(Ex-) Cronulla players admitted drug cheats!

[Bull Shark]

Yet,yet,yet a player has an injury which affects his performance, he receives a pain killing injection,a drug which allows him to play without that pain thereby increasing his performance. An enhanced performance due to a drug yet everyone's fine with that hey..

no, those types of drugs enable someone to function normally ... steroids / PEDs enable athletes ect to perform above and beyond what would naturally be achievable.

 

[Cult]

If they came out and said "yeah, we were given something" 18 months ago then I would be fine with them getting off. But the have kept this shit hidden so they knew something wasn't right. They didn't help the situation at all.

 

[1910]

Smith press conference starting now.

 

[Jeba]

Smith press conference starting now.

And will be shown on Fox Sports News at 1pm.

 

[Kaz]

Anyone know what Smith said.

Let me guess, the punishments were fair & just.

I wonder if David Gallop is laughing about this debacle.

 

[Foordy]

[video]http://www.foxsports.com.au/video?v=nrl-happy-with-asada-ruling_1227034121845&vc=-1[/video]

 

[Foordy]

Anyone know what Smith said.

Let me guess, the punishments were fair & just.

I wonder if David Gallop is laughing about this debacle.

pretty much

 

[Porthoz]

I dunno man. It's one thing to be a grub on field, another to be a drug cheat.

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt if it was one isolated incident. Weeks in a row of injections, especially under the alleged circumstances? No doubt whatsoever he knew it was dodgy!

 

[Huge]

I'm over it, don't care anymore. It happened years ago and the club Cronulla has suffered a tremendous amount of damage already. Million dollar fine, no coach for a year,loss of sponsors plus damage to the name of the club. Time to move on, you guys can keep arcing up about it if you want.

 

[Mr Fourex]

Thanks.....

 

[Ari Gold]

I'm over it, don't care anymore. It happened years ago and the club Cronulla has suffered a tremendous amount of damage already. Million dollar fine, no coach for a year,loss of sponsors plus damage to the name of the club. Time to move on, you guys can keep arcing up about it if you want.

Except some of those things they would have suffered anyway because of other choices they made (i.e. Todd Carney). They haven't even been docked any competition points.

Your "no coach for a year" is also a load of bullshit. Flanagan was a part of what happened, that they were forced to be without him for a year doesn't count as a loss, and it's their own fucking fault for re-signing him to begin with.

They haven't received anywhere near the level of punishment they deserve. Though I do expect Sharks fans to disagree.

 

[Mr Fourex]

I can't see the NRL letting Shane Flannagan back in.....ever. In some way I suppose they've tried to do the right thing and shelter the players from absolute blame.

It also seemed that Smith in his interview was making veiled threats to Sharks coaching and management who were knowledgable to the nature of the supplement programme right from the get go. I think he said something along the lines of "those who were supposed to be looking after the welfare of the players you shoulder much of the blame".....

Flannagan had his hands all over this.

The NRL have already started swinging their axe from the top down by announcing Stephen Dank has been banned for life from the NRL.

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[theshed]

I'm not going to get in to this too much. They've been also rans for years and the club is in a bigger mess than any punishment the nrl could think up could do. So I'm pretty indifferent. I also don't know the facts enough to strongly change my opinion of these players, who are mostly nobodies.

What I will say is this. I know I can't say with much certainty unless I'm the position but if I was being unknowingly injected with banned substances by club staff that are meant to be looking after me, I'd be furious. I would've assisted in anyway possible, I would have left the club and I'd be getting lawyers involved. I find it very hard to believe that even with such a tempting deal on the table, I could ever admit to drug cheating if I has no knowledge of it. I'd rather risk a life ban than to trade my integrity for a slap on the wrist.

 

[Kimlo]

I'm not going to get in to this too much. They've been also rans for years and the club is in a bigger mess than any punishment the nrl could think up could do. So I'm pretty indifferent. I also don't know the facts enough to strongly change my opinion of these players, who are mostly nobodies.

What I will say is this. I know I can't say with much certainty unless I'm the position but if I was being unknowingly injected with banned substances by club staff that are meant to be looking after me, I'd be furious. I would've assisted in anyway possible, I would have left the club and I'd be getting lawyers involved. I find it very hard to believe that even with such a tempting deal on the table, I could ever admit to drug cheating if I has no knowledge of it. I'd rather risk a life ban than to trade my integrity for a slap on the wrist.

Sounds good in theory, but being realistic they'd lose up to a million dollars or more for certain players, it simply isn't a real option.

 

[Ari Gold]

Spwn has a good point, NRL careers are short. If you have to spend 2 years out of the game that's 2 years you don't get paid. In some cases, the player would be at retirement age by then and in other cases getting back into the NRL would be very, very hard.

A career of NRL earnings is something that most players can't afford to give up in a practical sense.

The other issue is that even if they didn't know explicitly what was happening they can still be found guilty because they still took the stuff without doing their due diligence. It's an area where negligence or ignorance isn't an excuse.

 

[Nashy]

And it should never be an excuse, yet its going to be unless WADA do their duty and suspend them.

 

[Huge]

and it's gone.....

 

[jarro65]

Thank **** !!