The Club has been sanctioned $2,500 for failing to provide up-to-date player whereabouts information to ASADA.
While no tests were missed and the club had endeavoured to keep all details up to date with regular reminders to its players, the Club has been sanctioned as the rules needed to be fully complied with at all times.
Under the operation of the AFL’s code with ASADA, it is the club that is sanctioned for the failure to provide whereabouts information, not the individual player, but in this case a player had failed to keep his club informed of all of his movements and contact details.
Under the requirements of the Anti-Doping Code, all clubs in the AFL competition are required to keep ASADA notified at all times of the whereabouts of listed players for testing purposes. AFL players may be tested 365 days of the year for WADA prohibited drugs.