Drugs, umps and other ammo's news

[Dutchy]

Thanks for letting us know, hadn't seen this announced by the league or via click bait....

[HH3]

[Footy Chick]

Thanks for letting us know, hadn't seen this announced by the league or via click bait....

Sorry, wasn't aimed at you specifically Dutch...LOL

There was a release sent to the Ch9AFL clubs.

[watchdog]

Rosewater back already?

No, we're folding

Any truth to an exodus of player Beefy to various country clubs. I've heard some have signed elsewhere and some will do shortly

I have heard the same thing and expect some will leave, but I'm not sure how you quantify an exodus.

Have heard 6 A grade players names already that will probably not be there next year. As we have seen in previous years these things grow wings into late December / early next year. It has crippled clubs once the wagon leaves.

[FOURTH ESTATE]

How Dumb can you be and still breathe. The lack of knowledge of some people in the SAAFL amazes me at times!!!!!!!!

Reading the Rules and Regs of the league should be a standard reading before being allowed to be a poster on the forum
It would stop half of the crap that appears on here from the ill-informed!!!!!

[nuggety goodness]

How Dumb can you be and still breathe. The lack of knowledge of some people in the SAAFL amazes me at times!!!!!!!!

Reading the Rules and Regs of the league should be a standard reading before being allowed to be a poster on the forum
It would stop half of the crap that appears on here from the ill-informed!!!!!

You'd be a lonely man FE...

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[Bazz]

Have heard that gepps cross have re signed jake Spriggs one of the players which were involved in the drug scandal where does that put the other player which was involved?

[human_torpedo]

How Dumb can you be and still breathe. The lack of knowledge of some people in the SAAFL amazes me at times!!!!!!!!

Reading the Rules and Regs of the league should be a standard reading before being allowed to be a poster on the forum
It would stop half of the crap that appears on here from the ill-informed!!!!!

This forum would fold if they were the stipulations placed upon affiliation..

[Mr Beefy]

https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/no-place-in-community-sporting-clubs-traces-of-cocaine-found-at-four-adelaide-footy-clubs-toilets/news-story/6348d6cb3c9d459201328c13ccbc32a7
South Australian football facilities are a hotbed for cocaine, as an investigation by The Advertiser revealed four community clubs’ grounds tested positive for traces of the drug.

Detection swabs found residue of cocaine in the toilets at four out of the seven community clubs The Advertiser visited, located all across Adelaide.

Traces of the drug were found at Gaza Sports and Community Club — home to Gaza Football Club, Shark Park — where Henley Sharks Football and Netball Club play sport, Northgate Community and Sports Club — home of Gepps Cross Football Club and at the public toilets at Park 9 adjoining Prince Alfred Old Collegians Football Club rooms.

The commercially available detection swabs turn blue if residue of cocaine is present on a surface and can detect all purities of the illicit substance.

A disclaimer for the wipes warns there is a possibility of false positives occurring.

Many community sports grounds in Adelaide are owned by councils and leased to individual clubs.

Port Adelaide Enfield Council leases grounds to Northgate Community and Sports Club and Gaza Sports and Community Club.

A Port Adelaide Enfield Council spokesman said clubs are “directly responsible for day-to-day maintenance, operation and cleaning of leased space and facilities”.

“We work closely with sports clubs within the city including running governance health check programs which clubs participate in every second year,” the spokesman said.

Gaza Sports and Community Club president Natasha Jenke said it had “zero tolerance to the use of illicit drugs in and around our club and community”.

A spokesman from Charles Sturt Council, which has a licence agreement with Henley Sharks for their clubrooms, “stipulates they are responsible for cleaning and maintaining the facilities”.

“The club … has a zero tolerance to drugs and would act responsibly on any instances they are aware of,” he said.

Adelaide City Council acting associate director of city operations Scott Rodda said he was “disappointed to hear there is evidence of cocaine use in the toilets at Park 9”.

“These toilets are cleaned seven days a week to ensure they are safe and well presented,” Mr Rodda said.

The toilets adjoining the Prince Alfred Old Collegians club rooms do not form part of the lease with the council.

Prince Alfred College headmaster David Roberts said the public toilets are “the sole responsibility of the City of Adelaide to maintain and clean”.


He said the club has separate amenities within its clubrooms.

“Neither Prince Alfred College nor the Old Collegians’ Football Club tolerates the use of illegal substances,” Mr Roberts said.

Adelaide Footy League chief executive John Kernahan said: “The facilities at some clubs are available to the general public on any day of the week as well as other sporting codes having access such is the purpose of a community facility.”

SANFL declined to comment.

Henley Football Club and Northgate Community and Sports Club did not respond when contacted by The Advertiser.

A government spokeswoman said “illicit drugs like cocaine have no place in community sporting clubs”.

On Monday, police commissioner Grant Stevens announced the rollout of new drug tests for drivers with cocaine in their system “as part of ongoing efforts to tackle the use of the illicit drug”, the spokeswoman said.

It comes after a father found a bag of white powder at his daughter’s soccer match last month.

The father, whose 17-year-old daughter was playing a senior women’s soccer match at Elizabeth Grove Soccer Club, noticed the bag of white powder on the ground and residue on a countertop under the club’s veranda.

The parent did not accuse anyone at Elizabeth Grove Soccer Club of leaving the white powder at the facilities.

[LaughingKookaburra]

Pretty ordinary article by The Advertiser. Unfairly naming clubs when those facilities are used by anyone and everyone.

[cracka]

That article should be posted in the no shit Sherlock news

[heater31]

Pretty ordinary article by The Advertiser. Unfairly naming clubs when those facilities are used by anyone and everyone.

The Junior journalist must have had nothing to do.....naming a club that had alleged traces of cocaine in a public toilet!

[Trader]

Might be a good recruitment tool for those 4 clubs; come and play with us, we have great post match parties!

[Lightning McQueen]

Might go watch some soccer on the weekend.

[jo172]

Potentially a new depth of bottom feeding that

[Pag]

One of the worst articles I've read 'covering' local sport.

[Fools Gold]

Immediately turning off comments on the FB posts just shows it's a garbage article.

[morell]

Disgusting news those clubs should hang their heads in shame, have their points deducted and asked to give their player budgets to clubs not named.

[whufc]

Absolute garbage article.

It is an interesting discussion however about where clubs sit in regards to the level of education/support/guidance/morale standing community clubs they provide to their members/supporters.

Not a single club is immune to the issue and each club will be completely different where they stand on the issue and the tolerance they have.

So far this year we have held a few player seminars. One being the SANFL Think Road Safety and the other being a local GP talking about concussions and going through the protocols our trainers are required to follow and lastly the SANFL Mental Health program.

Were they valuable.......the concussion protocol session was, as it was information players may not have ordinarily known. The Think Safety was ok but nothing ground breaking that we don't already know, more just awareness. The guys enjoyed the mental health program As a rule thought are the players keen on the seminars........not really, they do them however provided they sit there with a feed and a beer.

Imo there is no denying that community clubs have a great ability to impact and connect with members of our community, moreso than most other places. Should clubs be doing more when it comes to drugs??? tough one, we cant be everything to everything.

[Jimmy_041]

Naming clubs for the public toilets that are the responsiblity of the Council

Someone should go and swab the Advertiser's toilets for anything and everything

Hit him with a Concerns Notice and make the little prix $hit himself