If we did that maybe Horne wouldn't have got the s at our mutual ex chinese takeaway lol!!!

You seem to have missed the point by a wide margin.

All I can say is, there's no smoke without Offiah.

Exactly, thats pretty much the point. It's like saying well it's the taking part that counts "you get what you get", He'll do etc.

It's our club really so it's only to us that it should matter, as results on the pitch will, eventually, decree whether we are successful or not and survive or die. So I'd say it's pretty important.

I'm not arguing for or against it really, I'm just playing devil's advocate. In many ways it shows how amateurish our sport still is, although improving year by year.

I could just imagine GB team riders at British cycling nipping out for a fag between training and in the pub afterwards. Maybe they did years ago but then it changed, and now is a blue print for how to be an ultra sucessful sports development programme, with athletes pushed to the to the absolute maxiumum peak they can be. Their results pay tribute to this.

Now I know it wouldn't transfer over into rugby perfectly but I think we all agree our club could do with a bit more of this attitude and scientific approach. I'm hope I'm right in saying that I think the new regime is already providing this.

I really don't understand why a professional sportsman would choose to smoke. Even I'd they perform well it will limit them in some capacity.

That said as long as they are playing well I wouldn't really complain.