Quote ="Barnacle Bill"Which is the point I was making. It seems clear to me that Long is saying he was taking it less than 12 hours before game time otherwise why would he be stating he could have tested positive too?'"
Because he quite clearly doesn't have a clue about it.
Quote ="Barnacle Bill"Gleeson tested positive, so he was definately taking it less than 12 hours before game time and Long supplied it to him.'"
Shock horror, you have stated a fact
You aren't Hudgell after all.
Quote ="Barnacle Bill"Why would Long advise anything other than what he did with it? So, on balance, I think it's fair to assume both Long and Gleeson were taking this stuff less than 12 hours before game time and if they were, then it's not too hard to imagine other players were too.'"
That is extreme extrapolation through the lens of the biased point of view of a rovers supporting mental pygmy. Its a pity for you that the Stalinist and Nazi regimes no longer exist as you would have done great job for them at identifying those guilty by some twisted "logic" of association and carting them off to the camps. The facts are, no matter how much you fantasise, first that it is OK to take this drug except when it is present in the system during a game (ie taken 12 hours or less before kick off) and secondly only Gleeson failed the test, nobody else.
Which makes it rather fairer to assume that if any other players were taking it they were using it legally and correctly and that Gleeson is the lone idiot, a position he unfortunately has held before as supporters at his previous clubs will testify.