http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sport ... RN4tWe_M3I
This link details what is going on. Basically one of the ex-Essendon players (who has a rep for being lazy) reckons they were made to dope. The doctor that organised this apparently did some consulting for our team too. Anyway, this has blown up into a huge story about doping all throughout Australian sport.
Here is the statement my footy Club made:
http://www.lions.com.au/news/2013-02-06 ... -statement
I feel like something is being taken away from me. Aussie Rules Football is the reason I can go out, it's the reason I have friends and I'm an extrovert. I don't want it to be bad.
I don't want him to be bad. I'm his fan because he works hard and does a great job yet so many people ignore his contributions (except recently when he won the Club Champion award, maybe people will sit up and NOTICE that he is a great player!). I try to be like that every day at work, even if I don't get accolades I try my best and do my best because I want to be like him. If he was doping...I don't think he is doping, none of the boys at our Club seem to, but now that this has all happened it makes you wonder. I don't want to doubt him, because I would feel bad if he was clean and I had doubted him...but if he was doping I would be devasted. The person I have tried to be so much like would be a lie. I would have to instantly pull my sponsorship of him without a doubt. I really don't know how I would cope.
I get to see him on Saturday though (Club Family Fun Day), and he'll probably say something nice to me and I'll completely forget all about this lol. He's always nice to me. Last year at the Family Fun Day was when I first told him I was his sponsor for the year, and he seemed pretty happy about that.
Thanks for listening (reading...whichever
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