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the Cronulla pragmatic approach worked out being a much better strategy.
Egos will fuck you up every time........
Egos will fuck you up every time........
Problem is the AFL tried to play funny buggers.
By punishing the club quite early, then dragging on the player trials they'd hoped to avoid all player suspensions and avoid compromising the integrity of the competition for 2 seasons, which would devalue the comp in the eyes of Broadcasters.
Rather than just bite the bullet, give an 18 month suspension, and ideally get it over with quickly and hopefully have not appealed by ASADA for two years bans, there's been an additional 12 months of appeals up in the air, then a season wrecked anyway, albeit one probably less so due to the loss of an additional 5 or so players off their lists to trades, delisting and retirement.
Inside Shoulder - the trouble is that they were asked whilst testing if they had taken supplements or injections, which they denied. Not a good look.
Lindsay Tanner and the Essendon CEO fronted a news conference yesterday (gee I'm spending a lot of time on a game I dont even like!) and said that they had contact from Fuji who were sticking by them.It will be interesting to see what happens to the club now from a sponsorship point of view. I would want any company I was working for to be associated with them.
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Two Kiwis players, including the captain, busted for cocaine possession after the Loig Test on Saturday night (both have now been dropped from the Kiwis & stood down from their NRL Clubs), three days after former Kiwi Sean Kenny-Dowell got busted for the same thing.
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/kiwis-axe-drug-scandal-pair-from-world-cup-20170508
Cue all sorts of Loig people (not to mention the NZ Ministers of Sport & Rec, and Health (same bloke, actually)) wringing their hands about how terrible it all is, full-on Maude Flanders mode, when as far as I can ascertain it's pretty rife in top-level sports (Ali Williams & James O'Connor, for example) & the wider community or at least the younger & wealthier parts thereof.
As an outsider perhaps you can explain how it is that loig in this country seems to do better when it has scandals - is that our convict heritage?
I think the ARU board might hope for a cocaine drug bust - but its a stimulant so there can't be any suggestion of our players having used itAdd Cronulla Sharks chairman Damian Keogh to the substance-bust list:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/rug...ks-chairman-damian-keogh-20170508-gvzzhv.html
I'm really not sure about that but I suspect it has to do with the code being so big (in NSW & Qld, anyway) & the media not really going for the jugular when someone messes up. Instead it gets the "boys will be boys" or at worst "one bad apple" treatment. Pretty similar to what happens re. Union in NZ, really.