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I heard AOD9604 increases recovery and reduces fatigue Anchorman.
Would that be a benefit to elite sportsmen?

just wondering there anchorman.

what did you think of m.johnson when he was caught with cocaine after attending an engagement party of another docker player. obviously attended by many other docker players.

just curious.

anchorman wrote: Swan he said on the couch that he was injected with the banned substance.When asked by Healy he said yes I was injected with the substance.
He has admitted to it.If you are debating whether the subsatnce is banned then look at what WADA is saying.They banned it as from 1st January 2011.

A/man Jobe Watson has not admitted publicly that he has taken a banned substance. In fact on the programme in question he specifically denied taking a banned substance. I am fully cognisant of what the WADA President has said with respect to AOD9604.

However, until WADA/ASADA issue infraction notices against any of the footballers or they admit guilt it is entirely appropriate for them to continue playing. If however, they are subsequently found to have taken a banned substance then they will receive an appropriate penalty. For example, if a tennis player returns a positive test or is served with an infraction notice, then they forfeit all moneys and points from that point on. A similar result one would expect for any Essendon footballer if they are served with an infraction notice.

very quick response anchorman almost like the victorian media respond when any questioning revolves around the watson family. do you see it that way ? like he gets a free pass in terms of stinging eternal condemnation.

anchorman wrote: What do you mean ,a quick response!!Yopu asked me a question about what I thought I told you.
I have already spoken about it on Goss when the issue came up.
I was happy that the club handled it so quickly.I think all clubs have learnt since the Eagles saga that you can't sweep it under the carpet when it is exposed.

???

was thinking more in terms of clubs who have a confirmed attached drug issue, which fremantle also have. they are one of 18 others of course. cant argue with that.

yes you did answer the question - short and sharp.

certainly not long and continuous like you do with other clubs other than the dockers.

drugs are certainly an issue supporters still cant get their heads around especially when it involves their club. essendon fans are finding that out now after years of throwing barbs at others. hawthorn and collingwood too quite strangely.

i remember the very first time an afl player mentioned drugs in afl. His name was Dale Lewis and he was ridiculed by everyone across the board. He was a sydney player. god forbid for the afl that sydney get tarnished with that brush. Dale Lewis should be given a formal appology by all sections of the afl for being so right way back then. And honest.

yolo swaggins wrote:

Hawksta wrote: Was actually at the game and couldn't believe some of the language coming out of the eagles fans mouths directed at Watson in front of young children yet again. Absolutely disgusting.

I have been to Dockers games, Pies games and Hawks games numerous times and have never heard anything close to what i heard last Thursday.

Try having a look in your own backyard before you cast stones at someone else, Cousins, Fletcher, Gardner and the so called hero Mainwaring????? Please West Coast is the most tarnished club in the league and the majority of supporters are a waste of space who have no concept of the rules of the game?? Great to see them languishing out of the eight and on the downhill slide after such a promising re-build

Yea and the hawks are so innocent arent they? No one from the hawks have been done for drugs at all have they!?
You only hear certain things at footy games. Every team has some supporters that are feral, just like every team has a majority of supporters that are not feral.
Also, you are comparing apples with oranges here. Coke and meth are definitely not performance enhancing. In fact they are performance hindering.
But please, continue being the A grade moron that you are.

Might pay to do a bit of research there champ. I believe young Tuck was found in his car off his face on meth amphetamine and was sacked straight away and rightfully so.

My point is i have never been to game and heard so much filth, anger, anti social behaviour, drunkenness and simple lack of respect for young children. The collingwood ferals have nothing on the West Coast lot. Absolute disgrace they are and have no understanding of the rules. It is actually quite laughable at how little west coast fans know about AFL.

I thought the Cats game last year was bad but it had nothing on this one. Lucky the tickets were free. I took my young boy who is actually an eagles boy and it is such a shame that i cant take him without him being subjected to the most feral crowd in Australia.

Just stay out of the eight and make up the numbers you poor excuse of a drugged up football club.

you seem to refer every subject to the eagles. i think you have some sort of phobia it is very odd.

i agree the eagles handled everything poorly. diabolical in fact. but why when the docker drug issue comes up, it is instantly compared to the eagles one? everyone knows they stuffed up, thats old news, the point of the subject is drugs are in every club. nobody is immune from it now.

the police made the johnson drug issue public so fremantle had little choice to go public themselves. nothing noble about it, they had little choice than to do it that way.

you said yourself the docker drug issue was the only one that has been "outed". i think that probably says it all right there. dont be so paranoid about the word "drug" and the word "fremantle" being put in the same sentence. i dont see it as a flaw at all. my neighbours son had a drug problem. am I going to blame my neighbours whole family? i dont think so. having said that i think what happened at the eagles back then has changed everyones look at accountability and forward action. and turning blind eyes.

anchorman wrote: You keep telling yourself that Yolo. After a while they will believe you.It is like the substance that the Bombers are alleged to have been injected with,they now say it is not performance enhancing.But the material that was handed around prior to them taking it suggested it did.Suggested it increased bulk and endurance.
But go ahead like so many Eagles fans and believe.
All clubs have these issues,some worse than others.

Believe what exactly? That meth and coke are not performance enhancing? Because they are not. FACT.
Also, jsut because WCE illicit drug issues were made public, it doesnt mean that they are better or worse than any other team. Every single team in the AFL would have players partaking in recreational drug use and just because Cousins had an addiction and there was a handful or others that might of smashed old mate Charlie or the shards a bit too hard, it doesnt mean that WCE as a club are worse. Its only because it was all made public that all of a sudden WCE are the 'biggest druggies in the world'. Lets not forget that M.Johnson got caught with coke on him, so did Stokes. There was a Hawks player who got banned due to the 3 strikes rule (cant remember his name) plus numerous people from all clubs on 1 or 2 strikes.

anchorman wrote: Jardine the fact that my answer was short is because the Dockers handled the issue as soon as it came to light.It had to be done that way as the Eagles had botched their issue with drugs.They tried to sweep it under the carpet and hope it would go away.Maybe the Dockers have more than one with a problem,but the simple fact of the matter is that only one was or has been outed.As I said the issue was handled publicly by the club.They learnt the lesson from the Eagles and Hawthorn,who, incidentally I think took the cowards way out of the issue they had.They still have not admitted that they transgressed even though it is common knowledge that they did.
I am not sure what else there is to say.As I said all this was discussed by us on Footygoss before its demise.It is old ground being overhauled by the fat that there is now another issue with a club for allegedly taking banned substances.

I agree with this post. Well said.