Anderson slips up on naming drug offenders??

bionicsasquach · 29 Mar 2007, 15:47

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/foo...E19742,00.html
Law tweak for trades
29 March 2007 Herald-Sun

THE AFL is considering a policy change on players with two strikes who are traded.

A club recruiting a player currently has no knowledge of his strikes.

It is possible the doctor at the player's former club will be asked to confidentially pass on the information to the new club.

The move would be designed to ensure the offending player continues to have the same level of counselling.

AFL football operations manager Adrian Anderson said all players who had recorded positive tests would be monitored by the AFL's medical officers in the event they were traded.

"Any player who has already tested twice is well under the attention of our AFL medical officers and they will follow up with those two players regularly to make sure they continue to receive the message and are followed up by our medical officers," Anderson said.

Considering he is talking about players with two strikes that will/have been traded and that everyone is trying to protect the names of the 3 players who have tested twice...he has just narrowed down the names of 2 of those 3 players into a list of the 9 players that were traded last year. regardless that most people are aware of who they are anyway, a bit silly from Mr. Anderson, yes? So that means that two of the following players in no particular order are definately on two strikes for those who do not know.

Chris Tarrant
Dean Solomon
Graham Polak
Jason Akermanis
Andrew McDougall
Paul Medhurst
Michael Gardiner
Shane Birss
Peter Everitt

Father Jack · 29 Mar 2007, 16:00

and one was a brownlow medalist premiership player.

Zeke · 29 Mar 2007, 16:03

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Originally Posted by unexplained

jesus.

I'm pretty sure all his test results were clear.

- PC - · 29 Mar 2007, 16:05

Interesting

Barra must have forwarded my email onto AA

Father Jack · 29 Mar 2007, 16:05

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Originally Posted by Zeke

I'm pretty sure all his test results were clear.

good point, will edit his name out and not blaspheme ever again.

Demonheart · 29 Mar 2007, 17:04

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Originally Posted by bionicsasquach

regardless that most people are aware of who they are anyway, a bit silly from Mr. Anderson, yes?

I must be the only person in Australia who hasn't heard who they are

sharpie · 29 Mar 2007, 17:09

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Originally Posted by bionicsasquach

"Any player who has already tested twice is well under the attention of our AFL medical officers and they will follow up with those two players regularly to make sure they continue to receive the message and are followed up by our medical officers," Anderson said.

terrific spot

I read this and thought - clearly this has come about because the players have been traded - otherwise it wouldn't be an issue

but I missed the statement "those two"

what a knobhead - we all know who they are - but now we have it confirmed that two people traded last year were on 2 strikes

mellowyellow · 29 Mar 2007, 17:11

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Originally Posted by Zeke

I'm pretty sure all his test results were clear.

Couldnt be.

The guy was always getting stoned.

sharpie · 29 Mar 2007, 17:13

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Originally Posted by bionicsasquach

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When this gets highlighted by the media and becomes a big story you can give yourself a big pat on the back for breaking the news

Probably the first real story to be broken of BF

sharpie · 29 Mar 2007, 17:15

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Originally Posted by The Dice Man

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mate - no individual names

you can however list all players traded last year and say that two of them are on 2 strikes - that's logical given the quote and the link

even the mods can't argue with that

**Grimreepah** · 29 Mar 2007, 17:26

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Originally Posted by bionicsasquach

Considering he is talking about players with two strikes that will/have been traded and that everyone is trying to protect the names of the 3 players who have tested twice...he has just narrowed down the names of 2 of those 3 players into a list of the approx 9 players that were traded last year. regardless that most people are aware of who they are anyway, a bit silly from Mr. Anderson, yes?

Well spotted. This is perhaps a reason why they should identify who the players are. All players who switched clubs last year will now be under suspicion. In protecting the guilty we are tarnishing the innocent.

scottwade · 29 Mar 2007, 17:31

Top get.
It was a while ago, but didn't Andy Millions claim that the AFL admin didn't know who the 3 strike players were? The info being restricted to the MOs.

EDIT; Just read the court transcript. Anderson confirmed, at the time, he knew who the 3 players were 'alleged' to be (through reading a Media Monitors' article). Still doesn't mean he didn't stuff up identifying the terrible twosome.

bionicsasquach · 29 Mar 2007, 17:34

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Originally Posted by scottwade

Top get.
It was a while ago, but didn't Andy Millions claim that the AFL admin didn't know who the 3 strike players were? The info being restricted to the MOs.

Thats true...someone has been telling porkies... ... like anyone believed them

patsmith · 29 Mar 2007, 17:35

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Originally Posted by bionicsasquach

A club recruiting a player currently has no knowledge of his strikes.

Perhaps no formal knowledge, but everyone involved in footy would know. Not really an issue.

MarkT · 29 Mar 2007, 17:37

That is both a good pick up and an incompetent slip up. Everyone makes mistakes but some people manage to get a few things right along the way too. Poor old AA just runs himself into brick walls every day. sometimes I think he has a difficult job justifying the unjustifiable but then I see this sort of stuff that just comes down to wherewithal and he has none. Good recruiting by a bloke on a mil.