Quote MARTIN GLEESON is considering legal ­action against former club Hull after being hit with a three-year drugs ban. The ex-Great Britain centre, 31, who had half his sentence ­suspended, tested positive for a banned stimulant. But Gleeson has told friends he took an energy supplement which contained the drug ­methylhexaneamine in good faith'" www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... -drug-ban/

Quote MARTIN GLEESON is considering legal ­action against former club Hull after being hit with a three-year drugs ban. The ex-Great Britain centre, 31, who had half his sentence ­suspended, tested positive for a banned stimulant. But Gleeson has told friends he took an energy supplement which contained the drug ­methylhexaneamine in good faith'" www.dailystar.co.uk/rugby/view/2 ... -drug-ban/

Nothing to do with Cunningham - far from it.



I cannot understand how a former director of a Championship club can get banned from the sport for 'financial infringments' and in another breath a former CEO of another club only gets 2 years for covering up a doping offence. I fail to see where breaking financial rules is 4 times more punishable that is all.

How much talent has gone to waste here? What a class centre he was.

Unlucky not to win the Harry Sunderland Trophy less than 15 months ago.

I'll echo what many others have said. I hope he gets the help and support he needs, and maybe come back to play the game again.



IMO we still miss him at Wigan.

Losing him left a gap not easily filled, and he was in good form. Hope he can sort himself out.



Odd how Sean Longs name keeps cropping up in various reports. Would you want him around your club?

All good for future Hull n Leeds club relationships too. Never been the closest of pals!

What's the chances that Gleeson will sign for Salford in 2013?

Agreed

It was the Cunningham affair that kicked off the RFL standing on drugs use.



Cunningham went through the courts and the ruling was that there were mitigating circumstances in the case . The problem was that the RFL did not disclose the players name, this was jumped on by the sports minister via the anti drugs agency. This lack of transparency by the RFL kicked off the Zero Tolerance of drugs in sport we have today.

If we apply the same ruling we have today to the Cunningham situation 8 years ago, then Cunningham would be banned, a RFL supplied conditioner would be banned and a RFL Executive would be banned.

If your conditioning coach comes to you and says take these then chances are you're gonna think theyre passed as legal arent you?! Remember that happening at Saints with Cunningham? Are you gonna say that was Cunningham's fault and he was allowed to play RL for years after unpunished or is it Saints fault for giving him something they shouldnt have given him?



Just think about it all for a second. Yeah maybe Gleeson took it realised he had done wrong and they were covering it up but at the end of the day youve got to accept that it could've been the other way round.

I feel 4 the guy because if u read this article [urlhttp://www.1-3-dimethylamylamine.com/methylhexaneamine[/url, it states that this ingredient is found in a common Pre-workout drink called Jack3d, just like you would drink a Protein shake after workout... And as it states later that its only recently been banned, so maybe he didnt even know that it was a banned substance.... Or maybe im just being alittle niave.....

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