It's easy to say slimming pills aren't performance enhancing, but if there taken to lose weight to enhance your performance I'm guessing they can be afterall.

Not how it works. WADA and other anti-doping agencies issue a list of banned substances and it's up to individual athletes to ensure that they don't take them. The stimulant in the supplement that Gleeson took is on the WADA banned list and it only took me a few minutes on their website to confirm that. Somehow Cooper failed to check properly and wrongly advised Long. Gleeson's mistake was not checking for himself.

WADA etc distribute to the relevant parties (UKAD & then in our case the RFL), at least once per year, including all revisions and updates.

I would presume each club will have a person responsible for obtaining this info and rolling it out.

I know players have to long onto the website regularly to inform the tester whereabouts they will be too, within an allocated 1 hour slot each day (ADAMS)

The big mix up was that Cooper checked on WADA but not on the Global DRO database although initially he claimed he had.

Its a pity he didn`t,he could have avoided all this hoo ha ,"just like that."

the pity is that we signed Long and subsequently Gleeson in the first place.

having said that, given what other players have been openly forgiven for by the RFL, diet pills are hardly a big deal.