Andrew Demetriou, AFL chief executive officer. Picture: Scott Chris Source: Herald Sun
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has flagged the possibility of full time integrity officers being deployed at all 18 clubs.
As the competition joins all major codes around the country in looking itself in the mirror in the wake of the Australian Crime Commission's report in to drugs and organised crime links in sport, Demetriou said the integrity officer issue would be discussed at Monday's commission meeting.
Having revealed his league spends $850,000 a year on drug testing and also stated his confidence in Essendon playing out the season uninterrupted, Demetriou said he would advise during individual meetings with clubs over the next fortnight that a full time integrity officer may be a thing of the future.
"When you think about the high stakes in our game today, you think about things like compliance when it comes to the salary cap, you think about things like performance enhancing drugs, talk about things like gambling I think it's very, very important that every club think about having a full time integrity officer,'' Demetriou said.
"Because you actually want to minimise the risk of those things happening and 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.''
Speaking on Channel Seven, Demetriou defended the amount the AFL spends on drug testing in light of its recent $1.25 billion TV rights deal.
"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, and AFL Players Association representative Daniel Jackson said he has never known performance enhancing drugs to be a problem in the game.
He said he was "pretty sure I would'' know if a teammate had fallen foul of performance enhancing drugs.
"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,'' Jackson, also on Channel Seven, said.
"So 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 on the current playing group.
"I've been around 10 years and I've never even heard talk of this before. I can say as a current player that I have full faith that our game is of the highest integrity.''
Former Geelong captain Cameron Ling said ASADA and AFL investigations in to the matter could turn out to be a good thing for the sport, rather than giving the game a permanent black eye.
"The fact that ASADA is going to investigate what's going on, the fact that the AFL is going to audit all 18 clubs, their medical practices their supplement programs - hopefully we come out of the end that and find that there's nothing then isn't that a great thing for AFL footy?''
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