Been reported on Sky Sports News hes tested positive for cocaine use! Great talent big shame.

What an idiot he's been.

Plank!!

His career was on such a high too............

Probably due to the amount of gear he’s been snorting

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What a shame

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I remember talking to a Wigan fan coming out of B.V in the year they cheated their way out of trouble. He mentioned a couple of Wigan players who were dabbling at the time and Hock was one of them. At the time, I disregarded his statement of that of a disgruntled fan. Heh-ho.

Benn a stupid boy. Maybe explains his differing form and temprement at times.

Either a long ban or end of his career?

It'll be a 2 year ban and then he'll be back.

Can't understand why players cant wait until they are retired to do things like this, esp players like Hock who is no doubt one of the highest earners at Wigan. I bet he has just lost close to £400k for a line of coke.

It won’t be the end of his career. If he does receive a two year suspension there will be plenty of suitors after him once it expires.

What a plank!

Taken from an old match report.

"Hock rounded the full back and raced towards the try line,but to everyones amazement as he was about to cross the white line he dropped the ball,bent down and buried his face in the white line and started sniffing it."

Would explain some of his rather confident off-load decisions. He is a fool to himself and being into that stuff will make two years on the sidelines even tougher.

His profile on the Wigan site says

"Gareth is a rough, tough, hard working second row forward who finished the year on a high"

1st line of his profile on Pies site...."Gareth is a tough, hard working secondrower who finished the season on a HIGH",
guess we know why...........

Lets just hope some good comes out of it and others in the game at all levels take note, this is a much wider issue than simply Hock unfortunatley.

love him or hate him theres no doubting the lads talent but whats done is done and now he will have to face the consequences been a fool but it doesnt suprise me in the slightest its him

Not the first and definately wont be the last would be nice for the rfl to expose the list of those who are been tested! Could prob think of some more who dabble lol

Think we should stay away from naming names! I've heard rumours of a number of Wakey players been naughty boys in the past

Its more widespread than you would like to think, the only way to stamp it out is to test every player every week, including the off season too.

I am not exaggerating when i say it is a huge problem within our game.

You're right, the problem is massive.

And if the sport could find the money to do so, I back that 100%.

Agree 100% i feel it could come to that testing each squad each week, i realise the problem is huge i just cant understand why anyone would want to throw that much away

How often are players currently tested?

so what can we do?

i personally would like hock to make an apology at a press conference and do community work to discourage others.

don't think he should slip away for 2 years as if nothing happened

3 months at the most to rehab and then back to it , suspension is ignoring the issue

How much does it cost to test p!ss