Lachlan Keeffe and Josh Thomas will read a statement to media at the Westpac Centre at 11.30am on Monday, followed by a press conference with Collingwood CEO Gary Pert and Director of Football Neil Balme.

Stay tuned to @CollingwoodFC on Twitter for full coverage of the press conference as it happens.



Earlier: 29 July 2015
On Wednesday 29 July 2015, AFL General Counsel Andrew Dillon issued Infraction Notices to Lachlan Keeffe and Josh Thomas of the Collingwood Football Club, after being formally notified by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority of the recent decision of the Anti-Doping Rule Violation Panel that those Players had possibly breached the AFL Anti Doping Code.

The AFL will now work with the players’ representatives and ASADA in scheduling the next steps in the Anti-Doping process.

On Friday 27 March 2015, ASADA informed the AFL that samples taken from Lachlan Keeffe and Josh Thomas of the Collingwood Football Club on 10 February 2015 had tested positive for the presence of a WADA-prohibited substance.

The substance, clenbuterol, is not a specified substance on the AFL Anti-Doping prohibited list and as such, has required the players to be provisionally suspended.