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greennick said:
You think the AFL would just sweep it under the carpet? Surely they couldn't do that. I would be livid if they did that after what they did to us with the Ben Cousins incident, who never tested positive. Not even the once.
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Yeah, sure Andy would take that risk, given the independence of drug testers and the extreme likelihood it would come out in no time:rolleyes:
 
Forthwrite said:
On a different forum when Buddy first did his hammy someone said that he had received his 3rd strike and the injury was a cover up. He said the suspension was 5 weeks.

Most thought it was just a typical "Player x has been done for y" that you hear all of the time and then of course Buddy was named to play the following week against GWS so I just figured it wasn't true.

He then hurt his hammy again, was subbed out and hasn't played in 5 weeks. Much longer than you'd expect with a hammy.

Just a coincidence? We'll never know but it's fun to wonder.
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So the AFL permitted a delayed suspension so that he could go out and pretend to reinjure it???

Cool story bro :thumbsu:

Seriously, everyone knows if the first rumour is true, the second rumour would not involve Freo.......
 
Forthwrite said:
On a different forum when Buddy first did his hammy someone said that he had received his 3rd strike and the injury was a cover up. He said the suspension was 5 weeks.

Most thought it was just a typical "Player x has been done for y" that you hear all of the time and then of course Buddy was named to play the following week against GWS so I just figured it wasn't true.

He then hurt his hammy again, was subbed out and hasn't played in 5 weeks. Much longer than you'd expect with a hammy.

Just a coincidence? We'll never know but it's fun to wonder.
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Conspiracies are pretty hard to keep covered up at the best of times.

Sad if true cos itll give Hawthorn supporters an excuse when they dont win the premiership
 

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As long as they're not performance enhancing and it doesn't interfere with on-field form, why do people care if AFL players take recreational drugs, anyway? I understand the tabloid media and gutter-hacks that write about AFL but, as a fan, why would you care? If you have a hardline stance on any drug use, that's fine, but I gather that most people on this forum probably don't which makes me wonder, aside from allowing the opportunity to take petty shots at someone, why would anyone care?
 
bigfarter said:
As long as they're not performance enhancing and it doesn't interfere with on-field form, why do people care if AFL players take recreational drugs, anyway? I understand the tabloid media and gutter-hacks that write about AFL but, as a fan, why would you care? If you have a hardline stance on any drug use, that's fine, but I gather that most people on this forum probably don't which makes me wonder, aside from allowing the opportunity to take petty shots at someone, why would anyone care?
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http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threa...ur-clubs-players-do-in-their-own-time.965870/
 
bigfarter said:
As long as they're not performance enhancing and it doesn't interfere with on-field form, why do people care if AFL players take recreational drugs, anyway? I understand the tabloid media and gutter-hacks that write about AFL but, as a fan, why would you care? If you have a hardline stance on any drug use, that's fine, but I gather that most people on this forum probably don't which makes me wonder, aside from allowing the opportunity to take petty shots at someone, why would anyone care?
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Few reasons. First of all they're illegal.
They can be habit forming
They can be performance enhancing
They can be performance inhibiting
They can be downright dangerous
They require you to deal with criminals (unless you grow your own)
The players are being paid a very high wage for essentially a part time job and are expected to maintain peak fitness and not take unnecessary risks.
They can lead to dangerous behaviour

Among others...
 
Take what Aker says on his Twitter with a grain of salt.

About a day after the Libba incident, someone asked if he can confirm that Dahlhaus was out with him, and hurt his ankle tripping over at Revolver. Aker says "can confirm", which is bullshit, because he did it at training days before.
The next day he completely back flips on it, saying Dahlhaus was at home the whole night.

The guy's a ****head, who will do anything possible to try and remain relevant. Whether that is make up bullshit rumours on Twitter, come out with some new information about something every couple of months, whatever. You can pretty much guarantee it's just lies.
 
bigfarter said:
As long as they're not performance enhancing and it doesn't interfere with on-field form, why do people care if AFL players take recreational drugs, anyway? I understand the tabloid media and gutter-hacks that write about AFL but, as a fan, why would you care? If you have a hardline stance on any drug use, that's fine, but I gather that most people on this forum probably don't which makes me wonder, aside from allowing the opportunity to take petty shots at someone, why would anyone care?
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As a fan of a club I'd be more worried that players are taking performance reducing drugs during the season. They are professional athletes. Surely a night on the the pingers cant be good for your performance.

