THE NRL has another drugs crisis on its hands with a shock report surfacing about the number of players in the game with a drugs strike against their name.
The positive tests come through the NRL’s in-house testing program which is separate from standard ASADA testing and is focused at recording players’ use of non-performance enhancing illicit substances.
Channel 7 reports a “well-placed source” has revealed around 40 per cent of the game’s 400 registered senior players have a strike against their name.
It is unclear if the number refers to only centrally NRL contracted players or if it includes senior players in lower-level competitions.
Under the NRL’s illicit drugs policy, players who test positive to a banned recreational substance are given a confidential warning. A second positive test incurs a 12-match ban.
Notice of a player’s first strike is only provided to the player, the chief executive of his NRL club and his team’s welfare manager.
Storm’s coming.Source:News Corp Australia
Former Sharks star Ben Barba last year recorded a second strike after his team’s NRL grand final triumph, while Kiwi Test duo Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor were also suspended by their clubs for allegedly becoming involved in a cocaine scandal after the trans-Tasman Test in Canberra in May.
Roosters star Shaun Kenny-Dowell is also due to front court next week after being charged with cocaine possession last month.
Channel 7 reports Kenny-Dowell is still expected to join Newcastle before the June 30 deadline this year after being released from his contract with the Roosters.
“Knights officials and coaching staff are keen to have him on board ASAP; the improvement a player of his experience and talent would bring to such a young group is obvious,” Yahoo 7 reported.
“The stumbling block is Wests Group, which is poised to buy out the Knights later this year. Wests are wary of the club’s notorious drugs history — both performance enhancing and recreational — and want to avoid any player with a track record in either department.”
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You're on drugs Wiz.
I watched an amazing show on the History Channel explaining how Hitler was experimenting with a "super soldier" drug which was a concoction of elements designed to make his soldiers march for 2 days without food or water and keep them aggressive. This tablet was even sold to the general population and was continued to be sold after the war until it was discovered to have some unsavoury side effects and it was then banned. The show went on to say that the drug was then manufactured in underground labs and is now known as Crystal Meth or Ice! Could not believe it. There is nothing new.
What became of all that? Sweet FA
Are the NRL executive and referees tested?
NRL playing fields should be manicured from hemp, white lines marked with cocaine, goal posts made from Salvia divinorum, corner posts made from poppy plants, referee whistles made from myristicin and beta-carboline alkaloids, linesman flags made from khat & kava and NRL logos made from dyed hashish and buddha sticks. We are entering the space age.
Doesn't surprise me. Coke is the new VB.
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