Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

[Go_Dogs]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

Anyone watch AFL 360 tonight. It was on for young and old when Buckley came on. Scott wasn't happy with Robbo either.

I liked the inference that Robbo is a terrible journo who doesn't fact-check, and Robbo's response they are a "daily news service" who seemed to imply of course he does not sit on stories and ensure they are accurate before running with them.

Both coaches made some good points and highlighted their disappointment at both the story and confidentiality breach which appears to have come from a senior club official at a Collingwood rival.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

I'm hearing whisperings that perhaps we shouldn't be overly smug towards our Magpie mates. Hope it's not true.

I'm really uncomfortable with the comparisons to the Essendon saga. In Essendon's case, it was the club implementing a program. This is completely different, this is a club/s struggling with an issue affecting society at large. Totally different in my view.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

I'm hearing whisperings that perhaps we shouldn't be overly smug towards our Magpie mates. Hope it's not true.

I'm really uncomfortable with the comparisons to the Essendon saga. In Essendon's case, it was the club implementing a program. This is completely different, this is a club/s struggling with an issue affecting society at large. Totally different in my view.

Im hoping you aren't referring that we were one of the clubs with more positive tests.....

[soupman]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

I'm hearing whisperings that perhaps we shouldn't be overly smug towards our Magpie mates. Hope it's not true.

I'm really uncomfortable with the comparisons to the Essendon saga. In Essendon's case, it was the club implementing a program. This is completely different, this is a club/s struggling with an issue affecting society at large. Totally different in my view.

Considering our list profile and the age groups commonly linked with experimenting with drugs i wouldn't be surprised if we were one of the higher ones.

I too find it amusing (and really quite dissapointing) that many in the media seem to be baffled as to how performance enhancing drugs are banned by the AFL but illegal recreational drugs are just a health issue, as if it should be the other way around. Can they not see the huge difference in uses in a competitive sports environment?

[chef]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

I'm hearing whisperings that perhaps we shouldn't be overly smug towards our Magpie mates. Hope it's not true..

You would think this would be a problem at probably every club in the country from top league to the bottom.

[Bornadog]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

Buckley made an interesting point. During the off season, when players are on holiday, the club has no control over what they do, yet when a story like this comes out, the fingers are pointed at the club.

[KT31]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

Thought Buckley handled the issue and himself well last night.
One would be naive to think Tom is the only kid on our list who has dabbled with drugs, as my Pups hang with a semi -related crowd they have mentioned a couple of others.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

You would think this would be a problem at probably every club in the country from top league to the bottom.

Imagine myself, having to watch every celery stick, and lugging a GPS around on the back of my neck every other day, I'd probably need a joint or a drink to get by too.

[Sedat]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

The integrity of the actual game is not affected one iota by the use of recreational drugs in the off-season. Of far more paramount importance is to ensure the use of performance enhancing drugs is eliminated from our game, or perpetrators that are caught are punished and kicked out of the game for a number of years.

Robbo has written this story to turn the drug issue away from his shitstain of a club and onto Collingwood. And once again he has tried to blur the lines between PED use and recreational drug use - stupid people will eat it up unfortunately.

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

The integrity of the actual game is not affected one iota by the use of recreational drugs in the off-season. Of far more paramount importance is to ensure the use of performance enhancing drugs is eliminated from our game, or perpetrators that are caught are punished and kicked out of the game for a number of years.

Robbo has written this story to turn the drug issue away from his shitstain of a club and onto Collingwood. And once again he has tried to blur the lines between PED use and recreational drug use - stupid people will eat it up unfortunately.

That would really depend on what kind of drugs we are talking about. If a group of people who play together are part of a culture whereby they are doing lines of coke in the off-season, it can't be removed from club in the public eye - although I agree this is not logical. I sympathise with Nathan Buckley's point of view.

[Twodogs]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

The integrity of the actual game is not affected one iota by the use of recreational drugs in the off-season. Of far more paramount importance is to ensure the use of performance enhancing drugs is eliminated from our game, or perpetrators that are caught are punished and kicked out of the game for a number of years.

Robbo has written this story to turn the drug issue away from his shitstain of a club and onto Collingwood. And once again he has tried to blur the lines between PED use and recreational drug use - stupid people will eat it up unfortunately.

In the end does it matter what stupid people think?

In as much as most of them barrack for Collingwood I guess it does.

[Rocket Science]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

The integrity of the actual game is not affected one iota by the use of recreational drugs in the off-season. Of far more paramount importance is to ensure the use of performance enhancing drugs is eliminated from our game, or perpetrators that are caught are punished and kicked out of the game for a number of years.

Robbo has written this story to turn the drug issue away from his shitstain of a club and onto Collingwood. And once again he has tried to blur the lines between PED use and recreational drug use - stupid people will eat it up unfortunately.

How very true. Tip in the fact that his newfound target guarantees heightened interest and the rest writes itself.

Sadly, through its wanton fecklessness on PED's the AFL's helped foment a climate that allows Robbo's ham-fisted scribblings on the matter to flourish.

[Bornadog]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

At the end of the day, a new drug policy was agreed to by the AFL and the players. The players agreed as long as there is confidentiality, in particular to a first strike. Someone has leaked information to Robbo, but with half truths, and he has gone with it, without following it up and checking. All he wanted was to discredit Collingwood and deflect from Essendon as Sedat pointed out.

[Bulldog4life]

Re: Robbo Reporting 11 Collingwood Players tested Positive to Drugs in Offseason

The integrity of the actual game is not affected one iota by the use of recreational drugs in the off-season. Of far more paramount importance is to ensure the use of performance enhancing drugs is eliminated from our game, or perpetrators that are caught are punished and kicked out of the game for a number of years.

Robbo has written this story to turn the drug issue away from his shitstain of a club and onto Collingwood. And once again he has tried to blur the lines between PED use and recreational drug use - stupid people will eat it up unfortunately.

Agree somewhat Sedat but the two Collingwood players who were suspended for taking performance enhancing drugs took recreational drugs which were laced with the other. Just by knowing this why would any player with even a little bit of common sense run the risk of ruining their career by putting something in their mouth that they are not 100% sure what is it I can't personally comprehend. They are idiots.

[Twodogs]

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Agree somewhat Sedat but the two Collingwood players who were suspended for taking performance enhancing drugs took recreational drugs which were laced with the other. Just by knowing this why would any player with even a little bit of common sense run the risk of ruining their career by putting something in their mouth that they are not 100% sure what is it I can't personally comprehend. They are idiots.

That's what they said happened. But only after the "steak with too much clenbuterol" story wasn't believed.