Cats will keep searching for edge

Geelong Football Club CEO Brian Cook with the 1st Brownlow Medal returned to the club. Picture: Glenn Ferguson Source: Geelong Advertiser

GEELONG Football Club does not shy away from remaining at the cutting edge of sports science but is confident it has the processes in place to ensure it doesn't breach anti-doping regulations, says Cats boss Brian Cook.

Cook yesterday backed in the ethical standing of the Cats' nationally-sourced sports science team in the wake of a damning ACC report on organised crime and drugs in sport.

Geelong has its own sports science advisory committee, which has been in place for the past three years and is made up of elite sports scientists from across the country, including the Australian Institute of Sport.

Cook said while that committee was always looking for the next competitive advantage in the sports science area, it operated in a "very ethical framework" that complied with anti-doping regulations.

Every AFL club will be audited over its use of drugs and substances, and every training practice reviewed, after the ACC released the findings of a 12-month investigation that alleged entire teams have been doped.

Cook said he was confident Geelong would not be implicated in the drugs scandal.

"We do speak about what the next competitive advantage will be in the sports science world,'' Cook said yesterday. "We have very elite sports science people and they determine the sorts of areas we should or may look at, but it's all done within a very ethical framework.

"People have to be very careful here that the image of some very, very good and ethical people in the sports science industry are not tarnished here.

"We have regulations and they are black and white in some respects. When the regulations change, our people are part of that movement. They work in that profession and are the best in Australia at what they do.''

Cook said Geelong officials had been quick to brief players as to the content of the ACC report, which linked sport with organised, crime, widespread drug use and corruption, following its release on Thursday.

"It was a difficult process as our players were spread across the country in Alice Springs, Cobram and here in Geelong, but we have spoken to them all about it (the ACC report),'' Cook said.

"I wasn't aware it was coming out, and I don't think many people were.

"Personally, it's what's not in the report that is probably the most worrying. It would be so much better if we had an understanding of the deeper parts of the study and the data, but understandably we can't have that.

"I'm confident we won't be implicated. The processess we use are pretty sound. The doctors are the only ones allowed to give injections, the doctors have to sign off on any vitamin purchases made and we have a supplement register.

"So there are things in place internally and we have a football department that is very collaborative in its approach. They don't work in silos, where there is a separate sports science department and a separate IT team and separate football coaching department, they all work together as a team.

"And everyone in this organisation is accountable. That accountability is a high focus within our footy club."

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