Rats apprentice - what are you actually talking about? Players that take steroids are cheats, simple as that. And any player talking them and playing rugby is a cheat because they are giving themselves a huge, unnatural advantage over players that are clean, and play the sport properly and train properly.
Has anyone heard of any teams/ex players who do this currently? I'd be interested to know.
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I'd like to discuss this Dean Colclough and whether or not there are any others like him out there? Ex players that deal steroids to current players etc? Does this go on, and if so, whom? Feel free to send me a private message with any names.
Steroids is a growing problem within the sport. The figures from NICE show that the needle exchange programme has had a 2000 per cent influx in the past two years, and that's down to people in the UK using steroids. Almost half the banned sportspeople on the UKAD list are rugby union or rugby league players. So rugby accounts for more than 50 per cent of all bans across sport, and most of it is steroids.
There's a great deal of anecdotal evidence coming out of south Wales about teams in the lower leagues being driven by steroids. What do people think? Is this true? Has anyone heard anything?
It's a debate worth having because this is a problem that is getting worse in the sport, and those with views like Rats Apprentice above are both who are apologists for doping within sport.