Rumours Suggest Sharks Only The Beginning.

Anthony Watmough

The NRL's Season to get much worse if you believe the rumours. 

Unsubstantiated rumours are flying in rugby league circles currently, suggesting that Manly, Newcastle and Canterbury will be the next to feel the wrath of ASADA.

I recently received a text message outlining the recent rumours engulfing the NRL and creating a pall over our much loved winter sport. Some extracts are as below.

Steve (Beaver) Menzies

Rumour has it that retired Manly star Steve (Beaver) Menzies is cooperating with the authorities and is giving them a lot of information about doping involvement from his time at Manly and that they could be stripped of their 2008 and 2011 premierships.

It is also rumoured that there are phone tapped tapes of Anthony Watmough and Paul Gallen discussing how they could beat the system, and that Des Hasler is implicated in so far as he had known about the administering of performance enhancing drugs in his time at both Manly and Canterbury. The rumours say that there could be as many as 17 current and past Manly players involved.

Jeremy Smith

It is also rumoured that there are 7 players at Newcastle to face the music and that Jeremy Smith is in the gun as the guy who first introduced Steven Danks, the sports scientist who is allegedly behind the whole doping scandal, to the Sharks, StGeorge and Newcastle and in doing so involving the squeeky clean Wayne Bennett as his coach at two of those clubs. 

Now of course this is all rumour and innuendo at this stage. However, naturally rumours will fly maliciously around the world until the facts are out there. This is entirely down to the to Labour Government ministers Lundy and Clare, the Australian Crime Commission's John Lawler and ASADA, for coming out too early, beating there chests and the bushes to see if they could flush out anyone stupid enough to put their hand up.

If they don't put up or shut up, the rumours will get more plentiful and elaborate until people's reputations and the game of rugby league are seriously damaged. What an absolute fiasco, presided over people who get paid enough money to know better.. or you would think.

NRL Doping Joke

Put up or shut up.. You idiots.

Crime in sport report

Here we go again, Cronulla and rugby league fans in general wake this morning to find that the Sharks future in season 2013 may be in jeopardy, with threats of 14 players being stood down unless someone confesses to performance enhancing drugs use.

These incompetent morons at ASADA running this investigation into doping in rugby league, are fishing around for players to come forward on their own, or else. Or else what? If they have the evidence, charge them now and have done with it.

Sharks

They come out with their bullshit on the eve of the season start, casting a pall over the whole season. As well as clouding the joy of the fans at having league back in their lives at last. They keep throwing innuendo about like fishermen casting a bait net to see what they can find, without making a charge.

Do they think of the fans in all of this while they are playing their games? What about the millions of fans doing their tips today or finalising their Fantasy League sides? How many fans would have Paul Gallen in their Fantasy side as captain, only to be thrown into doubt at the last minute.

Dank

How long have these incompetent fools had to sort out an incident that had it's roots back in 2010-2011. Sports Scientist Steven Dank was employed by the club back then, and allegedly administered a form of peptide to the players as a part of their training program. It is said that, at the time, these peptides were completely legal but later banned by ASADA.

My guess is that they believe that some players have continued to use these peptides, however they can't test for it so they need someone to confess so as to have a case.

Stop playing games you idiots, put your evidence up or piss off and leave our sport alone.

If you have some evidence, charge someone and get on with it. Don't drag the whole game in to disrepute and destroy the season at the same time.