I’m still not bringing out the black cap yet.

Actually Amanda I can because it’s a template. Anyone who plays sport seriously knows how it’s done.

Come with me to your local bodybuilding gym hangout, it’s where we’ll meet the local eccy and roids supplier……the same one that hangs out at the local nightclubs.

Gotta get your gear from somewhere. And if that doesn’t work, the strength coach at the club might know a few guys you can talk to.

We know nothing, see nothing, hear nothing. Society as a whole…

Pffftt!

Yada, yada, yada ad infinitum.

Then there are the due process arguments in the face of what turns out to be criminal conspiracy.

Doping and recreational drug (and gambling) use allows criminal elements into sport in a way that has not existed before and ultimately the athletes are involved in this. Trafficking, dealing etc…

But then again what do I know? I’m just a mushroom.

Ho hum indeed.

Having ecstacy a few times a year doesn’t put you in the dickhead shock outrage string em up and never let them near kiddies category in my book. Ho hum. I don’t see how he has been protected anymore than any other human being is by their mates and colleagues. People don’t often dob in friends and family members for having a toke.

In fact if he was not an elite athlete his misdemeanour in London would not have made the front pages a world away. You and I are protected from consequences for our actions by anonymity. Far more protected than any elite athlete.

Both the NRL and AFL need to adopt a stance that no matter how great a player is, they they have to bear the full responsibility of their actions. Not have it covered up or handled with kid gloves.