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Municipal Waste - Electrified Brain

Meanstreak - Blood Moon

MARS - Project Driver

Banjo Bloodbath - Appalachian Anarchy Deathgrass Symphony - Appalachian Anarchy

Gloryhammer - Return To The Kingdom Of Fife

Oh dear.

Venom - Welcome To Hell

But so far the entire year of 2024 hasn't happened.

Metal Church - Congregation Of Annihilation

So far the entire year of 2024 hasn't happened.

1 week does not maketh the year

Kitties and metal go hand in hand, so says the metal god!

We are still here we just get drowned out by all that BM silliness. Rest assured if you post something thrashy someone will respond. Other than Havok (who I don't particularly like) I've posted something from each of the bands you mention sometime over the last 12 months.

Eddie probably got it from someone else and is just repeating it because someone told him it was right.

Iron Curtain - Jaguar Spirit

Well for one the policy in place rarely rules in or out whether the player was drug effected during games or not. But being drug free is a rule the players agree to as a part of their contracts. Whether any one person cares about it doesn't really come into it. Neither does the players own health or the effects it has on their personal lives. It can become a litigious issue if players start saying the drug culture was forced upon them by the teams because then it becomes an employer/employee situation. But that's probably never going to happen even if teams have been encouraging their players to take drugs of any kind. It certainly didn't happen last time one team was found to be pushing performance enhancing drugs on their players. The news did rabbit on about it for months and the team coped pointless sanctions and fines that were probably never paid, some players even threatened legal action but then it just fell away from the news. Today we have an AFL football player standing up against racism. Sure no sensible person condones racism, especially against his kids when they are in their own back yard. But this story of first nations player standing up against unknown racists feeds the good news for the code. It wont delete the current drug stories and today is a slow day for news given how everything religious takes over on Good Friday in this country. But it will give the AFL breathing room it needs to congratulate the player and keep the drugs scandal at the back of the news for 24 hours or so. A few more good stories and the AFL gets less and less talk about the bad which is exactly what they need to start sweeping the drug scandal back under the rug where it's lived for years.

Dead Head - Shadow Soul

Joe Sat - Surfing With The Alien

Yes they can, they've been doing it. There is no other sport in the world that created it's own drug policy the way the AFL did. The three strike system was always made to protect the players and avoid serious sanctions against teams and players. FFS the AFLW system doesn't even have a full drugs policy in place and that sees two female players who were caught over Christmas not even sanctioned by the system. Even if the cheating and lying can be proved Sport Integrity Australia will find fault, demand a weak penalty, probably monetary which wont even be paid in full, then tell the AFL to improve things. Just like the gambling commission did with Crown Casino. And just like the casino the under hand ways will go deeper, out of sight of people, until they get caught again.

Slayer - God Hates Us All

Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

The problem with stopping funding is how much the governments loose. Look at the BS around Crown Casino in Melbourne. After all the corruption that has been found they are still deemed worthy to hold a gambling licence. Why? Because they are the only company big enough to operate such a licence in this state and because it's in the governments best interest to keep the casino operation. The AFL is a cash cow for the government, both state and federal, so the funds we see, and the ones we don't, that the Government put into the AFL come back into the coffers and into the communities tenfold. No government would allow such a operation to be unfunded. If NSW and QLD governments are happy to prop up NRL over the really bad years where teams like the Bulldogs etc were in the news every day for the wrong thing and it over shadowed the games being played there is little these clubs will do that governments wont fund. They tell the media they are unhappy but they wont stop funding it.

Parkcrest - ..And That Blue Will Turn Red

I think that the fact that the first statement from the AFL on the matter was not a statement of denial says a lot. It wasn't an admission of guilt either but usually the AFL's first response is to deny everything. However it's not overly surprising, most Victorian's have known for years that the AFL are a law unto themselves. They dictate to the Victorian Government. They dictate to VicPol and they have been able to keep police from investigating criminal activities (for eg players doing business with OMG's). And their drug policy has been a joke since the day it was invented to save their sorry arse employees from criminal convictions. The NRL might not be exactly the same, their drug rules are slightly better, but don't expect things to be too much different for them just because it's not been found out yet.

That's what I assume with half the posts I read too