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If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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Like it or not, we have a player on our list that has been caught by Victoria police in possession of an ilicit substance passing in and out of coherence on the streets of Melbourne. That player has since been suspended by the club, and has a lot of work to do to pay the club back for the embarrassment he has caused it, as well as having to prove to himself that he is a mature and responsible person (not to mention his family and friends).
On the basis of our football club not being a rehabilitation clinic, are you prepared to give up on him? Or does the talent he's shown to this point in our club colours discount him from being expendable, and worht persevering with?TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Libba should be on 1 strike, and gone if he gets to 3.
Garlett has photos up on Instagram of being high on drugs, drunk and standing on a dead kangaroo. He has been kicked out of the AIS and sent home from his local club. He turns up to training drunk, drinks during the week and smokes.
I think that puts him on about 6 strikes before he plays a game.If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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Pretty sure you only get one strike when you're caught with it in your system, not when you potentially might have taken substances.
If it was the latter, then the AFL would be full of players on a few strikes. Surely you understand that many players indulge in ilicit drug taking, without being caught with it in their systems.
If what you're saying about Garlett is true, then all I'll consider him beyond the norm from many other players is being stupid enough for letting photographical evidence of it being plastered across the internet. To think that he, or Libba are mildly isolated cases of AFL or potential AFL players taking drugs then you've well and truly got your head in the sand.
As for rocking up to training drunk, then that's clearly unacceptable, if that's what he's done. Irrespective of all of that, if we pass on him and another team is able to develop him into a mature person after perserverence then we need to question our ability to do the same. That's what good clubs do.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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This thread has gone completely off the rails.
Way too much opinion based on assumption and all over an immature eighteen year old boy who is getting attention just because he is good at a game.
Time to move on surely........Comment
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But they don't all get character assassinated based on internet stories and second hand information.Comment
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I meant within the club, not a formal AFL drug policy strike.
Phil Smart from Swan Districts has admitted they have sent him home from training for turning up late, but not drunk.
One of his Instagram photos of him drinking & smoking was uploaded a few days before a semi-final, but he now claims it was taken earlier on.If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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I'd be filthy if we picked him up. You can't take a stand in front of members and the wider football world, as Macca has done, and say, “We only want good people at the club, and we want to move our club culture away from the individual and focus on the team” and then go draft a kid like Garlett.
I couldn't give a rat's how good he is, Akermanis was a deadset champion and look how that turned out in the end.
If our coaching staff want the respect and buy-in from the playing group and fans in regards to their vision and strategy, they need to stick to that vision themselves, and not be tempted by a kid with great talent but little else.
You also need to consider that as an AFL footballer, even as just a rookie, he will command a lot more attention and have a lot more hangers-on around him. I think he'd get worse, not better.Comment
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