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Geevas back i said..................yeah right!
I made a feeble attempt and trying to motivate myself to come up with a blog post, and here we are 3 months later and still nothing.
Write about the Cats Geevsy said, okay lets do that. (im always happy to take requests from my one regular reader)
The Cats
They are crap!
There you go geevsy i hope you found my comments insightful. I hope you can now sleep easy at night knowing that this information will guide you and help you understand Geelong's performances throughout 2007.
False Advertising
Stardom is an amazing thing, How often we see a superstar of any kind be drawn to the darker side, not be able to handle the fame and especially the fortune that comes with being under the public spotlight 24/7.
It happens everywhere and to anyone who is making more money than they can spend.
Of late it seems to be sport stars, the rise and fall of a couple of West Coast Eagle stars is not suprising, its been happening in the west for years, didnt the Cocaine rumours first start with Chris Mainwaring some 10 years ago?
Everyone knew that Cousins and Gardiner were mates with drug runners and gang members in the west, so wasnt it obvious then that there would be some type of drug related issue? what did the eagles do about it? Nothing is the answer, they growled and grumped but they never put their foot down in the first instance.
It wasnt until Gardiner started writing cars off on a weekly basis that they dispatched him, and now it would seem that the 3 players the AFL has been hiding from the media due to positive out of season drug tests would surely all be from way out west.
Ben Cousins has a meth addiction, Gardiner the same no doubt, and Daniel Kerr has admitted on a taped phone conversation to taking horse sedatives. These type of drugs leave your system within days even hours, so when they have to be back on the training track the next morning no one would ever know unless like Benny you turn up after having just taken a hit, or not at all.
The amount of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight 24/7 must be horrendous, these guys cant just rock down the local, it draws too much attention and who ever tried to train at 6am the next morning with a hangover? So the alternative lock yourself in a room with your team mates, take some hardcore junk and relax, wake up the next morning with no side effects and away you go. I have another suggestion if you cant handle it, FIND A NEW JOB!
So why the heading False Advertising i hear you say? Well its simple. Kids idolise guys like Ben Cousins, he is a ball magnet and is a sensational player, he has been portrayed as a role model for all kids Australia wide. Yet now we find out some years later that in fact he is bruised and damaged goods.
I guess no other star has suffered a larger rise and fall than the guy i idolised as a child Gary Ablett Snr. Undoubtedly one of the greatest players ever to pull on a pair of footy boots, he electrified crowds week in week out and no doubt made himself a tidy little sum of money. When he retired from footy he turned to drugs, he has admitted not liking the public eye and declared himself a very private man, wether his drug use was a way to escape reality only he knows.
He checked in to rehab, and apparently has got himself sorted out, he stays out of the public eye except to turn upto the footy to watch his boys, he can usually be seen wearing a cap and sunnies every saturday so as to try and hide.
As a boy growing up i saw Ablett as a hero, now i see him as a legendary footballer but a silly old man who should have known better. I feel like i was cheated as a kid, i should have had a hero who was pure and wholesome.
To all sporting stars!
before you jab that needle in your arm, or pop that pinger, think of all the kids that are going to be heart broken when they hear on the radio that their hero is nothing more than a drug addict!
I made a feeble attempt and trying to motivate myself to come up with a blog post, and here we are 3 months later and still nothing.
Write about the Cats Geevsy said, okay lets do that. (im always happy to take requests from my one regular reader)
The Cats
They are crap!
There you go geevsy i hope you found my comments insightful. I hope you can now sleep easy at night knowing that this information will guide you and help you understand Geelong's performances throughout 2007.
False Advertising
Stardom is an amazing thing, How often we see a superstar of any kind be drawn to the darker side, not be able to handle the fame and especially the fortune that comes with being under the public spotlight 24/7.
It happens everywhere and to anyone who is making more money than they can spend.
Of late it seems to be sport stars, the rise and fall of a couple of West Coast Eagle stars is not suprising, its been happening in the west for years, didnt the Cocaine rumours first start with Chris Mainwaring some 10 years ago?
Everyone knew that Cousins and Gardiner were mates with drug runners and gang members in the west, so wasnt it obvious then that there would be some type of drug related issue? what did the eagles do about it? Nothing is the answer, they growled and grumped but they never put their foot down in the first instance.
It wasnt until Gardiner started writing cars off on a weekly basis that they dispatched him, and now it would seem that the 3 players the AFL has been hiding from the media due to positive out of season drug tests would surely all be from way out west.
Ben Cousins has a meth addiction, Gardiner the same no doubt, and Daniel Kerr has admitted on a taped phone conversation to taking horse sedatives. These type of drugs leave your system within days even hours, so when they have to be back on the training track the next morning no one would ever know unless like Benny you turn up after having just taken a hit, or not at all.
This was sent to me during the week, it seemed appropriate!!
The amount of pressure that comes with being in the spotlight 24/7 must be horrendous, these guys cant just rock down the local, it draws too much attention and who ever tried to train at 6am the next morning with a hangover? So the alternative lock yourself in a room with your team mates, take some hardcore junk and relax, wake up the next morning with no side effects and away you go. I have another suggestion if you cant handle it, FIND A NEW JOB!
So why the heading False Advertising i hear you say? Well its simple. Kids idolise guys like Ben Cousins, he is a ball magnet and is a sensational player, he has been portrayed as a role model for all kids Australia wide. Yet now we find out some years later that in fact he is bruised and damaged goods.
I guess no other star has suffered a larger rise and fall than the guy i idolised as a child Gary Ablett Snr. Undoubtedly one of the greatest players ever to pull on a pair of footy boots, he electrified crowds week in week out and no doubt made himself a tidy little sum of money. When he retired from footy he turned to drugs, he has admitted not liking the public eye and declared himself a very private man, wether his drug use was a way to escape reality only he knows.
He checked in to rehab, and apparently has got himself sorted out, he stays out of the public eye except to turn upto the footy to watch his boys, he can usually be seen wearing a cap and sunnies every saturday so as to try and hide.
As a boy growing up i saw Ablett as a hero, now i see him as a legendary footballer but a silly old man who should have known better. I feel like i was cheated as a kid, i should have had a hero who was pure and wholesome.
To all sporting stars!
before you jab that needle in your arm, or pop that pinger, think of all the kids that are going to be heart broken when they hear on the radio that their hero is nothing more than a drug addict!
Geeva wishes everyone a VERY HAPPY EASTER!
Labels: ablett, cousins, drugs in sport, geelong
posted by geeva at 4/06/2007 10:42:00 am
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