*facepalm*

Cocaine is out of your system pretty quick Hock was stupid to allegedly have taken it but even more stupid to get caught.

Why recreational?

I guess if you need a release from the pressure or something, or you do stupid things when drunk.

In terms of performance enhancing there are numerous things an athlete can use without getting caught, short esters of testosterone, IGF-1 etc etc.

At least then you improve your performance and you don't get caught.

Why not just have a five knuckle shuffle?

More here: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 561707.ece Apparently he's in pieces. Bless.

More here: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 561707.ece Apparently he's in pieces. Bless.

But the RFL have a test for that and Hock's been caught out as a complete w*nker!!

Because even his hands think him ugly.

metabolites stay longer

plus you never know what the junk is cut with.

I doubt he knowingly used it in advance of a test. Just got caught. He should have done a Rio and gone shopping instead

The big rumour at the moment is that Hock knew he would fail a test, told a certain employee before the Salford game, but the risk was taken and he got selected by the testers after the game.

That employee was sacked last night.

If true that would suggest some complicity on the part of the employer wouldn't it ?

An attitude of "we know you do it because you've told us so we'll try not to select you when you might fail a test" ???

If true then it would it be so surprising if other clubs had a simliar attitude too ?

Meanwhile in unrelated news Ryan Bailey and Matt Diskin failed fitness tests on Saturday morning causing Simon Worrall to be brought into the seventeen from outside the original nineteen.

That's a rarity these days.

If you had a key player on ££££ and he told you he would fail an upcoming test. As a club would to go with the moralistic response or look after a key asset from a clubs perspective??

It depends if you're the sort of club chairman who signs up to the RFL's anti-doping rules and is quite happy to have his players tested regularly as long as they don't test the ones who are doped.

It also depends if you're the sort of club chairman who is quite happy to promote his players as community role models whilst all the while knowing that they have an illegal drug habit, if you're the sort of club chairman who thinks that that sort of thing is OK as long as you don't get caught then your point may stand.