Brownlow boycott looms

[Sanecow]

Sadly not good enough your bits have to be sighted actually doing the nitrogen excretion

Just pop your head over the cubicle wall when you hear the tinkling sound.

[goswannie14]

I Think the players are completely within their rights to be angry.

If i was asked to provide a urine sample by an employer at any time, i would refuse. Similarly, i would refuse to be subject to random testing for 'social party drugs'

If i chose to negotiate that right away as part of a scheme aimed at rehabilitating fellow professionals in the 'strictest privacy' i would be mighty pissed off if that privacy was breached by a network looking for 'an exclusive'

I think this is the point that needs to be made. If, and I'm not privvy to the agreement, they bargained away the right to provide drug tests for "recreational" drugs, then they are obliged to give the samples. However, the laws of the land apply with regards to privacy, the medical records are protected by that legislation, so the network is in breach of the law if they make the documents public. As a protest I think the AFLPA is doing the right thing, treating channel 7 in the same way that channel 7 treat the football public.

[Layby]

I have been in trouble for looking over cubicles before

no thanks

[Mr_Juicy]

It is very reflective on the society we now live in where taking drugs is now acceptable and anyone who goes along the anti drugs path will be shot down. In this case ch 7 is trying to expose a drug culture that has got out of hand due the afl pathetic drugs policy.

Since when has it been ok and totally acceptable that anyone, regardless of their position in society, can take drugs? I mean last time i checked it was against this countries laws to dabble in illecit drugs.

How sad that we can now see the attitude of the new generation who have been raised to think drugs are "cool" i mean what next?

that is not why the players are boycotting ch 7

[reigning premier]

It is very reflective on the society we now live in where taking drugs is now acceptable and anyone who goes along the anti drugs path will be shot down. In this case ch 7 is trying to expose a drug culture that has got out of hand due the afl pathetic drugs policy.

Since when has it been ok and totally acceptable that anyone, regardless of their position in society, can take drugs? I mean last time i checked it was against this countries laws to dabble in illecit drugs.

How sad that we can now see the attitude of the new generation who have been raised to think drugs are "cool" i mean what next?

Right on....

I remember when women and aboriginals were barred from voting and treated as second class citizens. The death penalty reigned supreme and we had a white Australia migration policy. Those were the days.

I hate people who want to change society and it's values.

Whoops. Look at the time!!! I gotta get to the pub and get blind before they close at six so I'm inebriated enough to slap the little woman around a bit... I know deep down she loves it...

[Lucky Knickers]

No biggie. I boycott the Brownlow every year. It's as riveting as watching the drafts.
Can't blame the players for using any excuse for getting out of a BORING night. Round 1 Sydney versus West Coast: 3 votes Kerr, 2 votes Everitt, 1 vote Glass, minus 600 votes McVeigh and so on!

[Damien]

If I were the players, I'd be angrier at the Clinic than at Channel 7. They are the organisation that allowed the breach to occur.

The fact that 7 didn't name the players and are abiding by a court injunction not too would seem fair enough to me.

Continual hearsay regarding drug use and finally some proof, not quite sure 9 and 10 would not have done the same thing if presented with the same opportunity.

I would be mighty pissed off if I was 7 at the moment. Paying so much money for rights only to have the AFL CEO support the players boycott for an item ran on the network's news service.

I can just imagine the AFL reaction if Channel 9 had ran the story..."Let's find the leak now and work out how this got into the hands of a media organisation" with Eddie running around talking about how bad drugs are.