Mahlepi
Cancelled
The Essendon situation and follow up punishment is clear for all to see. Severe penalties and reputations ruined.
However when one reflects on the WCE one needs to consider the diabolical treatment of the bombers based on this. For a league that's about equality and every other stupid issue the flowerpower, maybloomer, snowflakes support the league failed this club.
Look at hese prime examples:
SHARP
www.theage.com.au
Former West Coast Eagles footballer Ben Russell Sharp has pleaded guilty to armed robbery and drug trafficking, blaming his descent on a culture of drug abuse at the AFL club he joined as a teenager in 2004.
Sharp was approached by a senior player at a club social event and told: "you're either in or you're out", according to Mr Kilduff.
It was a reference to drug use, and the teenager soon became a regular cocaine user, before using ice for the first time. "They all trained together and they all partied together."
"This is an 18-year-old man ready and willing to play top class football, and he blows it all," Mr Kilduff said.
Sharp conceded he first dabbled in cocaine in a bid for acceptance from his teammates.
"I had to use cocaine. I thought it was a way to get in with the boys, so I used coke," Sharp said in a report presented to County Court judge Geoff Chettle on Wednesday.
Mr Kilduff said drug use was not only tolerated, but encouraged by an influential clique of West Coast Eagles players, citing the tragic death of Chris Mainwaring following a cocaine binge in 2007 and Ben Cousins' long-running battle with ice addiction.
Cousins referred to Sharp in his autobiography, Ben Cousins: My Life Story, in which he admitted using his last phone call to ring Sharp, after he was arrested for public intoxication outside Crown casino.
Cousins claimed Sharp had told police to "f--k off", which earned Cousins additional time in the cells.
How on earth can the AFL not be responsible for a young man having his life destroyed because he was recruited by a club with such a piss poor culture. To date we are not seeing Essendon players committing robberies etc to sustain their habits.
However when one reflects on the WCE one needs to consider the diabolical treatment of the bombers based on this. For a league that's about equality and every other stupid issue the flowerpower, maybloomer, snowflakes support the league failed this club.
Look at hese prime examples:
SHARP
Former West Coast Eagle guilty of armed robbery blames descent on club drug culture
Former West Coast Eagles footballer, Ben Russell Sharp, 30, has pleaded guilty to armed robbery and drug trafficking in the County Court before blaming his descent on a culture of drug use at the AFL club he joined as a teenager in 2004.
Sharp was approached by a senior player at a club social event and told: "you're either in or you're out", according to Mr Kilduff.
It was a reference to drug use, and the teenager soon became a regular cocaine user, before using ice for the first time. "They all trained together and they all partied together."
"This is an 18-year-old man ready and willing to play top class football, and he blows it all," Mr Kilduff said.
Sharp conceded he first dabbled in cocaine in a bid for acceptance from his teammates.
"I had to use cocaine. I thought it was a way to get in with the boys, so I used coke," Sharp said in a report presented to County Court judge Geoff Chettle on Wednesday.
Mr Kilduff said drug use was not only tolerated, but encouraged by an influential clique of West Coast Eagles players, citing the tragic death of Chris Mainwaring following a cocaine binge in 2007 and Ben Cousins' long-running battle with ice addiction.
Cousins referred to Sharp in his autobiography, Ben Cousins: My Life Story, in which he admitted using his last phone call to ring Sharp, after he was arrested for public intoxication outside Crown casino.
Cousins claimed Sharp had told police to "f--k off", which earned Cousins additional time in the cells.
How on earth can the AFL not be responsible for a young man having his life destroyed because he was recruited by a club with such a piss poor culture. To date we are not seeing Essendon players committing robberies etc to sustain their habits.
