Wish I could find the crying/taking my ball home smiley

Its a shame having 13 Aussies over your quota didnt benefit you

Oh dear. I was responding to a Huddersfield fan's neutral criticism of Lloyd's performance on Radio 5 Live. To say Lloyd is impartial within the city's RL would be an extreme stretching of the truth. To say he is a rugby league expert when his knowledge of rugby league beyond the city boundaries is shaky would be similarly unwise. Of course it's a highly newsworthy story, there can be no doubt about it. That's why he was sought out by 5 LIve as the impartial expert. Sadly for them, and for the sport of RL, according to Mr Giant, it didn't quite work out. I was furnishing our Huddersfield friend with some explanatory context for his criticism of Lloyd's effort on national radio. Simple as.





You speak indignantly as if this is new inforamtion. Of course there may well be consequences. I have already brought this point up myself and defended it against those who said there probably wouldn't be. Sadly you seem to have tripped over that fact in your haste to caress your beloved "G". Tragic.

And as for the point about Rovers being cheated of a couple of points, let's not forget you got smashed by 50, yes 50 points, in your play-off game. I have sympathy with Cas, for sure, but only the most delusional Rovers fan would claim this incident had a major impact on the competition.

The question I ask is who is the whistleblower? Who informed the Hull Daily Mail? All of this apprently happened in June!!!!! It was a well kept secret not only by fc, the guilty parties, the drug agency, and the RFl. So why has it come out now?

Someone is hacked off over this. . .Gleeson? Cooper? Rule?

It's come out today because the UKAD has announced it's findings/punishments.

You don't post much on here, but when you do it's the most pathetic, small dick syndrome, bullsheite I have the mis-fortune to read.
I'll happily bet you Rovers debt (including Allams £1m) that the RFL just conclude that the matters been dealt with.

Back in june, I heard off someone at Brantingham Park gym that Cooper was sacked due to a doping issue with Gleeson. Can't remember who told me but there is deffo someone at the club with an axe to grind against the old regime!

Gleeson was banned in June but he appealed and his appeal was not heard until late October. No announcement could have been made before then.

Similarly the case against Cooper was heard in October. Rule was not even charged until November and the decision to ban him was made on 14 December.

Possibly so, but the reason it is in the papers today has nothing to do with a "whistleblower"

The story has been picked up by The Washington Post. That's the Washington in the US rather than in Tyne and Wear.

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My thoughts exactly. I'm fecking sick of spending the last 6 or so years regularly seeing the club I love shoot itself in the foot due to the incompetencies of the idiots who have been running it. I sincerely hope this is the last time the club is dragged through the press for all the wrong reasons.

The only reason I can think, was that with Gleeson in the side,we could have had a stronger finish to
the season, therefore Rule's spin could've had some credibility for the next season pass sales,coupled with the retention of his mate 'Rich'.



Maybe they thought,they'd never get caught?

Or maybe Gleeson was so desperate to land a renewed contract, he gambled on a shortcut, and it failed miserably.

Will we become more famous than rovers if that goes round the world?

even people outside the club know that Rule was only Uncle Kath's puppet

I consistently told everyone what hetherington and rule were really like and was roundly criticised for it. Thankfully, I'm a smug barsteward who will continue to remind everyone

I hope so, you stood the test of time, there were a few who posted, but they not about now, shame really

We should have a "remember them" thread....

He could have just asked for the OK but not actually used it you know. Planning ahead, like.



If he [ihas[/i used it recently then he's been very lucky not to get pinged during a test. Being injured so much will have helped, but players are tested outside of matches as well.

you have to remember that when Gleeson was caught, we'd just beaten Salford away, on the back of beaten Rovers and Warrington over the Easter weekend, and a credible draw with Saints. In James Rule/the boards eyes this was the start of our push for the title (I am convinced they had every faith in Agar) and they woulden't have wanted anything to disrupt that.

alternatively it could have been that in the boards eyes Gleeson and Cooper had made an honest mistake in trying to get a former international player back to his best. Either way they got it incredibly wrong.

You know what, Gleeson was ace, his footwork was always good, he had a good step and run hard,

I know he needed fitness and we needed that quick, but his weight wasnt really a problem! probably would have helped running that ball in hard, which so many of our players didnt do.

Put the sock away, daft lad.

Knowing the culture at FC at the time I know many posters on here will agree that Rule would not have made this decision to cover it all up by his sen.

He got it free with his season pass

even I dare not state that

We all know he was promoted way beyond his capabilities. Only the club apologists would disagree