Act before it's too late: Sheeds

Former Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy says it's better to have doping "on the table" and investigated rather than covered it up.

GWS Giants coach Kevin Sheedy. Source: News Limited

REVERED AFL figure Kevin Sheedy has called on his sport to hunt down the drug cheats and banish them from before it is too late.

The GWS Giants coach spoke this morning following the dramatic media conference in Canberra.

Australian athletes across multiple sports are involved in doping and have links to organised crime groups, the major Government investigation has found.

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The AFL is not immune and Sheedy said now was the time to strike or risk being overrun.

"We need to get rid of it - we need to find the people and eradicate them from the sport," he said.

"This is a rude awakening for a lot of people in all sports.

"I think when it comes out, whatever that report is going to say, we'll handle that correctly.

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"And that means for the players, player managers and clubs in general right throughout our sport and across all sports in general."

Sheedy said there would be consequences if the AFL did not act.

When asked if the AFL and other codes had done enough to prevent what has happened, he said:

"Well, you'll never know what is enough until you've eventually found out that's happened," he said.

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"I still struggle with the Tour de France debacle.

"That's alarms for me and I would look at that and would think what is happening in our sport is perfect for us to go in and go crunch straight away."

Sheedy also weighed into the issues at his former club Essendon.

The man who coached the Bombers to four premierships applauded the stance taken by the club.

"Essendon have done the right thing because in the end, we want to get that sorted out," he said.

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"Essendon haven't been found guilty of anything.

"They just had basically an investigation, so we shouldn't really be jumping into them too much.

"But I'm glad they did what they did because it actually says to the public they are going to investigate this."

The legendary coach said he would not tolerate players being injected with substances without his knowledge.

"You'd want to know about that, because you'd stamp it out straight away," he said.

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"I'm pretty ruthless in this area.

"I don't know how these people infiltrate into football clubs."

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