Freo's Ryan Crowley tested positive to a banned substance (afl site)

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FREMANTLE tagger Ryan Crowley has tested positive to a banned substance under the AFL's Anti-Doping Code.

The 31-year-old, who tested positive for a banned substance after Fremantle's round 17 game against GWS last year, opted to accept a provisional suspension from September.

Accepting a provisional suspension is not an admission of guilt.

Crowley played in all the Dockers' games after round 17, including their two finals.

Mystery has surrounded his absence from Fremantle's NAB Challenge squads, with the club refusing to elaborate on the reasons for his non-selection for the two games to date.

Fremantle will hold a press conference from 3pm AEDT.

More to come

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-03-16/crowley-faces-drug-ban

[tigs2011]

  idiot

[JP Tiger]

Wow, seriously ... wow!   

[Mr Magic]

 

[dwaino]

Mr Pinchy.

[Yeahright]

I remember when I posted this but it got deleted for being unsubstantiated   

[Diocletian]

Mr. Crowley - did you take the wrong pill?
Mr. Crowley - do you feel like a dill?
Mr.Crowley - are you stuffed in the head?
Mr. Crowley - your career is dead
You fooled all the umps with your tactics
You waited for play off the ball
Your downfall is hardly tragic
Your opponents will laugh at it all.....

[taztiger4]

Mr. Crowley - did you take the wrong pill?
Mr. Crowley - do you feel like a dill?
You fooled all the umps with your tactics
You waited for play off the ball
Your downfall is hardly tragic
Your opponents will laugh at it all.....

hahahah, Ozzy at his worst !

[🏅Dooks]

Bellend

[Gigantor]

No wonder the AFL is losing support among the rank and file .....WE WANT THESE THINGS TO BE TRANSPARENT

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RYAN Crowley most likely took a narcotic-based painkiller, leading sports doctor Peter Larkins suspects.

"There are only a small choice of painkiller tablets that can be used on match day," Larkins said.

"With pain killers on match day you are allowed to use Panadol and aspirin but not anything that has a narcotic component.

"When you're dealing with reasonable pain in everyday life, narcotic-based painkillers are used pretty commonly. Every day doctors would be prescribing a pain-relief tablet for high-strength pain and anyone who leaves hospital after a shoulder reconstruction or a knee reconstruction could be on such medication for a week.

"They are not performance-enhancing drugs but they're banned on the basis that if you're trying to mask pain to play sport the WADA rules have said that it's not healthy to mask pain of that severity.

"If you've got a broken ankle and I'm prescribing you a narcotic-based painkiller so you can run around the footy field, the ASADA code would say that's bad for your health and therefore it's banned for me as a doctor and you as a player to use that sort of painkiller."

Larkins said it was also possible Crowley had taken a tablet with a codeine compound.

Although typically used as a cough suppressant, codeine is also a narcotic-based painkiller, he said.

Larkins said in his experience it was extremely unusual for a player to seek prescribed pain relief from outside his club's medical staff.

The sports medico said the fact that ignorance is no excuse under ASADA rules meant players who took substances that had not been cleared by their club doctors were taking a big risk.

"This is really drilled into all of the footballers when they have their drug talk each year from the AFL so it's a pretty basic mistake to make," Larkins said.

"Their club doctors have a list of the stuff that's acceptable and they're available to hand out pain relief to players every day at the club.

"So it's not as if they can't get something from their club supplies."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-03-16/so-what-did-crowley-take

[mat073]

I bet Lids is sleeping well tonight .

[YellowandBlackBlood]

They have named the player.
They have named when he took it.


Why won't they name what the substance is?   




Strange.  Very strange.

[Penelope]

RYAN Crowley most likely took a narcotic-based painkiller, leading sports doctor Peter Larkins suspects.

"There are only a small choice of painkiller tablets that can be used on match day," Larkins said.

"With pain killers on match day you are allowed to use Panadol and aspirin but not anything that has a narcotic component.

"When you're dealing with reasonable pain in everyday life, narcotic-based painkillers are used pretty commonly. Every day doctors would be prescribing a pain-relief tablet for high-strength pain and anyone who leaves hospital after a shoulder reconstruction or a knee reconstruction could be on such medication for a week.

"They are not performance-enhancing drugs but they're banned on the basis that if you're trying to mask pain to play sport the WADA rules have said that it's not healthy to mask pain of that severity.

"If you've got a broken ankle and I'm prescribing you a narcotic-based painkiller so you can run around the footy field, the ASADA code would say that's bad for your health and therefore it's banned for me as a doctor and you as a player to use that sort of painkiller."

Larkins said it was also possible Crowley had taken a tablet with a codeine compound.

Although typically used as a cough suppressant, codeine is also a narcotic-based painkiller, he said.

Larkins said in his experience it was extremely unusual for a player to seek prescribed pain relief from outside his club's medical staff.

The sports medico said the fact that ignorance is no excuse under ASADA rules meant players who took substances that had not been cleared by their club doctors were taking a big risk.

"This is really drilled into all of the footballers when they have their drug talk each year from the AFL so it's a pretty basic mistake to make," Larkins said.

"Their club doctors have a list of the stuff that's acceptable and they're available to hand out pain relief to players every day at the club.

"So it's not as if they can't get something from their club supplies."

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-03-16/so-what-did-crowley-take

do they still allow pain killing injections during a game?

[WilliamPowell]

do they still allow pain killing injections during a game?

Yep, but only the ones that are approved