Are Painkillers Performance Enhancing Drugs?

[Danish]

Yes that is correct.

If I inject any athletes at work, we need an exemption form completed and then approval before we go do it.

Just an FYI and to be pedantic, cortisone isn’t used anymore. Pretty sure they don’t make it.

Really? I wasn’t aware of that.

Has it been replaced with something else now? I’m sure I’ve read about players getting cortisone injections at various points in the last couple years, but it may just be a colloquial term these days and the injections are something else.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Really? I wasn’t aware of that.

Has it been replaced with something else now? I’m sure I’ve read about players getting cortisone injections at various points in the last couple years, but it may just be a colloquial term these days and the injections are something else.

I just did a quick internet search, and cortisone is still made and used. However as this brief article states, any athlete which is subject to WADA testing (which the NRL is part of) must seek a therapeutic use exemption (TUE), including supporting documents from a physician before they can be given a cortisone injection.

 

[veggiepatch1959]

including supporting documents from a physician before they can be given a cortisone injection.

It would be expected that physician to be totally independent and impartial, not just the club doctor.

 

[TheFrog]

Honestly I can't name one other than Cronk.

From the Panthers:
Maloney, Kikau, Leota, Merrin, Wallace, Cleary (probably). Other clubs would have similar lists.

 

[justdave]

Been thinking about this for years. If you’re incapacitated by an injury and take a drug to get you through a game, yeah, that’s performance enhancing.

But under the rules of the game, I’ve got no problem with it

 

[carcharias]

Been thinking about this for years. If you’re incapacitated by an injury and take a drug to get you through a game, yeah, that’s performance enhancing.

But under the rules of the game, I’ve got no problem with it

Yep
If you need something to kill the pain so you can play of course it’s performance enhancing.
They all do it.
In 50 years they’ll probably change the rules all together.

 

[firechild]

Pretty sure Matai was needled up for every game for about the 2nd half of his career.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Didn’t Sutton get jabbed to come back on the field just for a charity shield match?

 

[justdave]

Didn’t Sutton get jabbed to come back on the field just for a charity shield match?

Yes, that was by a penis

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Yes, that was by a penis

A rusty one?

 

[Lambretta]

Yes

Strip them of the title

Agreed, but only if we ban Ryles first, relocate Cronulla to Adelaide and chant never heard of the f**ker every time a Kangaroos player touches the ball in an upcoming test.

 

[Rhino_NQ]

Agreed, but only if we ban Ryles first, relocate Cronulla to Adelaide and chant never heard of the f**ker every time a Kangaroos player touches the ball in an upcoming test.

What about dick pics? And can we all lol@souffs?

 

[TheDalek079]

Didn’t Sutton get jabbed to come back on the field just for a charity shield match?

the charity shield is souffs' grand final. of course he'd get jabbed up to play

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Yes

Strip them of the title

And the title of every other club he was involved with

 

[justdave]

A rusty one?

A bearded rusty one

 

[Rhino_NQ]

A bearded rusty one

I think it was before it got any Burgess on it

 

[Lambretta]

What about dick pics? And can we all lol@souffs?

We'll send all those to your boyfriend and of course!