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.