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Professor said:
Actually I retract, article names Smith. Joel Smith.
Sorry must have deleted the 1st part of the article as I was clearing other data that was irrelevant.

Melbourne’s Joel Smith has tested positive to drugs late in the home and away season.
A urine sample taken from Smith after a game in the weeks leading up to the AFL finals returned positive for a banned substance, believed to be cocaine.

Smith tested positive after the round 23 game against Hawthorn.
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I wonder what would've happened if the Dees won the grand final, but they hadn't got the results of the test yet, would they have stripped him of his medal?
 
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Russty_ said:
I wonder what would've happened if the Dees won the grand final, but they hadn't got the results of the test yet, would they have stripped him of his medal?
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Now you have me wondering, did Jobe have to physically give back his Brownlow when they stripped it from him or did he just refuse and it's hidden in his sock draw or something.
 
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Serj said:
Now you have me wondering, did Jobe have to physically give back his Brownlow when they stripped it from him or did he just refuse and it's hidden in his sock draw or something.
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This is from Wikipedia so assume it went down like this...
As Watson had won the 2012 Brownlow Medal, during the season that the supplements program took place, the AFL Commission reviewed the award. Watson was retrospectively ruled ineligible for the award by the Commission, and the medal then awarded to the next-highest vote-getters, Richmond's Trent Cotchin and then-Hawthorn player Sam Mitchell (who had just been traded to the West Coast Eagles at the time), under the normal rules regarding ineligible players in Brownlow Medal counts.[16] Watson had pre-empted the decision by announcing on 11 November 2016 that he would hand back the medal.
 
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