An interview where he is honest an open about getting caught for drugs www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -stop.html

An interview where he is honest an open about getting caught for drugs www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -stop.html

Quote ="willowred"An interview where he is honest an open about getting caught for drugs www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -stop.html'" Should have been an interview with the club's website... Not the papers... Bad PR idea for me.

Quote ="willowred"An interview where he is honest an open about getting caught for drugs www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... -stop.html'" Should have been an interview with the club's website... Not the papers... Bad PR idea for me.

Obviously money talks in the land of Hock, good riddence imo

££££££££££

I suppose he needs it now though.

Sounds like he has an alcohol problem to me.

Oh i'm not naive enough to realise its not about money. But i just think that if he wanted to try to redeem himself with the town, club and fans (who paid his wages to buy the sh$t) that another course may have been wiser...

I still don't see why this is a two year ban. Yes it's illegal but he wasn't taking it to get an edge over his opponents. For me a sentence or probably a fine would have been fair enough. Why do the rfl interefere with off field incidents like this but don't do anything about assaults like Feka/Cockayne/Pryce and they only banned Long and Gleeson for less than a year for betting on their own team to lose. Far more bringing the game into disrepute than what Hock has done (=redPlease do not even allege such things. DaveO

Regardless of the fact he's done the interview for money, its obvious that he knows he's cocked up and he wants to get clean and make up for it. If everything he says in that interview is true then I wouldn't have a problem with having him back at Wigan in 2 years time.

The club have stated publicly that they will not comment on the issue until it is fully resolved.

Has he been sacked by Wigan then?

If you dont understand then your an idiot, the RFL dont even have a choice on this....

It's a two year ban because the RFL sign up the WADA rules and regulations and the those rules say if you take Cocaine you get a two year ban. Simple.

Everybody including Hock knew this beforehand so its pointless saying its harsh because he knew what the penalty was and that it was not going to change because other players have done things some people consider worse.

Dave

Its a two yesar ban because its in the rules..........end of.
He's got his 'sentence' as you say, its two years !

Another article here, www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... y-son.html According to this he's not even met any of the players face to face since his results but the players and club have offered him support and everyone seems to be sticking by him. He's going into rehab and determined to get clean and come back. He sounds like he's going to do his best and genuinely wants to get back so I say good luck to him and hope he does.

Another article here, www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... y-son.html According to this he's not even met any of the players face to face since his results but the players and club have offered him support and everyone seems to be sticking by him. He's going into rehab and determined to get clean and come back. He sounds like he's going to do his best and genuinely wants to get back so I say good luck to him and hope he does.

Quote ="kirkamania6"Another article here, www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... y-son.html According to this he's not even met any of the players face to face since his results but the players and club have offered him support and everyone seems to be sticking by him. He's going into rehab and determined to get clean and come back. He sounds like he's going to do his best and genuinely wants to get back so I say good luck to him and hope he does.'" Nice of them to put a picture of Gareth Ellis at the top

Quote ="kirkamania6"Another article here, www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/4 ... y-son.html According to this he's not even met any of the players face to face since his results but the players and club have offered him support and everyone seems to be sticking by him. He's going into rehab and determined to get clean and come back. He sounds like he's going to do his best and genuinely wants to get back so I say good luck to him and hope he does.'" Nice of them to put a picture of Gareth Ellis at the top

The last picture isnt of Hock either

They confuse him with Joel Tomkins aswell.

And nice of them to put a picture of Joel Tomkins hugging Tim Smith too .

Mine shows hock hugging ainscough

Other article

And Joel Tomkins lower down claiming it to be Hock.

Can't fault the lad for going to the papers to get a bit of money lets face it his employment prospects are not good for the next 2 years.

I was actually quite pleased by the honesty of the interview and although i am sure his words have been edited the message behind them must have come from Hock, and it does seem he is genuinely remorseful and ashamed of his actions.

If he continues with this attitude and has the desire to prove himself again this 2 year ban may well be one of the best things to happen to his career from a performance point of view.

I suspect the club will stand by him, I feel more sorry for him after those articles, but i suppose that was the intention.

When will his two year ban be lifted.

Will it be from the date of the test or the when his official ban starts, which could be in another six weeks?

Im sure i read its from when he was first suspended.

I think people need to get off Hock's back. You're allowed to make mistakes as long as you try to redeem them.

We can judge him if he does not make the effort during his ban, or once he has served his ban, fails to redeem himself and makes the same mistake. Only then will we know if he means it, or his attitude is, at best, cavalier. By all means, judge him then, but for now, leave him alone.

I've never taken cocaine, and am very anti-drugs, however I'm not into condemning the lad. I do wonder, however, how many of you who say he's not fit to burn have had a bit of a dabble yourself?