should he be allowed to return to training early?news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/super_league/wigan/9440111.stm

If he is clean, why not?

not for me, he was given a 2 year ban and he should have to serve every last second of it. he cheated and that was his punishment, simple.

I'm sorry, but he didn't cheat. What he took was recreational and made no difference to his performance.

but it was illegal, hence the ban.

I don't think anyone can argue with the legality of what Hock was involved in, but he didn't cheat.

so sue me for using the wrong word, he is banned for 2 months still and to be allowed back in any capacity with wigan is a joke, until the ban is over.

A bans a ban 2 years, typical wigan trying to dictate what happens in the doping system. I hope the judge throws them out and fines them for wasting time.

I don't see a problem, if he'd done something which he'd been sent to jail for 2 years, then as long as he hadn't misbehaved in prison he'd be eligible for release after serving half of his sentence. He's been punished long enough, he wasn't doing steroids, he got busted for a recreational drug, 2 years off is excessive.

Getting done drink driving is worse than what Hock did, and players don't get 2 year bans for that. He's served his time for me, let him come back and good luck to him, England could do with him.

If the issue is about him doing something illegal then it should have been a matter for the police and courts not the RFL.

He won't be allowed to play until the ban is up. It looks as though a precedent has already been set with a football player.

I just think we should let the committee decide, and abide by their ruling, whichever way it goes rather than a kangaroo court.

well if anybody's going to know about dopes, it's gonna be Wigan

He'sbeen given a ban, he MUST serve it all. What kind of message would the authorities be sending out, if the relaxed it.

Shouldn't have been banned at all imo.

Disagree.
He has a two year ban and deserved it.
It has probably cost him somewhere between £300K and £500K.

Wigans point is that a football player has apparently been allowed to train with his team for a couple of months before he could return to playing.
As I said above, let the committee decide and go with that decision.

No drama.

Actually, cocaine is classed as a performance enhancing drug for numerous reasons by the World Anti-Doping Agency. So yes he did cheat. You can't really argue that he didn't, because its official that he did.

Who cares? We have a far better back rower in Westwood.