Depends whether urine,blood or hair samples are used. Can be as long as up to 3 months apparently for hair samples but these are not as reliable as urine or blood tests.

This stuff is everywhere these days, go out on a weekend and you will prob see it.

Hair retains it, and can be an indicator of when it was taken.



I remember two Super League players a few years back both turning up with crewcuts when they'd previously been mopheads. I suspected why back then.

Get rid. Idiot. No time for them.

I highly doubt this is the first time he's taken it, I mean, you've got to be "into" it a fair bit to begin to not care or at least be casual about the likely hood of being caught.

We ain't never gonna know how much St Helens know about that, but I suspect they knew something.



Wakefield Trinity and hard drugs are not the kind of headlines we want placed in the same sentence.

Still, the guy has only been with us for a couple of months, but %h1T sticks, its the same crap for Widnes I suppose, at least nobody is surprised, Chase is a train wreck, and to a certain extent Widnes are distanced somewhat from a cultural association with all.

If it ain't performance enhancing then I don't think there should be an automatic ban. It should be on the employer should they want to discipline their staff for misconduct. But then I'd legalise drugs anyway and tax the out of it.



People will take it anyway and there will be a damn sight more than Rangi Chase and Adam Walker in RL who will have it in their systems.

Come and see the low life that's locked up at work that have and are still on drugs, taxing it means nothing to them as they thieve anything or anyone for it.

Sounds a right job yours, they employ drug users then lock them in, strange.

Referring to the taxation of drugs and the extremes what they will do to get them

Regarding Walker he must be as thick as a submarine door to throw away the job that he had, not only that but keeping young lads out who I'm sure would do a better job than 3 games played and 2 years out.

Yeah this is true. I used to send lads for Drugs and alcohol tests in my former job. Cocaine is usually up to 2 days in the blood but as Slugger rightly says. Your hair is like a tree, you can read it like a timeline. Remember when Britney Spears walked into the hairdressers and shaved her hair off and everybody thought she had gone loopy? She was in a custody battle and had to provide samples to be analysed for drugs. Not so loopy after all but the media bought it.



On the subject in hand. Walker is an idiot. I have seen many rugby players doing it. I have even walked in on Gareth Hock doing it in the toilets with 2 of his mates before he got caught. I think the RFL need to take a hard line on this now. Automatic 5 year ban. No excuses.

Thanks for that, interesting.

The thing is if you dye your hair they can't test it for drugs which could account for all the players dying there hair blond throughout the season under the guise of some sort of bonding excuse