When Thomas joined the FIVEAA sports show he was adamant he had never \u201creferred to occurrence at all\u201d and preferred instead to press Bicks on what he thought the figure was.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou reckon less than 10 per cent of AFL players have taken cocaine?\u201d Thomas said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t say regular users or semi-regular users at all. I never referred to occurrence at all\u2026 What are you talking about? I didn\u2019t say that at all so get your facts straight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can only argue with intelligent people and the person that says to me that 10 per cent of players in the AFL take cocaine — I think you\u2019re on it yourself. I can\u2019t believe that you would say 10 per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you for real?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
But here\u2019s the twist. Bicks later found Grant\u2019s comments (replayed at 29:49 in the first audio clip below) and they went like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am saying that at least — at least — 50 per cent of players have had and are involved in serious illicit drugs, recreational drugs, on a regular to semi-regular basis. At least 50 per cent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
BICKS: <\/strong>\u201cMy argument was based on what he said on his podcast. I was pretty certain that he said up to 50 per cent or more than 50 per cent of current players took illicit drugs either regularly or semi regularly\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cApologies if you had to sit through that and you were scratching your head.\u201d<\/p>\n
ROWEY:<\/strong> \u201cI was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n