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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: mat073 on August 17, 2017, 08:03:56 PM
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http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/chris-yarran-speaks-on-drugs-addiction/news-story/452468fed41905a63f7f8505772325c2
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Praise the lord
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Well they hid that one well. As the saying goes lying is the second language in AFL.
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For those who can't access the article due to the paywall.
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Chris Yarran talks drugs battle and end of career
Herald-Sun
17 August 2017
FORMER AFL star Chris Yarran has spoken about how his career was lost to a horror battle with drug addiction.
Yarran has sensationally revealed that throughout his AFL career he was gripped in a battle with methamphetamines and ice, after being introduced to drugs by a family member.
The footballer played 119 games for Carlton across a six-year AFL career that showed great promise.
Yarran was taken at pick number six in the 2008 AFL draft, but his drug habit would never allow him to reach the heights his potential promised.
The former Blue revealed all in a YouTube video, which he calls his testimony.
“Drugs were something I had despised my whole life,” Yarran says.
“I remember, as I was about to try ice, I said to myself ‘this will either be a good night or it would ruin me’ — It ruined me.
“It destroyed my relationship, my career, my finances and my health — physically and mentally.
“Physically, I went from a fit, healthy athlete, to a slob. I stacked on the weight and that’s when I started to miss training, because I didn’t want to be seen in the messed up state I was in.”
Yarran was traded to Richmond in 2015, as the Tigers hoped to resurrect the halfbacks career.
But, he would never play a game for the Yellow and Black, due to his inability to get on top of his demons.
“I would be awake for days and that started to take a toll,” Yarran said.
“I remember sitting in my bathroom for hours smoking meth, isolating myself from everyone and that’s when my mind would take over.
“Once I didn’t get a kick out of smoking, that’s when I started injecting it.
“I tried every avenue of help that the professionals recommended — counselling, psychiatrist, rehab. I spent four weeks in rehab for $1000 a night and the day I walked out, I was back on meth. This ended my footy career and a move back home to Perth.”
While his drug issues may have been known to some, his stuttering football career was said to be to ongoing “mental health issues”.
Only now do we know the true extent of Yarran’s battle, but he is fighting back.
Yarran has praised the work of a Perth pastor, who has helped the former AFL star find God. Now there’s hope Yarran can find his way back to football, at WAFL club Swan Districts.
“I remember feeling so down about myself, then I realised I’d hit rock bottom. I realised I was a person who had everything and then lost it all,” Yarran said.
“It was February 20, 2017, when Pastor Steve dropped around and invited me to a special series of meetings at the church. I made a decision that morning that I’d tried every human resource, the best the world had to offer, I needed something supernatural.
“I’d grown up knowing God was real, but I never knew who God was. That day, I came to church, I remember going down to the front and praying a prayer of repentance for my sins and I accepted Geez Geez into my heart. I met God.
“I remember feeling like a new person. For so long, I tried to overcome the darkness inside me, but the moment I accepted Geez Geez as my lord and saviour, everything changed.
“The darkness was gone, replaced with a light that gives me joy and peace that I searched for in my career and in drugs.
“I no longer had a desire in drugs, drink, gambling and partying. It was like I was made an entirely new person from the inside out. I was born again.”
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/chris-yarran-speaks-on-drugs-addiction/news-story/452468fed41905a63f7f8505772325c2
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:clapping
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That's really sad for the guy.
I know it's a personal thing but as supporters/members we are treated as mugs by our club.
We all pay our money but yet the club lies to our face.
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Also not a great reflection on the AFL's drug detection program.
How does an AFL footballer get away with being undetected when clearly he was more than just a recreational user??
It just goes to show you what a "Micky Mouse" programme it must be.
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Yeh the drug program is a joke. Players get away with it every weekend.
You'd think a case as bad as yarrans might draw some attention though
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It's sad but good on him though.
He could have chosen the ben cousin loser way out of it, but didn't, and now his on the mend.
Full respect
As for the RFC and particularly BH get stuffed
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Also not a great reflection on the AFL's drug detection program.
How does an AFL footballer get away with being undetected when clearly he was more than just a recreational user??
It just goes to show you what a "Micky Mouse" programme it must be.
Part of it is caused by this "self reporting" option...
Throw in the 3 strikes
Unless you are target tested like certain other players are and have been then it would seem easily
Agree the system is a farce
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On the positive side, I'm glad the guy has been successful so far in his drug rehab. Substance abuse can be one of the hardest things to get over and you're never really completely over it, having to constantly make sure you are not tempted back to that dark world. :thumbsup
On the negative side, the RFC recruiting team did not perform due diligence to find out he had this problem before giving up what they did for him. I know that privacy issues mean that there is no necessity for disclosure by any party but there was enough murmurs at the time to at least mean that the RFC should have investigated him more thoroughly. :thumbsdown
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Where was Geez?
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Carlton should be referred to the ACCC for knowingly selling faulty goods, sneaky stuffing scumbags.
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Where was Geez?
Busy being crucified.
