The AFL announce new measures to their Integrity Commission to catch drug cheats including more investigators and more drug testing.
North Melbourne vice-captain and AFLPA board member Drew Peterie is shocked by the revelations by the ACC and welcomes the investigation.
AFL 360 commentator Gerard Whateley says no one and no sport is immune to the Australian Crime Commission investigation.
Government ministers and the heads of Australian sporting codes are talking tough about widespread criminal elements in sport.
Not the Bombers: Players from one of Victoria's biggest AFL teams are the subject of extensive target-testing by ASADA and the club is not Essendon.
Source: Herald Sun
A GROUP of players from one of Victoria's biggest AFL teams has been the subject of extensive target-testing by Australia's anti-doping watchdog.
The club came to the attention of the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency in about 2010 with as many as 12 players regularly tested since for performance enhancing drugs.
The club is not Essendon, at the centre of its own storm after 40 players are alleged to have taken supplements that could be illegal.
Sources have told the Herald Sun players from an interstate club have also come under suspicion and been profiled by ASADA.
It can be revealed the AFL's war on performance-enhancing drugs sees it meet monthly with ASADA and police bodies to share information and decide upon players to be target-tested.
Players regularly target-tested include those with ties to shady sports science experts, players who suddenly gain significant weight, or who have a form surge.
It is unusual for such a large group of players from one club to be target-tested. It can take several years of profiling to build cases against sportspeople who use performance-enhancing drugs.
Blood samples taken from AFL players in the last five years have been stored and can be re-tested as technologies improve.
The president of the Victorian club denied any knowledge of the tests this week.
It is believed some players are considering whether to come forward to ASADA given they are unsure what supplements they have recently taken.
AFL vows to save game
The Herald Sun revealed last month that the AFL had built a bank of biological data which could be used to prove the presence of performance-enhancing substances.
Sources said there were concerns with individual AFL players, and some players who had links to NRL players or doctors.
About 1000 tests are conducted under the anti-doping code each year, with a combination of urine, blood and EPO testing.
But the league has almost completely abandoned random testing as a way to trip up cheats, instead relying on its intelligence data base and information sharing networks with the Victorian and Federal police and the Australian Crime Commission.
Target-testing also is aimed at players who finish top-three in best-and-fairests, who have had long-term injuries, who train overseas, and who have not been tested in the previous two years.
It can be confirmed that a tip former star Gerard Healy gave to the AFL about an Essendon staffer asking about peptides at a sport conference was passed on to ASADA. But it is not known if that played any part in the investigation into Essendon.
London Olympics silver medallist Mitch Watt yesterday told the Herald Sun he could be tested up to 10 times in a two-month international season and 20 times a year.
He said football codes might have to endure more testing, and potentially blood passports for every player.
"Everyone in Australian sport is so laid back and you think if someone is a good bloke they wouldn't do it. But there will always be a percentage of people who will cheat," Watt said.
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