www.widnesvikings.co.uk/view_news.php?ID=660 This needs reviewing, a poor decision.

www.widnesvikings.co.uk/view_news.php?ID=660 This needs reviewing, a poor decision.

What an utter joke. Who are these braindead morons who make these decisions????? What is Dean supposed to do? Put his health at risk for these beaurocratic nobodies?? Cockends the lot of them!

A ing disgrace.

Madness !!!

Or was he spraying his inhaler in the eyes of the players trying to tackle him hence Deano bouncing everybody off him



I`ll get me coat

The whole policy needs a review. Any asthma user, coming back from a lay off to full tilt training/matches will require and increasing amount of salbutamol PRN. That's physiology! How the bloody body works. What's he supposed to do, give up the sport? Or carry on until he can no long function then get carted off to hospital where they will give him - SALBUTAMOL?????????????????????

What a crock o' crap!

It's not exactly performance enhancing is it?

Unfortunately common sense is not a pre-requisite requirement for these people to do these sorts of jobs.

Quite right too.


A well done to the National Anti-Doping Panel.







The evil, cheating Mr Gaskell should have stuck to what the guidelines stated, and not what he felt he actually needed.

He probably would have had a severe attack, and possibly even died, but he would have set a wonderful example to us all. Instead he decided that life was more important than sticking to some bureaucratic tw*ts ridiculous f*****g diktat.

How safe do we all feel now, eh?

Always a difficult judgement to make but in this case a wrong one in my opinion

Is the ban from now or the start of the season ?

RIP Common Sense...

As an Asthma sufferer i can state that it does give you a bit of help when doing any kind of athletic activity but not enough to give you that much of an advantage.

The people who decided on this punishment should be ashamed of themselves.

speechless

And there we have it! If you have asthma and wish to take part in any competitive sport, forget it!

Hate to be paranoid but were Dean Gaskill playing for a top SL club would this be happening now?

With the amount of 'party powder' that apparently gets consumed at that level, I very much doubt it... I'm sure Hock isn't the only one that's partial to a bit of sniff at the weekend.

Just read about this, what a total joke.

I have the exact same inhaler and believe me, if you dont take a suck on it when required, you cant breathe !

End of !

RL = Buffoons.

Damn right there mate.

Would've thought thats a guarenteed. These things only come out once the players are caught, e.g Hock and andrew johns.

Plus the Rugby league only test urine, not blood, this allows player to take growth hormone as opposed to steroids as it doesn't show up. One SL player i know quite well says he suspects the use of growth hormone in the game is rife aswell as recreational drugs.

If Gaskells ban starts now I suppose it doesn't really matter, still a poor decision though.

absolutly daft but the only reason the guidelines are there are because people abuse it because the propeties of some inhalers can be used as masking agents as the tests are classed void if ashtma is involved

Ridiculous decision! Surely they (the RFL) should be capable of applying common sense somewhere?! The alternative of the lad not taking sufficient dosage, and then playing, does not bear thinking about!

The thing is this isn't the RFL this is a national doping agency and as the report states the RFL might be appealing against this decision.

absolute joke! feel for the guy

Seems his ban starts from now, so will be able to play from January.

I am led to believe HGH is very very hard to detect in blood anyway as well as being a very expensive test. It also has to be specifically tested for. I don't recall any sports person being done for HGH ? As far as I am aware you need a standard sample from the person being tested to compare raised levels against - Problem is getting this 'standard sample'.

I for one thing the whole banning of Gaskell is a joke and would be more than happy signing an online petition if it was set up.

Liam Fox has set up a group on Facebook called Dean Gaskell is innocent and it already has over 100 members.

I'm not sure how hard growth hormone is to detect but the player I know believes it is mainly down to cost and the fact that the RL could be fairly embarrased by the number of players that would test positive.

Take your point about it being difficult to get the standard sample, could probably go into most gyms though and find somebody who would admit to taking it and give you the sample.