Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley says his AFL club doesn't have an illicit drugs problem, describing defender Sam Murray's positive test as an isolated incident.
Buckley says Murray's positive match-day test for an illicit substance, believed to be cocaine, isn't high on his agenda as the club prepares for the finals.
"This is not something that is big on our agenda right now because it's isolated," Buckley told SEN radio on Thursday.
"So that's where it stays and we move on with what we can control.
"As our football has done our talking this year, our record in retrospect will do the talking, so I'll be happy to stand on that."
Murray, under investigation from the Australian Sports Anti-doping Authority, faces a potential four-year ban.
In 2015, Collingwood players Lachlan Keeffe and Josh Thomas accepted two-year bans for testing positive to the drug clenbuterol.
"We are full of people who are fallible and are human and who make mistakes," Buckley said of his club.
"Some of those mistakes are more public than others but we embrace our humanity and our fallibility and we support our people to the hilt.
"I think that's one of the strengths of our football club.
"If you want to call it culture, we're not perfect and we won't be. But the quest for us to be as good a football team as we can and the quest for us to be the best football club as we can is what we're on.
"And if we have our imperfections laid to bare and judged externally, well that's a fair thing for us because we're in a public forum.
"But one thing I'm going to do is support and encourage our people as much as we possibly can."
Buckley has overseen Collingwood's return to the finals after a four-year absence, with the Magpies to play West Coast in a September 8 qualifying final in Perth.
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