Rumours and Stuff

[84 Baby]

Did anyone expect Penrith to do what they did this season?

My friend Michael did

 

[Incorrect]

My friend Michael did

*Mikael

 

[84 Baby]

*Mikael

Mikaelangelo is his full name

 

[Haynzy]

Mikaelangelo is his full name

*Mik

 

[TheRam]

Hmmm. Can't see how that would be abused in about three seconds.

Tough. Irrelevant in regards to the genuinely injured person. We could ban a hell of a lot of medicines or anything really if you took that point of view. Almost anything can be used correctly or incorrectly and exploited.

Society isn't generally run like that, well not until this Unicorn virus anyway and look how that is turning out.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

Tough. Irrelevant in regards to the genuinely injured person. We could ban a hell of a lot of medicines or anything really if you took that point of view. Almost anything can be used correctly or incorrectly and exploited.

Society isn't generally run like that, well not until this Unicorn virus anyway and look how that is turning out.

There's nothing stopping a genuinely injured person being treated with prescribed steroids. They just can't have an NRL contract at the time.

Think about it for 3 seconds. Steroids assist the recovery from most muscular injuries. So I do my calf (muscle not baby cow) in the off-season and get steroid treatment and continue weight work on my upper body. And steroids can provide benefits for quite a while after you stop taking them.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

There's nothing stopping a genuinely injured person being treated with prescribed steroids. They just can't have an NRL contract at the time.

Think about it for 3 seconds. Steroids assist the recovery from most muscular injuries. So I do my calf (muscle not baby cow) in the off-season and get steroid treatment and continue weight work on my upper body. And steroids can provide benefits for quite a while after you stop taking them.

There are rules about how long you have to have been subject to WADA oversight before you can play NRL. It was raised when Hayne left the NFL. From memory it's six months but not real sure. I think you should be able to use banned but legal substances for rehabilitation, provided you sit out longer than any performance enhancing benefits would last.

 

[Eelementary]

JAC is a match winner and if Cotric jagged 500-600k, no reason why jac can’t command more

I reckon Cotric is massively overpaid, too, just quietly...he's Dallin Watene-Zelezniak mk II, tbh....

 

[lingard]

And in the end a team who played 2 games in their home state all season shot the easy draw narrative out of the water. Unless we’re going to say the other 14 teams also failed with their easy draws

I think it was always more about the travelling than the actual home-ground advantage.

 

[Matty Bhoy]

I can only speak for Boxing but I would be surprised if the NRL is different. You can have a thing called a TUE - Therapeutic Use Exemption. This allows the athlete to take medications which may be banned by WADA or ASADA in our case. There’s a whole heap of criteria and it usually needs to be a serious health issue rather than say a torn calf.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I can only speak for Boxing but I would be surprised if the NRL is different. You can have a thing called a TUE - Therapeutic Use Exemption. This allows the athlete to take medications which may be banned by WADA or ASADA in our case. There’s a whole heap of criteria and it usually needs to be a serious health issue rather than say a torn calf.

I'm pretty sure that's what all those cyclists suddenly developing asthma was about.

 

[Old tiger 79]

*Mikael

*Michelle

you’ll be driving home to her

 

[84 Baby]

I think it was always more about the travelling than the actual home-ground advantage.

So Melbourne didn’t travel that much then?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

So Melbourne didn’t travel that much then?

If they had travelled as little as the Panthers they might've gone through the season undefeated.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I can only speak for Boxing but I would be surprised if the NRL is different. You can have a thing called a TUE - Therapeutic Use Exemption. This allows the athlete to take medications which may be banned by WADA or ASADA in our case. There’s a whole heap of criteria and it usually needs to be a serious health issue rather than say a torn calf.

Yeh, but torn calf muscles have rubbed out a few of our stars in the past. Modest Tom and the Okey Boy.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

I reckon Cotric is massively overpaid, too, just quietly...he's Dallin Watene-Zelezniak mk II, tbh....

He might overpaid, but he's a class above DWZ. Very good player, and plays above his years.

 

[Matty Bhoy]

I'm pretty sure that's what all those cyclists suddenly developing asthma was about.

Correct. Not just cycling either...Liverpool FC - out of 35 players 22 are asthmatic – 63% of the squad, over five times higher than the 12% UK average.

 

[Eelementary]

He might overpaid, but he's a class above DWZ. Very good player, and plays above his years.

He's not a bad player, but he isn't particularly quick, or skilful - much like DWZ.

 

[Barry O'Speedwagon]

He's not a bad player, but he isn't particularly quick, or skilful - much like DWZ.

126 tackle breaks in a season (2nd only to Tedesco) is more than ok. Not sure how he'll got at Dogs, but I really beg to differ. He's a very good player.

 

[Eelementary]

126 tackle breaks in a season (2nd only to Tedesco) is more than ok. Not sure how he'll got at Dogs, but I really beg to differ. He's a very good player.

He's very strong, it's true.

And I like him as a player.