulation in-competition testing for performance enhancing drugs.
    The result of the test wasn’t known until after the finals series.
    A source close to the issue said the player was from a Melbourne club involved in the finals, which means he would play for either the Demons, Collingwood, Carlton or St Kilda.
    The results of player’s A sample has only been known for a couple of days.
    It’s believed Sports Integrity Australia has informed the player he has returned a positive test.
    The AFL complies with WADA’s anti-doping code, which is governed in Australia by SIA, and cocaine is listed on the WADA in-competition prohibited list of stimulants.

    The AFL on Thursday confirmed the positive test.
    “The AFL is working with the player on this matter,” a spokesperson said.
    The penalty for an “in competition” positive test is up to four years’ suspension, although there are provisions for a lesser penalty in some situations.
    While a four-year suspension is possible, under the AFL’s anti-doping code, if the player can prove the violation was not intentional or there are other circumstances, the penalty could be reduced to as little as a month.
    The code was updated on January 1, 2021, whereby “an athlete who has tested positive to a Substance of Abuse’ in-competition (which includes cocaine), the sanction is only three months if the athlete can prove the substance was used out of competition and was unrelated to sporting performance’’.
    AFL rules dictate that the “in-competition” period starts at “11:59pm on the day before a competition in which the athlete is scheduled to participate through the end of such competition and the sample collection process’’.
    Also, a suspension could be reduced to one month if the ‘’athlete completes a Substance of Abuse treatment program approved by AFL’’.
    In 2019, Collingwood’s Sam Murray argued that he had inadvertently ingested a tiny amount of cocaine before he was given an 18-month suspension.
    In 2020, former Gold Coast ruckman Brayden Crossley accepted a 12-month suspension for an unintentional anti-doping violation.
    In 2015, then Collingwood players Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas accepted two-year bans for testing positive to the drug clenbuterol.
    They were tested in February of that year, which was out of competition.
    More recently, Willie Rioli, when he was at the Eagles, was suspended for two years after being found guilty of substituting his urine during two anti-doping drugs tests.
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Don't have to be Ironstein to work out who this player might be do we?
 
The AFL are masters at this aren't they. The day the trade period finishes we get another big story to tide us over until draft time. Absolute masters of manipulating the media cycle to make sure everyone is talking about your product
 
Flawed Genius said:
The AFL are masters at this aren't they. The day the trade period finishes we get another big story to tide us over until draft time. Absolute masters of manipulating the media cycle to make sure everyone is talking about your product
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Whilst I agree they do manipulate everything, I'm not sure this one is a story they want out there.
 
LB2Snake said:
Don't have to be Ironstein to work out who this player might be do we?
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Come on mate, its the AFL. It could be one of many guys.

But if it is the obvious, how pissed would the new club be if he gets suspended for a year or 2! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of campaigners.

oh hang on, you mean the hospital guy, not the ducker. mmm
 
LB2Snake said:
Whilst I agree they do manipulate everything, I'm not sure this one is a story they want out there.
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Given the NRL has just had two of its players arrested, one for murder, you might be right - but it's also a good time to drop it
 
Mav said:
Come on mate, its the AFL. It could be one of many guys.

But if it is the obvious, how pissed would the new club be if he gets suspended for a year or 2! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of campaigners.
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Oh you think him......I was thinking a redheaded Demon who's been a touch loose of late. bUt I like how you roll as well....good, v good.
 
LB2Snake said:
Oh you think him......I was thinking a redheaded Demon who's been a touch loose of late. bUt I like how you roll as well....good, v good.
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yeah, just edited my post!
 
Mav said:
Come on mate, its the AFL. It could be one of many guys.

But if it is the obvious, how pissed would the new club be if he gets suspended for a year or 2! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of campaigners.

oh hang on, you mean the hospital guy, not the ducker. mmm
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Surely not him ffs. If so that's the best trade ever done in AFL history. To trade a bloke a day before a drug test failure surfaces - quality work.
 
gokangas said:
Surely not him ffs. If so that's the best trade ever done in AFL history. To trade a bloke a day before a drug test failure surfaces - quality work.
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one can only hope.
 

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Dees Joel Smith.
 
 
like I said, could have been one of many.
 
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