Someone posted a picture of it that night, he also did it multiple times and his jumping bearhug appeared too. Can't wait for him and Long to retire, they could have been excellent players, excellent role models, but they are just dirty. Hope Eastmond retains some self-dignity in the future.

5 star thread

Would you like some Rotten Cheese with those sour grapes?

His reputation has certainly been tarnished by his antics over the years, particularly of late.

I'm not sure his reputation was ever exactly spotless.

Yet the WADA guidelines are that its the athlete's responsibility for what goes into their body.

I'm inclined to think there were some pretty seriously mitigating circumstances.

And guess what - so did an independent inquiry and UK Sport's director for drug free sport..

Given the choice of a bunch of people on a messageboard or the people referred to above, I have to say I'm not inclined to share your assessment of the situation.

some nice Stinking Bishop would be a lovely treat thanks

Sutherland was a total con merchant, wasn't he? He conned the RFL before he conned Saints.

By a shove to someones face and a high tackle?

Give over. There is so much barrel scraping in this thread its laughable. By all means, there is an argument to suggest that Long has tarnished his legacy by what has been written in his book, but to say KCs legacy is to be tarnished is just OTT

Its pretty obvious what the mitigating circumstances were. Hence why UK Sport needed to cover the RFL's and KFC's back.

Both St. Helens RLFC and the RFL are complete not that word please for not checking him out, and they both share at least some of the blame for the total clusterf*ck that came from his employment.

Edit - apologies for the edited word, I'll not use it here again.

Ahh, yes - it's all a grand conspiracy involving the RFL, UK Sport and sundry other parties.

That's the more logical conclusion, as opposed to it not being wholly Cunningham's fault, much less something that he "got away with" - with the obvious implication that it was deliberate.

Actually you got it right in the post one above. I won't throw in the fact the RFL paid Cunningham money to stay in the game because you're twitchy enough as it is already.