‘Wildly exaggerated’: AFL boss reportedly rejects idea ‘100 players’ exploit drug policy

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AFL: Up to a hundred AFL players and several clubs are reported to be implicated in the drugs scandal rocking the league.

AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon has reportedly informed all 18 clubs that the league’s Illicit Drugs Policy will retain its current ‘health-based’ form, despite reports that a major revamp to a more “punitive” rule was pending.

Arain asserted that club doctors urged players who tested positive privately to feign injuries so as to not have to undergo testing on match days.that the league’s powerbrokers “are going to bring in a punitive code”, tipping the new guidelines to be cemented by July to be introduced ahead of next season.

 

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