You know how some people become insanely enthusiastic when they hear you just landed a huge promotion at work, or that their best friend is getting married, or when someone is expecting a baby? They jump around like idiots and yell and cheer and some, like myself, even cry.
Well, that happened to me yesterday morning. Not because I got promoted. Not because someone I know is getting married. And not because I'm pregnant (I'm not, mum, relax).
I'll give you one good guess why....
If you said "because you're an idiot", you're kind of right, but not today. Sorry. Move along.
If you said "because the Footy season starts tonight", I applaud you.
That's right people... FOOTY'S BACK!!!!!!!!!!! F*ck Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *fist pumps*
And although we have started the season off in true controversial style, I am still foaming at the mouth at the thought of five glorious months of AFL football ahead.
Sadly, however, the controversy I am referring to not only includes the Essendon Football Club (yes, that's right, they're STILL making headlines), but it also includes two of my beloved boys in Black & White.
On March 31st, the Essendon Football Club were found NOT GUILTY of using a banned substance, making an absolute circus out of the fact we have had to listen to this shit for the last three years. Not to mention the fact I simply cannot wrap my brain around the fact that their players SELF-REPORTED, even their Captain fronted the media in tears admitting he had been injected with something, and the jury agreed the 34 past and present players involved had been injected with a banned substance, but were unanimous in their findings that the players didn't know what it was at the time.
I CALL BULLSHIT.
I'm not just saying this because I don't follow the Club. I am truly of the belief an insane injustice has occurred in this instance and that the AFL has plowed further into a deep crevice of disrepute. I hate the fact that the "worst case in AFL history" came to such a pathetic end. Why would Kyle Reimers have said ANYTHING in the first place if these players hadn't been injecting banned substances? For fun? Because he hated his own Club? I don't think so.
I, and I'm sure many others, are just hanging onto the hope that ASADA will indeed launch their appeal against the Essendon Football Club and the correct punishment for the Club will be dealt. It BAFFLES me how someone as talented as Ben Cousins could have copped a one year ban from playing AFL for having an ice addiction, and Ahmed Saad from St. Kilda received an 18 month ban for having been nabbed with a banned substance from an energy drink in his body, and now Collingwood's Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas are possibly facing a 4 year suspension and sacking from the Pies for testing positive to Clenbuterol while on training camp in February this year, yet 34 self-reporting players from one Club are found not guilty and are free to play on. Even Ryan Crowley has not been allowed to play since September 2014 due to his positive results on a banned substance which he had obtained without the Fremantle Football Club's knowledge.
I do not condone the use of drugs in sport, and I am just as shocked at the findings at the Collingwood Football Club, however I do support fair and just consequences for all.
If 34 players can get away with a banned substance and are free to play on, surely two young, talented kids who have obviously either made a terrible mistake or have been struck down by pure bad luck, should be able to play on too.
It's going to be another exciting and controversial season, floggers.
I feel a great year coming on!
Watch this space.....
Flogs, Ahoy!
Flogs, Ahoy!
-Lady K-
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