Scandal Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

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Trafficking Accusation:

Scandal - Joel Smith (Melbourne): Cocaine trafficking accusation

Trafficking Accusation: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/joel-smith-melbourne-cocaine-trafficking-accusation.1373812/post-82421629 MFC and AFL Statements: Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further...

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MFC and AFL Statements:

Melbourne Football Club Media Statement – Joel Smith

The Melbourne Football Club has been advised by the AFL that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations have been asserted against Joel Smith by Sport Integrity Australia.

The Melbourne Football Club is not authorised to make public comment while this is an ongoing matter that is being investigated by Sport Integrity Australia.

It should be noted since the article has been published on the Herald Sun website, Joel’s management has contacted the Club on his behalf to advise that the comments made by the source within the article are not reflective of Joel’s views and the source is not speaking on any authority from Joel.

Joel has made it very clear that he has no issues or concerns with anyone at the Melbourne Football Club.

As the Club has previously stated, we will wait for the investigation to be completed before we update our supporters further.

AFL STATEMENT – JOEL SMITH

The AFL confirms that further Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) have been asserted against Joel Smith of the Melbourne Football Club under the Australian Football Anti-Doping Code.

Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) has notified Smith that three ADRVs for “Trafficking or Attempted Trafficking” of Cocaine to third parties are asserted against him.

Under the Code, Trafficking in an anti-doping context is relevantly defined to be “Selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering or distributing a Prohibited Substance, by an Athlete … to any third party [but] shall not include actions involving Prohibited Substances which are not prohibited in Out-of-Competition Testing unless the circumstances as a whole demonstrate such Prohibited Substances are not intended for genuine and legal therapeutic purposes or are intended to enhance sport performance” (Article 1 of the Code).

Further, SIA has notified Smith that an ADRV for Possession of a Prohibited Substance (Cocaine) on 9 September 2022 is asserted against him.

These ADRVs are in addition to that previously asserted against him (in connection with a sample provided by him after the match between Melbourne and Hawthorn on 20 August 2023 which tested positive to Cocaine and its metabolite, Benzoylecgonine).

Smith will continue to be provisionally suspended pending the finalisation of all of these matters, meaning he is not permitted to be part of Melbourne’s football program, including Melbourne’s pre-season training that is currently underway.

Under the Code, the new asserted ADRVs will be further investigated by SIA and these matters may ultimately be heard by an AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal in the coming months.

Due to the ongoing nature of the anti-doping process, the AFL and SIA are unable to make any further comment at this time.

 

[windyhill]

Melbourne fans would be quite rightly asking WTF is going on ? All this off field shit from the coach down. Pissing a dynasty away.
Flags left on the table. May was right in that B&F interview. Not good.

 

[the avoca drover]

I did get tested regularly in the military.
Urine tests only so I'm not sure they'd pick up as much as a hair test

Were you on secondment from Flight Centre?

 

[Mofra]

Were you on secondment from Flight Centre?

Women like guys in uniform.

Unfortunately, they like them less out of uniform

 

[Capt Haddock]

Melbourne fans would be quite rightly asking WTF is going on ? All this off field s**t from the coach down. Pissing a dynasty away.
Flags left on the table. May was right in that B&F interview. Not good.

How was he right? He was talking hypotheticals which were convincingly disproven by hard stats - ie their on field performance.

 

[LanceRomance]

Women like guys in uniform.

Unfortunately, they like them less out of uniform

Not even the flight centre uniform?

 

[Mofra]

Not even the flight centre uniform?

Many nights it seemed like lowest amount of interest, guaranteed

 

[LanceRomance]

Media absolutely going to town on Melbourne... especially over oliver.

Going to be a rough off season.

Think those wce supporters can chill.

 

[Bald]

Like bailey

Bulldogs star Bailey Smith accepts ban but avoids further sanctions over illicit drug use

Bulldogs star Smith accepts ban but avoids further sanctions over illicit drug use

www.foxsports.com.au

Bailey Smith admitted to using it.

Good try though.

 

[windyhill]

How was he right? He was talking hypotheticals which were convincingly disproven by hard stats - ie their on field performance.

They’ve thrown at least one , if not two, flags away.

 

[BEEG]

Any updates thoughts from Joel Smith father yet? Thought he would have added his 2 cents by now.

 

[JackFlash]

Smith is a WADA issue being match day. Sports Integrity Australia will sort that one.

Hollands is a court issue and a likely AFL strike as it is out of competition, different to match day and not a WADA offence. Think they should change the rules especially for Hollands? A year for a little bit of an illicit substance? Serious?

I doubt it was the first time, the AFL must make a stance on this. 3 months means nothing unless the suspension is during the season, both players should be siiting out 2024.

 

[yaco55]

You brought up EF34. You might want to stop looking in the mirror because all you’re doing is projecting.

Yes - Because you you were posting at this time which is ten years ago and you still do not understand the WADA code. You are a slow learner.

 

[ThirtyFive]

I do hope Joel seeks help for this. Mate, your father has a traumatic brain injury. There’s a known link between cocaine use and strokes. Have a look at your Dad. There’s plenty of support around. Just do it, please…..

 

[Captivating]

Will be interesting to find out when he had it.

Given the court date of the end of the month I'd think no later than late September.

Guessing he'll be on a stricter testing regime now. Hair samples etc.

While the rest of his teammates are rocking mullets and mo, Joel Smith rocks up to training looking like this

 

[Xtreme]

A player chooses to dabble in drugs/alcohol risking the reputation of the team and sport in general.....
AFL needs to get tough and sack the player(s) on the spot.

 

[zeggie]

Bailey ..

Him too

 

[Nebular]

So psilocybin isn't banned?

I've got a cool idea for the pre season games next year...

 

[LanceRomance]

So psilocybin isn't banned?

I've got a cool idea for the pre season games next year...

I'd check the wada list first... but it didn't look like it to me.

 

[Johnny Karate]

So many childless nerds on here. Everybody knows that for Dads it’s ice in the first trimester, mdma in the second, coke in the third and oxy once their born. You can’t argue with science.

 

[Mofra]

So psilocybin isn't banned?

I've got a cool idea for the pre season games next year...

I think you're a bit late to the party pal:

 

[Lets Roar like '44]

Just another druggie. Hope he hasn’t destroyed anyone else’s lives along the way.

 

[gutsroy]

They’ve thrown at least one , if not two, flags away.

Agree with this, they have left at least one flag on the table.
Obviously not complaining about it this year, but objectively with their top end talent and depth, they have not fully capitalized.
Not the first and won't be the last

 

[Johnny Karate]

Agree with this, they have left at least one flag on the table.
Obviously not complaining about it this year, but objectively with their top end talent and depth, they have not fully capitalized.
Not the first and won't be the last

We will win the premiership next year. We just need to fix up expected score.

 

[HairyO]

I doubt it was the first time, the AFL must make a stance on this. 3 months means nothing unless the suspension si during the season, both players should be siiting out 2024.

If they are banned from any contact with the club then it means no pre-season which is still significant, but it should have matches included.

 

[JackFlash]

If they are banned from any contact with the club then it means no pre-season which is still significant, but it should have matches included.

It will all be hidden away in order to protect the bigger-name players who have a "sneezing" problem! You can't help thinking this is a "Clayton's". Remember that drink in the 80s that was " the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. Is Smith the fall guy? He's played just 42 games in seven playing seasons after being recruited in 2015 as a rookie and then playing in the VFL in 2016. He won't be missed by the Demons with any sanctions for this, but..