so
the big broom & the even bigger carpet is well & truly in use at the afl atm but.....
this isn't going away
I touched on the subject & Mcguire is right here
The afl has a responsibility, a duty of care , when they take young people into their system to play their sport professionally ,
that responsibility includes them sigining a document specifically spelling out that the use of drugs , recreational & of course performance enhancing are strictly forbidden,
Now they & they alone 19 years ago came up with this utterly ridiculous , key stone cops 3 strike rule that no other spot on the planet would even consider & they were told over & over that it would lead to problems for them
& here we are ..
Their soft cock approach to protecting the identity of players using drugs with the player requiring 3 positive tests in match conditions to be publicly named
Then , then circumventing & bypassing their own ridiculous policy by having a covert system for over 100 of their players using dugs regularly & syphoning them away to be secretly tested to see if they would fail a match day test , & if they couldn't ... lie to the public , fake an injury & not play til they were clean
has blown up in their faces
this is disgusting behaviour
Rather then admit its sport has a serious, its quite frankly alarming .. issue with drug use & the ramifications of that admission , it is quite happy to sacrifice these you men & women & hide the issue instead.
There would be no more sobering reality for these young people to understand that you have a choice , either you play the afl ... or you take drugs
you do not do both !!
Other sports with a backbone , like the NRL for eg .. do not tolerate its players taking any type of drugs including recreational drugs.
If the AFL was serious about these young people & cared out them , rather then just its own image ...
it would be strong & very clear about this issue.
Most of these players would choose to play the sport & as a result be fair dinkum about kicking their drug habit.
the AFLs attitude here is contributing to this issue , not solving it .... they can't say they weren't warned
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