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Matt Stevens Banned For 2 Years

  • 27-02-2009 3:58pm
    #1
    IT-Guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭


    http://www.scrum.com/england/rugby/story/92571.html

    Metabolites of cocaine no less, I wonder is this an isolated case or could it be a bit more widespread than we'd like to think? Might explain a few players highs and lows.....TAXI!:p


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  • #2
    shrapnel222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,120 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    wow, pretty harsh sentence


  • #3
    Hamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Hamo


    Put simply he was a fool.... I seen an interview with Bath a couple of weeks back where the players were saying he's a great guy and they'll stand by him somehow I can't see it

    I wouldn't mind but he is a good player


  • #4
    Serenity Now!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Serenity Now!


    shrapnel222 wrote: »
    wow, pretty harsh sentence

    Its the minimum ban. Wendell Sailor received the same.


  • #5
    finlma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭finlma


    It's a recreational drug that in no way enhances performance. It shouldn't be tested for and I think it's a real shame for Stevens. What he does in his personal life is his choice. Hope to see him back in 2 years.

    It's much the same as Ronnie O'Sullivan been stripped of the Irish Masters cause he smoked a spliff.


  • #6
    Serenity Now!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Serenity Now!


    finlma wrote: »
    It's a recreational drug that in no way enhances performance. It shouldn't be tested for

    Methinks you've some reading to catch up on. Start with the IRB anti-doping guidelines and then when you've finished head across the ditch westwards and check out the NFL guidelines. Its a banned substance (reasons why are also clearly outlined) full-stop.


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  • #7
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Stevens will have been expecting a two year ban from the moment that he waived his right to have his b-sample tested. Regardless of the legalities of the substance and people's opinions of it, he used it knowing that it was a prohibited substance and that he risked a lengthy ban.

    From reading some of the UK rugby forums it appears that there had been a rumour doing the rounds about certain (unnamed) Bath players and their activities in one of the cities clubs for a while. It was only a matter of time before someone was caught.


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