That may be so but he needs to prove that it won't happen again. He needs help to resist it in the future and be able to resist the inevitable temptation. If he doesn't get some sort of councilling he could well be back in the same position.

Don't get me wrong I think if he proves he can do this he should be playing RL again in 2 years time and I've no problem with him playing for Wigan.

I said I wasn't totally sure what the ruling would be.

Then, in response to your usual negative anti-Wigan RL spin - "if the club think they can use this to get around the rules yada yada yada yawn yawn yawn" - I pointed out that whatever decision they eventually come to will be based on talking to the right people, because let's face it, they'll have no choice but to do that.

As for the other stuff - given how difficult it is for a lad to make it into the Scholarship ranks at Wigan, any parent who dragged him away again merely because Gareth Hock was still attached to the club would want his head seeing to.

If my son was in the wigan scholarship i would welcome gaz hock working with the lads.

Players from that age need to be warned about the dangers to the careers and most imporantly there health if they take drugs.And to be told from someone who drugs have almost destroyed his life can only help them

To see a fallen hero telling them the path he took is not worth risking it all is whats needed IMO

Yes.

I would hope he is allowed to have some kind of role within the club, it seems the most sensible solution.

This all comes down to the lad himself. If he is genuinely focused on changing his ways then as a society..never mind as a club!....we should be supporting that. If he proves himself worthy I, for one, will be applauding him should he step out onto the field in 2 years time a reformed character. More so if that's in a Cherry and White shirt!

Why? If Wigan hang him out to dry and have nothing more to do with him another club will pick him up in 2 years and reap the benefits.
At this moment the guy needs guidance and assistance.

Spot on

I've done loads wrong mate and taken responsibility for it all, fact is, if Gaz had not been caught he would still be doing it, theres too many gullible people out there that beleive what he has said in the paper, for the good of the club we should wipe our hands clean of him, no matter how talented he is, he has broken the law, if you get found out in a works drug test 97% of the time you will bne fired no matter how good at your job you are

No you said you didn't think they club could do it. You then changed your tune to indulge in one of your increasingly common little digs at me when you had no reason to do so. All I did was point out why your opinion the club could not do it was likely to be correct.



If the club has got any sense they won't present any parent with that dilemma.

As others have pointed just because Hock has been banned should not mean he is in a position to work on junior development as if this is some sort of rehabilitation in itself. Once he has been rehabilitated and proved himself clean he can set himself up as someone who has beaten the evils of drug use and be used in some sort of ant-doping role by the club or even the RFL if they want. He will be proved clean in two years having gone through the testing regime he must subject himself to and once he has got back playing.

I would be very surprised if the club would even try it never mind get it past the RFL and/or WADA as a an authorised rehabilitation program.

The idea that before the two years has passed he can be used in junior development and this is rehabilitation is IMO naive but if it happens then IMO it makes a mockery of the rules as they are written.

Dave

and that is the only reason why everyone is on the "Help save Gareth Hock Bandwagon", not because they genuinely care about him, they're just scared Leeds or Saints may sign him.