F*ck me. Anyone carrying on here like these players are drug cheats is a moron.
Unless they went out and sought Dank to supply them stuff after it was known what was going on, then all they are guilty of is ignorance.
Punishment is more than appropriate for stupidity. All the carry on about anything more is dickheads with an axe to grind because they don't like the players involved.
Anyone who thinks taking the plea is nothing more than a claytons admission to just make the shit go away is beyond geniused.
I will never consider any of these players drug cheats unless evidence shows they went outside the club protocol after an issue was discovered.
Precisely.
The fact that the substances were allegedly administered after the captain's run suggests it was only those players who were due to play a game who would be 'offered' the substance.
That 17 players - with retirements, potentially every single player who played in that 5 week period - all took the substance shows just how low the players' moral culpability is.
The concept of a reasonable person permeates the law. Very generally speaking, you aren't held accountable if you behave in the way a reasonable person would have done in your circumstances. That's a very hackneyed summary. The fact that so many players allegedly took the substance to me shows that either a) They're all cheats b) Or were ignorant, and their ignorance and lack of enquiries are no different to the way most players in their positions would have acted.
The whole thing points to a systemic failing within the club and the code itself.
In my opinion.
