Max Gawn strongly defends the culture at Melbourne Football Club

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Max Gawn is adamant Melbourne does not have a drug culture as the AFL club reels from the new anti-doping charges laid against teammate Joel Smith. Video via AAP.

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00:00 It obviously is quite shocking.

00:02 Do you think it's a copyright issue in the first place?

00:05 Not in my opinion, no.

00:07 So if we take the recording of the face video, it's text of a team mate's.

00:13 Do you think it's isolated to Joel, or a list?

00:16 Once again, it's an investigation.

00:20 All I can say is, for 16 years I've been getting drug tested,

00:24 for 10 years I've been getting hair tested.

00:27 AFL and AFLPA look after that, and in that 10 years I've never been told that I've had a drug.

00:33 I like to think I've got a good grasp on our group,

00:37 and we've had an unbelievable summer with the turmoil we had over in September and October,

00:41 with losing the finals and then some articles in and around October.

00:47 I'm incredibly bullish that we've got the right culture.

00:50 No culture's ever fixed, I know Trax said this heaps, we're always working on it.

00:55 In terms of the actual drug culture that the expression's been used,

00:59 I go back to that original comment.

01:01 Until someone tells me that the hair tests that we have done are proving that we're a drug culture,

01:06 that's the only marker that we have.

01:08 So in my 10 years no one's come and told me that our club has a drug culture.

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