AFL players are wankers

[Thunderstruck]

The Australian had this over the weekend.

And, if the AFL version of Channel Nine's Footy Show is to be believed, a few players have recently tried a more interesting way to get themselves 'up' before a game.

While the panel of players on the show -- Collingwood's Nathan Buckley, Hawthorn's Peter Everitt and Richmond's Nathan Brown -- danced around and said they hadn't witnessed such a pre-game routine, host Eddie McGuire suggested that half an hour before the first bounce, players at a few clubs were masturbating, but stopping just before ejaculation.

They apparently believed it was a natural way of stimulating the level of testosterone -- the hormone artificial steroids are based on -- which is known to raise aggressive and competitive tendencies.

Peter Larkins, a sports physician who gave his expert opinion on the program, at first thought it was a joke, but was assured it was a true story.

[MS]

Eddie McGuire would know all about that.

[perthstormer]

very interesting story. I find it a bit far fetched and maguire would do anything to cause a bit of publicty

[The_Flea]

Eddie would need a bloody telescope and tweezers if he wanted a wank!

Anyone who would do a thing like that is bloody stupid.