I think the issue is Kemp is more Gov's role. He is being forced to play tall and isn't ideal.
If he was to make way for Marchbank it would be due to Marchbank being a better option as a 1v1 defender.
It effects club culture, it effects clean players and it effects the integrity of the game.
Do you honestly believe players who are clean would have no issue with a player missing games because they got on the nose beers?
So Tommy rocks up to training gets picked based on looking like he is running through walls. Coked up to his eyeballs.
Clean bloke plays VFL. But all good cause privacy.
Fair enough.
This isn't the case in other professional sports. Again not perfect. But NBA do in and out of season testing and it was for everything but changed to exclude weed recently.
Random tests. Not staged nonsense.
Because they are effectively doing nothing about the issue. They are stopping the anti doping authorities picking up players who are using drugs which are considered performance enhancing by faking injuries.
The fact you struggle to see how this is an issue is actually insane to me.
The AFL...
No it really isn't it's just weak leadership or a lack of any leadership at all.
Let's just pretend it isn't an issue until it's undeniable I guess. Good times.
This system is avoiding the 3 strike policy because it's self reporting and therefore not a strike is my understanding. This is a loophole in a Swiss cheese equivalent system.
Authorities only test on match day hence the fake injuries so you don't get actual reprocussions. Just encouraged to...
Testing in season, which occurs in most professional sports and a heap of industries.
Don't need to name and shame but you do need to create an environment where players are clean or not AFL players. If they are not AFL players anymore due to drugs the AFL MUST support these players...
The concept that this is about player welfare and confidentiality is insulting and frankly insane.
It's simply about money and the AFL's image, because a bad image impacts sponsorship and players off the park impacts the product.
Realistically if it was about player welfare the AFL wouldn't...
It is a major issue in today's society.
I do think that if a player wants to play football they need to make the choice to not be on drugs.
The drugs is only part of the issue for me. I mean you have young kids coming into clubs and toxic environments. You have the potential to be blackmailed...
I think the issue is government have contributed to AFL coffers based on it being a regulated professional sport. (Funny I know cause it's run like an absolute bush league).
Wilkie therefore is calling it fraud.
The article states Melbourne picked up other players with cocaine dependency. So assumption is it's league wide.
Ben Brown from North. May GCS. Leaver Crows. Shache Lions. Grundy Pies.
List goes on.
“I was told by someone at Carlton that watching him run is like watching an old man run,” - Mitch Clearly incompetent 15/3/24
A lot changes in 11 days or does he just throw crap and see what sticks?
Perhaps his someone who spoke to someone who knows someone is wrong....
Reporting should be...
Ben Keays getting a 10k fine for stopping a streaker when the security guard was struggling to waddle after him.
Should be given a cash bonus not a bloody fine
The official's is one of many issues I have with how the AFL is run.
The weekly interpretation of rules is laughable. I honestly don't even know if it's the umpires or the AFL that are the issue anymore.
The arc is embarassing.
The draw is a compromised rabble of nonsense.
The MRO and the fact...
Honestly until they stop doing global searches only to appoint the next peanut in the neighbouring cubicle. Nothing will improve.
If you follow any other professional sport AFL is laughable how it is administered.
Only in a bush league like the AFL would an ex St Kilda be allowed to umpire their former team.
Collingwood got absolutely fisted by the umpires tonight. Couldn't care if they lose but the standard of umpring is farcical.
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