Yeh just looked him up on google. He has more than a hint of a piggy like build!

Dancing on Ice, Celebrity X-Factor - you really are a tart Robinson

I personally don't think it's a sport enhancing substance so he should be prosecuted under the full arm of the law and not the sports governing body. I realise he’s a role model and kids look up to him but I still don’t feel it should he should be punished by the sport and not the law.

Same goes for Bird & Carney in RL. If a player has done something illegal he needs to be prosecuted under the laws of the land not the laws of the sport. If the courts decide not offer a custodial sentence I can’t see how a club can justify taking his employment off him.

In regards to RL? Depends how desperate a club is. He’s one of the more mobile props in RU, he’ll come cheap and he’s got two years to sort his fitness out really. Worth a punt I suppose?

Oh I remember him now, he was quite cute.

Is that a yes vote from you then Donna?

Good god no. Why would we even consider signing him. Crazy idea.

Erm, I have a wife and daughter

You like fat blokes, do you?

Hellooooooo

The trusty old "wife and daughter" card! Nice!

LOL

Very good ball handling prop (by RU standards). Good offload frequently puts people through gaps. However, it's hard to see him coping with the endurance demands of league in his current physical condition. Then again, look at the shape Quinnell was when he first came here. I know it took him a long time to get up to speed, but he did it in the end. I doubt the RFL would go for it, though, even if the club and player were interested.

Think he should probably get over his Class A drug problem before he plays rugby again. Hope he gets sorted out.

They all say they have a problem, rather than saying they had a “good weekend” now and again. Doesn’t make it right or wrong, but a “problem” is a cliché way of quickly explaining why you were caught with your pants down.

If he has used it but doesn’t have ongoing issues with it, would he be a good prospect?

Elton John got married

Priceless!

He said himself it had been going on for "sometime" and had become "a problem that's basically ruined his life."

He started the season like a house on fire, but dropped off badly. He is a v good player, but RU props are very different to RL props, can't see it working.

I agree and it's one of the reasons why I don't have any sympathy towards Andrew Johns.

In my opinion, the reasons why he stopped taking recreational drugs wasn't ''because it's wrong'', it's because he was simply caught doing it and needed to stop for the sake of his past and present image rather the fact that he shouldn't be doing it full stop. Had he not been caught, he would have carried on taking recreational drugs and would still be doing it now.

I don't take any of the ''I needed to escape'' crap either. In my opinion, all that was made up because his methods of having a good weekend have been rumbled and would rather use that as excuse instead of admitting that he was fully in control of what he was doing and used recreational drugs to make his nights out better.

aaahhhh, so this is noble's high profile RU convert - it all becomes clear now

Anyone who tries to justify drug taking for any reason other than "they wanted to take drugs" is a liar.

The RFL & RFU have an agreement that neither will register a player from the other code who has been banned for drug misuse.
RL could only consider him after he's served his 2 years.
I hope he cures himself from his problem and gets his life together.
As for his suitability to League, he's simply not mobile enough. There'd be no such thing as a quick ptb when he got tackled.

I sit there screaming play the ball every week, i honestly believe this is a thing that would improve us 10 fold if we could get opposition defenses on the back foot but it doesnt happen. Even when Feka does a steaming run because hes got 4 on him it takes far too many seconds to play the ball.

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I hope I never get an illness like that

Seconded!

Peronally, I don't care about a player's off field activities, as long as he's not hurting anyone, and producing the goods for the club. No one's really complained about Tim Smith, for instance (other than the fact he's - erm, taking time to settle in).

The reason I don't want Matt Stevens at Wigan is because he's rubbish.

AT least when he loses the ball in the tackle, he can pretend he's forgotten which code he's playing.

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