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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Some over the counter medications are against the code during competition. So it very well may be a pain killer and because it was during competition he is stuck. Same situation happened to a player in the neafl, he got a 2 year ban.
As a side it may also just be one ingredient in a medication that may break the code."Loves a scrap....oh yeah & he's a pretty handy footballer as well"Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Crowley tested positive to a specified substance. The rules are different to a player who tests positive to a banned substance.
A few of the differences....
A player testing positive to a specified substance can continue to play until the case is heard by the tribunal. The case is to remain confidential until a suspension is handed down. In this case however, Crowley and the Dockers have chosen to begin a provisional suspension in September, obviously wanting any suspension to be backdated to this time. They have chosen to go public now to answer why Crowley is not playing during the preseason.
In comparison, a positive test to a banned substance results in an immediate provisional suspension.
The only question regarding the timeline is why has it taken so long for the AFL to hear the case at the tribunal, and it is possibly because they have been busy dealing with the Essendon saga.Footscray member since 1980.Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
The Crowley case is proof that ASADA don't leak information. So we know which side of the fence has done so for the last 2 years in the Essendon doping case.
On a side note, I wonder if Jayden Schofield now knows who Ryan Crowley is
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Why 3 weeks between A and B test? Shouldnt have been allowed to play finals last year.Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Eventually Australian sport, our media and the public will have to come to grips with the fact that we do in fact have cheats in our midst and that no matter which gravy train they are hitched to, rules are rules. Throw the book at him.Time and Tide Waits For No ManComment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
The player can opt out of the B Sample test and accept the A Sample test. The time in between is for the player to make this decision. Given what they've got on their plate I think ASADA have done all they can on this one.Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
12 months back dated. By my counting, free to play late finals if picked.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
He's got about as much chance as Clive Waterhouse has of getting a call up for a preliminary or grand final. Doubt he will play again for Freo and odds would be slim another team would pick him up (he's 32 before the start of next season).
Sentence handed down by the AFL. WADA could always decide to appeal!Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Saad got 18 months.
Although both seem to have inadvertently taken a banned substance, I guess the difference is that Saad took something that is potentially performance enhancing whereas Crowley took a pain killer.Comment
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Re: Fremantle's Ryan Crowley tests positive to banned substance
Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke.
Is there any way he can contest this decision?You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― EpicurusComment
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