There’s been too many eye-rolling moments over the AFL’s Wayne Carey

The classic political strategy of deny, attack, reverse victim and offender is central to the way Wayne Carey views the world but the world may just have had enough of it, and him.

Welcome to Wayne’s world; one of denial. Picture: Supplied

The world according to Wayne Carey. Where do we start?

Unfortunately there have been too many eye-rolling insights about how the disgraced, turned not disgraced, turned disgraced, turned Seven commentator AFL legend views life, which most would disagree with.

So we will gloss over the many laborious excuses he has offered up over the journey, like the one where he simply “touched her lip”, another way of saying he glassed his then girlfriend Kate Neilson in the face. Or the one where he was sorry, but then again not really sorry, for lunging and grabbing a young woman’s breast on King St saying “why don’t you get a bigger set of tits.”

Or than there was the pearler five years back when good ol’ Wayne was simply “shattered” after the “nightmare” experience of getting barred from going inside Barwon Prison. There to give Indigenous inmates a pep up talk, he was found to have tested positive to traces of drugs. At the time poor Wayne wished they had strip searched him, only problem he says, they never asked.

Call us bonkers, but this sounds very like wishing Crown Casino had taken his little baggy of white powdered substance to test.

Cue eye roll.

Yes this time in Wayne’s world he is crushing his anti inflammatory painkilling medicine Aleve (normally a blue coloured tablet) into a “white powdered substance” to deal with his chronic shoulder pain, keeping it in his pocket in a plastic zip-lock baggy while he plays the tables at a Perth casino.

Hmmm. Even by Wayne’s standards of excuses, this went right to the top. But rather for us to judge, Page 13 got an expert’s take.

Associate Professor Mick Vagg, immediate past dean of ANZCA’s Faculty of Pain Medicine said doctors did not recommend tasking the anti-inflammatory drug other than in its tablet form.

Crushing up tablets is not a typical way to take them, according to experts.

Crushing up a prescribed drug to consume it was not recommended.

“I don’t think that is a typical way to take it. The issue with having it in a powdered from is it makes it quite difficult to know exactly how much you are having at one time,” Dr Vagg told Page 13.

Wayne was so shocked at Crown’s reaction that he pulled out the old “disability discrimination” victim line.

Classic DARVO. You know the political strategy of Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim and Offender.

Even in Wayne’s book, titled, er, The Truth Hurts, he said his MO was always, you guessed it, to deny:

“All the time I was denying everything. I’d always been told and taught to deny, deny, deny, unless you have been caught red-handed. And even if you have been caught red-handed (or in this case white zip lock bag pocketed) deny, deny deny.”

Welcome to Wayne’s World.