Diligent, if there is any time of the week that players are...

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    Diligent, if there is any time of the week that players are super cautious with drug testing, it is game day. Players know/knew that during the season they were most likely to be tested game day and not during the week.

    Play a Friday night game and Elicit drugs (except for pot) is out of your system most likely by Monday. So the boys could have a big night out after a Friday night game and be sweet by Monday. Take into consideration the three strike rule and you could afford to run the gauntlet after a Friday or sat game. Throw in a bye weekend and the coach giving the squad the odd Monday off and u have a recepie for a "drug culture".

    The ONLY drugs a player would take prior to a game or on game day during that era is either extra pseudos or a VERY popular supplement at the time which nearly every player in the game wouldn't taken is guarana which was pretty much legal and prob still is. I have no doubts they prob got stuck into pseudos as every team would've had their fair share of blokes doing them but testing did look for high levels. Even if they did, they were often very dehydrating.

    Illicit drugs????? No player in their right mind would take ecstasy before a game and I HIGHLY doubt they would go for cocaine over pseudos when both would've had similar effects and one was bordering legal and the other not.

    Ecstasy and cocaine were just hitting the social culture around Australia at that cousins time. Common sense and a little bit of insight into testing and the game day pharmaceutical drugs at the time should tell you that they got way too caught up in what was going on all around Australia socially at the same time and not taking "illicit drugs" to win premierships.
 
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