This is true!

Agreed, the lad make a mistake, a very costly one for which he will dearly pay. It's regretful and should send a message to other pro players that eventually you will get caught.

For me, he's apologised, held his hands up and admitted his mistake. That'll do for me, we all make mistakes and should pay the penalty for which he will.

It's a real shame but these things do happen. Let's move on and concentrate on our future

I'm just relieved he's owned up now and spared the club and his team mates any further embarrassment. He'll have plenty of time to reflect on what he's done, but as others have said, we need to draw a line under it and move on.

To be fair to Newton his statement is an honest acknowledgement for what he has done. I much prefer his courage in accepting fault than the tennis players and RU types who do drugs and throw lots of expensive lawyers and fancy excuses to cover up their wrong doing.

Whatever you may think of Newton he was a dedicated and hard working professional who reached the top in his RL career. Hopefully people will let him be.

Why should we be fair? Was he being fair trying to obtain an unfair advantage over his team mates and opponents.
He's put his hand up! Ok he could have strung it out but he knew his career was over the minute he was caught!

True, but there's at least a little bit of honesty in there. He'll get a 2 year ban, and that'll be the end of his career. In the end, it's his decision to take whatever he took, and now he faces the consequences.

We, as a sport, should be proud we catch these people and do not sweep them under the carpet and glad that the RFL is paying for blood testing to show up these 'cheats' to reduce the number getting away with it.

Terry, Terry, Terry


you did us so much damage playing against us...


but that is nothing compared to the damage you could have done to us as a Trinity player...


go get your life together... and never show your face in wakefield again!

Fool Fool Fool, I remember how we felt when Jamie Bloem was caught at Donny. He will get some media work later just as Mr Bloem has.
Hope things go well for Wakey and they Kick on from here but not too far as my 2nd team are the Giants. Best wishes from Johnny from Donny living in Giant Land

He's was good on Radio Leeds as he was a player. He's a referee now, imagine Mr. Newton as the man in the middle.

he isn't the only 1. he has admitted it and is taking the punishment..he could have carried the uncertainty on for another 8 weeks but at least he has come forward and i think that is his career over. shame because i was looking forward to the rest of the season with him in our ranks.

nb..he won't be the only 1 though will he ??

I wonder if his ban will be reduced to 12 months like for pleading guilty as has happened with an another RL player.

Sounds like you know nothing about performance enhancing drugs.

The vast majority help you train harder and have very little impact on actual performance. You still have to put the work in they dont just turn you into Scwarzenegger overnight.

A lot of sportsmen only take stuff like this to help them overcome injury quicker. Maybe he made a mistake and was just trying to recover pre season so that he could give his best to Wakey.

Either way we will never know.

But doesn't that mean that he can achieve a fitness level that he would otherwise not achieve? It means that he has an advantage that he otherwise would not have in a game where fitness is crucial.

like I have mentioned on another thread, we don't know if it was to recapture his past years or take away the pains of them,

mistake yes bet then its got so tight with what you can take, not take that even a flu / cold can give you positive reading for a banned substance