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Carlton should be referred to the ACCC for knowingly selling faulty goods, sneaky stuffing scumbags.
Yep breach of consumer guarantee laws
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At the very least the AFL should investigate what and how much Carlton were aware of it before the trade. If there was any knowledge at all they should be sanctioned and their 2nd round pick this year and next year should be sent to the Tigers as compensation.
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At the very least the AFL should investigate what and how much Carlton were aware of it before the trade. If there was any knowledge at all they should be sanctioned and their 2nd round pick this year and next year should be sent to the Tigers as compensation.
+1 to that (or should it be Amen to that)
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How about we take responsibility for our actions.
Its fairly well known that Cotchin approached the board and Dimma to warn them off the trade on advice from Kruezer.
As much as I am dirty on the trade too, its our fault.
And the club had no obligation what so ever to tell members Yarran was off the rails with a drug habit. That's private and personal information and a massive issue within society.
Move on and look forward.
There is always a winner and a loser in most trades for a whole range of reasons.
:gotigers
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LMFAO at blaming others.
yeah i was sold a car when i was 18 that fell apart a year later. I should sue that guy also
Knowing how BH and dimwit operate its should be no surprise.
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LMFAO at blaming others.
yeah i was sold a car when i was 18 that fell apart a year later. I should sue that guy also
Knowing how BH and dimwit operate its should be no surprise.
After a year - yep very plausible deniability for the previous owner. But if you have been misled or blatantly lied to about the conditions of the car you would have grounds for legal recourse.
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From Barrett's 'sliding doors' column:
IF ... you look at the official Richmond list ...
THEN ... Chris Yarran's name is still on it. Imagine if he was up and firing entering the finals, which was obviously the plan when the club drafted him at significant cost at the end of 2015. Really glad, though, for him that he has taken a positive step in his drug rehabilitation.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-08-18/sliding-doors-round-22
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We all posted he was an ice head and had them deleted.
Geez.
That was productive.......
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LMAO @ "that's sad for him"
He's made millions, while he smoked ice and sat on his fat arse.
Now he cites Geez - The last refuge of a scoundrel.
Sneaky little prick who is laughing out of his bank account.
stuff him and the iFuck clowns who run the club.
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LMAO @ "that's sad for him"
He's made millions, while he smoked ice and sat on his fat arse.
Now he cites Geez - The last refuge of a scoundrel.
Sneaky little prick who is laughing out of his bank account.
stuff him and the istuff clowns who run the club.
:clapping
Of course, it wasnt his choice to take ice. Society held a gun to his head and made him do it, then made him endure such unforseen adversity. ::)
Whilst many of us were tipping in hundreds of dollars a year towards his contract.
The age of personal responsibility is over. If you make poo life choice decisions which effect others dont stress - you will be revered as a courageous hero.
#drugaddictsarethenewheros
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RFC
Hiring Iceheads EST 2016
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He is still on our list this season.
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Richmond footy boss Neil Balme says club knew of issues
August 18, 2017 10:57am
Sarah Olle
FOX SPORTS
RICHMOND recruited Chris Yarran at the end of 2015 despite knowing “a reasonable amount” about his off field issues, says Tiger footy boss Neil Balme.
Yarran revealed in a video posted to Youtube that he had a crippling ice addiction — one that ultimately ruined his career and prompted a return to Western Australia.
While it’s unclear whether Yarran was using ice while at Carlton, it appears that his time at Punt Road coincided with his substance abuse.
Balme told SEN that Richmond were aware Yarran had off field issues when they recruited him to the club on a three-year deal.
“We did know a reasonable amount about it,” Balme said.
“But a really positive thing is that is seems like he is a much better place.”
Richmond gave up Pick 19 in the trade for Yarran, which Carlton used to secure speedy midfielder David Cunningham.
Cunningham won the Rising Star nomination in Round 12, booting two goals in Carlton’s shock upset win over GWS.
Yarran never played a game for Richmond, with a combination of physical and mental health issues preventing him from getting on the park.
The 26-year-old was released from his contract with Richmond in November 2016, but Balme refuted suggestions the club hadn’t done enough to help the forward.
“We didn’t offload him. He couldn’t play and couldn’t train, so we came to an agreement,” Balme said.
“Obviously we were aware of it (his issues), because he would have told us because one of the team and he wanted to get better and he wanted us to help him and the club worked very hard to do it.
“But he wasn’t able then train and do the work he had to do to give himself a chance to play, in his judgment.
“We gave him every chance to do that and I think we’ve helped him enormously and I hope that we are part of the fact that he is now able to say that I’m back on track and I’m trying to get myself back into gear.”
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/richmond-footy-boss-neil-balme-says-chris-yarran-was-recruited-despite-knowing-of-off-field-issues/news-story/c3f24b70008fee10c73b3679057eccc3
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Richmond Tigers were aware of Chris Yarran's drug issues, says Neil Balme
Jon Pierik
The Age
18 August 2017
Richmond football-department chief Neil Balme said the Tigers were aware of Chris Yarran's drug issues when the two parties came to an agreement to part ways after the 2016 season.
