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Play Nice West Coast drugs scandal - Report ITT
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Keys
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Now only the most blinkered West Coast supporter will try to argue that the club couldn't have down more to address these issues at the time but the above is an important point.
The club may well have doubted the honesty of the players when they were saying the stories weren't true, but the inability of clubs to conduct their own testing or have access to the results of the testing that is done just makes it that much more difficult to act on what is arguably unsubstantiated hearsay. It's also possible the club didn't give a **** or should have investigated the claims more rigorously but it's significant that the report acknowledges there were restrictions with how the club could have dealt with the problem
Am expecting tomorrow's front page story on the HUN...Ronald Ryan.
was it to heroin?
Have a read through the report if you have time Keys, quite often Gillard says he didn't believe what players told him in interviews, that they were evasive and he lacked the ability to compel them to tell the truth. Also said it was likely drug use was involved in a lot of cases where it wasn't certain.
That's exactly the issue the club faced at the time- what sort of penalties can you give when you don't know the truth. On occasions where the truth was know the club often didn't go far enough in punishments.
Moo
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The thing with WC at the time is if you were out and about in Perth at this time, there are just so many personal stories of coming up against WC players absolutely off their **** ....if mobile phones had of been as prevalent as today - they would of been on the news every weekend.
Again - great credit must go to WC for effectively changing this culture, I actually don't see 2006 as * - I actually think they probably cost themselves a flag by not controlling it and effectively wasting the planets aligning with Cox, Judd, Cousins & Kerr.
Ex team-mate of mine ate a huntsman sandwich one year. Shocked that it was on white, non low GI bread.
heckin' west coast amateurs!
twotooto
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To be honest I haven't pondered who/how this already flogged to death common knowledge info was leaked but I would go with 'a source close to a high ranking official'.
lmach
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One could argue very strongly that at a WCE board level, Nisbett has been VERY successful in his role over the years. He obviously couldn't control the players (don't think anybody could) and when it got out of control, it was covered up successfully. With the help of Demetriou of course but nonetheless, was successful.
Not the first club.
Not the only club.
Probably not the last club.
Just ask Dale Lewis.
Not the only club.
Probably not the last club.
Just ask Dale Lewis.
There goes Damos scoop for tomorrow night lols
This is not aimed at EFC as Goodwin is an ex Crow but FFS, both Hird and Goodwin were being injected on-site back in 2012. Tell me there isn't a culture of "drug taking" (irrespective of whether it's PED's or illicit).
It is rife at AFL level. Was back then and little has changed. The players are just a little smarter in how and when they "party".
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It's news - it's a newly leaked report.
It doesn't justify the newspaper wrapping it front and back like it's the biggest story of the year. As I said, they went way over the top as usual.
WCE supporters shouldn't take this personally. This is not an anti-WC story. This is simply the HUN attempting to make themselves relevant.
If anyone has the time, can you list out anything new that has come from this article. Don't bother listing all points...just simply list out what is absolutely new in all of this. And Worsfold and the AFL either turning a blind eye or covering this up is not new.
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West Coast here = Essendon.
Other clubs = Geelong /
Melbourne / Gold Coast.
It's how these things work.
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Its funny how this keeps coming up while a blind eye gets turned to the melbourne club that won the flag in 08 that had to get a court injunction to suppress medical records of players that had tested positive...
Meanwhile we get supporters of other clubs who have actually had players caught with drugs while on a playing list telling WC supporters how bad our club is, when anyone with half a brain knows that all clubs have players that do recreational drugs. What is annoying is that Vic media keep targeting one club only like a jealous ex girlfriend left at the altar.
Meanwhile we get supporters of other clubs who have actually had players caught with drugs while on a playing list telling WC supporters how bad our club is, when anyone with half a brain knows that all clubs have players that do recreational drugs. What is annoying is that Vic media keep targeting one club only like a jealous ex girlfriend left at the altar.
I didn't mean to slam McCarthy or suggest that he has drug/other off field issues. Its just that we as fans thought West Coast should throw out hat into the ring when he was going cheap but there was some suggestion that West coast didn't want to go near him due to fear of possible issues.
Moo
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I was more coming from the perspective that you had in fact approached him.
