The high flying Eagles

Last year’s AFL premiers, the West Coast Eagles, have been flying high not just on the footy field. Rumours of illegal drug use came to a head recently with star player Ben Cousins suspended indefinitely by the club. It has been suggested that he has a $3,000 a week ice habit. Another player, Daniel Kerr, was caught on tape by a police investigation, in conversation with a (later convicted) drug dealer, and up to 8 players have admitted to their coach about having experimented with illegal drugs.

But Eagles chief executive Trevor Nisbett ruled out an independent investigation into substance use among his players. Who knows, it might reveal things the club and the AFL just don’t want to know!

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