2016 Non Crows AFL Discussion thread Part 2

[Pdub]

I'm pretty sure the illicit drug policy is just about drugs that are illegal is it not? therefore anything with a prescription or over the counter is fine?

Drug tests aren't that accurate, they look for markers, for example, if you have taken codeine, your results will be the same as someone who has taken heroin.

 

[Geoffa32]

Just because the AFL is small by world standards is no excuse for it being run by amateur managers...

True, but it is the reason it is ran by amateur management.

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[dogs105]

The AFL Integrity Unit would be a fantastic one for the Working Dog team to do a mockumentary on.

https://mobile.twitter.com/workingdogprod

 

[Vader]

So if Prestia goes to Richmond for pick 6, that means GC will have like six picks in the top 25 in the draft.

Assuming it's a trade involving picks. GC have said, particularly with the JOM situation, that they want players.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

So if Prestia goes to Richmond for pick 6, that means GC will have like six picks in the top 25 in the draft.

They can't use all their picks, so we should be looking to send them players, swap picks, including current picks for future picks.

 

[GreyCrow]

Mysterious deaths of administrators in hotel rooms.
Dwarfs set on fire.
The list of possibilities is endless...

Ladies of the night who go missing

 

[SmegHead]

http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4132272/bulldogs-request-opponents-for-ballarat-afl-games/?cs=12

Hmmm, the Bulldogs invite Adelaide to play a game in Ballarat, the hometown of two of our star midfielders...

 

[fabs33]

So if Prestia goes to Richmond for pick 6, that means GC will have like six picks in the top 25 in the draft.

It will be like they're starting all over again, like the first time around when the AFL gave them half of the draft.

 

[MarcusP2]

More likely Dixon, Westoff, Ryder, Trengove, Austin... with Lobbe off the bench & Hombsch the 3rd tall defender.

Forgot about Trengove.

They don't have a CHF, IMO.

 

[fabs33]

Those sides know deep down they aren't going to win a premiership anytime soon.. it's about getting a player to give them SOME respect and keep them from the spoon while they try and rebuild from scratch with the hope they can draft hard and the kids will come good before the a-grader falls off a cliff.

I would have thought it'd have more to do with marketing than anything else.

 

[NikkiNoo]

Whitfield didn't miss a test though.

He was trying to evade a possible test and you can't do that either under the code.

 

[Pdub]

He was trying to evade a possible test and you can't do that either under the code.

Probably, but you're not going to convict a guy over a text to his GF, he could easily have been joking.

 

[SmegHead]

Probably, but you're not going to convict a guy over a text to his GF, he could easily have been joking.

The AFL starts a full UN inquiry when a bitter old fart makes an off hand remark on radio the day after he loses his job...

 

[Vhaluus]

Probably, but you're not going to convict a guy over a text to his GF, he could easily have been joking.

Except it's not a criminal conviction? It's telling him he can't play football.. bit different.

 

[MarcusP2]

Probably, but you're not going to convict a guy over a text to his GF, he could easily have been joking.

Yeah, sounds like you would conduct an investigation into it.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

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[Sanders]

With the Whitfield case, people should have a look what happened to Rio Ferdinand, and he didn't deliberately miss a test was a complete accident and got banned for eight months. This should be much much more if deliberate.

That's bullshit

Rio did deliberately miss that test he was on the phone to his personal consulting urologist as soon as they arrived and mysteriously left the ground straight away

He was as guilty as ****

 

[Punchy Bassett]

That's bullshit

Rio did deliberately miss that test he was on the phone to his personal consulting urologist as soon as they arrived and mysteriously left the ground straight away

He was as guilty as ****

Got any proof of that?

 

[Sanders]

Got any proof of that?

Yeah in every ****ing article written about it at the time!!

 

[Pdub]

The AFL starts a full UN inquiry when a bitter old fart makes an off hand remark on radio the day after he loses his job...

