Basically cocaine is prohibited “in competition” which means from 12 hours prior to a RL game to the post match urine tests afterwards. If tested outside of this period it is not a prohibited substance.

Cocaine will usually stay in the system for 2-4 days so if they took it on the night after a match they *should* be clear by the time of the next match.

This is why Ben Barba was able to avoid a full drugs ban. He failed the test for cocaine “out of competition” so was not subject to the official drugs ban, rather a 12 game NRL ban for bringing the game into disrepute.

Do we know it's cocaine? I know, given how rife it is throughout sport and society as a whole, that's it's the most likely but we seem to be jumping the gun a bit here. Unless I've missed something, of course..

It transcends merely the sport, it is a societal issue.

The UK is the cocaine capital of Europe. The rising trend of violent crime, particularly knife crime, ties in with the rise in use and availability of cocaine. Police budgets have been slashed, Westminster lacks the foresight to make the nuanced reform and change necessary to combat it. Our government believe greater powers to "stop and search" or to "put more police on the streets" will work when the issue stems from crypto-technology that makes it easy to advertise, negotiate and distribute high margin cocaine online. The battle is in the air and not on foot.

Anyway I digress. Yes, horrific timing and a shame as the lad has some ability. We can only await the outcome.

it might not be your business but you should of let someone know about it,
I once passed on information to a friend as he was in a coaching role and didn't want him to be subjected to public criticism as he's a genuine good feller,
I hadn't proof but enough info for him to be monitored, the lad in this case had beat up his girlfriend one thing he couldn't hide and was using drugs, I later learned he lost his contract but this didn't go through the media.

The game as a whole needs to decide how it wants to deal with issues like drugs taking. Do we treat performance enhancing drugs as being different to social ones. When I was a young player some of the things done by senior payers under the influence of alcohol would make your hair stand on end but were conveinently ignored by fans and management. I am not in favour of the use of social drugs (other than alcohol but then I am a hypercrit) but I understand that they are very common today. If we genuinely wanted a drugs free sport we could impliment a whole range of processes to find users but we might find that we had few players left. I really think that we want to ask what we want and decide what is to be done before we try to change anything (as I am sure Mrs May will agree with).

Well, Brian Carney has had a few words to say on the Subject: https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... an-players

Well, Brian Carney has had a few words to say on the Subject: https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... an-players

He has a short memory

Well he would know all about letting people down. Self serving bell end.

This.

That whole rant by Brian Carney shows how little he knows about the current crop of Wigan players.

why because he choose to move on from wigan, being a bit selfish aren't you