Drug problems in Australian sports should come as no surprise to those who chose to ignore the problem I would argue that the reputations of the club, the code, the officials were on the line and they weren't prepared to open that world to wider scrutiny. Rugby league can't sit on the sidelines and be smug either. They had known for more than five years the existence of mafia involvement and personalities in their game - again through journalists highlighting the problems - but once again the code chose to ignore the implications of those associations. Their instinctive reaction has been to suppress bad news, reject as scaremongering any suggestion of improper associations, and introduce ineffective schemes - such as in house club based drug testing -to gloss over the problems. The crime commissions investigators have been quietly amassing their evidence and the small parts of their report that are unclassified show the complacency of the past can't be continued. The investigators asked themselves how an insidious link between major sports and organised crime had been formed and remained unbroken and came to the conclusion that due diligence of sporting clubs and the governing bodies has been lacking. At a time when world sport is undergoing a reputational crisis - hello cycling - the wobbly foundations of Australian professional sport are being starkly exposed. And like the pressure now on UCIs Pat McQuaid, the leadership of the male football codes Down Under will now come under extraordinary pressure. The buck stops at the top.