I see another story in the media in the I newspaper this morning knocking rugby league no reporting in the story of the magic weekend just another story showing rugby league in a bad light .rlhttps://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/rugby-league/rugby-leagues-great-drugs-coverup-7786076.html#disqus_threadrl

That's what happens when you have a bunch of druggies in the game and people willing to help them.

Bbc breakfast doing a big build up now,anyway back to the story in the paper its one of many huge scandals this current rfl as over seen and we carry on regardless

Yeah cos that's why every other sport gets the same treatment

why are they just reporting it now? all this came out last december.

Watched the BBC breakfast piece, still wondering why Mike Cooper from Warrington has changed his name to Mike Hooper, just so similar i don't see why he's done it.

Breaking news right there. From December.

There is absolutely no reason for them to run that story apart from to discredit RL, and on our biggest weekend of the season so far.

Absolutely no coincidence.

The way the RL fans play the victim card, you'd think that newpapers never, ever reported scandals from other sports. I'm pretty sure that I've read a hell of a lot about the England RU team's antics in New Zealand, Bloodgate, the England football captain being charged with racially aggrevated crime and match fixing in cricket fairly recently.

looks like a union biased paper trying to doa bit of mud slinging at RL, possibly because the magic weekend is getting more attention than the england v babas on the tv!

Not 6 months after the event though. What exactly is it that they're reporting this morning? That there were some players who took drugs last season, and that all of the people caught and responsible have been banned? Which was also reported, with great delight, by the Daily Mail 6 months ago.

The big difference is those sports get day-to-day coverage as well. Whereas the Independent has dispensed with Dave Hadfield's full time services and appears to have no reference to the Magic Weekend today.

So the RL coverage pattern is tiny bit squeezed in a corner every third day... HUGE SPLASH NEGATIVE STORY one day... back to the tiny corner again for the next 6 months.

The timing of the article does seem rather churlish, but it's the people responsible for the scandal that should bear the brunt of the criticism. Don't shoot the messenger and all that jazz.

We can't blame the RFL for players being idiots and taking drugs/using banned substances!

It clearly is, because I didn't even realise the yawnion mob were playing this weekend.