But there is clearly no story, anyone can see that. Any sponsor etc who would claim to be pulling out of the game and using this story as the reason was leaving anyway.

As for the publicity, as Andrew Loog Oldham said - all publicity is good publicity - and tomorows chip wrapping.

Terry Newton RIP committed suicide after being found guilty of drug abuse, a much more damaging story at the time. It will have damaged the lives of those close to him but the game was damaged for about 2 weeks max. Newton was a big name and a great player and by RL standards quite high profile. No one but the hard core fans hardly remember him now and even less remember what happened and that's only a year ago - brutal isn't it - no one cares what Mr Leaf did, in fact there even past caring what Wayne Rooney does and to whom.

The capacity of RL fans and those on the VT especially to make a mountain out of a mole hill never fails to amaze me - a bunch of old women.

Spot on Trinity & Vastman. Most people outside the rugby league community have forgotten about it already if they even registered it at the time.

Just in case anyone is interested the Dons gave Wakey a really good game for fifty odd minutes, before our team started to tire out a bit.
A good game, our highest crowd of the season and a good day out for everyone concerned.
It just seems that this has been overlooked...

It's a huge aside...but i've bitten...

I'd never heard of Mr. Leaf. Captain of Doncaster isn't someone I could ever name.

I've heard of every England international however. One of them takes drugs - does far more to discredit the game and bring it into disrepute than anything a captain of any Championship 1 club could do!

The whole story is rubbish journalism. RFL should just let it drift into distant memory. OR, they could start throwing the book at every player for every rule breach they ever make and that would include Mr. Hock. You can't make a random exception.

For those getting very angry about this have a read. www.anchorfan.com/blog/what-to-d ... the-gutter So less hypocrisy, less vitriol and more reasoned common sense, please.

For those getting very angry about this have a read. www.anchorfan.com/blog/what-to-d ... the-gutter So less hypocrisy, less vitriol and more reasoned common sense, please.

Gary Schofield has always talked sense and I look forward to the day when he becomes the Rhinos coach. There’s not many in the sport who ‘tell it how it is’ and I think it’s a deep shame that he’s not further up in the rugby league hierarchy.

Embararssing.

pillock

That makes two us.

Gary Schofield is an anus.

All this "one person dosn't affect a match" defence in this thread, yet when a match official is involved!!!!!

Lovely stuff.