Let’s go carefully.
Right now, it seems, it is the AFL’s turn to engage in endless conniptions of hand-wringing over the horrors of their players using recreational drugs, in this case, specifically, cocaine and ...
And we interrupt this rant for a Public Service Announcement: Recreational drugs are illegal, and bad for you, physically and psychologically. Don’t take them. We now return you to normal programming.
The particularities of the latest imbroglio are that the admirable independent Federal MP Andrew Wilkie has used parliamentary privilege to claim that not only is the AFL rife with cocaine, but the AFL’s so-called “testing regime” is complicit in making sure that players and even coaches never have to pay the piper; that the clubs themselves just don’t want to know and even actively help the players hide their use; that the whole thing is a ludicrous sham.
(Apart from that, he was pretty happy with it.)
Wilkie has been backed up by three whistle-blowers: a club doctor, a club president and the father of one of the players.
Prima facie, it sounds like he is right in every particular, yes?
I mean, you know the drill. Every year or so a story like this breaks in one of the football codes, and it follows a very familiar pattern.
Football codes need to just say no … to beer
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03.04.2024
Let’s go carefully.
Right now, it seems, it is the AFL’s turn to engage in endless conniptions of hand-wringing over the horrors of their players using recreational drugs, in this case, specifically, cocaine and ...
And we interrupt this rant for a Public Service Announcement: Recreational drugs are illegal,........
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