try going for a run after a nite with no ale inside you...then try it after 4 pints/cans/bottles.......i bet you can notice the difference even with that small amount of alcohol...i know i did on sunday when i went for a run.


pro rugby players shouldnt really be drinking during the season.

Maybe not but he won his Olympic medals on a diet of Chicken Nuggets as he didn't fancy the food in China, so much for a healthy diet

i cant even manage to run for 10 mins after a few drinks the night b4.

I have just gone over five years with only 1 unit of Alcohol per week max

It can be done and its not that hard FFS

Just about

had a relapse at Cardiff and kept a low profile for a couple of weeks

Nothing wrong with players having a good drink after the game. But once Monday is back up it should be an alcohol ban till after the next game and so on.

Now IF these players are going out on the lash 2 or 3 days before a game and they seem to be accused of going in the same bars week in week out, then why are the club allowing it to happen?

Surely it can be classed as misconduct? Can the club introduced a fining system where if a player is caught out X amount of days before a game having a skinful they would be fined x amount of pounds.

Would be very easy to introduce a breathalyser to each training session etc. As for the smoking, yeah it is a bad habit and not an ideal one for a sportsman but there are plenty out there who smoke all the way through their careers and it doesn;t seem to do them any harm.

We have had Radders, Whiting, Yeamo and Horney doing Question of Sport nights at Pelican......They drank orange cordial, nowt else.....I gave them it!!!!
Washy is local to Pelican too......He has been in a few times and drank the same as the others. I served him too

I will be amazed if Tickle doesn't leave for Wire

They have refused to either deny or confirm the deal, when he does go thats the full house as regards false information

Rule and kath telling us spent full cap, and now Agar telling us he isn't leaving

Maybe he wants the squad focused ready for the derby, and is worried all this speculation will turn them to drink leading up to the derby

sadly Usain Bolt does drink - he was partying in the Red Stripe sponsors bar withing the ground on the last West Indies cricket tour. but that was his off season

Regarding drinking after a game [i've told both these storys before in other threads before anyone 'reminds' me] when Kearney was at Hull he gave the academy lads a lecture on looking after thereselves and said they shouldnt be looking to go out on the beer more than once a month. Listening to Lee Crooks at a dinner the other month he said that you can tell the players who had a good session (more than just 6 pints) on a saturday after a game even as late as tuesday or wednesday in training - their bodies havent been able to recover from the game or the alcohol.

people need to realise these guys are meant to be athletes at their peak, pushing their bodys to the limits. its not like 10/15/20 years ago. in general you can't do both, fair enough some players manage a career at the top getting away with it, but some people are more natural athletes than others and some players have talent and a game that doesnt really on them being fully fit. just coz one player does it doesnt mean its ok for the rest, and it shouldnt be ok for the individual

Either way I don't see Tickle being here next season.

I was saddened to hear Agar say Tickle isnt meant to be leaving. He had a very good first season but has been very average since. A back row of Burnett, Fitzgibbon and Washbrook with the likes of Manu, Whiting and Lee to come in would suffice and give us a much better balance imo.
Also with the drinking, I dont think its bad if players go for a drink or two after a game. But getting bladdered anytime during the season, unless after a cup win or something, is very unprofessional. The likes of Tickle, Thackray and Berrigan can often be found wrecked round Bev Rd/Cott Rd/Newland Ave area apparently

He has an excuse,he is an Ozzie.

could anyone be more accurate on where berro drinke like time and place