He said himself it had been going on for "sometime" and had become "a problem that's basically ruined his life."

He started the season like a house on fire, but dropped off badly. He is a v good player, but RU props are very different to RL props, can't see it working.

I agree and it's one of the reasons why I don't have any sympathy towards Andrew Johns.

In my opinion, the reasons why he stopped taking recreational drugs wasn't ''because it's wrong'', it's because he was simply caught doing it and needed to stop for the sake of his past and present image rather the fact that he shouldn't be doing it full stop. Had he not been caught, he would have carried on taking recreational drugs and would still be doing it now.

I don't take any of the ''I needed to escape'' crap either. In my opinion, all that was made up because his methods of having a good weekend have been rumbled and would rather use that as excuse instead of admitting that he was fully in control of what he was doing and used recreational drugs to make his nights out better.

aaahhhh, so this is noble's high profile RU convert - it all becomes clear now

Anyone who tries to justify drug taking for any reason other than "they wanted to take drugs" is a liar.

The RFL & RFU have an agreement that neither will register a player from the other code who has been banned for drug misuse.
RL could only consider him after he's served his 2 years.
I hope he cures himself from his problem and gets his life together.
As for his suitability to League, he's simply not mobile enough. There'd be no such thing as a quick ptb when he got tackled.

I sit there screaming play the ball every week, i honestly believe this is a thing that would improve us 10 fold if we could get opposition defenses on the back foot but it doesnt happen. Even when Feka does a steaming run because hes got 4 on him it takes far too many seconds to play the ball.

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I hope I never get an illness like that

Seconded!

Peronally, I don't care about a player's off field activities, as long as he's not hurting anyone, and producing the goods for the club. No one's really complained about Tim Smith, for instance (other than the fact he's - erm, taking time to settle in).

The reason I don't want Matt Stevens at Wigan is because he's rubbish.

AT least when he loses the ball in the tackle, he can pretend he's forgotten which code he's playing.

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