Quote ="mcfc/wire"Got woken up at 6:30 am this morning for a drugs test . www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html Shocking if true .'" Why is that shocking? Not exactly early is that

Quote ="mcfc/wire"Got woken up at 6:30 am this morning for a drugs test . www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... uotes.html Shocking if true .'" Why is that shocking? Not exactly early is that

Give over .

Its not shocking to be asleep then woken to be told your having a drugs test?

I think it is on a match day unless his opposition player gets the same disturbed sleep.

Not really mate. If it was the middle of the night then maybe, but 6.30am isnt that early at all.

6.30 is fine. You can always go back to bed afterwards.

Clearly someone spotted his hairstyle and was convinced he must be on hardcore drugs.

If someone knocked on my door at 6.30am and said I needed a drug test i'd snot him one.

Why? I bet the players are up by 7 or 8 at the latest anyway for a 6pm kickoff. They will need to eat the right breakfast for a start. So I reckon he's been inconvenienced by all of a half hour, assuming he's moved here from Yorkshire.

Surely the idea of drugs tests is to do them at a time when the player least expects it...?

I thought we were all for a zero tolerance policy after Newton got busted.

Anyway it makes more sense to do it first thing in the morning, it will be easier to fill up a bottle when you first wake up, than when dehydrated after a game.

If Atkins had done that though, how many people would jump to conclusions and brand him a drug cheat like Christine Ohorogu

Only a young lad, could have been quite embarasing with morning wood.

Sorry can't do it yet!

Why Not?

Erm Well it's a bit difficult

It obviously did him some good, remember to wake him up early every time on match day.

Doesn't it happen when you reach your age eh Geordie..?

It does but not as often as my mid 20s when it was virtually guaranteed

If the testing is done the same as athletics then all players will have to give their whereabouts for 1 hour every week.

So Atkins may very well have said he will be at home betweek 6:00 and 7:00 every Sat morning. And the testers are within their rights to turn up at that time.

Same happened to Langley of the Bulls at 6.30am. Langley didn't play though, he was taken ill on the bus.

As a member of the England elite squad, Atkins & Langley are subject to random drugs tests. When better to test them than early morning when if they had taken something the night before, it would still be in their system?

It's not the Atkins business that shocks me. It's the fact we're discussing our site moderator's morning glory situation.

well the question was asked

As you get older it's other parts of the anatomy that are a little stiff in the morning!

I've now got pictures in my head that should never be in my head.

Like everything else with age probably happens a little slower - maybe at the bus stop on the way to work.

Pee'ing with a hardon is more painful than child birth, fact.

i'm glad we only move the clocks twice a year, that catches me out.