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West Coast drugs scandal report: Chris Judd ‘out of touch on drug policy’
Michael Warner, Herald Sun
March 21, 2017 2:00am
WEST Coast Eagles legend Chris Judd was never linked to illicit drug use but he was not spared by the AFL’s special investigator.
Judd, who skippered the club’s 2006 premiership team before leaving to join Carlton, was one of 47 people interviewed by former judge William Gillard about the Eagles’ drug-fuelled days.
“Those players who had influence in the past and who may have influenced others to believe that they could misbehave with impunity are no longer with the club,” Gillard writes.
“Ben Cousins’ contract has been terminated and Daniel Chick, who had some problems last year, is no longer with the club.
“Chris Judd, who had expressed some fairly strong views early in 2007 that he did not ask to be a role model, that the Drugs Policy was intrusive into the private lives of the players and inconsistent, and that what they did outside was of little moment if they were playing good football, has also left the club.
“His views may have been acceptable in 2004, but once the Drugs Policy was put in place, and secondly because of the changes in community attitudes and standards, his views are no longer acceptable,” says Gillard.
Since leaving the club, Judd has observed that Carlton never had the same sense of destiny and camaraderie that the Eagles had.
The bond shared by the Perth club’s playing list was in part driven by an “us against the rest” mentality, he has said.
The three players who attracted the most trouble — Kerr, Cousins and Michael Gardiner — were also the club’s best players of that era, Judd has said.
“At West Coast, you would always hear about the exploits of Chris Mainwaring, for instance, the way he could live it up and still perform, week after week,’’ he says in his 2015 book, Inside: The Autobiography.
“Those sorts of tales have a powerful effect on young blokes, because — let’s face it — most of them are in a pretty silly phase of their life from 18 to about 25.”
But by 2006, “Cuz and his off-field battles were becoming problematic for the entire playing group”, the former Eagles skipper wrote.
Judd has also observed that the club’s “laissez-faire management” over three or four years resulted in a heavy cost to players.
michael.warner@news.com.au
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AFL’S TOP SECRET EAGLES REPORT SPECIAL:
DRUGS, LIES AND COVER-UPS: WEST COAST SCANDAL EXPOSED
BETRAYAL OF A DUTY OF CARE: WEST COAST CHIEFS LASHED OVER TOXIC CULTURE
AFL URGED TO SET UP INDEPENDENT BODY TO PROBE MISCONDUCT
WHAT BEN COUSINS SAID ABOUT HIS DRUG USE
EAGLES MIDFIELDER CHAD FLETCHER STRAPPED TO LAS VEGAS BED
WEST COAST FAILED ON KERR’S VALIUM SCAM
WEST COAST PREMIERSHIP PLAYER STEVEN ARMSTRONG LIED TO POLICE OVER CAR CRASH
EDITORIAL: BOMBSHELL DEMANDS SO MANY ANSWERS
West Coast drugs scandal report: Chris Judd ‘out of touch on drug policy’
Michael Warner, Herald Sun
March 21, 2017 2:00am
WEST Coast Eagles legend Chris Judd was never linked to illicit drug use but he was not spared by the AFL’s special investigator.
Judd, who skippered the club’s 2006 premiership team before leaving to join Carlton, was one of 47 people interviewed by former judge William Gillard about the Eagles’ drug-fuelled days.
“Those players who had influence in the past and who may have influenced others to believe that they could misbehave with impunity are no longer with the club,” Gillard writes.
“Ben Cousins’ contract has been terminated and Daniel Chick, who had some problems last year, is no longer with the club.
“Chris Judd, who had expressed some fairly strong views early in 2007 that he did not ask to be a role model, that the Drugs Policy was intrusive into the private lives of the players and inconsistent, and that what they did outside was of little moment if they were playing good football, has also left the club.
“His views may have been acceptable in 2004, but once the Drugs Policy was put in place, and secondly because of the changes in community attitudes and standards, his views are no longer acceptable,” says Gillard.
Since leaving the club, Judd has observed that Carlton never had the same sense of destiny and camaraderie that the Eagles had.
The bond shared by the Perth club’s playing list was in part driven by an “us against the rest” mentality, he has said.
The three players who attracted the most trouble — Kerr, Cousins and Michael Gardiner — were also the club’s best players of that era, Judd has said.
“At West Coast, you would always hear about the exploits of Chris Mainwaring, for instance, the way he could live it up and still perform, week after week,’’ he says in his 2015 book, Inside: The Autobiography.
“Those sorts of tales have a powerful effect on young blokes, because — let’s face it — most of them are in a pretty silly phase of their life from 18 to about 25.”
But by 2006, “Cuz and his off-field battles were becoming problematic for the entire playing group”, the former Eagles skipper wrote.
Judd has also observed that the club’s “laissez-faire management” over three or four years resulted in a heavy cost to players.
michael.warner@news.com.au
—————————————————————
AFL’S TOP SECRET EAGLES REPORT SPECIAL:
DRUGS, LIES AND COVER-UPS: WEST COAST SCANDAL EXPOSED
BETRAYAL OF A DUTY OF CARE: WEST COAST CHIEFS LASHED OVER TOXIC CULTURE
AFL URGED TO SET UP INDEPENDENT BODY TO PROBE MISCONDUCT
WHAT BEN COUSINS SAID ABOUT HIS DRUG USE
EAGLES MIDFIELDER CHAD FLETCHER STRAPPED TO LAS VEGAS BED
WEST COAST FAILED ON KERR’S VALIUM SCAM
WEST COAST PREMIERSHIP PLAYER STEVEN ARMSTRONG LIED TO POLICE OVER CAR CRASH
EDITORIAL: BOMBSHELL DEMANDS SO MANY ANSWERS
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