I agreed all the way up to the “club” bit. Hamlin/Mullen/Hardaker absolutely disrespected the club by their actions. Mullen and Hardaker will and have had the opportunity to make it up but I suspect Hamlin will stay in Australia and be ever remembered as a complete waste of talent.

I dread to think of the amount of powder that will get exhumed tomorrow at Aintree, I stopped gambling 6 years ago so don’t go anymore but I have heard the crowd has got a lot worse recently. It’s very much on trend and seems to attract nobs with no interest in horses, little bit like the darts crowd, just there to get wrecked.

I went to Haydock and Chester last year and recently Cheltenham for the Gold Cup. The amount of white powder is utterly ridiculous, doing it out in the open, 3/4 lads to a cubicle. Even my partner saw a group of girls in their toilets passing a bag around. If you need that to have a good time or a good night you’re nothing short of a sad pathetic person IMHO.

Juvenile i know.

But this proper tickled me this Matty

Unheard of in the 80s ands 90s lol. Give over it was just as bad if not worse.

I was talking specifically about the queues in the gents toilets, that’s a recent thing. Yes drugs was being taken in the cities around the UK (Gunchester/Hacienda wars & rave scene) but in the towns the availability of coke just wasn’t there in the abundance it is now. Back then you might have known the odd person who dabbled now it’s widespread.

It’s mental. Each year it’s got worse certain gangs of lads seem to want to just get wrecked as soon as possible... ie From midday onwards. I’m swerving it this year.

I think that's what most, if not all, are saying on here mate. I doubt many take issue with the gist of what Carney is saying. It's just the way he takes aim soley at Wigan when he, better than most, knows it's a game wide issue. It's sensationalism at it worst and moreso when you take on board that he was guilty of comparable misdemeanours during his own playing career.

Bobbie Goulding has weighed into Carney on Twitter & Facebook calling him a hypocrite.

It’s not so much the drug that bothers me it’s more the group of lads who seem to take it and want eveyone to know about it. I personally have a couple of mates who use it fairly regular and you wouldn’t know they were on it,apart from the fact they stay fairly sober and they can keep drinking longer, waste of money if you ask me.
I’ll stick to alcohol which imo is probably a worse drug but legal and a damn site cheaper!

Just legalise the stuff and tax it heavily as per alcohol and tobacco. Job done.

Never saw Goulding as a player, but as a kids coach I saw him threaten a kid, get sent off by the ref, then threaten to destroy the young refs career if he reported it. Thoroughly odious man, regardless of the image he now presents on social media.