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Very sad news.
From The West;
'Bunbury detectives have seized an amount of methamphetamine and paraphernalia from the scene'
Eagles premiership hero Adam Hunter dies, drugs found
West Coast Eagles premiership hero Adam Hunter has died at the age of 43, with detectives seizing drugs and paraphernalia from the scene.thewest.com.au
Sad. Remember the days when you'd dread seeing Cousins name trending on twitter.
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I actually reckon the AFL do a pretty good job.
A lot of the stuff that clubs and the league does gets overlooked generally.
Clubs really worked on the extra-curricular activities during the playing careers (outside work/volunteering/study) 20 years ago, and I reckon the last 10 years or so they've been much better at helping players post-football.
We mock the 'jobs for the boys' line where players are gifted gigs in the media and in coaching roles of all facets, but maybe many of them are gifted to an extent to help after they retire.
At the end of the day, there is only so much the league can do, irrespective of how much money they throw at the problem.
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You're right there's definitely only so much they can do and they certainly don't want the spotlight pointed towards CTE. I'm not aware of how much they put in to following up with ex players and TBH not many workplaces would. I do feel that the WCE team of the 2000s were failed by their club firstly and the AFL as a whole.
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Not so much a question of responsibility but the AFL and the offshoot businesses and industries who make an absolute fortune from it, do it for one reason:
The players who play the game.
Most of those players don’t reach 100 games. The average person works for between 40-50 years of their life in their main career. An AFL player is unlikely to reach 10 in their first choice career. Yes, they will undoubtedly have time to establish another one, but in their first career they don’t have a lot of time to set themselves up, and after it all finishes it can be hard to re-set and go again and confront whatever life throws at them next.
There are so many areas within AFL that require staff.
Coaching, development, media, program development, business, mentoring, PR, all the way down the chain to quite literally maintaining grounds at Docklands if they really wanted to give someone a start.
Not saying the AFL HAS to give every ex-player a job for life or anything when they finish playing or a handout or whatever or pay for them to deal with an addiction if that is the issue they are facing, but they are equipped to do it, and the fact is that it is the players who enable them to have the resources they’ve got to begin with.
Article detailing the struggles of Adam and other ex AFL players face playing local leagues post retirement from the AFL.
www.abc.net.au
'I can't stand you': Ex-AFL players targeted in lower leagues
Many AFL players look forward to going back to playing the sport for fun after they leave the professional league. But it's not always a warm welcome back into the lower leagues. The ABC speaks to former stars and their families about the brutal transition out of the game.
www.abc.net.au
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