Yarran joined the Tigers from Carlton in exchange for pick 19 after the 2015 campaign but did not play a senior match and required time away at home in Perth to deal with personal problems.
Opening up about the ice addiction that ruined his footy career, former AFL speedster Chris Yarran gives a deeply personal account of how drug addiction impacted his life.
The former star defender, 26, revealed in a candid video interview that he had battled an ice addiction.
AFL chief Gillon McLachlan defended the league's illicit-drugs policy on Friday, while Balme revealed the Tigers were aware of Yarran's issues when he was delisted.
"Obviously, yes, we did know a reasonable amount about it. The really positive thing is that it seems like he is in a much better place," Balme said.
"It was a genuine challenge. I, obviously, wasn't there when Chris came to the club and he had some real problems."
Balme, who had been at Collingwood, only joined the Tigers after the season had finished. He said he had "no idea" whether Yarran, who had been traded from the Blues, had drug issues at his former club.
There is no suggestion Yarran was on ice before joining the Tigers, with the AFL Players Association declaring on Friday players, regardless, were entitled to confidentiality even if they were to be traded.
"For the players, confidentiality's a key pillar of the [AFL illicit drugs] policy," the PA's player development boss Brett Johnson said.
"Players submit themselves to this policy voluntarily, but as a collective, they want to make sure their mental health and wellbeing is looked after and are aiming to address that through the illicit drugs policy."
Balme denied the Tigers had "off-loaded" Yarran.
"He couldn't play, he couldn't train, he was unable to do it – so we came to an agreement that he was going to go home," Balme said on SEN.
Balme did not want to go into specifics, other than to add: "Of course, we were aware of it.
"He (Yarran) would have told us because he was one of the team and he would have wanted to get better and he wanted us to help him and the club worked very hard to do it but he wasn't able then to train and do the work he had to do to give himself a chance to play, in his judgment, in the end.
"We gave him every chance to try and do that. I think we have helped him enormously and I hope we are part of the fact that he is now able to say: 'Look, I am back on track and I am trying to get myself back in gear'."
Yarran said he had been introduced to the methamphetamine by a family member. His life collapsed from that point, leading to the end of his football career.
Despite dealing with notable personal obstacles, Yarran played 119 games with the Blues and was an integral figure in their rise during the Brett Ratten era before he began to fall apart in the final year of coach Mick Malthouse's tenure. This included being dropped by interim coach John Barker for being late for training.
Yarran joined the Tigers unfit and overweight and required foot surgery on the eve of the 2016 season. He would not play a senior match. While he subsequently returned early for pre-season training before the 2017 campaign, he was still overweight and far from being in the right football condition. The two parties would cut their losses soon after.
Yarran had been working with Tom Couch, the son of the late Brownlow medallist Paul Couch, who he had hired as a personal trainer. They had travelled to Thailand in September where Yarran enrolled in an intensive training camp focusing on kick boxing.
McLachlan said Yarran's ice addiction did not mean the league's illicit-drugs policy had failed, and pointed out the player could have been in rehabilitation during his time away from training.
"It's very plausible that he was being treated by his club's medical officer and the AFL medical officer because he wasn't playing," he said on 3AW.
"Part of the model is that if you actually have a problem or vulnerability that is identified through the program and you then are not able to play and you are treated.
"I am at arm's length to it. I don't know specifically if Chris was a player like that but he didn't play football for a couple of years. That's very possible that he was being treated by the right people for the whole time."
Balme said players were hair tested twice a year, allowing clubs to keep an eye on any drug issues.
In the video, produced by the Potters House Christian Fellowship Church, Yarran opened up about his troubled childhood.
"Some of the memories I'll never forget is seeing my own mum being beaten in front of me," he said.
He said when he was nine-years old, his father had been jailed for 18 years.
Yarran, who spent a month in a $1000-a-night rehabilitation clinic but failed to kick the habit, revealed he would be high on ice and awake for days.
"I went from a fit, healthy athlete to a slob. I stacked on the weight and that's when I started to miss training because I didn't want to be seen in the messed-up state I was in," he said.
"I remember sitting in my bathroom for hours smoking meth, isolating myself from everyone, and that's when my mind would take over."
He said turning to religion had changed his life.
http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-tigers-were-aware-of-chris-yarrans-drug-issues-says-neil-balme-20170818-gxz082.html
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This stuffn afl nepotistic media.
There's not a set of balls between them.
It's common knowledgeYarran was on the pipe at Carlton.
It's the first factual explanation offered for his standing on the ground with his hands on his hips and not giving a stuff.
Oh, don't forget, he played the mental illness card as well.
So that's, Addiction, Geez, Cash and disrespecting mental illness.
What a catch!!
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And FTR, I found Geez one night in Santa Monica.
It was the drugs.
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RFC
Hiring Iceheads EST 2016
RFC - Recruiting Footy Crackheads
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This stuffn afl nepotistic media.
There's not a set of balls between them.
It's common knowledgeYarran was on the pipe at Carlton.
It's the first factual explanation offered for his standing on the ground with his hands on his hips and not giving a stuff.
