Detail in Ginnivan scandal 'that beggars belief'

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AFL greats Tim Watson and Garry Lyon person weighed successful connected the league's narration with illicit drugs successful the aftermath of the latest ungraded involving Collingwood subordinate Jack Ginnivan

Ginnivan, alongside different man, was filmed by a subordinate of the nationalist successful a toilet cubicle in possession of a achromatic illicit substance, pursuing the club's pre-season campy past month.

Speaking connected Radio SEN, Watson could not recognize wherefore immoderate nonrecreational jock would hazard their wellness and vocation by taking illicit drugs.

However, the erstwhile Essendon skipper did admit the power of the nation's wider cause culture, peculiarly the societal acceptance successful young adults.

"I deliberation the satellite has benignant of moved on. I deliberation radical retired determination are reasoning that excessively overmuch of an contented is made astir drugs due to the fact that they're conditioned to seeing truthful overmuch cause usage successful wide society," helium said.

"Then they're reasoning of people the players bash what each different young idiosyncratic does oregon astir young radical bash astir that property bracket, and older too, and that is they enactment successful taking amerciable substances.

"What worries maine astir astir each of this is what it leads to, and the information that you've got idiosyncratic connected a footy campy who gets 12 hours oregon a time disconnected and they deliberation that the close happening to bash oregon the happening that they privation to bash is enactment successful amerciable cause taking."

Ginnivan's actions person raised questions astir the players' acquisition and grooming connected illicit substances.

"They whitethorn person conscionable had a lecture connected fare and each things you request to enactment successful your system. We request to marque definite that we're cautious astir what we devour and we've got person our tegument folds down, each that benignant of thing," Watson said.

"Then they spell and enactment thing successful their assemblage that they've got nary thought of however it was controlled, however it was made, what it was chopped with, wherever it was cut. The deficiency of information and the issues astir that, that beggars content for maine for idiosyncratic progressive successful an elite, nonrecreational grooming programme and athletics [to bash that]."

"Is it excessively overmuch successful this time and property to expect that these privileged young men who find themselves successful AFL football, successful an elite contention who get paid good for what they do, and a batch of that wealth comes from fans - is it excessively overmuch to expect that they don't behave arsenic young men of the aforesaid property behave successful wide society?

"Is it excessively overmuch to expect that you motion up to play AFL shot and you don't instrumentality drugs?"

Lyon's judgement followed a akin pattern, quizzing Ginnivan's mindset portion participating successful a nine camp.

"I'm thinking, 'Oh yeah, well, that happens, it's nine and it won't beryllium the past time'. Then I halt to think, 'He was connected a grooming camp'," helium said.

"It was a three-day grooming campy arsenic I recognize it. I'm not condoning immoderate cause taking astatine all, but I'm reasoning you're successful the mediate of a grooming campy and the archetypal happening you bash oregon tin deliberation of doing is to leap into a nationalist toilet with a cardinal afloat of ketamine.

"This isn't, fto maine person a mates of choofs of an aged associated oregon something. This is diving astatine the heavy end, isn't it? That's what I thought anyway."

Looking beyond Ginnivan, Lyon considered wherever the enactment should beryllium drawn on taking illicit drugs erstwhile it is occurring retired successful the public.

"How galore drugs are you allowed to take, then, earlier you go acrophobic if you're a teammate oregon a participant?," helium said.

"I'm conscionable funny to cognize wherever it sits. Is determination an representation occupation oregon is the representation conscionable portion of beingness these days? Is the AFL close to accidental we're not present to sanction and shame, we're present to help?

"Is this wherever it's astatine and is this what we've got to woody with?"

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