Mainstream media will be working overdrive to downplay or try to link to a-league.:lol:

what a khunt

Meh, just make all drugs legal and let the consumers decide what they put in their bodies. Then you take the money out of the cartels hands and can regulate tax and contents.

Nothing new, NRL is intertwined with the bikies these days, those two Knights players were the drug dealers that would have kept Jardel Supplied.

Clearly the RBB's fault.

Exactly.

The real crime is the waste of taxpayers money fighting a completely ineffectual "drug war". Bloke was probably just splitting a bag with mates.

I heard he was just a pawn of a Cartel run by some former Socceroo's and some current A-League players.

This has absolutely nothing to do with AF.

It does in a loosey goosey way.

RBB invented drugs

As expected. On channel 7, this appeared for 30 seconds two hours ago on the 'Breaking News' bar, the program host couldn't even say it was Karmichael Hunt even though his name was on the screen. Hasn't appeared since on any news bulletin. :roll:

There are massive legal issues with saying anything more than he's been charged at the moment. Fox Sports News aren't even touching it FFS

Good to see the drug policy working so well in these sports. They brag about how they have the best policies in the world, 3 strikes, education and all that.

Edited by justafan: 20/2/2015 12:13:22 PM

Have seen this described as a potential career ender for Hunt if he's found guilty. It most definitely won't be.

Two Gold Coast Titans players now charged as well.

No problems here: http://www.watoday.com.au/rugby-union/reds/karmichael-hunt-charged-with-supplying-cocaine-20150220-13jzvi.html?eid=email:nnn-13omn652-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-news_am-dom-news-nnn-watoday-u&campaign_code=13INO006&promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=MTI4MzU3MDg

Yeah that's been reported plenty here between cyclone updates. Those are the undisputed facts. No news outlet speculating on a anything other than his playing future though

YEAH!!!

Bloody no good mainstream media!!!


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At least it takes the focus of Keogh. Gotta love the boofheads of Rugby, Aussie rules and League.

Rugby generally has a pretty good rep in comparison. I mean the last guy arrested was over a protest FFS

Union is pretty decent, i think mostly because so many of them have been at university, so they have a career after rugby. Hell when i went to a ophthalmologist he was an ex wallabies player. The problem players are the ones that haven't got a career beale comes to mind.

The news is saying that there is 4 gold coast titian players as well and the crimes are back when hunt was at the suns. No wonder why teams on the coast never do well. to busy on the drugs. GC is a massive bikie hub, the people on the GC where so glad for the bikie laws, because it was getting really bad.

People are kidding themselves if they think Union doesn't have the same recreational drug use as league. Nothing screams little white baggy more than a rich private school kid with too much time on their hands. They just have enough sense not to get caught

Have been following this all day and it appears Hunt & the couple of Titans boys have been collateral damage to a cocaine trafficking syndicate case (involving ex league player Jason Smith). Looks like he has acquired some cocaine and shared it with some mates.

A really dumb thing to do and he should've known better but I hope his life isn't destroyed of what appears to be some minor recreational drug use.

FOX SPORTS News ‏@FOXSportsNews 10m10 minutes ago
QRU state Hunt has not been arrested or charged, but has received a notice to appear in court on March 5

:lol: Take the tin foil off buddy, this is a fucking huge story.

lol, fucking idiots.

-PB

It's a lag from that 2013 Australian Crime Commission report into ASADA and the AFL/NRL stuff.

More arrests will come.

Meant to be some big news today.

Well, it is cocaine related. :-"

Well pointed out.

I think there is a little arrogance in our football community that we won't have this sort of problem, because we aren't full of "boofhead neanderthal" players. But the only reason we don't have these problems is because we aren't a dominant code. Once A-League players become the higher paid and worshipped individuals like League players are in NSW/Qld or AFL players are in Vic/SA, we will have just as many incidents of players getting drunk, getting into fights at clubs, sexual indiscretions, drug problems and the like.

A look at almost every sporting market in the world shows you this. Football in Europe/SA has all the problems that League/AFL have here and that basketball/NFL have in America.

Bird and Taylor stung now

Fucking losers :lol:

-PB

I don't think it will be a problem in the A-league just because these are the types of problems you generally see with players who have "made it".

In the AFL, NRL, Union you basically reach the pinnacle of your sport i can see how that can go to a player's head. Whereas players in the A-league generally have the goal of moving overseas and don't see themselves as having "made it", despite being established first teamers

Looks like if they're found guilty it could be worldwide 4 year bans for the Titans players which would essentially end Bird's career.

Over the weekend they said there are at least 7 Titans involved (1 a former player). 6 charges will be lain with the 7th guy under investigation.
Also looking into the Suns roster......

I doubt very much that they'd get 4 years, from memory Mathew Stokes was charged with possession and trafficking of cocaine. Managed to make a deal with prosecutors to drop the trafficking charge and only got an 8 weeks suspension.

Thank fuck.

-PB

That's because he was able to get the trafficking charge dropped. If these guys are convicted of supplying then there's a good chance WADA will be all up in their shit.

