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AS the Gold Coast Five ply their trade the AFL begins a search for contaminated meat.
As if to show the two codes are not as far apart as many believe, two Collingwood players have tested positive to an illegal drug just days before season kick-off.
Killing off the season opener is usually an institution reserved for the NRL. It's an annual event around here.
The Collingwood players, Lachie Keeffe and Josh Thomas, claim they have no idea how clenbuterol allegedly got in their bodies.
Josh Thomas playing for the Magpies in the NAB Challenge. Source: Getty Images
But after the players were told last Friday somebody remembered somewhere in the discussion that Australian cyclist Michael Rogers tested positive to clenbuterol last year and had his provisional suspension lifted after he was able to show he ate contaminated meat in China.
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So already a search for contaminated beef has begun, despite the Australian beef industry saying clenbuterol is not a drug used on cattle.
Contaminated meat is not a new excuse.
Petr Korda won the Australian Open in 1998 and when he tested positive to nandrolone at Wimbledon soon after he blamed it on juiced up veal.
Suspicions were raised, and after just a little investigation the ATP found that Korda would have to eat 40 calves a day for 20 years to reach such levels.
He was suspended a year and never returned.
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Alberto Contador won the Tour de France in 2010 and, like Rogers, tested positive for clenbuterol.
And, like Rogers, he claimed it came from contaminated meat.
Unlike Rogers, his suspension was upheld and he was stripped of victory.
Everybody at Collingwood insists the players are "confused" as to how any clenbuterol could have got in their system.
They have no idea, they say.
When Reni Maitua tested positive for clenbuterol in 2009 he also had no idea how it got into his system and was also confused. But it mattered little when his B sample came back and he served two years.
Reni Maitua tested positive for clenbuterol in 2009. Source: News Corp Australia
Maitua was only able to join the dots later, when he was out of the game and was able to admit to himself that he had a drinking problem and finally get healthy and clean.
The answer might be a warning flare for NRL players.
Maitua was not looking for performance enhancement, he was never a cheat, but he lived poorly and paid the price.
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