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What is to be gained from the media hounding the family after a tragedy like this to their husband and father? This is beyond footy or anything else, it's a personal issue and there is absolutely no justification to set up camp in their street. What are they expecting Tania and the kids to hold...

The problem is when someone is in denial and refuses to accept responsibility for their actions it allows the situation to fester.

There were "other" rumours too weren't there? Maybe this is due to a combination of things personal and professional

But the footy media has a large portion of ex-footy players/people with club links. A lot of them are also in tight with either people at clubs or the AFL themselves. It's often difficult to segregate the two.

I doubt the AFL would have been investigating for a year if it was only speculation.

It could be someone at the Pies disgruntled with Gubby's new role and Balme being forced out - that seems the most likely from my reading. Being just before the finals seems to be a happy coincidence.

As above, the journo mentioned "football" meaning the industry as a whole including media (including ex-players). The heading was "AFL football" which the sub-editor took license with but again I didn't take that to mean the AFL literally. It's the "footy community" or "the family" (la familia)...

In those other regular occurrences do the athletes text their partners to say they are staying elsewhere in case drug testers knock on their door?

Saying the "AFL" are blaming her is taking it too literally - the heading is "AFL Football finds a woman to blame" meaning those in the industry, namely ex-footy players in the media or media mouthpieces.

It's (some of) the media trying to shift the narrative from what Whitfield, Allan and Lambert did to why she reported the issue to GWS/ASADA. Why is her identity or motive even up for discussion? Who she is or why she did it is irrelevant. It's the subtle blame-shifting that goes on to absolve...

Haha yeah, not a big deal at all - if anyone can be held up as clean as a whistle it's cyclists competing in the Tour de France :rolleyes:

Care to extrapolate?

Why would they even name the ex-gf in the first place? Her identity is irrelevant. Of course we all know the answer and it has been articulated quite well in this Age article this morning...

Surely the fact that the tests are random combined with the fact someone has allegedly deliberately tried to make themselves hard to find in case testers come door-knocking means the penalty for evading a test would be warranted regardless of whether there was to actually be a test or not. The...

Yep, no doubt the AFL and it's News Corp lackeys will be out to discredit the GF even though her motivations are irrelevant. It's gutter journalism 101 attack the source to discredit/divert from the story. Even moreso when the people in question are part of the ol' boys club in footy (Gubby...

This is part of a post I posted on Demonland

From what I read though it seems she had seen the text messages.

Yeah but if his paranoia meant he was worried that he may test positive for PED's if his illicit drugs had been cut with them (as per the Collingwood players story) then seeking to avoid ASADA testers may have been a concern.

Yeah seems that initially it may have been out of concern but the follow up was probably more vindictive. Either way, her motivations are not the concern.

Just checking and he missed the game against the Crows on 23/5/15 having played every game to that point for the year and was back in the next week.

Sounds like it may be someone at the Pies peed off that Gubby Allan is about to replace Balme.

The Age article today mentioned that he supposedly feared his illicit drugs had been cut with a PED. Therefore putting in to play the fact he thought he may have taken something banned under the WADA code and hiding out to evade testing for that reason. It is also plausible he didn't attend...

Depends whats in the text messages I guess. Whatever it is, the suggestion that this was over a "migraine" is laughable unless he took oxy for it or something.

You might if you thought it would save them from self-destructing with drugs and turning into another Ben Cousins.

They've learned nothing.

Well the AFL Integrity Unit has seized phones and laptops and the point I was making was that although the club initially investigated and cleared all 3 (as you had stated) it was done on a limited investigation as they were unable to obtain all the necessary evidence to conduct a thorough...

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/gws-player-and-officials-under-investigation.1143787/page-8#post-46431530

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lachie-whitfield-case-graeme-allan-faces-allegations-texts-were-deleted-20160830-gr4xi1.html

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lachie-whitfield-case-graeme-allan-faces-allegations-texts-were-deleted-20160830-gr4xi1.html Similar to the 2 Collingwood boys maybe?

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lachie-whitfield-case-graeme-allan-faces-allegations-texts-were-deleted-20160830-gr4xi1.html