In the grand scheme of things these charges appear minor (provided Hunt & co weren't receiving payments for supplying) I'd expect all these footballers to roll on Smith, Seers, Thomas & anyone else high up in the chain and make a deal with prosecutors.

Birds career is probably over though.

If police have been monitoring this for 5 months and given Jason Smiths decorated career I'd expect a lot more than six or seven footballers to be charged though.

Yeah definitely agree on that last point. Don't think this is the end of it and there will be a lot of players who are very nervous.

They'll be cutting deals like they cut their product :lol:

-PB

:lol:

There was a report last night that the Broncos would be the next club investigated, and now betting has been suspended on the Broncos v Rabbitohs season opener.

It wasn't off the most reliable source but I've heard it could be as many as 7 former Broncos named this week with 5 current players in the firing line as well.

The further this unravels the smaller the penalties are likely to be, and I would think the more likely it would be any trafficking or dealing charges are dropped and they become purely possession charges. So in reality reputations will be more damaged than any players careers IMO.

Geezuz fuck what were these guys seriously doing?

-PB

Enjoying the blow.

I imagine quite a few players across all codes enjoy it and I also imagine they are not just taking a few bumps here and there either. Coke and E seems to be pretty rampant across aussie sportsman.

Given how stupid NRL players tend to be though it doesn't surprise me they are the ones being caught out. I highly doubt the players were dealing or anything like that but their personal use amount was probably quite high. Probably quite a few players will be praying there phone doesn't ring with some unfortunate news in the coming days.

Edited by damonzzzz: 25/2/2015 04:51:38 PM

Yeah I've seen plenty of Aussie Rules footballers on nights out liberally and blatantly enjoying the gear in their off seasons.

The first year of my undergrad I was at a bar where a few of the teams ended up after their 'Mad Monday' celebrations and every time I looked down there were heaps of discarded baggies littered around the beer garden, I don't know how they don't get caught more often.

They probably do. But the AFL's cosy relationship with the Police...

More to do with the fact that there isn't much testing and the type of drugs they are taking don't show up in piss tests for very long. Could do a line or some E or amphetamines on a friday and piss clean by monday/tuesday.

Edited by damonzzzz: 26/2/2015 12:19:40 AM

It's quite funny how so many people seem to be shocked by this I was under the impression that everyone knew recreational drug use was rampant across the major codes.

Yep. Everyone had to have known. I no people like to lay the boot into footy players, but it really is a reflection of society. You go out to most clubs on a busy night now and it's full of people on the gear, looking for gear or who have it in the past.

I think football fans should avoid laying the boot into the other codes on this one, because as the A-League grows and players become better paid and more recognized in the community, these stories will inevitably emerge about them as well.

Wonder if Greg Bird gets a bit jumpy when he goes to the bakery, all that white powder around and what not :lol:

-PB

Your such a try hard in being the forum clown bagzfc , sometimes its better to say nothing and lol on your own ;)

Agree 99prob, best the real football followers stfu for it always comes back to bite you......

Har har har.

Why lol on my own when I can lol here. Plus these scumbags deserve to be the arse end of jokes for years to come.

-PB

I'd have thought the whole Andrew Johns situation would have opened peoples eyes a bit. Obviously not.

Not when people like Joey end up with lucrative TV deals.

-PB

oh they probably do get caught but remember tbe three strike rule.

If people who used recreational drugs weren't allowed in the media, there would be no media

Interesting article on FS today about the turnovers of some of these clubs.

Some are just staggering, like the Panthers making profit in the 10+mil range.

-PB

Pokies?

I remember reading about this a few years ago and if IIRC a lot of the clubs aren't stand alone entities but rather apart of a greater organisation. For example the Panthers rugby league club comes under a company called the "Penrith Panthers' or something like that. Most of the profit comes from endeavours outside the running of the actual team.

Yeah the rule is a joke.

I meant more in terms of people just snapping a photo and having it blow up on social media or sold to the press though, I've seen some fairly high profile young players blatantly passing around baggies in crowded beer gardens.

probably said players paying the people who took the photos or their managers finding out and doing everything possible to not let get out.

Yes mate see below :


The Panthers Group is one of the largest group of clubs in NSW, comprising of 8 licensed venues and the Penrith Panthers NRL team.

The Panthers Group is creating “your world of entertainment” through multiple leisure, lifestyle and hospitality experiences for not only greater western Sydney but regional NSW.

With a combined membership of more than 170,000, each club provides a wide range of activities for members, their families and guests.

Penrith Panthers is currently undergoing a major redevelopment, and similar projects are envisaged for the other precincts that host Panthers venues.

The Group currently employs almost 1000 staff.

The Panthers Group takes pride in our position as a community owned organisation. The contribution that a registered club plays in its community varies, but we’re proud that the profits of the Panthers Group provide improved facilities or benefits for our members and our communities including our ‘Panthers on the Prowl’ Community Development Foundation.

I keep seeing these "grants" mentioned as well that a few clubs have picked up that seems to be the difference between making a 200k loss or a 5mil+ profit?

-PB