Oh, don't forget, he played the mental illness card as well.
So that's, Addiction, Geez, Cash and disrespecting mental illness.
What a catch!!
You know what peees me off? People who use Mental illness as an excuse for hiding behind crappy life choices to absolve themselves of responsibility.
It's also an insult to people who have genuine mental illnesses who haven't bought it on by self inflicted substance abuse.
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This stuffn afl nepotistic media.
There's not a set of balls between them.
It's common knowledgeYarran was on the pipe at Carlton.
It's the first factual explanation offered for his standing on the ground with his hands on his hips and not giving a stuff.
Oh, don't forget, he played the mental illness card as well.
So that's, Addiction, Geez, Cash and disrespecting mental illness.
What a catch!!
You know what peees me off? People who use Mental illness as an excuse for hiding behind pooty life choices to absolve themselves of responsibility.
It's also an insult to people who have genuine mental illnesses who haven't bought it on by self inflicted substance abuse.
Agree with both of you
He's a stuffing idiot
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And FTR, I found Geez one night in Santa Monica.
It was the drugs.
Is that how Geez found god or was it how god found Geez?
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This stuffn afl nepotistic media.
There's not a set of balls between them.
It's common knowledgeYarran was on the pipe at Carlton.
It's the first factual explanation offered for his standing on the ground with his hands on his hips and not giving a stuff.
Oh, don't forget, he played the mental illness card as well.
So that's, Addiction, Geez, Cash and disrespecting mental illness.
What a catch!!
You know what peees me off? People who use Mental illness as an excuse for hiding behind pooty life choices to absolve themselves of responsibility.
It's also an insult to people who have genuine mental illnesses who haven't bought it on by self inflicted substance abuse.
Agree with both of you
He's a stuffing idiot
He's stuffing brick.
You know what else? Over his contract I've probably tipped in close to $3,000 in memberships and merchandise purchases at the club. That was my choice and I'm an idiot for supporting him and the fools who got him to the club.
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Now it's out I think a few of people will have second thoughts on extra support for the club.
It defies credibility that Hardwick and the recruiting team didn't know. If the Cotch thing is true then I'm very dissapointed in the club
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Looks like I will need to tip in a bit more next year then to cover you flogs
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Now it's out I think a few of people will have second thoughts on extra support for the club.
It defies credibility that Hardwick and the recruiting team didn't know. If the Cotch thing is true then I'm very dissapointed in the club
Of course they stuffn knew.
But their inflated sense of worth and ability, across the board, saw them actually believing they could set him straight.
That's how stuffn stuoid this admin are.
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Looks like I will need to tip in a bit more next year then to cover you flogs
:lol
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Apparently most didn't know as per the AFL drug policy.
Read the AFL Drug policy Rules.
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This stuffn afl nepotistic media.
There's not a set of balls between them.
It's common knowledgeYarran was on the pipe at Carlton.
It's the first factual explanation offered for his standing on the ground with his hands on his hips and not giving a stuff.
Oh, don't forget, he played the mental illness card as well.
So that's, Addiction, Geez, Cash and disrespecting mental illness.
What a catch!!
You know what peees me off? People who use Mental illness as an excuse for hiding behind pooty life choices to absolve themselves of responsibility.
It's also an insult to people who have genuine mental illnesses who haven't bought it on by self inflicted substance abuse.
Here here. pee weak excuse
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Mark Williams reveals how he helped Chris Yarran overcome ice abuse at Richmond
Mark Williams,
Herald Sun
19 August 2017
THE moment Chris Yarran confided in me he was using “ice” presented me with one of the biggest dilemmas of my football life.
It was early into his time at Richmond, and he was already under considerable pressure because he was injured, bringing about a negative head space for him, and constant attention from others.
He came to me one day, and said, ‘I need to tell you something ... I need to be honest’. I said to him, ‘What do you mean?’ I immediately went around to his house and he told me.
Having not really known anyone with that sort of problem, I was like, ‘Where did you get it?’ He assured me it came from outside the club and had nothing to do with the Richmond Football Club.
My first reaction was to feel for him. Who knows what comes first, injuries, depression or drugs? But it was tears that followed.
Chris had some major family issues at the time, but if you add in his constant battle with injuries, mental health issues and the drugs, it became a toxic mix.
My second reaction — and the most powerful — was how can we help him. That was where the dilemma came in, given the football environment that we operate in, I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone about Chris’ problem.
I actually agree with the AFL’s policy of keeping players’ drug issues private. But knowing what I knew about Chris put me in an awkward position.
I was employed by the club and had a great working relationship and connection with senior coach Damien Hardwick, yet I wasn’t able to tell him what was really happening to the player who was meant to be his star recruit.
We made a pact that whenever I called him - no matter what time of the day or night - he had to answer the phone. I told him I wasn’t judging him; I just needed to know that he was OK.
He would always answer when I rang.
I called over to his house as often as I could, to check on him. Whenever he was in the shower or distracted, I would have a quick look around the place to make sure nothing was out of hand or looking through his fridge to make sure it was stocked with the right stuff.
