09-11-2024, 10:09 PM
Here is a great example of how sport can get things wrong, it all starts with the perspective of an individual or club over a sport;
Can you imagine the outcry if Addo-Carr plays, and his team knocks another out of the finals, only to be found guilty of cocaine doping in a month or two? As much as I want to be fair to the player, it's untenable for him to play, in the same way many athletes have suffered similar misfortunes at Olympics, etc., etc., and yet you could argue in individual sports there is at least the opportunity to withdraw medals, yet that is not how they work, and no such opportunity exists in team sports.
Quote:“But under the CBA with the NRL, neither the club or NRL Integrity have grounds to stand a player down until the result of that sample comes back. The problem is, there’s a backlog there for eight or 10 weeks.If you flip this narrative, and put the integrity of the sport over the individual, they should have no choice but to stand down.
“You can’t leave a player out eight or 10 weeks to see if his sample is going to be tested.”
Gould went on to reveal that he called Sharks CEO Dino Mezzatesta after Cronulla dealt with a similar incident involving halfback Braydon Trindall earlier in the year.
“When they went there they were told that it could be eight to 10 weeks to find this result of the drug test so Braydon decided to plead guilty to get the matter done and served a month suspension,” Gould said.
Can you imagine the outcry if Addo-Carr plays, and his team knocks another out of the finals, only to be found guilty of cocaine doping in a month or two? As much as I want to be fair to the player, it's untenable for him to play, in the same way many athletes have suffered similar misfortunes at Olympics, etc., etc., and yet you could argue in individual sports there is at least the opportunity to withdraw medals, yet that is not how they work, and no such opportunity exists in team sports.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"