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Perth Now
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
‘Hopeful' timeline set for star Demon
Melbourne is hopeful star midfielder Jack Viney will miss only one more week despite undergoing surgery on his hand earlier this week. Viney slipped over and fractured his hand at training in Alice Springs last week and required immediate surgery. The premiership Demon has not played since he entered concussion protocols following Melbourne's five-goal win over West Coast in round 8. The Demons, which sit two wins outside the eight, have Collingwood in the annual King's Birthday bout before Port Adelaide on the road next week. Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin said the healing of Viney's wound would determine his return date but was optimistic he could face the Power at Adelaide Oval. 'Yeah, it went well, I have never seen a surgery that hasn't gone well, but it went well,' he said. Jack Viney is pushing for a return as early as next week. Michael Klein Credit: News Corp Australia 'You know it now comes down to the wound and making sure he's functional. 'Whether that's next week or the week after, we will wait and see. We're hopeful there's an opportunity for next week, but we haven't put any definite timeline on that.' The Demons' building 2025 campaign hit a bollard last week when they lost to St Kilda. Melbourne dominated the play, particularly in the second half, but kicked a wasteful 21 behinds. With Carlton (13th) and Sydney (14th) favoured to collect wins, last week's loss forces the 12th-placed Demons into do-or-die mode against Collingwood. They will need to make at least one change after forward Aidan Johnson copped a two-match ban for a high bump on Saint Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera. Matt Jefferson has kicked successive hauls of five goals in the VFL, while Jacob van Rooyen has averaged two goals and 18 disposals further up the ground across the past two weeks. 'With Aidan Johnson being suspended that presents an opportunity,' Goodwin said. 'It's going to be a tough decision because Matthew Jefferson and Jacob van Rooyen are both playing outstanding footy. 'Obviously, everyone looks at Matty Jefferson kicking 10 goals over two weeks, I think van Rooyen has kicked six or seven. 'They're both playing outstanding footy, we've got some decisions to make later in the week around who comes in. 'What we do know is the two guys who have gone back to get into form, they're in really good form. We're excited by that.'
Perth Now
06-05-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Viney backs Oliver to be at Melbourne next AFL season
Jack Viney is confident Clayton Oliver will stay at Melbourne beyond this season as the midfielder returned to AFL training. Oliver needed time off over the last few days for personal reasons and missed their win over West Coast, sparking fresh speculation about his playing future. He met with Geelong in last year's trade period before staying at the Demons, amid off-field issues. But Viney, the Demons vice-captain, said Oliver was at training on Tuesday and expects him to play in Saturday's big game against Hawthorn. "'Clars' was back in today and he looked back to his old self. He just needed take a bit of time to look after himself," Viney said. "Clayton was there today, full training and we expect him to train fully on Thursday." Asked if thought Oliver would be at Melbourne beyond this season, Viney replied: "I expect him to, yes - he's a terrific teammate". Viney added that key defender Steven May is in "great spirits" after he and Richmond player Dion Prestia were interviewed by Victoria Police over a Boxing Day brawl last year at Sorrento, south of Melbourne. They were released without charge. After starting the season with five losses, the Demons have won their last three. "It's been good to get a few wins in a row, starting to find a bit of form," Viney said. "But we have to keep chipping away, we're coming from a fair way behind. "There's no bigger challenge than Hawthorn this weekend." Viney was speaking in Melbourne at the launch of the 11th Big Freeze fundraiser for the Fight MND charity, held at the King's Birthday match next month against Collingwood.
West Australian
04-05-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
West Coast debutant Bo Allan to sweat on match review officer after Jack Viney high hit
West Coast young gun Bo Allan is sweating on a possible suspension after his debut match, with a high hit on Melbourne's Jack Viney set to attract Match Review scrutiny. WATCH THE INCIDENT IN THE PLAYER ABOVE Allan was trying to spoil the football as Viney went for a mark at half-forward during the third quarter of their clash at Optus Stadium on Saturday night. The teenager was running the other way to the former Demons captain and missed the ball with his spoil, catching Viney high which gave away a 50m penalty and resulted in a goal. Viney was shaken up by the incident but played out the rest of the match. 'I haven't looked at it again on tape, but I saw it live,' Eagles coach Andrew McQualter said. 'Vines played out the game which is usually an indication that it will be OK.' Allan could find himself suspended if it is graded careless, medium impact and high contact which carries a one-game suspension. The defender will finished with seven disposals and two tackles in the 32-point defeat, having spent time on West Australian product Koltyn Tholstrup. A ban would be a blow for West Coast's defensive unit, with key defender Jeremy McGovern set to miss next weekend's clash with Richmond because of concussion after an incident in the second quarter of the clash that could land Melbourne's Jake Melksham in trouble.