If they want a few lines of charlie in the off season then i dont care.
 
Flawed Genius said:
It most certainly did work. The same rumour has been floating around the North board the past couple of days from various sources.

Who knows how true it is. Would be monumentally huge if so.
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The Buddy Franklin Rumor is at least four Years old. It only just reached the North board.

Lets hear no more about cutting Edge North :p
 
I don't think it is appropriate to make fun of this, it would be terrible news if it was true and it is really disrespectful if it is not. Not just to buddy but his friends and family who become the victims when rumours are spread.
 

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I remember how uncomfortable and nervous he looked during the interview on "on the couch" after the GWS game, when he said it was only a minor hammy and he'll be out for 2 weeks.
 
Eagles77 said:
Probably decided since he didn't have a car, he might as well load up on petrol in a different way.

Though maybe untrue. :)
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It's the way a certain sort of people* like to do it in Australia





*No racism intended, merely a stereotype
 
SpeciousArgument said:
Few reasons. First of all they're illegal.
They can be habit forming
They can be performance enhancing
They can be performance inhibiting
They can be downright dangerous
They require you to deal with criminals (unless you grow your own)
The players are being paid a very high wage for essentially a part time job and are expected to maintain peak fitness and not take unnecessary risks.
They can lead to dangerous behaviour

Among others...
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All reasonable points, though I had specified "non-performance-enhancing". Probably the best point is in regards to it being an unnecessary risk. I'm fairly lenient when it comes to drug use so I'm more of the persuasion that, as long as you don't hurt anybody or yourself, it's fine.

One of the points I was making was that, when these topics come up around here, people aren't generally worrying about the player's health. They're exploiting any possible drug use for petty one-upmanship comments like "Buddy Injunction" or "Rack up a line, Stokes" or countless others. That sort of tact just leads me to question if they actually care about the drug use or if it's just seen as another thing to utilise in hanging shit on a player from behind a computer screen.
 
Pykie said:
So effectively they can keep taking the odd party pill without getting outed, they will only out the chronic drug takers, and even then its up to the discretion of a physician, rather than the AFL doping testers?

No wonder WADA thinks the AFL drug policy is complete garbage.
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Its better than WADA's because they only do in competition testing, which is gameday and during footy season, NO OTHER sport does out of season testing.
 
bigfarter said:
All reasonable points, though I had specified "non-performance-enhancing". Probably the best point is in regards to it being an unnecessary risk. I'm fairly lenient when it comes to drug use so I'm more of the persuasion that, as long as you don't hurt anybody or yourself, it's fine.

One of the points I was making was that, when these topics come up around here, people aren't generally worrying about the player's health. They're exploiting any possible drug use for petty one-upmanship comments like "Buddy Injunction" or "Rack up a line, Stokes" or countless others. That sort of tact just leads me to question if they actually care about the drug use or if it's just seen as another thing to utilise in hanging shit on a player from behind a computer screen.
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Possibly the thing that bothers me most is that its a stupid thing to do if you're an AFL player. I for one would love to have the lifestyle of even a middling AFL footballer and they take a huge gamble with that. I dont know if that shows disrespect, contempt, stupidity or just a lack of judgement. you're a long time retired and can do what you like later in life (im looking at you G Abblett Snr)
 

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Not that I am saying the rumors are right or wrong but is it really unreasonable to suggest a multimillion business in the AFL would cover up for arguably it's most marketable employee (Franklin).

Is there even a 3rd party involved to ensure the integrity of the AFL's drug policy? Even if so what's to stop the AFL paying them off.
 
shepp said:
Okay so far it's

1. Drugs
2. Moving to Freo

Looking forward to the next rumour.

My tip is a Hunt/Izzy-like switch to the NRL. He was spotted at a Melbourne Storm game not long ago. :rolleyes:
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If the latter is true its probably both.
 
Rushed_Behind said:
Its better than WADA's because they only do in competition testing, which is gameday and during footy season, NO OTHER sport does out of season testing.
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That's the better part.

WADA doesn't implement a "strike policy".

WADA doesn't give athlete's three chances after positive tests .... and they certainly don't leave the last strike up to the discretion of a physician, a strikes a strike, and the testing isn't administered by the governing body of the sport either.

Independent testing = no interference.


There's a reason WADA doesn't support it, and WADA covers every major sporting organisation on earth.
 

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