i would add swans too
surprised nobody has yet suggested that these additional charges have come about as part of some sort of response to his dad being a lead plaintiff in a class action concussion suit against the AFL.
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No one gives a gigantic fk about Melbourne lets be honest, he’ll serve whatever time and return.
No blow back on the club or anyone associated with it, too small a club.
I am waiting for the papers to start running a connection between Goodwin and his time at Essendon during the drugs saga, links to Bomba….
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How could James Hird do this?
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Served as an assistant to former essendon coach James Hird. It’s all his fault !
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Heads should roll.
Honestly the follow up tweet from Cleary is much more concerning. They are trying to also assert that he took coke on game day of the semi-final. I can only see it meaning a couple of things.
Melbourne culture is so stuffed they players would regularly go out night before games and get ■■■■■■ up, including finals.
Smith has got big issues with substances, and cant go without them.
Or Smith was taking them because he thought that they helped him play better.
Its probably a big stretch but its not a surprise to me looking at this that the only time they were able to fully put the end of a season together was during covid when they had restrictions and couldn’t go out during finals. There list is so talented they should have won a couple of flags over this period, I think they have a much better team than the tigers did.
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I always thought such matters as drug trafficking were police matters. Now it seems Sport Integrity do a bit of a phone search, join some dots and declare you guilty. The AFL follow suit and happily hand out sentences, and probably hope it doesn’t end up the courts where due process may be an issue.
I need to get up with the times I suppose.
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I mean, that’s all well and good but this currently isn’t a police matter. He is being accused of trafficking a banned substance to his teammates, no different than if he was asking other players if they wanted some clenbuterol. People are getting hung up on the fact that its cocaine. He is being charged against sports integrity, specifically testing positive to a banned substance “in-competition” and if there are texts from him asking other players (especially if it was the same night before the game he tested positive) if they want some the assumption could be made that multiple players could have tested positive as well, assuming not all players were tested on gameday.
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Out on the town and checked into Blitz. Story is disgraceful! Anyway time to let my hair down. Anyone have his number?
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I look at this case as yet another reason why the AFL should not be a signatory to the WADA Code. The major sporting bodies in Australia are big enough to run their own Anti-Doping code with the requisite testing.
Of course the Melbourne FC case of alleged illicit drug use by players and staff is a separate issue and should be investigated to its fullest length. What form the investigation takes is anyone’s guess.
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If the drugs are not subject to a total prohibition as performance enhancing , trafficking should not come within WADA rules.
SIA has been given quasi criminal powers by a private international organisation.
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Sensation or attempted deflection? The article clearly points the bone at a wider culture problem at the Dees. Do l think Smith is Robinson Crusoe regarding drugs at his club? The article points out that he is not. There is much more to come out of this, and it won’t surprise if Goodwin is implicated, l am expecting him to be involved. Pert’s comments are coming home to bite him on the arse.
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The AFL is in absolute fairy land if they don’t think that a fair whack of players would be on the gear at some stage. Been happening for years
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Thank Johnny Howard for signing up to Asda.threatening the AFL with no funding if they didn’t.A bit like Ronny Reagan telling states they wouldn’t get funding for roads if they didn’t put the drinking age up to 21
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Bloody hell. That’s Mr Matt “get the ■■■■ out and don’t come back” Finnis to us/the EFC players.
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What was the pressure on Howard to do this? Was this pre 2000 olympics?
Wasn’t the AFL already a signatory of ASDA since the early 90’s and ASDA just morphed into ASADA who were given more powers?
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