Port Adelaide player John McCarthy dies in Las Vegas

[Q.]

Wonder if his drink was spiked

[Jim05]

The first few days of a footy trip like this must be the most dangerous for the players, they have to be so disciplined all year with the way they act, they drink/eat and the company they keep. Then all of this is let go as soon as they step into another country where they are not known and dont have the club and media looking over them for a slip up.

Hopefully some good can come of this tragedy and teach some of the young blokes that life is so precious and can be taken in an instant with one simple mistake.

Great post Dutchy

It makes me wonder if they need to extend the "designated driver" concept to a designated non-drinker when on overseas trips. So one of the lads takes on the role of staying sober and keeping track of where eveyone is. It sounds like John got isolated late at night in a foreign country and has made some bad decisions without anyone there to help him.

Maybe that's unrealistic that one of the lads stays sober. Maybe they need a minder. Someone needs to know where these blokes are especially late at night.

Im not a fan of this.
Surely they are allowed a few weeks on their own without dealing with the football.
Thousands of Aussie teens and young adults travel the world on their own every year.

[Punk Rooster]

Agree Jim 05- surely they have acquired some level of personal repsonsibilty as they have entered adulthood?

[on the rails]

Absolute tragedy which ever way you look at it and really a life so young lost and no one may ever know what the "trigger" was despite a lot of evidence and also speculation.

However over on the Power from Port Forum - fans are calling for a trophy in his honour re matches played between Collingwood and Port. I have some issues with this because these types of perpetual trophies should remember significant on field or off field deeds or memories and I am not sure this warrants it. I am not sure his family or indeed the PAFC would want to remember aspects of this tragedy if as it appears some of the circumstances point to the obvious.

[scoob]

Lets not speculate on this matter so soon after the incident.


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[test]

Eddie is reporting that CCTV shows that he jumped at a Palm tree and missed or fell.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/de...y ... 6470914423

such an avoidable incident, tragic for his family, partner and friends.
RIP

[Booney]

The more news that comes to light just makes the whole incident even more baffling.

I guess we will never truly know and how sad is that.

[Q.]

The more news that comes to light just makes the whole incident even more baffling.

I guess we will never truly know and how sad is that.

Toxicology reports might shed a bit more light, but they'll never be made public.

[whufc]

The more news that comes to light just makes the whole incident even more baffling.

I guess we will never truly know and how sad is that.

Toxicology reports might shed a bit more light, but they'll never be made public.

Exactly dont think there is anything to baffling about what state he would have been in.

[heater31]

The more news that comes to light just makes the whole incident even more baffling.

I guess we will never truly know and how sad is that.

Toxicology reports might shed a bit more light, but they'll never be made public.

Exactly dont think there is anything to baffling about what state he would have been in.

Now reports surfacing that the club they went to Drugs were freely available. Now not implying that any of them partake in that sort of activity but raises the question of a drink spike.....

[Johno6]

I thought they said drugs were easily available at their casinos and they were offered drugs

[Q.]

McCarthy, by all reports, was a bit of a god-botherer. I have doubts he was willingly getting on it and the fact the he was obviously confused at the time suggests he may not have been aware of having ingested any mind-altering substances.

[TEX07]

I thought they said drugs were easily available at their casinos and they were offered drugs

Drugs are readily available at most places on the strip! To be honest this could have happened someone was on drugs or drunk. I was in Vegas in 09 and not having been anywhere in the world before then having a boys trip for a mates 30th was an eye opener and I was 29, if I went at 22, I could have easily got into a heap of trouble, its just not the same as here and staying together was important. I rekon I was offered drugs on a daily basis and from the strangest most unexpected people, just seemed like normal middle aged guys and limo drivers. I actually hope that they do keep the toxicology results private, let him rest and be remembered for the good, nothing anyone can do to change how it happened now, the why is for his family to know.