The did an enquiry and found no case to answer, it's the same thing here but it wasn't done on radio so wasn't made public.

 

[Sanders]

Got any proof of that?

It was a decade and a half ago, so harder to dredge up these days but this talks snout the phone records

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/23/privacy.pressandpublishing

Who he was on the phone too was leaked shortly after.

Not legally obtained but still relevant

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3184924.stm

 

[Sanders]

Got any proof of that?

This from the Sunday mirror
Oct 23, 2003

Did he have something to hide?
Rio reportedly sent message to his doctor after being picked for drugs test

LONDON - The mystery over Rio Ferdinand's missed drugs test took a dramatic new twist yesterday, with new revelations that the Manchester United player may have lied.

The Sunday Mirror reported that, contrary to earlier reports that his mobile phone was off after finishing training, he had sent a text message to a private doctor.

The doctor, Dr Patrick O'Reilly, is a surgeon who is understood to be treating Ferdinand for a kidney infection.

The defender sent the message within minutes of leaving the club's training ground and just an hour after being ordered to attend the random check.

Although a desperate phone call and a series of text messages had been left on his phone by club doctor Mike Stone, it took Ferdinand nearly half an hour to call back.

The Sunday Mirror said the player's 'lost' 90 minutes between driving off from the ground and calling Dr Stone will be investigated by the Football Association this week.

Officials are still deciding how to punish the player, who claimed he had forgotten about the drug test.

The Football Association's first response was to drop him from the England team who played Turkey two weeks ago in their European Championship qualifier. According to the tabloid, the FA will be handed the vital phone records today and will cross-reference the call times with the formal account the player has already given them.

The revelations form a major development in the FA inquiry into whether Ferdinand deliberately avoided the doping team or merely forgot, as he insists.

He claimed the test slipped his mind despite two reminders from Dr Stone at United's training ground. He passed the test 36 hours later.

FA officials will want to know why Ferdinand contacted O'Reilly while he should have been taking the drug test.

If Ferdinand's explanation is unsatisfactory, he could face a more serious charge of wilfully avoiding a drugs test, which carries a maximum two-year ban from the game.

A senior FA source said: 'If his phone was on and he ignored messages from United, that suggests he might have something to hide.'

However, Ferdinand will claim he called Dr Stone back within 40 seconds of him picking up his phone message.

The Sunday Mirror, using sources close to United, the FA and Ferdinand, said the first person Ferdinand contacted about 10 minutes after leaving the training ground was Dr O'Reilly.

In between missing the test at about 12.30pm and calling Dr Stone at around 2pm, Ferdinand made and received around a dozen calls and texts.

Dr Stone reportedly first left him a voicemail message at about 1.30pm - half an hour before the player phoned him back.

 

[Mike Smyth]

So if Prestia goes to Richmond for pick 6, that means GC will have like six picks in the top 25 in the draft.

And within 5 years those 6 picks will all be at other clubs.

GC was a bad idea.

 

[Pdub]

Except it's not a criminal conviction? It's telling him he can't play football.. bit different.

you still need more evidence than a text to his GF.

There have been countless times where my GF has texted me asking me what I'm doing and my response is "Hookers and Blow" when I was doing neither, If I was a footballer and was staying overnight at the coaches house because of an illness and my girlfriend asked me where I was, I could easily reply with a smart alec response saying I was staying over to avoid drug tests because I have been doing loads of coke with supermodels, you need more evidence than a text to someone you are close with.
As much as we'd like to weaken a team we might play against, this board would be 100% in his corner and calling it a nothing story if he played for the crows.

 

[arrowman]

Would have it all

Sport, administrators, money, sex, drugs, incompetence, religious fervour, lawyers, egos, generational hatred..

Maybe the best part of all would be that they would have to invent a fictitious football code to base the story around. Something that's not quite AFL, not quite NRL and maybe a bit of FFA / ARU.

That could be the funniest part of the show.