It wasn’t long before I found out that the doctor also knew of Chris’ problem. When I discussed it with the doc, we were as relieved as each other that we could work together to help Chris.
There is huge pressure and enormous responsibility on the doctors at all clubs in this regard. The AFL must acknowledge that and take care of them too.
Others within the club, including the players, who were out of the loop, thought he was unprofessional and letting the team down when he missed a training session or a meeting or a massage. They didn’t know.
In the end, I convinced Chris we needed to bring “Dimma” (Hardwick) into the loop.
It took me a while to get him to agree to that, but once we did, we also let a few others into our small circle of trust, including football manager Dan Richardson.
Unbeknown to most people inside the club and everyone outside of it, we put into place a lot of measures, including sending Chris away for rehab.
The amount of love and care invested in Chris from a small group of people - who didn’t want anything other than for his welfare to be attended to - was something they should be proud about.
Unfortunately, Chris never got to play a game with the Tigers, but that circle of trust have never stopped hoping he would one day get his life in order.
Watching Chris’ video on Thursday night was a marvellous thing. He has found God and seems to have found some peace.
If it turns out Chris Yarran is a happy man, living a clean and grateful life, it will be a big tick — and a big relief. Reflecting on it now, it is great to know that the AFL and Richmond, in particular, had the welfare of the player as the most paramount objective.
I am sure that other clubs reading this understand how important building trust between players and the staff at the clubs works in everyone’s best interests.
Who knows? Being a football coach, you also start to think that maybe - just maybe - the game could give this guy another chance, because such rare talents are hard to find.
Mark Williams was a member of the Richmond coaching staff in 2016
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/teams/richmond/mark-williams-reveals-how-he-helped-chris-yarran-overcome-ice-abuse-at-richmond/news-story/9e6ea4fdb94060ca74ca238110f52c49
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Choco - you're in charge of the ice head.
LMAOOO
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This thread title
For sucks sake, the football public are morons.
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If god is all powerful and all knowing, why did he and his son sit on their hands with indifference as he got addicted in the first place?
Seems pretty callous. Geez could have prevented this.
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Whats the bet now that god has had his way that he returns to footy and we get nothing for him.
Absolute grub this bloke.
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As far as 'm concerned, if it's proven that Carlton knew about this then the AFL should strip them of their first round picks for every year he was on our list and give them to us.
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Yarran troubles 'had a profound impact' on Tigers
afl.com.au
19 August 2017
RICHMOND was unaware of the depth of former player Chris Yarran's drug-fuelled problems when he joined the Tigers from Carlton at the end of 2015.
Yarran stunned the football community when he revealed in a candid interview the ice addiction that destroyed his AFL career and almost his life, before religion helped save him.
Richmond knew about his drug issues when it parted ways last year with the West Australian, who failed to play a match for his second club after 119 with the Blues. It is unclear if Yarran started using drugs at Carlton, but he said a family member introduced him to methamphetamines.
Tigers coach Damien Hardwick, who described Yarran's experience at the club as "harrowing" for everyone involved, was sympathetic to his plight.
Hardwick said then-football boss Dan Richardson and former assistant coach Mark Williams worked closest with Yarran to "try to get the best result for us" but "unfortunately it didn't work out".
"It became pretty evident from early on there were some issues there, and what comes first – the mental problems or the drug addiction? It's probably chicken and the egg, really," Hardwick said on Saturday morning at Melbourne airport.
"But we gave him as best support as we could. We don't get confronted with these things on a daily basis, so they're really hard and it's an issue within society and the person themselves that is addicted to the drugs but also the family unit is deeply affected as well.
"It had a profound impact on our footy club."
Hardwick said it was unlikely Yarran would ever make it back to the AFL, but wished the 26-year-old well and was pleased he was seemingly on the road back to full health.
"The welfare of the player is always the first and foremost thing in our minds, and for Chris to find God to get his life back on track is certainly exciting for him," he said.
"It was a harrowing experience for Chris and our footy club at the time and we're just glad he's through the worst of it and looking forward and positive with his life, which is great."
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-08-19/yarran-troubles-had-a-profound-impact-on-tigers
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And the club had no obligation what so ever to tell members Yarran was off the rails with a drug habit. That's private and personal information and a massive issue within society.
Agree with this but gee wiz they tried to send us through swings and roundabouts as much as the possibly could.
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I’m trying to get myself back into gear.”
Poor choice of words :lol
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Simple as that club didn't do there homework and knew he had issues and to do a trade for pick 18 shocking.
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As far as 'm concerned, if it's proven that Carlton knew about this then the AFL should strip them of their first round picks for every year he was on our list and give them to us.
as if our limp wristed club would ever have the balls to publicly show any anger or dissatisfaction towards the afl or another club.
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When hardtwit says he didn't know before they recruited him I just find it hard to believe him. Too many people lie in the AFL and it's too convenient a narrative. It sounds like something a spin doctor dreamt up.
