Exactly this

Having said that, a ban for taking drugs, should cover all sports.
Obviously there are loopholes within RL. IIRC Catalan signed Bird ? when he had been banned in Australia, which again isnt right.
It shouldn't be too difficult for the sport to act as one in certain instances.
Of course, Union is another matter altogether and it's important for our sport to do everything possible to "win" the Solomona case.

That's a restraint of trade issue.

It's like someone sacking you from your job but then also stopping you working elsewhere even if it's in a bar in Ibiza

The sports are different. There should be an understanding between sports but no governing body in charge of both in my opinion. Apart from the law of the country.

Haven't read the Barba case so I don't know if recreational or performance enhancing but in my opinion anybody banned from a sport for taking performance enhancing drugs should have that ban carried across any sport that has a drugs policy.
If it was recreational drugs then that is a slightly different matter (again only in my opinion).

That is a good point. Cocaine is banned by WADA as a stimulant.

I'd be happy for them to be the 'judiciary' between sports. They are independent.

Surely both codes of rugby are signed up to the WADA agreement? Or does it just cover 'Olympic'sports of some such nonsense?

How can anyone seriously think that Rugby Union would sit in a room with people from Rugby League and make an agreement.
Get real. A waste of breath talking to them. Why we get involved at any level beats me. We use their clubs, does anything happen the other way? Doubtful. Let the courts sort it.

Well said Manuel.

Rugby is an Olympic sport.

Sevens is of course. And nines at the Commonwealth Games.

I would have thought tighter player contracts would be able to cover all other 'professional sports' for the length of the contract. I think the Solomona case has to be a wake up call for both League and Union, if players in both codes can retire and leave a contract behind, both codes will become more unstable. Regarding drugs all sports need a consistent code, otherwise we create a second, third and forth option for athletic drug cheats.

Creating a single governing body for both league and union will be a nail in the coffin for league. What needs to happen is for contracts to be tighter to protect both the club and the player better, and the anti-doping rules need to cover all professional sports persons so if they're banned from one sport they're automatically banned from all other professional sport.

The easier option for bans is to give them for a period of games and not a period of time. Give a 30 game ban for drug cheats and it amounts to the same as a 12 month ban, but if a player decides to move away from league then their ban just carries on when they return to the game

Works for me bentleberry until you think about the possibility of said player never likely to return unless he also copped a ban whilst playing union.

If union are happy to take on known drug cheats who are under a massive league suspension then that reflects more on their game than ours

How about that if a player "retires" he should not be allowed to play either code for another three years. That would make them think again.