The sad thing about people like Sean is if they go to an interview they are unlikely to give their true state of health if it means they won't get the job. The club may have contactd his previous employers but we don't know what they said - if anything. One thing your not alowed to do these days is give people a bad reference.

I would say the statement issued by the club was as bad a reference as you are 'legally' ever going to see.

Here is another article from The Guardian. Not pleasant.
The 37-year-old former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half told the Sunday People that he had taken an overdose in January, and had been released by doctors only when his mother and brother agreed to look after him.

"I tried to take an overdose then I was going to go into the garage and try to start the car with the door down," he said. "That's all I could get in my head. Next day I couldn't remember any of it. I found out later who helped me."

At that point Long, who was forced to retire in 2011 after injuries had ruined a move to Hull, had just joined the Broncos as an assistant coach – having worked last season with Salford and Featherstone.

But the London club issued a statement last week confirming reports that he had been released, and Long was back at Salford for last Thursday night's heavy home defeat by St Helens at the AJ Bell Stadium, working for BBC Radio Manchester.

He seemed in reassuringly good spirits, and confirmed he is looking for another job in the game. "I feel the best I've felt in a long time," he told the People, thanking his former Saints team-mates Keiron Cunningham and Martin Gleeson for their support. "I'm wide awake and alert again. I think it's just been nipped in the bud.

"Any longer and I'd have gone under. I was off the scale but they helped bring me back down. It's a big thing, depression – it gets hold of you. I'm glad I'm out the other side."

Long's predicament brings back painful and tragic memories of the loss of Terry Newton, a former international team-mate and club rival, who took his own life in September 2010 after struggling to come to terms with a two-year drug suspension.

That led to the formation of the State of Mind , with a specific aim of addressing mental health issues for players and former players.[/i

Take it if you were in the same position how would like to be treated?

I'm actually flattered that Thecranewife seems to have joined these boards with the sole intention of stalking me. It's just a shame that its other username felt the need to hide behind this identity rather than engaging in a debate, but hey......if it's following me the. At least it's not annoying other posters!

Stalking you? Nah he appears to point out how you go on and on with your version of reality. He's just less pleasant about it.

Don't be flattered.

If SL didnt bring his issues to the attention of his employer then how can the employer support him.

If Longy was turning up late, not turning up, or smelling of booze etc and the employer doesnt know about the underlying issues then you can't hold LB accountable. I just felt it strange that LB made a statement about his release with a supporting line about why. What was the driver for that?

It's a bit worrying that he thinks he's dealt with it and nipped it in the bud. You don't get over depression and suicidal thoughts that quickly.

check out its 19 posts to date...that's stalking
as for "my version" of reality, that's another way of actually saying MY OPINION isn't it?
My opinion in this matter is that the clubs statement was OTT when dealing with someone who is obviously in dire straits. If you disagree, then fine, but I say it doesn't paint the club in a good light to have fired someone who it then turns out is in need of medical help. He is displaying the classic symptoms of manic depression from what I can gather...Bipolar is the PC term used.

. I am generally pleasant

..Bipolar is the PC term used.'"

Drone drone drone

I don't know we seem to be shedding season ticket holders at a rate of knots.

Imitation is the sincerest form of drone