Andrew Demetriou, AFL chief executive officer. Picture: Scott Chris Source: Herald Sun
THE AFL wants its 18 clubs to employ full-time integrity officers to guard against the infiltration of drugs and organised crime.
THE AFL wants its 18 clubs to employ full-time integrity officers to guard against the infiltration of drugs and organised crime.
League chief executive Andrew Demetriou revealed the drastic proposal last night as he insisted the AFL did not have a serious problem with performance-enhancing drugs.
"To the best of our knowledge . . . it's a very clean game," he said.
Demetriou said he believed Essendon, the subject of a probe by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority with the potential to have players banned, would play out the season.
But deputy chief executive Gillon McLachlan said the league had made contingency plans for a 17-team competition this year.
"I think it is our responsibility to canvass and plan for every scenario," McLachlan said on Channel 9.
The "club cops" move would come on top of an already announced AFL commitment to bolster its integrity unit with more investigators and whistleblower protection.
Demetriou told Channel 7 last night it was "very, very important that every club think about having a full-time integrity officer".
"If you can put someone in place that can help you minimise that risk and report up to your board, then that's far, far more important than investing in another coach, for example, because one poor decision at a football club can have dire consequences," Demetriou said.
He said AFL medical officers were working with clubs to make sure each player's supplements were approved by team doctors.
Demetriou said integrity reforms, prompted by last week's Australian Crime Commission report into sport, would be further debated at an AFL Commission meeting on Monday.
He defended the number of drug tests conducted for the league -- about 1100 performance-enhancing and about 1500 illicit on most recent official statements.
"We spend $850,000 on our drug testing and we don't actually do the tests, we outsource our tests to ASADA," he said.
"We sit down with ASADA every year and we say to ASADA please tell us how many tests we need to conduct for the amount of players we've got. We do a significant amount of testing . . . we've had four years of collecting blood and blood profiling and we'll be the first sport to introduce the blood passport . . . in this country."
Richmond midfielder Daniel Jackson said he had never been aware of performance-enhancing drugs in the game.
"I think the issue here for AFL players is that there are tests done, there have been for however many years, and they've never come back with a positive," he said.
"To come out now with all the speculation because one report says there is a chance that it's across Australia I think is a little bit unfair."
AFL legend Leigh Matthews told Channel 7 he would not have felt comfortable dobbing in a teammate on suspicion of doping.
"The ability to dob in anonymously, people might take more advantage of that because it's removing you, I guess, from the personal angst of dobbing in a teammate," he said.
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