Perth Now
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
WATCH: First-game Eagle set to face Match Review scrutiny
West Coast young gun Bo Allan is sweating on a possible suspension after his debut match, with a high hit on Melbourne's Jack Viney set to attract Match Review scrutiny. WATCH THE INCIDENT IN THE PLAYER ABOVE Allan was trying to spoil the football as Viney went for a mark at half-forward during the third quarter of their clash at Optus Stadium on Saturday night. The teenager was running the other way to the former Demons captain and missed the ball with his spoil, catching Viney high which gave away a 50m penalty and resulted in a goal. Viney was shaken up by the incident but played out the rest of the match. 'I haven't looked at it again on tape, but I saw it live,' Eagles coach Andrew McQualter said. 'Vines played out the game which is usually an indication that it will be OK.' West Coast debutant Bo Allan will sweat on the MRO. Credit: Janelle St Pierre/AFL Photos / AFL Photos via Getty Images Allan could find himself suspended if it is graded careless, medium impact and high contact which carries a one-game suspension. The defender will finished with seven disposals and two tackles in the 32-point defeat, having spent time on West Australian product Koltyn Tholstrup. A ban would be a blow for West Coast's defensive unit, with key defender Jeremy McGovern set to miss next weekend's clash with Richmond because of concussion after an incident in the second quarter of the clash that could land Melbourne's Jake Melksham in trouble.
Daily Mail
03-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
I was addicted to cocaine and lost my job – then I got clean and became a TikTok agony aunt
When Hannah Viney hit 'rock bottom' with her cocaine addiction last year, she was bingeing 'for three or four days each week and putting drugs before everything else'. Her £124,000-a-year interior design business had failed two years before because she couldn't keep up with the work. She was making what money she could as a cleaner. 'By the end, I was using four times a week, going without sleep and food for days at a time. I had extreme exhaustion – I was barely getting through the first two days after each bender – my skin was bad, my hair was falling out. Basically, I couldn't function.' Her addiction is far from uncommon. According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 1,118 deaths involving cocaine registered in 2023, 30.5 per cent higher than the previous year. Viney once crashed her car while sleep-deprived. Most of her relationships in London, where she had lived and worked from the age of 20, had broken down. Her lowest moment came last March: staying at her parents' Oxfordshire home while they were on holiday, she went on a four-day bender of booze and drugs. 'I had no other way of dealing with my emotions, other than drugs. It was four days of psychosis and loneliness.' By the time her brother and cousin found her by chance – they were hosting a dinner at the house – she had passed out in her childhood bedroom. 'My brother started crying, it was a difficult moment, I still find it hard to speak about.' Viney was part of a drug-using community in the UK that gets through an estimated 117 tons of cocaine annually (according to the National Crime Agency) and is the biggest market in Europe. But that four-day binge at her childhood home served as a turning point in her drug addiction, and the next day Viney went to her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. 'I eventually started going to Narcotics Anonymous meetings, too. For the first six weeks of my recovery, I barely spoke to anyone. I went to meetings every day. I cried, came home and that was it. Those weeks were hell.' Viney, now 31, is telling me her story after a year of sobriety. When I meet her on Zoom, she is affable, chatty and beautiful, with high cheekbones and tousled blonde hair. She has also, much to her surprise, become massively popular as TikTok's cocaine agony aunt, with 155k followers and 2.4 million likes (@hannahameliaviney). She isn't a trained therapist, though she's found that it's her anecdotes and disarming openness that resonate with viewers. 'I get hundreds of messages each day from people who want to talk about their drug use,' she says. Her first video was posted just three months after she got sober. 'Initially, I started posting because I wanted to show real-time recovery, every single day,' she explains. 