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BunjiMac

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To this day the most epic half of gut running I've ever seen. If he wasn't full of powder, it was just a supreme performance.
I think we all like to think that because we lost and don't want to accept that he played an amazing game.

The reality is whether it was powder or meth those things do not help you play the game of football. They are not a performance enhancer. If anything it will cause you to overheat and dehydrate which will degrade your performance. You also won't be able to sufficiently concentrate or make decisions well in this state.

This makes his performance even greater, if he actually was on anything.
 

Ramify

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I think we all like to think that because we lost and don't want to accept that he played an amazing game.

The reality is whether it was powder or meth those things do not help you play the game of football. They are not a performance enhancer. If anything it will cause you to overheat and dehydrate which will degrade your performance. You also won't be able to sufficiently concentrate or make decisions well in this state.

This makes his performance even greater, if he actually was on anything.

Facts!
 
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I think we all like to think that because we lost and don't want to accept that he played an amazing game.

The reality is whether it was powder or meth those things do not help you play the game of football. They are not a performance enhancer. If anything it will cause you to overheat and dehydrate which will degrade your performance. You also won't be able to sufficiently concentrate or make decisions well in this state.

This makes his performance even greater, if he actually was on anything.

Exactly. But that ruins a good story
 

LoBu

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I think we all like to think that because we lost and don't want to accept that he played an amazing game.

The reality is whether it was powder or meth those things do not help you play the game of football. They are not a performance enhancer. If anything it will cause you to overheat and dehydrate which will degrade your performance. You also won't be able to sufficiently concentrate or make decisions well in this state.

This makes his performance even greater, if he actually was on anything.

Cousins definitely trained super hard coming down off drugs, he didn't dehydrate or over heat though.

He wasn't on drugs during the games (unless I missed something), he would go hard on drugs all weekend (after the game), train his guts out during the week, and play well.

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Cousins definitely trained super hard coming down off drugs, he didn't dehydrate or over heat though.

He wasn't on drugs during the games (unless I missed something), he would go hard on drugs all weekend (after the game), train his guts out during the week, and play well.

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You’ve confused steroids and meth
 

skittlebrew

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I think we all like to think that because we lost and don't want to accept that he played an amazing game.

The reality is whether it was powder or meth those things do not help you play the game of football. They are not a performance enhancer. If anything it will cause you to overheat and dehydrate which will degrade your performance. You also won't be able to sufficiently concentrate or make decisions well in this state.

This makes his performance even greater, if he actually was on anything.

If he was doing party drugs during his playing time and wasn't getting into trouble, surely the door was open for him to do performance enhancing ones.

Looking back his delt development is pretty decent...

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If he was doing party drugs during his playing time and wasn't getting into trouble, surely the door was open for him to do performance enhancing ones.

Looking back his delt development is pretty decent...

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Overdeveloped Traps are one possible indicator of steroid abuse over any other muscle.
 
Correct. Well developed delts and traps are typically good indicators of steriod use. I googled his pics thinking he was never overly muscular and clearly not a user. And now... well I'm not so sure about that.
It wouldnt surprise me if cycled on steroids, ie for a period of time and then was off it.

The irony being he was regularly drug tested IIRC and tests always came back negative.
 

Go the Guts

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Correct. Well developed delts and traps are typically good indicators of steriod use. I googled his pics thinking he was never overly muscular and clearly not a user. And now... well I'm not so sure about that.

Anyone who watched that game knows...... Cousins was majorly juiced up. I was at the game and could not believe his and Kerr's performance after half time, it wasn't human, it was sort, you know..... as if they were on something... which they were, but especially Cousins.
 
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Anyone who watched that game knows...... Cousins was majorly juiced up. I was at the game and could not believe his and Kerr's performance after half time, it wasn't human, it was sort, you know..... as if they were on something... which they were, but especially Cousins.
I remember being at the game.

The gut running he pulled off was incredible. I remember thinking at the time that if it was anyone but cousins you'd think they were on something (and now with hindsight....)
 

Gtowncrow

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I remember being at the game.

The gut running he pulled off was incredible. I remember thinking at the time that if it was anyone but cousins you'd think they were on something (and now with hindsight....)
Do AFL or ASADA ever do random drug testing? Do they routinely test players immediately after games?

There are many sports where drug testing occurs as a part of the post race/match routine.

Why not, for example, test all players on the winning team and a small random sample from the losing team?

Year round random drug testing is important for other reasons but post match testing is critical in stopping game day cheating.

The AFL officially would be happy to have their game scrutinised but privately, I suspect they're happy just looking the other way. Play on...
 

Maddogmetro

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Do AFL or ASADA ever do random drug testing? Do they routinely test players immediately after games?

There are many sports where drug testing occurs as a part of the post race/match routine.

Why not, for example, test all players on the winning team and a small random sample from the losing team?

Year round random drug testing is important for other reasons but post match testing is critical in stopping game day cheating.

The AFL officially would be happy to have their game scrutinised but privately, I suspect they're happy just looking the other way. Play on...

To be honest, the cost that would be involved in this is probably a reason why it doesn't happen.
 
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I remember being at the game.

The gut running he pulled off was incredible. I remember thinking at the time that if it was anyone but cousins you'd think they were on something (and now with hindsight....)
Yeah I remember thinking that at the game.

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thebirdman 24

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I remember being at the game.

The gut running he pulled off was incredible. I remember thinking at the time that if it was anyone but cousins you'd think they were on something (and now with hindsight....)

I remember being at the game also. Still hurts.

I think we just choked and let them run over the top of us. Cousins/Kerr were just outstanding players for them and always tore us to shreads.

The drugs line helps some supporters come to grips with that loss but we lost that game after being in a winning position.

A Neil Craig special.

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So......rumours......anyone here anything about who is likely to be delisted?

Supposedly we are going to be more aggressive this trade period. Bugger all good FA around, so will need to Draft. Who could we be realistically after?
 
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