Remember last year when the shortlist for the Swans "Team of the Century" was announced.
When you were looking through that list of possibles, did you wonder at the absence of Dale Lewis?
It didn't seem right to me . . .
Alright, he never won a Browlow or went All Australian (so he really wouldn't have made the team itself) but he certainly shone through some of the Swans darkest days and showed remarkable loyalty to stick with Sydney.
A friend of mine made the suggestion that . . .
His exclusion had more to do with Dale's comments, made in March 2002, that 75% of AFL players would have used recreational drugs at some stage.
The furor he ignited made his name anathema. Paul Kelly in particular, when told by journalists, was extremely pissed off.
Rodney Eade declared that "most of the players, if not all the players, are pretty hurt by it."
While I'm not normally all that big on conspiacy theories. I can't really see how excluding Dale from the shortlist was anything other than an act of political expediency.
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