Very well done to the Hull club for supporting him through this.

I don't know the bloke but wish him all the best and hope to see him back in the black and white as soon as he is able.

Stress IS an issue for a sports psychologist. Stress can be detrimental to performance, and a sports psychologist could be used in order to improve performance by helping the player in learning to deal with stress and anxiety that debilitates perfromance. Obviously you know better so maybe i should have studied in your university instead.

Educational sports psychologists address stressors to the athlete such as performance worries, self-doubt, [utraumatic experiences outside of sport[/u, injury etc, etc. That would include stress and anxiety experienced due to those stressors which educational sports psychologists would look to rectify. However, if the eduacational sports psychologist believed the condition was due to severe emotional disorders ( such as suicidal tendancies, eating disorders, substance abuse etc ) they would refer the athlete to a clinical sports psychologist. I have taken this information from my course book( Foundations of sport and exercise psychology, by Weinberg and Gould, 2007) so I will believe their years of study research knowledge etc rather than your misguided comment. Of course if you'd like to point me in the direction where you obtain your information I will happily read it and pass it on to Weinberg and Gould so they can update their information and credit you with the discovery.

not the place for our discussion, see your pm's.

i await your pm

In much the same way everyone "knew" he had

a) Been out on the
b) had failed a drugs test

What part of Paul & Joes mod posts at the top of the thread passed you by? anyone else posting that sort of thing would have been booted off the site.

Indeed, which raises the question as to why RBA hasn't, teflon mod?

I have warned him in this thread and that anything near a repeat will see him gone.

and would Jake The Peg have been afforded the same leniency, I doubt it.

anyway..Glesson.

It wasn't leniency, it was a close call.

Good luck to the guy with whatever he's going through, the details of which are clearly none of our business. RL is fairly irrelevant by comparison, and we all need to remember that.

Stress and depression remain a bit of a taboo in sport (see Mr Bore-cott's comments during cricket World Cup for instance), even more than in other forms of employment. It's a bad enough situation to be in, but I can't imagine that having to be in the public eye at the same time is a big help. A stigma needs to be removed.

Well done to the club for supporting him, I like to hope any club would do the same, but you never can tell. And if I'm not much mistaken, the Hull Daily Mail's move actually looks like a rare example of responsible journalism, as I don't think stupid rumours are in anyone's interests.

Maybe I am too old fashioned but as someone who sees how easy it is for people to waste thousands of pounds of their employers money by taking time off for stress I think in a lot of instance its an easy way out. If you can't do your job because of stress then perhaps you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, too many people think the world owes them a living.

If Martin Gleeson has things going on in his personal life that need sorting out then by all means take time off work to sort them out but don't call it stress and set a timetable for that to happen and Martin to return to work.

Speaking generally, not about Martin Gleeson, we waste far too much money pandering to people who claim to be stressed and it seems an easy way out, especially since weak GP's seem only too willing to sign people off work for it. I know recently of a nurse who split up with her boyfriend and a doctor signed her off for a month for stress. We all payed for that and it was totally unnecessary. Modern life these days is pretty easy, we don't want for much and what we don't have the government generally gives us. A little perspective and more personal responsibility is needed.

I agree Steve, I once worked with a bloke who's misses left him with the kids.

He claimed he was emotionally shot but the doc wouldn't sign him off and he couldn't afford to live without working.

He hung himself.