TIME TO GO JOBE
A great guy. Fantastic advocate for his club and the sport. But unfortunately, has taken a banned substance, whether to his knowledge or not, and thus should face the penalty of a min. 6, 12 or 24 month ban.
Essendon FC implemented a supplements program they admitted was 'on the edge'. Well if you play on the edge, there is every chance you will fall off.
EFC and its players will fall and it looks like Jobe has fallen. The rules have been broken.
The penalty may be harsh, given it's highly likely players were misinformed as to what they were taking, but this issue has been prevalent sport for a long time.
The modern Olympics, the benchmark for human athletic achievement for over a century, would judge this occurrence with a ban; even after numerous appeals.
It is likely that the excuse of 'I trusted my doctor" would not negate guilt. The athlete takes full responsibility.
I bet less than 5% of Australian Olympians get paid close to what Jobe does, yet they manage to keep abreast of all the rules and all the details associated with drugs in sport. And whilst they struggle to keep down a day job, find small sponsors to get by, they still abide by the rules on mass.
Watson, whom I have met, and is a lovely guy, and I feel for him, is a full-time professional athlete and has a plethora of resources around him. No excuse mate, he must take the fall if proven to take a banned substance at the time.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
ENOUGH is ENOUGH ADAM GOODES!
You've got 2 Premierships, 2 Brownlow's and 3 Best & Fairest's. Football has served you well and you have certainly delivered on the main arena to be one of the all time greats. But seriously BOO F&$kin' HOO over this blown out circus, all about a young 13 year old girl calling you an Ape.
Firstly, you point her out in the midst of a game, after you heard the remark "something something, you big Ape!" Strike me down Adam, I can't believe you played on!
This resulted in the girl taken away from her family, interrogated and scrutinized in a room for apparently 2-hours. Then you grand stand to the media for 20 minutes post-match, carrying on about why being called an Ape cuts you to the core and denigrates your ancestries' 40,000 year history.
When I grew up, the playground at school was a cauldron of racist remarks and taunts. No vilification policy there. But not once can I remember the term 'Ape' being used to racially abuse or marginalise a particular race or background.
To categorise someone as an 'Ape' was generally based on the fact that they were 'hairy', like an Ape. So someone's Dad who rocked up to school in a singlet or open shirt, with masses on hair protruding from the top and back of their shoulders and top of their chest, was usually a target for remark the next day.
According to Darwin, we're only a few degrees of separation from Apes, so why the big fuss?
Adam, no offence, but if you were placed in a random line-up of 10 blokes off the street, I'm sorry to tell you mate, but you're almost a certainty to be the closest look-a-like to the main Ape, King Kong.
Which takes us to the next overblown saga in this debarkle. Now Eddie Everywhere has put his foot it and may just cost him his career. Fair enough he extended the whole issue past where it should have gone, but if this issue had not risen like it had in the first place, the topic would never have reached the proportions it has and thus no comment from his triple M show would have transpired.
I'm sure Eddie also sees this issue as over the top, which is perhaps why he effectively parodied it on air. But he has 25 years of media experience and will get through the scrutiny. The 13 year-old, single handedly pointed out by the apparent white-knight of football, I'm not so sure.
I do feel genuine concern for this girl. Whilst at 13, she is not entirely innocent for her actions, in the world of AFL and the media it generates, she is more than just innocent, she's simply incapable of being able to harness and ward off the immense pressure the media and Adam Goodes have brought on her.
13 is an age where teens are entirely impressionable and still understanding their own self. I am no psychologist, but I have grave concerns this incident will scar her emotional DNA for life, and for what, calling a dark skinned, bearded man an 'Ape'.
Move on Adam and target the fools and racists who clearly make racist remarks and taunts, as we have seen via You Tube the past week. You are a great statesmen of the game, but you have used your position to corrupt the propoganda which you stand behind.
Educate the kids Adam, don't punish them.
You've got 2 Premierships, 2 Brownlow's and 3 Best & Fairest's. Football has served you well and you have certainly delivered on the main arena to be one of the all time greats. But seriously BOO F&$kin' HOO over this blown out circus, all about a young 13 year old girl calling you an Ape.
Firstly, you point her out in the midst of a game, after you heard the remark "something something, you big Ape!" Strike me down Adam, I can't believe you played on!
This resulted in the girl taken away from her family, interrogated and scrutinized in a room for apparently 2-hours. Then you grand stand to the media for 20 minutes post-match, carrying on about why being called an Ape cuts you to the core and denigrates your ancestries' 40,000 year history.
When I grew up, the playground at school was a cauldron of racist remarks and taunts. No vilification policy there. But not once can I remember the term 'Ape' being used to racially abuse or marginalise a particular race or background.
To categorise someone as an 'Ape' was generally based on the fact that they were 'hairy', like an Ape. So someone's Dad who rocked up to school in a singlet or open shirt, with masses on hair protruding from the top and back of their shoulders and top of their chest, was usually a target for remark the next day.
According to Darwin, we're only a few degrees of separation from Apes, so why the big fuss?
Adam, no offence, but if you were placed in a random line-up of 10 blokes off the street, I'm sorry to tell you mate, but you're almost a certainty to be the closest look-a-like to the main Ape, King Kong.
Which takes us to the next overblown saga in this debarkle. Now Eddie Everywhere has put his foot it and may just cost him his career. Fair enough he extended the whole issue past where it should have gone, but if this issue had not risen like it had in the first place, the topic would never have reached the proportions it has and thus no comment from his triple M show would have transpired.
I'm sure Eddie also sees this issue as over the top, which is perhaps why he effectively parodied it on air. But he has 25 years of media experience and will get through the scrutiny. The 13 year-old, single handedly pointed out by the apparent white-knight of football, I'm not so sure.
I do feel genuine concern for this girl. Whilst at 13, she is not entirely innocent for her actions, in the world of AFL and the media it generates, she is more than just innocent, she's simply incapable of being able to harness and ward off the immense pressure the media and Adam Goodes have brought on her.
13 is an age where teens are entirely impressionable and still understanding their own self. I am no psychologist, but I have grave concerns this incident will scar her emotional DNA for life, and for what, calling a dark skinned, bearded man an 'Ape'.
Move on Adam and target the fools and racists who clearly make racist remarks and taunts, as we have seen via You Tube the past week. You are a great statesmen of the game, but you have used your position to corrupt the propoganda which you stand behind.
Educate the kids Adam, don't punish them.
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