Adelaide Crows footy operations boss David Noble says helping players find life balance is crucial. Picture: Ray Titus Source: The Advertiser
ADELAIDE will target slashing players' temptation for off-season "volcanic behaviour'' when AFL and club bosses meet at next week's player welfare summit.
The conference involving club delegates, the AFL Players' Association representatives, medicos and drug experts aims to address growing concerns over players' use of illicit drugs, especially during off-season and mid-season breaks.
The meeting is understood to be a scheduled gathering of league kingpins ahead of pre-season competition, but has taken on a drug-use flavour after Collingwood chief executive Gary Pert raised the issue of players' "volcanic behaviour'' when club leaders last gathered on the Gold Coast last year.
Though no agenda has been set, it has been confirmed Drug Foundation chief executive John Rogerson will speak at the round-table discussion.
Crows acting football operations manager David Noble who will attend in place of chairman and acting chief executive Rob Chapman said Adelaide so far had no specific concerns to raise.
Noble said helping players find life balance to cut the lure of behavioural benders during end-of-year trips and ever-shrinking off-seasons was crucial.
"The main focus for us is to make sure we've got enough data and done enough investigation into what causes this (drug use),'' Noble said.
"It's OK to look at the results of those things, they're out there for people to see. It's really about getting to the cause of those issues.
"If we as a club or the AFL can tweak those causes, then we'd all be happy to do that.''
The AFL reported six out-of-competition strikes across the league in 2011, and chief executive Andrew Demetriou this week warned the 2012 figures were likely to spike.
Port Adelaide chief executive Keith Thomas yesterday said the concentration of young men at football clubs made it unrealistic to expect a clean sheet in AFL testing when illicit drugs remained a broader social problem.
"This is an important issue for us to fully understand and address, and that's what we will be doing next week,'' Thomas said.
"We are talking about matters that are also concerns for society, but we would be naive to think that football is somehow quarantined from the influence of factors including drugs.
"Football is, however, well placed to address these issues in its own interests and perhaps in the interests of wider community education.
"While AFL players are subject to stringent testing, it may be that there is a better way and that is what we need to discuss.''
The drugs summit comes as the AFL plans a major concussion conference on the eve of the premiership season's opening round.
The two-day meeting, on March 20 and 21, is set a week after the expected release of new international guidelines on management of concussion in sport.
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