"GO YOU REDS"

Just heard Tom Mitchell broke his leg at training. Big blow for Hawthorn.

Ollie Wines. Port are "not angry".

Ok, send the whole team sky-diving to loosen up next summer. I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

A bomber supporter having a go at Port Adelaide?

Not having a go, just laughing at this mob. You know the difference don't you? Maybe not (if you're Port).

When did Port last beat Bombers by the way? All I know is I still haven't finished all the slabs of beer the Port mugs I know paid up in lost bets.

Cheating? Doping? Which player was found positive?

Essendon FC fined $2 million
Essendon FC revoked the opportunity to play in the 2013 finals series
James Hird and Danny Corcoran suspended for 12 months (under appeal)
34 Essendon FC players suspended for two years after they were found guilty in the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the 2012 use of Thymosin beta-4, a banned substance
Life AFL association ban for Stephen Dank

we've got the PowDer to win....

Excited about the return of AFLX Bomber ?

I have more interest in basket weaving TBH

I have more interest in basket weaving TBH

Who are the current basket weaving champions? It can't be England because Hawkesy hasn't mentioned it.

Big story to come out of Collingwood soon. Buckley related. Am sure the mainstream media will be all over it soon.

What's the story?

Newly-formed watchdog Sports Integrity Australia (SIA) wants information from the AFL on failed drug tests, amid fears that illicit substance use by players is increasing the risk of match-fixing.

Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority chief David Sharpe told the Herald Sun that criminals are increasingly preying on players throughout sport to get inside information on games.

Players using drugs like cocaine, ice and ecstasy could be compromised by criminals, who either supplied the drugs or witnessed them being used, and forced to provide inside betting information.

Threats could be made against players to provide intelligence on team line-ups, injuries and game plans. In a worst-case scenario, players may be forced to help influence the outcome of games.

“It’s definitely a threat. How many athletes do you see that are frequenting nightclubs and getting free drinks and getting themselves into trouble?" Sharpe told the Herald Sun.

“Or bikies are walking up to them, taking photos with them and hanging around them?

“We are talking about criminals here. People who sell drugs like cocaine are not good people

SIA would not ask for the names of players who tested positive under the AFL's controversial three-strikes drug policy, said Sharpe, who is being considered as the head of SIA.

The information would be used to investigate patterns of behaviour.

Sharpe said he expected cooperation across all major Australian sports.

AFL club presidents Jeff Kennett and Peter Gordon have slammed the AFL’s illicit drugs policy, saying clubs deserve the right to know who’s using substances within their club.

Gordon told the Herald Sun that he feels clubs should know whether players were “repetitively breaking the law by using illicit substances” or “grooming” younger teammates into the life.


“If there was a player on any club’s list that was doing that, then I would want the right to sack them,” Gordon told the Herald Sun.

“It’s wrong for anyone to focus on the number of players that any particular club may be suspected or alleged to have had in relation to this issue, because the clubs have no say, no power and no control over this policy.

“This current illicit drugs policy is a deal cut between the AFL, as the regulator of the competition, and the AFLPA, as the players’ union … and the results of it are there for everyone to see.

“I have complained, both publicly and privately to the AFL commission, that it puts the clubs, as employers, in an invidious position.

“We have a duty of care to protect the interests of our players — and not just those who may be using — but those who may be coming to the club for the first time and may be put in harm’s way by being groomed or facilitated into social contact with other players who are users.”

Kennett reaffirmed this, saying clubs should know and be able to enforce the law within their club.

“As president, I am still not informed about those who have had strikes — and I find that to be totally hypocritical and self-defeating,” Kennett told the Herald Sun.

“If the AFL has a policy on drugs it should be enforceable and anyone who voluntarily puts their hand up to be a league player … should be prepared for the consequences.”

Former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas told SEN Breakfast he feels drug use was “rife” in the AFL during his time at the Saints and has only gotten worse since.

Bomber

Big story to come out of Collingwood soon. Buckley related. Am sure the mainstream media will be all over it soon.