I note he hasn't been forth coming with what he did know and who did the checking into him and what the various Calton people said. Still trying to hide as much as possible and spin the story.
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I wonder what bearing this had on our derailed season if anything??
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Lets ask Yarran. He has a direct phone line to Geez and God now.
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Richmond had a right to know Chris Yarran's drug secrets
Caroline Wilson
The Age
22 August 2017
The sad but ultimately hopeful story of Chris Yarran's battle with ice addiction cannot help but vindicate critics of the AFL's illicit drugs policy and raise the eye brows of football supporters who analysed every nuance of that 2015 trade period.
Richmond entered the 2016 season full of hope off the back of three successive finals appearances and a newly contracted coach. Having stood solidly behind its star Dustin Martin over the chopsticks affair before Christmas the negative vibes for the club began in earnest when Yarran turned up at pre-season training out of sorts and out of shape.
The Tigers had traded in Yarran under some pressure after an unremarkable previous trade period and having just missed out on Adam Treloar in controversial circumstances. The deal was done shortly before the final deadline after Carlton had held firm demanding pick No. 12 for the prodigiously talented but troubled player. Ultimately the Blues accepted pick No. 19.
The following points are made in the full knowledge that Yarran's efforts in playing AFL football at all were mighty given the personal challenges he has faced all his life. His well-being going forward is the first order priority and should he continue to beat his demons then that too will be a mighty effort.
But that doesn't change the fact that Richmond, like every other club,had a right to know what some at the AFL must have known as it closely monitored that trade period. While it is not known whether Yarran came to the Tigers with one or two drug detections he was soon placed on avery strict management program and had confessed his ice problem to assistant coach Mark Williams.
Clearly Yarran's drug problem had not developed from nowhere over that first unhappy pre-season at Tigerland. Richmond might put its hand up now and admit the club could have delved further into the player's issues given his known problem with gambling, problematic final season at Carlton and his troubled background. But Yarran's manager Paul Connors is one of the most respected and successful in the game.
His reputation is that he knows his players as well as any agent and yet he insists he didn't know about this player's ice issue. Ditto Carlton who held out so determinedly for that first round draft pick.
So - if those to parties are to be believed - how could Richmond be expected to unearth the problem when the game's system focuses so heavily upon protecting the player's privacy? As 2017 nears the end at least two big name players have been the subject of massive long-term contracts, a practice that will continue as free agency matures and yet the club has no way of knowing whethe rany of those players may come to a new club with a 'problem'. It's happened before on several occasions and in most cases been successfully managed.
The AFL and the player's Union continue to insist drug addiction or even evidence of a drug habit is a private issue. Both compare it to mental illness which players and bosses agree has become the biggest challenge facing footballers and by extension their clubs.
But - and clearly the two are often connected - clubs have become increasingly frustrated at the total lack of any avenue to check on a potential recruit's drug history. Drug use is not only illegal bu tmore importantly can negatively impact more than just one player. And like a congenital knee condition it can be quite easily tested. There is no suggestion Yarran's drug addiction became a problem for his short lived team mates.
Their only issue was frustration that a big name recruit was seemingly not putting in. And Richmond reportedly has no plans to take the issue to head office.That ship has sailed. In fact the club according to the league deserved much credit for how it cared for Yarran, for the length of time it supported him and for the more than reasonable settlement it reached. And for the manner in which it respected and honoured his privacy.
The Mark Williams News Limited column attested to all of the above. But - and clubs are the most ruthless bodies in football - failed trades can have a domino effect among club personnel. Damien Hardwick came under huge job pressure last year as did his football boss Daniel Richardson and list manager Blair Hartley.
The Tigers' failed season cannot be squared at Chris Yarran but it was one early and key morale deflator.And his decision to go public on that powerful piece of film has not only given hope to fellow sufferers but has also empowered a number o fclub chiefs and their boards who have railed for years against the AFL's drugs policy.
http://www.watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/richmond-had-a-right-to-know-chris-yarrans-drug-secrets-20170821-gy15ey.html
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I thought it was already stated that our captain Trent Cotchin had already informed the club from information he'd received from one of his mates at Carlton (Kruezer I think).
Wouldn't that mean that the club already had information prior to completing the trade but clearly chose to ignore that information?
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I thought it was already stated that our captain Trent Cotchin had already informed the club from information he'd received from one of his mates at Carlton (Kruezer I think).
Wouldn't that mean that the club already had information prior to completing the trade but clearly chose to ignore that information?
Yes
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I think Caro is choosing to take the party line as she's a Richmond gal. She is now trying to shift the blame to Carl scum. Good on her but to ignore your captain seems very poor form if it's true.
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We should never ever deal with carlscum again and I'd be reading the riot act to paul Connors as well, I know he's a big player in the industry but stuff him, we got taken for a ride and on principle we should blacklist both
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Common knowledge he was a problem child.
Our football dept made a stupid decision.
You may say we were bent over by those blue bast..ds.
