Former Crows player Nathan Bock speaks to the media outside the Adelaide Magistrates Court where he pleaded guilty to assault charges in 2009. Picture: Jo-anna Robinson Source: The Advertiser
ADELAIDE has cemented its push for clubs to learn of players' drug use on the second strike, following yesterday's AFL drug summit.
But the Crows are adamant finding out about offences one strike earlier is solely to "help and support" a player, rather than protect the club's brand and reputation.
Acting football manager David Noble, who attended the summit in the place of chairman and acting chief executive Rob Chapman, said club leaders "to a man" backed earlier intervention to curb poor off-field choices.
"Purely from what we found out today and from our work on the (club's) behaviour committee, from an avenue where it allows you to be able to provide help and support to the player, absolutely," Noble said last night.
We've lived through the example of a Nathan Bock
"If you are asking us whether we want to know from the position of a brand, I would say no.
"To a man, all the CEOs were adamant ... the support network you can provide a player and an environment is essential.
"That's probably where we were coming from in that discussion."
Noble said Adelaide's response to former defender Nathan Bock's 2009 arrest for assaulting his girlfriend - after which Bock was suspended indefinitely by the club, forced to publicly apologise as well as undertake alcohol and anger management counselling - reinforced the view that early action was better.
"We've lived through the example of a Nathan Bock," Noble said.
"The ability for us as a club to be able to put a support mechanism around him in his incident, to work through that with him, get him back in the workforce and get back to some sort of normality while being able to counsel and help him through, those issues were some of the ideas thrown around today."
Noble said current AFL policies meant individual clubs were not allowed to privately test players for illicit drugs.
He conceded the policy meant Adelaide was unaware of the number of strikes, if any, at West Lakes.
But Noble said clubs could not ignore figures raised by police experts at yesterday's summit, which suggested a 20 per cent surge last year in drug use among some age groups in society.
"You're damned if you do and damned if you don't comment on things like that," Noble said. "Our players are exposed in the marketplace (in the same way) any other 18 to 25-year-old bracket is exposed.
"We know there has been a 20 per cent spike in drug use in the past 12 months. So we would be putting our heads in the sand to think some of our players were not exposed to that.
"Whether or not they step over the line, we don't know."
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