Code Sports<\/a> reporting that Carlton officials are understood to be \u201cextremely disappointed and frustrated\u201d by the players\u2019 behaviour.<\/p>\nThe two-match suspension handed out to Cowan would be in keeping with the bans given to former Western Bulldogs star Bailey Smith and ex-Collingwood man Jack Ginnivan for drug use.<\/p>\n
However, the AFL Players\u2019 Association are expected to be against the severity of the punishment due to a key difference between the Cowan case and the prior cases involving Smith and Ginnivan.<\/p>\n
That is that photos and footage emerged of Smith and Ginnivan using drugs.<\/p>\n
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Cowan\u2019s incident only became a public matter when he was admitted to The Alfred hospital in Melbourne following his seizure.<\/p>\n
The Players\u2019 Association are keen for players\u2019 names to remain confidential in instances such as this to encourage individuals to receive emergency medical attention without fear of a scandal ensuing.<\/p>\n
No evidence of drug use was retrieved from Cowan or Hayward.<\/p>\n
Cowan\u2019s punishment comes as the AFL prepare to implement a new illicit policy from next year which will use hair-testing technology to understand players\u2019 drug use over a three-month period.<\/p>\n
The current system, which uses urine testing, only allows the league to identify substances that have been in a player\u2019s system for a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlton star Lachie Cowan is set to receive a two-match suspension after he was hospitalised for suffering a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[399824,496241,467295,496219,140849,439437,496250,437959,496217,379284,496233,496245,496238,493855,496232,400068,638,496223,496220,25103,64,63,55,639,496237,496226,496246,496251,496244,496249,68077,491896,118674,496234,496235,496230,496216,43247,496231,496218,496221,382519,496236,496248,4082,19818,103983,496247,62756,377208,647,37310,44,155207,35062,496239,382196,496228,7820,419382,46907,496227,496225,340719,85,214355,379302,416839,42586,390357,492996,381352,382194,496242,382541,496240,280721,175806,496224,388307,496229,380087,496243,264227,496222,112087,377211],"class_list":["post-929357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-incident","tag-s-punishment","tag-s-system","tag-21-year-old-cowan","tag-140849","tag-a-few-days","tag-a-house-party","tag-a-key-difference","tag-a-new-illicit-policy","tag-a-player","tag-a-public-matter","tag-a-sanction-be","tag-a-scandal-ensuing-no-evidence","tag-a-seizure","tag-a-three-month-period-the-current-system","tag-a-two-match-suspension","tag-afl","tag-afl-scandal","tag-any-drug-use-watch","tag-association","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-behaviour-the-two-match-suspension","tag-blues-stars-lachie-cowan-and-will-hayward","tag-bombshell-blues","tag-carlton-duo","tag-carlton-officials","tag-carlton-star-lachie-cowan","tag-code-sports","tag-cowan","tag-drug-use","tag-drug-use-however","tag-drugs-cowan","tag-emergency-medical-attention","tag-ex-collingwood-man-jack-ginnivan","tag-fear","tag-former-western-bulldogs-star-bailey-smith","tag-hair-testing-technology","tag-hayward-cowan","tag-his-head","tag-his-seizure","tag-his-seizure-the","tag-hospital","tag-individuals","tag-instances","tag-just-1-life-support-medics","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports-new","tag-melbourne","tag-names","tag-news","tag-next-year","tag-night","tag-our-new-apphayward","tag-overseas-live","tag-photos-and-footage","tag-players","tag-punishments","tag-saturday","tag-smith-and-ginnivan","tag-smith-and-ginnivan-that","tag-south-yarra","tag-sports","tag-substances","tag-the-afl","tag-the-afl-players","tag-the-alfred-hospital","tag-the-ban","tag-the-bans","tag-the-best","tag-the-biggest-aussie-sports","tag-the-cowan-case","tag-the-first","tag-the-house-party","tag-the-league","tag-the-players","tag-the-prior-cases","tag-the-punishment","tag-the-punishments","tag-the-severity","tag-the-shower-he","tag-urine-testing","tag-very-different-fates","tag-will-hayward","tag-your-first-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}