'I wanted to talk about my experiences, what I was feeling. Having the TikTok feed also helped to keep me accountable. I just never expected it to be so immediately popular.' The podcast she launched last summer, Class A People – on which she interviews fellow recovering addicts – had 12 million listeners in the first three months of broadcasting; the addiction charity Turning Point has become her first sponsor and she is speaking at Glastonbury Festival this June. Viney's drug problem began when she moved to London in 2014 aged 20. She got a job as an estate agent in West London where she was one of the youngest people in an office of 27- and 28-year-olds. Cocaine is so normalised in the capital, she says, it was 'everywhere'. Trying to fit in at work, she would regularly go to her managers' houses to do lines of cocaine with her colleagues. While she would max out her overdraft every month, she's reluctant to discuss exactly how much she was taking or spending. 'Something I've learnt since getting sober is that it's unhelpful to other addicts because they might read this and think, 'Oh, well, I don't do that amount, therefore I'm not an addict' or 'I don't do that, therefore I don't have a problem.'' But it was 'a lot – by the end of my using, I shouldn't really have survived'. In terms of money, 'I probably could have bought two houses with the amount I spent,' she says. Picking up drugs had become second nature. I didn't even bat an eyelid – didn't give it a second thought. I saw my drug dealers as my friends.' Since last summer her life has changed completely. Though she's living with her parents, the success of her TikTok channel and podcast has given her a sense of purpose. 'They don't make loads of money,' she admits. 'I make maybe £200 from each podcast sponsorship, and TikTok pays me when my videos do well.' Followers are drawn by her charisma (her approachable, friendly demeanour reminds me of a young Davina McCall) and the grim fascination of following a person's sobriety journey in real time. Every video starts with, 'Hello, my name's Hannah and I've been in recovery from drugs and alcohol for X months…' Then she goes on to bare all. Since the start of her recovery she has documented her lowest moments in her old life, such as taking cocaine while on a trip with her mum, as well as the challenges of sobriety. There was the friend's wedding when she struggled as the only teetotal person in a roomful of drinkers: 'After a point I just didn't feel part of it… I felt lonely today,' she told her followers that evening, still dressed in her wedding outfit. Then there was her first Cocaine Anonymous meeting, where she was greeted by a familiar face: 'I had the same drug dealer for ten years,' she tells me, 'and the first day that I walked into Cocaine Anonymous, he was the greeter at the door.' Distinctly lacking in the evangelism that has become part of much sobriety content – she's upfront about the fact that sometimes the parties were fun – Viney appeals to users who aren't quite ready for a 12-step programme. It's the religious element, she says, that puts off some of her younger followers (many of the steps in AA require a person to relinquish themselves to a higher power). She now hosts weekly Zoom meetings for anyone interested in talking about their substance misuse but not keen to try a traditional programme. 'There's no pressure, so people can log on and just listen. 'People will message me saying, 'I don't want to go to AA, CA or NA because I don't think I've got that big a problem', so the Zooms are more about finding community, a relaxed space for people to think about their relationship with drugs and alcohol. 'People would much rather send me a long paragraph on TikTok messenger than talk to a friend or a loved one,' she says. She thinks the word 'addict' is too confronting – but many come to her knowing they have a problem. 'Society has told us that an addict is a person on a park bench, drinking, with a needle hanging out of their arm. They think, 'That's not me, therefore I'm not an addict.' But then they see one of my videos and it hits a nerve.' Viney says her biggest regret is the toll her addictions took on her family – something she is working to repair. She grew up in a middle-class family in Oxfordshire, where her parents ran their own business. They were supportive and loving. 'I feel ashamed of how I treated them – I just wasn't present,' Viney says. She would miss family engagements and, when she did show up, acted as if it was a burden to see them 'because I was always high or dealing with a hangover'. It was difficult to admit the extent of her problem to her parents. 'They've had questions, and I've tried my best to answer them, but it's been tough on them. No one wants to hear that their child became an addict,' she says. Viney's mum has sent her a card every month since she started her recovery. 'She writes things that she's noticing about me, which are coming back now that I'm sober.' In the last one, she said, 'You have a sense of purpose. It is a pivotal time for you. Doors are opening. New opportunities are appearing.'' Viney is now in the process of writing a book. 'I finally have a sense of peace,' she says. 'For the first time in ten years I'm not dealing with a negative voice in my head telling me I've f**ked up again, I've lost control, I've let someone down. I finally feel free.'
