Just how widespread is drug use in RL?

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Seems to be a weekly event!

League player given 12-match ban for cannabis
BRISBANE, Aug 31 AAP - A social footballer has been banned for 12 matches after testing positive to marijuana during a regional Queensland Rugby League carnival.
Central Capras forward Anthony Munns copped the penalty after taking the banned substance before QRL regional representative carnival on the Sunshine Coast in May.
Munns, of Woorabinda near Rockhampton, is the second Queensland league player this year to be suspended for taking cannabis.
Queensland Cup player Don Malone suffered the same penalty after testing positive while playing for Brisbane club Easts in April.
QRL boss Ross Livermore said a three-man tribunal issued Munns with the minimum penalty for a recreational drug offence under the World Anti-Doping Authority code.
Since July 2005, 13 athletes have tested positive to marijuana in tests conducted by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
 

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I really hope that there isn't many more.

But if there is, im sure that the clubs and the NRL will/would move quick enough to punish and hopefully try and do everything in there power to try and stop this.
 
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thebigboy said:
I really hope that there isn't many more.

But if there is, im sure that the clubs and the NRL will/would move quick enough to punish and hopefully try and do everything in there power to try and stop this.
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You desperate saddo's.... why would the NRL be involved ? the quote was...

BRISBANE, Aug 31 AAP - A social footballer has been banned for 12 matches
This a guy who shows up on the weekend with his mates.

Meanwhile the AFL has ensured at the premier level that the the names of elite players won't be revealed at all until their THIRD negative drug test.

We get park QLD football players in RL shamed by Victorians, but guys on $500,000 a year in AFL kept in anonymity.
 

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Yeah fair point it was in a QRL carnival, but im just saying that i hope there is no more in the NRL.
 

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At least we'll always know how wide spread it is in RL.

Given how many players who have tested positive to drug use, it doesn't really seem to be much of a problem. I certainly don't know of any who have tested positive twice.
 

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I have a feeling this "1858" guy joined up just to troll a bit on the RL boards.

It would be a joke RL and any other professional sporting code if say drug users were swept under the carpet - even if they've been guilty twice!
 
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