Geelong forward Tyson Stengle has confirmed a drug test delayed the side’s celebratory song in the changerooms after the grand final win on Saturday.
The Cats trounced the Swans by 81 points and Stengle was randomly selected by anti-doping control authority testers, having to come from the ground to provide a urine sample.
Stengle emerged and ran back up the players’ race in order to sing the club song with the Cats on the ground, before returning to the rooms.
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The song in the club rooms was delayed, however, as Stengle completed his test.
“I came off the ground, I was walking down the tunnel and a guy tapped my shoulder and said, ‘I’ve got to drug test you’,” Stengle said on Channel Nine’s Sunday Footy Show.
“I thought, ‘Oh well, we’ll go and do it’, I wanted to get it done straight away and the boys were ready to sing the song, but I was in the rooms.”
Stengle recalled: “I was stuck in the rooms for like 30 minutes.”
“They were taking their time, I was trying to rush them, but they were taking their time.
“I had to leave, do the song but had to go back in and do the paperwork, but I got it done in the end.”
Stengle eventually completed his test and the side belted out the song twice for good measure.
The 23-year-old kicked a game-high four goals, capping an extraordinary debut season for the Cats that saw him kick 53 goals.
