Show Notes
Michael Hope has been around AFL his whole life, he knows Isaac Heeney and he knows his family, and he says the Sydney Swans now have a problem that suspending five players does not fix. On this Man Cave he tells Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald what he would do if he were on that board: trade all five at the end of the season, and bring in a testing regime the club runs itself. Hope trained as a pharmacist before he was a winemaker, and the detail he brings to what a drug test can and cannot find is the part of this conversation nobody else is having.
Plus: why an AFL club cannot simply tear up a contract the way an NRL club can, what Richmond were thinking on their Mad Monday, the lawyers already circling with civil claims, and the moment Adam pulls out a set of 1930s polio calipers and a straitjacket.
UPDATE, correcting what we said on air: this episode was recorded in late August. Since then, Victoria Police confirmed on 2 September that Sexual Crimes Squad detectives interviewed four men in relation to the Pullman Hotel allegations. Riley Bice, who the club also stood down, is not being investigated over the sexual assault allegations. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid against anyone. Police expect to provide a further update in around eight weeks.
Everything discussed here is an allegation. Nobody has been charged.
Michael Hope's view of the AFL's illicit drugs policy is his own. For what the policy actually says, the AFL Players' Association publishes it directly.
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00:00 Cold Open: They've Now Got A Serious Problem 00:12 Welcome To The Man Cave 00:51 Why We Called Michael Hope 01:17 The Allegations We Are Leaving To The Police 03:54 Inside The AFL Bubble 05:22 The Five Players Stood Down 06:57 Boys Will Be Boys, And Where It Stops 08:20 The Pullman Five, And Why They Have To Go 10:39 The CEO Who Would Not Answer The Drug Question 11:47 What A Club Should Do Instead 12:38 Hair Testing: 10 To 90 Days 14:52 Civil Claims, Lawyers And The Mud That Sticks 17:44 The Isaac Heeney Nobody Talks About 21:33 Jai Arrow's 100th Game 23:54 What's In Adam's Hands: Calipers, A Straitjacket And A Gimp Mask
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