Oppo Camp Former Freo player watch

[mightymouse75]

You want to do your best to raise your kids not to partake. Once they move out you don't have much of a say anymore.

 

[s_wd6]

You want to do your best to raise your kids not to partake. Once they move out you don't have much of a say anymore.

You don't have a say in what they do. You can't control them. But you should at the very least be informed when they engage in life threatning behaviour.

 

[Vintage]

There are thousands and thousands of people aged anywhere from 15 to 35 (or more) taking legal and illegal drugs every week and putting their lives in danger. Is someone telling their parents?

No.

 

[s_wd6]

There are thousands and thousands of people aged anywhere from 15 to 35 (or more) taking legal and illegal drugs every week and putting their lives in danger. Is someone telling their parents?

No.

And how many OD because no one could help them?

It’s not a good thing.

Not to mention taking drugs recreationally is one thing, and completely different to being dependent on them in your day to day life. If your mate was in that same position and you knew about it you would just keep it a secret from the rest of his family? What is the benefit in that?

 

[DocT]

Maturity is not a function of a number in a birth certificate.

The correspondence may not be 1:1 but maturity is a function of your age. Anyhow, legal definitions certainly go by DOB and then there is wriggle room around this defined point.

 

[DocT]

And how many OD because no one could help them?

It’s not a good thing.

Not to mention taking drugs recreationally is one thing, and completely different to being dependent on them in your day to day life. If your mate was in that same position and you knew about it you would just keep it a secret from the rest of his family? What is the benefit in that?

I think a lot of people are making a lot of unfounded assumptions about the extent of Harley's drug use when he was at Freo and Melbourne. Drugs can get you kicked out of a footy club WAY before they become serious life/death matters.

 

[s_wd6]

I think a lot of people are making a lot of unfounded assumptions about the extent of Harley's drug use when he was at Freo and Melbourne. Drugs can get you kicked out of a footy club WAY before they become serious life/death matters.

The fact that he had so many strikes in such a short amount of time should tell you that it was a serious problem

 

[freo_leo29]

The fact that he had so many strikes in such a short amount of time should tell you that it was a serious problem

People recreationally do em every weekend at that age, that could easily rack up strikes.

So you can't know for sure.

 

[mightymouse75]

He was an adult living in a society that doesn't like to take responsibility for its own actions.

 

[DeanS]

I hope today’s game means we no longer hear from the Sam Collins Fan Club that we should never have let him go. Spudded it up dreadfully all day.

 

[mike91]

I hope today’s game means we no longer hear from the Sam Collins Fan Club that we should never have let him go. Spudded it up dreadfully all day.

One bad game hey, that's all it takes?

Not part of some fan club, just find your comment to be very questionable at best

 

[E Shed]

I hope today’s game means we no longer hear from the Sam Collins Fan Club that we should never have let him go. Spudded it up dreadfully all day.

Does Walters last few weeks negate his career?

 

[freo_leo29]

Does Collins even have a fan club on here?

He has been an average player in one of the worst teams in the comp for years, he regularly has bags kicked on him.

We don't miss him at all.

He had one purple patch of a season (2020 in shorter games so there was less scoring anyway) but otherwise he is just an average player.


Solid foot soldier but just plain average.

 

[stax on the mull]

Lachie Weller up for any gardening chit chat.

My Garden Path | Lachie Weller - Gardening Australia

We meet Lachie Weller, an AFL player sporting an abundant fruit and vegetable garden as he rekindles his passion for growing food.

www.abc.net.au

 

[MadMundy]

Lachie Weller up for any gardening chit chat.

My Garden Path | Lachie Weller - Gardening Australia

We meet Lachie Weller, an AFL player sporting an abundant fruit and vegetable garden as he rekindles his passion for growing food.

www.abc.net.au

Weller will always have my respect for netting us Brayshaw, yeah the exit was tough but still, he netted us that draft hand.

 

[MadMac]

And how many OD because no one could help them?

It’s not a good thing.

Not to mention taking drugs recreationally is one thing, and completely different to being dependent on them in your day to day life. If your mate was in that same position and you knew about it you would just keep it a secret from the rest of his family? What is the benefit in that?

Two different things. Mates could say something but club/doctors can’t for legal reasons (blame law, lawyers, lawsuits etc for that) since there’s that “medical” adjective attached to it.
I actually agree with your sentiments as a parent and I don’t like this system at all but that’s the law.
I was recently informed by Medicare and private health insurance provider that I no longer have access to my son’s records since he turned 18. If he gets any medical attention that he doesn’t voluntarily tell me about, I’ll have no idea whatsoever.

 

[Mr Cheese]

Weller will always have my respect for netting us Brayshaw, yeah the exit was tough but still, he netted us that draft hand.

That means he's also indirectly responsible for us getting Amiss too. Should probably get in the Freo Hall of Fame to be fair.

 

[StingBitten]

Balic hung out with Bennel and Yarran. Nuff said. Wish he attached himself to others.

I have it on fairly good authority Bennell was using regularly during his time at the club, Yarran wasn't using during his time with the club but was after being delisted.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Wouldn’t Karmichael Hunt have had an indirect in Balic’s drug use?

 

[gaskin]

Wouldn’t Karmichael Hunt have had an indirect in Balic’s drug use?

In what way?

 

[freo1997]

Gee wasn’t Bennell just a waste of space. Worst player traded in off field and on field. Balic’s family should be blaming him not the organisations of Dockers and Melbourne.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

In what way?

If Hunt had a drug issue back then, perhaps it was normalised in Harley Bennell’s mind and Harley would’ve taken it with him to Freo.

Him, Balic and Yarran were Freo newbies for 2016.

 

[Taylor]

Rumour is that Hunt introduced Gold Coast to drugs, which was where Bennell began his journey with them, which introduced Balic to them

 

[One_Wing]

I doubt a sports club, a sports club located at Gold Coast of all places, needed much effort to introduce drugs into the environment. And I doubt Balic or Bennell were teetotalers before entering the AFL system. I think there are societal issues here that can't be solved within an industry that hands hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to young men.

 

[anchor man]

As a club we have attempted to act as a good club in trying to rehabilitate some players. Bring them home and fix their problems.We have Others like Sylvia, was just bad bad management. But again, the club thought he was fixable, curable. But sadly not.
Glady, the club have realised that being a half way house was never going to work.And hopefully we will never go down that road again.
I am not including Harley Balic

Harley Balic

Age

27

Ht

187cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.3

5star

CL

1.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

6.5

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

3.3

4star

T

3.3

5star

CL

1.5

4star

in any of this. Who know how, when or why he began with his issues. The club knew he had problems(personal). Did they know it was drug related, who knows.
But it is my belief that Harley Balic

Harley Balic

Age

27

Ht

187cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

M/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.0

3star

K

6.5

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

3.3

3star

T

3.3

5star

CL

1.5

4star

No current season stats available

D

13.0

4star

K

6.5

3star

HB

6.5

4star

M

3.3

4star

T

3.3

5star

CL

1.5

4star

asked to be traded to Melbourne.Not a case of Fremantle off loading him because of his issues.
A sad story.