The fact is, we fell into it ourselves. :banghead
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AFL clubs might need to ask for compensation if they cannot test trade prospects for drug use
Michelangelo Rucci,
Chief Football Writer,
The Advertiser
23 August 2017
CAVEAT emptor ... buyer beware. This is the theme every AFL list manager and recruiting chief should remember in October when working the player trade market.
Yes, it is possible — most prudent — and accepted as the norm to send a prospective recruit to the club doctor to have his shoulders, knees, ankles, hamstring and back checked. Even his eyes. After all, it is the trade period is known as the “meat market”.
But no, as serious as the need is today, there is no avenue for asking a player to subject himself to a drug test. And there is no recourse if, as Richmond has learned with Chris Yarran, the player has a drug issue or strikes against his name.
So it is buyer beware. And it is highly unlikely this will change, regardless of the debate that begins with the Yarran case.
Certainly the players’ union — the AFL Players’ Association — would never push for change. It has engineered a drug policy that is a “welfare” system for its members. It will not allow these drug tests to limiting the players advancing to a new deal at a new club.
Everything about the AFL illicit drug policy — which the players remind all is taken up on a voluntarily rather than a edict from AFL House — is about confidentiality. And helping any player who falls in to the social drug cycle to find his way out with public shaming.
There is no chance of the players endorsing drug checks be added to medical tests during the trade period. More so if a club immediately stops trade talks after testing a player for drugs. The confidentiality — that the experts say is paramount to ensure successful rehabilitation from social drugs — would be blown.
So list managers and recruiting chiefs need to be diligent in their study of a players’ football ability — and his lifestyle off the field.
Chris Yarran in action for the Swan Districts reserves side in the WAFL. Picture: Daniel Wilkins
Yarran was released by Carlton to Richmond — for draft pick 19 — in the hectic last hours of the 2015 trade period. His manager Paul Connor says he did not know of Yarran’s drug problem (with ice) as he made the move from Princes Park to Punt Road. Carlton is equally adamant it had no insight to Yarran’s woes.
If there was a positive test on Yarran’s record it was known by the drug testers, the AFL medical officer and, on multiple strikes, the Carlton team doctor charged with making sure the 2010 Rising Star nominee was in rehabilitation sessions.
Yarran has not played an AFL game for the Tigers. And he continues to eat into Richmond’s salary cap by the contract he signed on being traded by Carlton.
There is no fallback point for the Tigers through the AFL system. No tribunal to hear a case on why the Tigers should be handed a compensation draft pick for misjudging Yarran’s soundness for AFL football.
But perhaps there should be. Again such a hearing would destroy the confidentiality that allows a player to make a full recovery. Although in this case it is Yarran who has put his drug issues to Richmond — after being traded — and later on the public record.
For now, the best advice is — buyer beware.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/afl/expert-opinion/michelangelo-rucci/afl-clubs-might-need-to-ask-for-compensation-if-they-cannot-test-trade-prospects-for-drug-use/news-story/3158264d173a1286709fbac832b0e56e
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about time someone had the balls to come out and say it - absolute rort
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So the question is why did the club chose not to listen to the information given by our club captain and trade away our pick 19 for an ice addict?
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It is a stuffing disgrace and the AFL should be ultimately held responsible. Contracts should be terminated if the player is using illegal drugs and welfare should be handled and paid for by the AFL. What insurance do clubs have against absolute fraud like this?
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Didn't you effers hear? Geez is involved now.
It's all resolved apparently
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:lol
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Looks like he's found something again....... :shh
https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/former-afl-star-chris-yarran-facing-two-charges-after-overnight-arrest-20181110-p50f8y.html
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Looks like he's found something again....... :shh
https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/former-afl-star-chris-yarran-facing-two-charges-after-overnight-arrest-20181110-p50f8y.html
Well he certain doesn't do things by halves. Alleged to have stolen two cars in this little effort.
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:banghead
Be careful, you know the rules.... nowhere in the article does it mention what the original post suggested
Stick to what's in the article, not personal speculation
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:police:
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:banghead
Be careful, you know the rules.... nowhere in the article does it mention what the original post suggested
Stick to what's in the article, not personal speculation
Sorry, referring to this article
https://www.news.com.au/sport/chris-yarran-charged-with-assaulting-a-police-officer-after-alleged-car-stealing-spree-in-perth/news-story/4efeb740db50442c8e8be0edf90d8a5d
I actually wasn't referring to anything in the original post other than that Yarran was in serious trouble with the law. My bad.
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Well they hid that one well. As the saying goes lying is the second language in AFL.
lol this. Every man and his dog knew what was going on when it was going on yet we did cartwheels to get the bloke ahh the rfc !!!! thank god we now at least have one bloke in balmy who knows what goes on.
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I just wish we could win a premiership but the club has no idea
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I just wish we could win a premiership but the club has no idea
Lel
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Well he has been a naughty boy
https://www.9news.com.au/national/news-wa-former-afl-star-jailed-for-perth-crime-spree/8054cf2e-722a-40f7-ba8d-1d434df4bc9c
Former AFL player Chris Yarran has been jailed for five years for a meth-fuelled crime spree across Perth, which included assaulting a policeman and trying to steal his gun.
