Jimmy Bartel very quiet in this 😂

Eddie Maguire was the president of Collingwood through an era where his teams and players did whatever they wanted as long as they performed, listening to these talking heads be entirely hypocritical is borderline comedy.

"putting half of Columbia up your beak on a Saturday night" lmao Eddie

Imagine if this type of scrutiny and interest from the public was applied to our MPs and the shitty legislation they pass through parliament.

We all know that Jimmy if not for his footy talent would have been another standard grammar school real estate agent doing a couple bags a week 😂

If i use any illegal substance i lose my job no questions no second chances no if no buts. yet if i play for any AFL team i can use these drugs and still get paid large amounts of money without. Explain to me how that is fair?. stop protecting them and start setting an example to the community that this behavior will not be tolerated no matter what your name is

Adopt WADA policy, do random testing at any time of the year and if a player is caught then like the rest of the professional athletic world, that player is named and banned. Obviously said player has right to the appeals process. Why are AFL players so protected. This is my view and happy to be corrected if out of order here.

This is yet another example of the AFL Media never being prepared to go far enough in questioning and calling to account the AFL on what is going on and why because the AFL determine their access, this is why there needs to be a seperate body responsible for accrediting sports media and not the sports themselves. We also need a full Royal Commission into all of Australian sport

I am so bored of hearing about drugs and concussion. We get it, lots of the players take recreational drugs and getting hit in the head repeatedly is dangerous.

Yet we can glorify drinking alcohol and gambling... Cos they never ruin lives. Just get on with playing footy.

Adopt the US NFL & NBL policy, one positive test result .. career over.

Actually, the numbers don't add up. If you look at how many people have actually become full-blown problematic users we don't use the term addict anymore in the field that I work in. If you actually look at the numbers of people that have actually had a real problem from drugs it is very very minimal compared to mainstream society. So you can criticise the AFL for their policy however their policy has led to very low numbers of what we call problematic users that means people that actually use continually what we are saying is very simple in my view clubs, introduced skinfold test and hydration test into players in recovery sessions. So essentially when you come back to the recovery session the next day you are often skinfold tested and you are then also hydration tested. This is led to players not being able to consume very much alcohol. Probably only one drink and that's it and while on that might seem okay on the surface of it could you imagine being told you can only have one alcoholic drink and then that's it so what do you think they're going to do in response to that they want to go out and let their hair down because they are young men in the prime of their life. And please don't mention how much money they get paid, because at the end of the day lawyers and are paid much more and they are honestly doing more drugs than AFL footballers if we're going to start going down the line of drug testing then you need to drug test everyone including the coaches and people that run the game. There would be people at AFL House popping pills all the time I guarantee you because this is what happens in society if you're going to bring in mandated drug testing for all people in the AFL, then test everyone every single day. No I'm gonna back off on that because I actually don't think that is the right thing to do, but it does seem crazy that you're targeting a certain group of people. If you actually look at the numbers of how many people that have had a drug problem in the AFL, it is still incredibly low compared to mainstream society I would say gambling is a bigger issue in the AFL than what drugs are. There are players that have lost houses and families over their gambling addiction yet the AFL continues to gather sponsorship from gambling companies so doesn't really care. But as soon as the word drugs are mentioned, everyone goes into a tailspin we're not talking about people doing lines of stuff before games. We are talking about guys probably taking one line or doing one thing on a Saturday night to let their hair down. Maybe we just need to move the times decriminalisation in the drug world is coming and thankfully it should be here. I would even allow them to smoke a joint as well. They could chill out and relax and laugh like the rest of us, but we have this Draconian policy that we think that we need to have everyone squeaky clean, robot clean. I'm sorry, but the money is not as good as what you think it is given that the average career only last 3 1/2 years and most of those aren't on top money initially let's factor that in. The average AFL career is 3 1/2 years. What you will also say is that if people can't let off steam they will gravitate towards other things that provide relief and that will be gambling pornography and other things because unfortunately human beings that are squeezed and constantly under pressure need something for a release and I will do stuff I guarantee you that's human nature. If you ever work in the field that I've worked in, you will understand what pressure does to people and you might be fixing one problem, but I guarantee you you will be creating another. I still look at the numbers and the numbers say that the AFL does not actually have a huge stroke problem it might have it quite a few people dabbling every now and then to let us steam but it doesn't have a full blowin list of people who are using all the time that is just crazy, so you're reacting to one story again.

Anyone/any other organisation that receives government funding and looks to publicly profit from their image should be held to a higher standard.

Great views as always I love footy classified on Wednesday

This strengthens my suspicion of Lance Franklin, when he pulled out of AFL the week before the 2015 Finals series with " mental health" issues. I have always thought that was a cover-up...

There should never be off the books drug tests by either club or the AFL. That is just a strategy to help players beat drugs tests. Utterly ridiculous to have the governing body complicit in helping players get away with it. Same as allowing players to escape consequences by self reporting when they know they are about to be exposed through a positive test. Nasty text messages to women however need to be tackled with gusto even though unlike illicit drugs they aren't actually illegal. The woke AFL has some strange priorities.

Done? Absolute crock. They're just gonna say it's overhauled but will make it even more secret. If they've not been transparent up until now, what makes you think they still will. They're just saying it's gonna be "all-season" just so people don't now look at sudden random "injuries" and suspect drug use which would be the common theme.

Jimmy very queit

Heavy handed on the dramatic music...Can barely hear what they're saying.

who gives a damn if a player takes some drugs, as long as they can play.