Demons Drug Crisis - Why not the same scrutiny as West Coast?

[Baldur]

One player tested positive for cocaine on match day and sent texts asking if unidentified others wanted nose beers. So far, its 2722km from the West Coast situation. This may change.

 

[the harry]

One player tested positive for cocaine on match day and sent texts asking if unidentified others wanted nose beers. So far, its 2722km from the West Coast situation. This may change.

May and his punchy drunk personality and Clayton being one of the best players in the comp but being floated for trade because he's off (or on?) the rails reduces that distance

 

[Elixuh]

AFL PR has come along way in 20yrs. Melbournes PR approach the last week needs to be updated bc it no longer makes sense as things escalate but it seems a lot of people are still gobbling it up. That’s probably the difference.

 

[Shane Heard]

Remember when you would say 'We're playing the druggies this week, and it was assumed it was Essendon... now you need to clarify who you will be playing..

Get some new material ffs

 

[Shane Heard]

Ben Cousins, Chad Fletcher, Daniel Chick, Adam Hunter etc never got charged with anything during their playing days.

Meanwhile, you have Joel Smith and Clayton Oliver in actual trouble with the law.

Now, whether you think that's due to incompetence or corruption over in WA compared to Victoria is probably another argument but there is a point to be made that you had people like Robert Walls saying he wouldn't want his son playing for West Coast and putting asterisks next to flags etc. Have we heard similar rhetoric about Melbourne?

Don’t forget Gardy crashing his car into parked cars while off his noodle

 

[Shane Heard]

Times have changed. It was 17 years ago.

Society was more uptight about drugs then, and the Eagles didn't just unravel... they spun out of control in a very public way, right in everybody's face.

Cousins did his triathlon in 2006 and then, in the space of about six months in 2007:

• The story about Fletcher flatlining dropped (was leaked to Andrew Rule by a footy official)
• The photos and story of Cousins of his face and asleep in the street appeared (given to the media by a member of the public who took them)
• Cousins left to go to rehab in the US, then returned and released a video statement about his substance abuse problems
• Chris Mainwaring passed away of an overdose
• Cousins got arrested in the street for drug possession and was paraded around half naked

It was all a media wet dream. Drugs were pretty edgy stuff back then so it was a great scandal. People are more accepting of drug use now.

But give the Dees time, if they keep messing up in public then the heat will come.

Cousins was the last human to see Mainwarring after dropping off some supplies that Chris requested..

 

[Shane Heard]

Every where Gary Pert goes trouble follows. He has to go.

Gary Pert …another McGuire love child

 

[Iamspock]

Get some new material ffs

And yet you make several posts dragging up old material about another club....

 

[Shane Heard]

And yet you make several posts dragging up old material about another club....

Ironic innit.

 

[Atomboy]

Ben Cousins, Chad Fletcher, Daniel Chick, Adam Hunter etc never got charged with anything during their playing days.

Meanwhile, you have Joel Smith and Clayton Oliver in actual trouble with the law.

Now, whether you think that's due to incompetence or corruption over in WA compared to Victoria is probably another argument but there is a point to be made that you had people like Robert Walls saying he wouldn't want his son playing for West Coast and putting asterisks next to flags etc. Have we heard similar rhetoric about Melbourne?

Thankfully Chicky is a-ok now.

 

[PorcelainBus]

Ben Cousins swimming across the river after fleeing a RBT was a little legendary . . .

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

For those old enough on this board to remember, the West Coast drug crisis of the mid 2000s was all that anyone spoke about when referring to that champion team, from Chad Fletcher “flat lining in Vegas”, to Cousins being found drunk outside the Convention Centre and many more incidents.

The Melbourne footy media subsequently engaged in a brutal war against the club, questioning their success among a number of other accusations implied.

On the back of Joel Smith being arrested now for drug trafficking - a far more serious crime than any of the above, why on earth isn’t the same level of scrutiny being launched against the Demons?

For starters, I’m not saying the moronic insinuations that the media laid against West Coast regarding stripping flags or anything to that extend should be applied whatsoever, but blind Freddy can see there’s a serious drug problem embedded in that club between the Smith story and a bunch of others over the past few years which I won’t name.

When are heads going to finally roll to fix the mess at that club?

Good point tbh. It's funny how people and the media pick and choose who they tare to pieces and who they don't.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Ben Cousins swimming across the river after fleeing a RBT was a little legendary . . .

Legend has it that he broke the world record in Freestyle.

 

[Shane Heard]

Ben Cousins swimming across the river after fleeing a RBT was a little legendary . . .

And ironically years later ending up on that same Canning Hwy bridge washing car windows for change while high as a kite on crack.

 

[Shane Heard]

Legend has it that he broke the world record in Freestyle.

Twas an epic swim. Those Swan river currents are no joke. He’s lucky he made the 800 odd mtr trek without drowning

 

[All Aust]

I reckon the trafficking charge is overreach.

A guy offering to get a baggy for a mate is technically trafficking, and while it’s obviously against the law I just can’t give a * when it’s something that hundreds of thousands of professionals are doing weekly in this day and age, when organizing social occasions with friends.

Precisely. How dare Melbourne CFL player Joel smith be shamed and penalized for behaving like a Barrister.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Demons should be stripped of 2021 flag and given to their grand final opponent.

 

[CoastersFlag No.5]

And ironically years later ending up on that same Canning Hwy bridge washing car windows for change while high as a kite on crack.

He was actually directing traffic whilst off his face but yeah he got arrested a lot. It's good to see he has got his act together finally now.

 

[Obeanie1]

I think a big issue is that many West coast players were acting up in public.
Had they kept it private I reckon nothing would've been made of it

Who was that Collingwood player on a bender who was quietly driving around Melbourne with some dodgy mate shooting from a moving car.

You mean if the Eagles players were a bit less obvious it would have been fine?

Different rule books for some clubs.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Twas an epic swim. Those Swan river currents are no joke. He’s lucky he made the 800 odd mtr trek without drowning

On a more serious note Shano, I think a young girl got mauled to death by a Bull Shark in the Swan river about a year ago.

Lucky he didn't suffer the same fate.

 

[Daka]

Most of it has only just started coming out.
before last year it was pretty much only rumors & innuendo with the Bartlett allegations.
Now that there is actually proof of player testing positive game day. more stuff will definitely come out.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Who was that Collingwood player on a bender who was quietly driving around Melbourne with some dodgy mate shooting from a moving car.

You mean if the Eagles players were a bit less obvious it would have been fine?

Different rule books for some clubs.

That was over every front and back page in Melbourne. Not Victoria's fault the other states didn't report it.
It was also a rookie at the time (swan), while the other player (tarrant) was traded to Fremantle...

 

[VinnieB]

Are VicPol likely to do so given the evidence uncovered by SIA?

I doubt it. The definition for trafficking used by SIA is very broad.

 

[VinnieB]

That was over every front and back page in Melbourne. Not Victoria's fault the other states didn't report it.
It was also a rookie at the time (swan), while the other player (tarrant) was traded to Fremantle...

Is that correct? Didn’t the incident involve Didak? He had been in the same car as a bikie who was then arrested for firing shots.

 

[Doc1763]

Demons should be stripped of 2021 flag and given to their grand final opponent.

Do you really want that plastic cup?