Two Sydney Swans gamers allegedly caught with cocaine

In line with the 9 Information report by Tom Morris, the Sydney gamers have been out of competitors on the time of the offences.

Sheppard joined the Sydney Swans for a second season after transferring from the Geelong Falcons VFLW aspect in 2022.

Hamilton joined the Swans in 2022, after taking part in three video games of AFLW with the Gold Coast Suns and North Melbourne.

That is the primary time present AFLW gamers have been publicly charged with illicit drug use, whereas there have been a slew of latest circumstances within the males’s league.

The most recent being Melbourne utility Joel Smith, who’s dealing with three doping violation allegations for the trafficking or alleged tried trafficking of cocaine, and a two-year ban from the game.

After he had his bid for a three-month suspension rejected by Sport Integrity Australia, two sources near the scenario who’re unauthorised to talk on Smith’s behalf instructed this masthead he’s prone to combat for his profession via the appeals course of on the premise that the substance was used out of competitors and was not efficiency enhancing.

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Different latest circumstances embrace that of Hawthorn, then-Collingwood, small ahead Jack Ginnivan, who was photographed with a white substance in content material that circulated on social media.

Former Swans participant Brandon Jack wrote for this masthead that as a previous participant, his reply as to whether the AFL has a drug downside is that each women and men’s gamers do cocaine.

“As a former participant, my reply to that is that AFLM gamers take cocaine. AFLW gamers take cocaine. Native footy gamers take cocaine,” stated Jack. “As do lecturers, attorneys, medical doctors. In line with federal authorities analysis, a couple of million Australians used cocaine in 2019. Lots of people have, sooner or later of their lives, touched cocaine.”