GWS and Lachie Whitfield - Drugs Investigation

[jeemak]

Remember, nothing has been proved and I'm sure the super sleuths at AFL House will investigate this thoroughly.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-new...29-gr41b6.html

[1eyedog]

This is so 2013.

[Greystache]

Text messages hey? Hmmm better lose his phone, that will put an end to the investigation.

[Twodogs]

If true then there are some real geniuses helping to run the show at the plastics.

Even if he failed the test it would have been a first strike and nobody would have known. Now all three face 2-4 year bans. How stupid can you get?

[Twodogs]

Text messages hey? Hmmm better lose his phone, that will put an end to the investigation.

Luckily the expert in making sure mobile phones get lost, good and proper, is right there in Sydney. As a bonus he can tell him where all the best meetings are.

[jeemak]

Luckily the expert in making sure mobile phones get lost, good and proper, is right there in Sydney. As a bonus he can tell him where all the best meetings are.

Conveniently they can consult within the next two weeks at ANZ.

[jeemak]

You'd think the investigation is reasonably well down the track and evidence identified if third party text messages to the club are being reviewed.

I can't wait to see how the AFL covers this one up, remembering those installed within the GWS management structure are AFL approved.

[Twodogs]

Conveniently they can consult within the next two weeks at ANZ.

There you go. Things are looking up already.

Collingwood will be happy they shafted Neil Balme for Gubby Allen now that Allen is looking at a two year ban. He must have known about this when he took the job?

[Happy Days]

The AFL probably bought the gas for him.

If what's happened is true then everyone involved should get 2 years. But they won't.

[jeemak]

The AFL probably bought the gas for him.

If what's happened is true then everyone involved should get 2 years. But they won't.

It's the prospect of the club hiding it that makes it so bad. I've got no issue with young folks letting it rip if doing so doesn't ruin careers and clubs. But that's the issue with professional sport, you can't have it all. As an aside, if I avoided a drug test deliberately I'd lose my job without a single strike, and I am office bound.

As a second aside.....if you all can afford me the luxury......if I have a hint of any illicit substance in my system (as a white collar worker) I'll get the sack no questions asked.

[Remi Moses]

Overseas athlete ... Boo hiss cheat
One of ours .... Looking for carpet and a broom

[Twodogs]

It's the prospect of the club hiding it that makes it so bad. I've got no issue with young folks letting it rip if doing so doesn't ruin careers and clubs. But that's the issue with professional sport, you can't have it all. As an aside, if I avoided a drug test deliberately I'd lose my job without a single strike, and I am office bound.

As a second aside.....if you all can afford me the luxury......if I have a hint of any illicit substance in my system (as a white collar worker) I'll get the sack no questions asked.

Me too. Avoid a drug test and you're done. No appeal, no fond farewell.

[G-Mo77]

Ooh a suspension coming for the AFL's baby. Who am I kidding it is GWS afterall.

[bulldogtragic]

Any tribunal gets a directive to adhere to the 'AFEL comfortable satisfaction threshold'. This test exonerated doped players which WADA then had suspended. Whitfield is fine provided they make up a bullshit story that allows the AFEL to not be 'comfortably satisfied' with the vague and baseless rumours...

[Twodogs]

Any tribunal gets a directive to adhere to the 'AFEL comfortable satisfaction threshold'. This test exonerated doped players which WADA then had suspended. Whitfield is fine provided they make up a bullshit story that allows the AFEL to not be 'comfortably satisfied' with the vague and baseless rumours...

WADA haven't exactly covered themselves in glory with their unseemly haste to railroad the Essendon players. Let's wait until the appeal is finished before we celebrate anything.

Anyway Whitfield has 'fessed up, hasn't he? I don't think there will be a hearing to assess guilt, just to sort the penalty out.