Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:20 pm  

Pieman wrote:

We need to pull out until other sports sign up, were unfairly treating our players

Nope. That just represents a race to the bottom. Why should we allow the others' shortcomings to be the benchmark?

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sat Apr 27, 2019 7:24 pm  

Why should we treat our players worse that most of the other elite sports and the NRL? If no one else is doing it why should we?

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:02 pm  

CobraCraig wrote:

To be fair footballers seem to get caught a lot less, whether there is a reason for that I do not know. Jake Livermore was the most high profile one recently and he got 6 months which was a reduced sentence because he lost his child around the same time, a similar defence as Hardaker used, so they are stricter than Union and Cricket.

I’d say there’s definitely a reason and they have pictures of the queen on them!

Livermore used a really sad story in his defence and the human side of you says fair enough but the realist says why can I only think of him and Adrian Mutu in the last 10-15 years to have been caught taking recreational drugs? Are they well behaved? Or is it being covered up? It’s an easy answer IMO.

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:41 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I’d say there’s definitely a reason and they have pictures of the queen on them!

Livermore used a really sad story in his defence and the human side of you says fair enough but the realist says why can I only think of him and Adrian Mutu in the last 10-15 years to have been caught taking recreational drugs? Are they well behaved? Or is it being covered up? It’s an easy answer IMO.

Yeah, it seems strange especially considering there must be umpteen times more pro footballers than rugby league players. Although I don’t think they have the party culture league players have and maybe the fact they have a lot more eyes on puts them off?

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:04 am  

CobraCraig wrote:

Yeah, it seems strange especially considering there must be umpteen times more pro footballers than rugby league players. Although I don’t think they have the party culture league players have and maybe the fact they have a lot more eyes on puts them off?

I’m sure there’s a small part of that but then even the lads down in the lower leagues seem to be whiter than white as well.

It just doesn’t stack up.

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Thu May 02, 2019 10:59 am  

I think players who get tested for recreational drugs should get a short ban and be educated to discourage them getting in that situation again. However players caught with performance enhancing drugs in their system should get a long ban.

Re: Drugs ban consistency : Sat May 04, 2019 7:01 pm  

Rugby Union don’t announce publicly any drugs offence unless it’s a players second time. If a player is caught once, they must face regular testing and I believe some welfare program. We should do the same, we throw our players under the bus for 2 years for one mistake and give ourselves too much bad publicity when it isn’t necessary.