Yarran, 28, has been in prison since he was arrested for the November rampage, which started on Perth's suburban fringe and ended in the city when he was tasered.
He pleaded guilty to offences including dangerous driving, aggravated robbery and criminal damage.
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Defence lawyer Terry Dobson today detailed Yarran’s tragic past, saying he began using methamphetamine in 2014 while playing at Carlton and there was some “upheaval” at the club.
“It quickly took over,” he said. Yarran spent some time in rehabilitation in 2015 before his retirement from the game after signing with Richmond but retiring the following year.
It was in 2017, Mr Dobson said, that his life spun out of control, as he dealt with the Tigers’ premiership win “which he was not a part of”.
The court was told he “experienced a sense of loss” as by that point he was playing with Swan Districts Football Club “not at the elite level”.
His emotional turmoil was compounded with the deaths of his niece and cousin, former Fremantle Docker Shane Yarran.
“From that point on, his abuse of meth skyrocketed,” he said. “He saw no point, almost in life.”
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/former-carlton-richmond-player-chris-yarran-jailed-over-crime-spree/news-story/1036bfcd578345e7b2f977ebd35db85d
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Geez didn’t help
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Amen brother Wayne
Can I get an hallelujah
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
What a load of crap
Good things happen to those that help themselves .. which has zero to do with jeebus
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
What a load of crap
Good things happen to those that help themselves .. which has zero to do with jeebus
You can believe what you want but you must learn to be tolerant of others beliefs. That attitude you displayed is exactly why the world will never improve...... :shh
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
What a load of crap
Good things happen to those that help themselves .. which has zero to do with jeebus
You can believe what you want but you must learn to be tolerant of others beliefs. That attitude you displayed is exactly why the world will never improve...... :shh
That’s just his opinion - I don’t see him abusing others who have a different view.
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
What a load of crap
Good things happen to those that help themselves .. which has zero to do with jeebus
You can believe what you want but you must learn to be tolerant of others beliefs. That attitude you displayed is exactly why the world will never improve...... :shh
That’s just his opinion - I don’t see him abusing others who have a different view.
An opinion can be displayed in a calmer or more rational way.....
If I was in Saudi and said I have Christian beliefs they would not care but if I told them that Islam is a load of crap they’d probably execute me..... :shh
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Ybb is a doctor. He is giving people free advice. Its good advice just quietly as well.
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Amen brother Wayne
Can I get an hallelujah
This is Highly offensive to me as a Christian
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Thump your bibles in private
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Tends to help those who help themselves..... :shh
What a load of crap
Good things happen to those that help themselves .. which has zero to do with jeebus
You can believe what you want but you must learn to be tolerant of others beliefs. That attitude you displayed is exactly why the world will never improve...... :shh
That’s just his opinion - I don’t see him abusing others who have a different view.
An opinion can be displayed in a calmer or more rational way.....
If I was in Saudi and said I have Christian beliefs they would not care but if I told them that Islam is a load of crap they’d probably execute me..... :shh
But we’re in Australia but people call it as they see it
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But we’re in Australia but people call it as they see it
Yep. All people on OER a bunch of wishful, self-Righteous, has-beens who speak without thinking or without any qualification for their opinions.
But bugger me them minority’s deserve one hell of a tongue lashing. Put em in their place, team!
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Come on Doug, speak for yourself son.
:shh
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Geez didn’t help
Rarely does
Amen brother Wayne
Can I get an hallelujah
This is Highly offensive to me as a Christian
Thing is...
What one person finds offensive another doesn't ... It's one of the great thing about living in democracy
Example
There's been alot of homophobic slurs that get have been posted on here that I find offensive
But the majority of them don't get removed... Why? Because (1) others don't find them offensove and I have to respect that and (2) sometimes leaving it says more about the person posting...on a number of levels
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Wait, some of us get bans for misinterpreted 'baiting' and you let homophobic slurs through to the keeper?
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Why are we banging om about Geez and not sinking the boot in Yarran. Sounds like he deserved prison big time, has made some really stupid choices given all that he had going for him. Let a lot of people down. At some point you have to give up on some people but when?
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Wait, some of us get bans for misinterpreted 'baiting' and you let homophobic slurs through to the keeper?
Yeah I've let a few yours go through to the keeper over the journey
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Wait, some of us get bans for misinterpreted 'baiting' and you let homophobic slurs through to the keeper?
Yeah I've let a few yours go through to the keeper over the journey
I've never made a homophobic comment, EVER.
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Can we re-sign him, can’t be any worse than the duds on display tonight
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Can we re-sign him, can’t be any worse than the duds on display tonight
We need Geez.
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Can we re-sign him, can’t be any worse than the duds on display tonight
We need Geez.
Amen brother
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Preach sister
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Every time I look at you I don't understand ... :shh
...how'd you let the things you do get so out of hand...:shh :shh
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Every time I look at you I don't understand ... :shh
...how'd you let the things you do get so out of hand...:shh :shh
True. We were bereft of a Superstar tonight.... :shh