Oh Darling
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Gee what a great club Carltank was 
Most of their players were doing drugs and did nothing to help the players involved... including lying about providing support to them . I especially like the bit about Carlton payers being able to get him any drug he wanted.... and that he was recruited to drugs by a teammate as a young kid only months after joining the club
Ex-Blue Angwin points the finger
18 May 2005 Herald Sun
Mark Robinson
FORMER Carlton player Laurence Angwin has accused three "high profile" teammates of also taking ecstasy on the night he was sacked in 2004.
Angwin, who did not name the players in an interview with the Bulletin magazine, said the three were not tested by Carlton officials.
He said he and Karl Norman, who was suspended for a match and fined $5000 for his involvement, did not "dob in" their teammates.
"We were with three other Carlton players, higher profile players than us, who were also doing it," Angwin said.
"They weren't tested and we didn't dob them in.
"No one at Carlton asked us if other players were involved because, I guess, they didn't want to hear the answer."
Told last night of Angwin's accusation, Blues president Ian Collins said: "Well, if that's the case well that's sad." In an explosive interview, Angwin admits:
TOWARDS the end of his short career, he took ecstasy and sometimes cocaine every weekend after matches. "I just thought I was having fun and doing what everyone was doing." Angwin said.
NORMAN and he arrived at training after the night in question without sleeping and were "buzzing";
USE of social drugs were common in the AFL;
PLAYERS knew how to mask social drugs, using "liver-flushing" supplements from health food shops and chemists.
Sure to tarnish Carlton's last-game celebrations at Optus Oval this weekend, Angwin revealed he and teammates had partied and that he and Norman arrived at a Kerford Rd swimming session the next day having not slept.
"In hindsight it wasn't such a smart move to go to training, but we didn't think not to," Angwin said. "We were too switched on, we were still buzzing."
Angwin confessed that he was first offered drugs by a Carlton teammate, a few months after arriving at Optus Oval in 2003.
"There were two guys there, both players who could get you whatever you wanted," he said. Angwin's claims lend support to former Sydney Swan Dale Lewis' explosive revelations in March, 2002, that AFL players frequently used ecstasy, speed and marijuana.
At the time the AFL lambasted Lewis' assertion that "if there wasn't 75 per cent who have done some sort of recreation drug, I'd go he".
Yet two years later, in May 2004, the AFL recognised the emergence of illicit drug use among its players, releasing a new tougher drug code.
While Angwin, who previously pleaded guilty to burglary and theft charges, has a serious credibility problem, just two weeks ago Demon forward Russell Robertson warned in the Herald Sun that drugs were a much more serious issue among AFL players than alcohol.
In the Bulletin article, Angwin said he could name plenty of players who "used drugs, usually ecstasy, every two weeks or so".
Despite Carlton announcing at the time it would assist him with drug rehabilitation and "endeavour to find him meaningful employment", Angwin said he received neither.
Most of their players were doing drugs and did nothing to help the players involved... including lying about providing support to them . I especially like the bit about Carlton payers being able to get him any drug he wanted.... and that he was recruited to drugs by a teammate as a young kid only months after joining the club Ex-Blue Angwin points the finger
18 May 2005 Herald Sun
Mark Robinson
FORMER Carlton player Laurence Angwin has accused three "high profile" teammates of also taking ecstasy on the night he was sacked in 2004.
Angwin, who did not name the players in an interview with the Bulletin magazine, said the three were not tested by Carlton officials.
He said he and Karl Norman, who was suspended for a match and fined $5000 for his involvement, did not "dob in" their teammates.
"We were with three other Carlton players, higher profile players than us, who were also doing it," Angwin said.
"They weren't tested and we didn't dob them in.
"No one at Carlton asked us if other players were involved because, I guess, they didn't want to hear the answer."
Told last night of Angwin's accusation, Blues president Ian Collins said: "Well, if that's the case well that's sad." In an explosive interview, Angwin admits:
TOWARDS the end of his short career, he took ecstasy and sometimes cocaine every weekend after matches. "I just thought I was having fun and doing what everyone was doing." Angwin said.
NORMAN and he arrived at training after the night in question without sleeping and were "buzzing";
USE of social drugs were common in the AFL;
PLAYERS knew how to mask social drugs, using "liver-flushing" supplements from health food shops and chemists.
Sure to tarnish Carlton's last-game celebrations at Optus Oval this weekend, Angwin revealed he and teammates had partied and that he and Norman arrived at a Kerford Rd swimming session the next day having not slept.
"In hindsight it wasn't such a smart move to go to training, but we didn't think not to," Angwin said. "We were too switched on, we were still buzzing."
Angwin confessed that he was first offered drugs by a Carlton teammate, a few months after arriving at Optus Oval in 2003.
"There were two guys there, both players who could get you whatever you wanted," he said. Angwin's claims lend support to former Sydney Swan Dale Lewis' explosive revelations in March, 2002, that AFL players frequently used ecstasy, speed and marijuana.
At the time the AFL lambasted Lewis' assertion that "if there wasn't 75 per cent who have done some sort of recreation drug, I'd go he".
Yet two years later, in May 2004, the AFL recognised the emergence of illicit drug use among its players, releasing a new tougher drug code.
While Angwin, who previously pleaded guilty to burglary and theft charges, has a serious credibility problem, just two weeks ago Demon forward Russell Robertson warned in the Herald Sun that drugs were a much more serious issue among AFL players than alcohol.
In the Bulletin article, Angwin said he could name plenty of players who "used drugs, usually ecstasy, every two weeks or so".
Despite Carlton announcing at the time it would assist him with drug rehabilitation and "endeavour to find him meaningful employment", Angwin said he received neither.
