Should The Swans Cut All Five Loose? | Man Cave Special

<p>Michael Hope has been around AFL his whole life, he knows Isaac Heeney and he knows his family, and he says the Sydney Swans now have a problem that suspending five players does not fix. On this Man Cave he tells Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald what he would do if he were on that board: trade all five at the end of the season, and bring in a testing regime the club runs itself. Hope trained as a pharmacist before he was a winemaker, and the detail he brings to what a drug test can and cannot find is the part of this conversation nobody else is having.</p><p><br></p><p>Plus: why an AFL club cannot simply tear up a contract the way an NRL club can, what Richmond were thinking on their Mad Monday, the lawyers already circling with civil claims, and the moment Adam pulls out a set of 1930s polio calipers and a straitjacket.</p><p><br></p><p>UPDATE, correcting what we said on air: this episode was recorded in late August. Since then, Victoria Police confirmed on 2 September that Sexual Crimes Squad detectives interviewed four men in relation to the Pullman Hotel allegations. Riley Bice, who the club also stood down, is not being investigated over the sexual assault allegations. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid against anyone. Police expect to provide a further update in around eight weeks.</p><p><br></p><p>Everything discussed here is an allegation. Nobody has been charged.</p><p><br></p><p>Michael Hope&#39;s view of the AFL&#39;s illicit drugs policy is his own. For what the policy actually says, the AFL Players&#39; Association publishes it directly.</p><p><br></p><p>Support: 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732 (24/7) · National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline 1800 250 015</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Cold Open: They&#39;ve Now Got A Serious Problem</p><p>00:12 Welcome To The Man Cave</p><p>00:51 Why We Called Michael Hope</p><p>01:17 The Allegations We Are Leaving To The Police</p><p>03:54 Inside The AFL Bubble</p><p>05:22 The Five Players Stood Down</p><p>06:57 Boys Will Be Boys, And Where It Stops</p><p>08:20 The Pullman Five, And Why They Have To Go</p><p>10:39 The CEO Who Would Not Answer The Drug Question</p><p>11:47 What A Club Should Do Instead</p><p>12:38 Hair Testing: 10 To 90 Days</p><p>14:52 Civil Claims, Lawyers And The Mud That Sticks</p><p>17:44 The Isaac Heeney Nobody Talks About</p><p>21:33 Jai Arrow&#39;s 100th Game</p><p>23:54 What&#39;s In Adam&#39;s Hands: Calipers, A Straitjacket And A Gimp Mask</p><p><br></p><p>#SydneySwans #AFL #ManCave #BonafidePodcast #AFLNews</p><p><br></p><p>🫶 Join The Bonafide Family</p><p>Get Your Bonafide Merch here: https://bonafidepod.com/en-aud</p><p>Follow Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LukeBonaThatRadioGuy/</p><p>Catch Up On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukey.bona/</p><p>Subscribe to us on YouTube to stay updated with LIVE SHOWS:</p><p><br></p><p>🎙️ Get Involved</p><p>Leave us a digital voicemail here: https://www.speakpipe.com/Bonafide</p><p>Call the Bonafide Hotline to leave a voicemail: (02) 9128 9311</p><p>Want to be a guest or suggest a topic? Reach out at: community@bonafidepod.com</p>