AFL Daily: Sam Murray set to face anti-doping hearing, rolling footy news for Tuesday, July 30, 2019
It's more than a year since Collingwood defender Sam Murray tested positive for illegal drugs in a post-match test. He is finally set to face an anti-doping tribunal.
Collingwood defender Sam Murray is set to learn his fate over a positive drug test before the finals.
Murray is serving a provisional suspension after testing positive to cocaine in a match-day test after last year's Round 19 clash against Richmond on July 28.
He faces a maximum ban of four years when he faces an AFL anti-doping tribunal.
"I think everyone is saying, how can Australian swimmer Shayna Jack be told that she’ll get a four-year penalty this week when Murray’s still waiting more than a year on?” Herald Sun reporter Jon Ralph said on Fox Footy's AFL Tonight.
“Here’s the state of play. He’s accepted a provisional ban from ASADA right when he took the cocaine and the anti-doping hearing from the AFL is coming up.
“The league had told me it would be late June, early July, so clearly that’s been pushed back a bit. I think it will still happen before finals.”
Murray will try to argue for a two-year ban, which could end at Round 21 next year.
"(In that scenario) you can probably train with the club from March, ‘please let me be on the rookie list’," Ralph said.
“Then they’ve got to make a decision about whether the cocaine use was one-off, or whether he’s even a guy they need on their list."
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Originally published as AFL Daily: Sam Murray set to face anti-doping hearing, rolling footy news for Tuesday, July 30, 2019