Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:46 am  

leedsnsouths wrote:

SL already test for that sort of stuff after training sessions, as mentioned if you test positive for cocaine with them (not on a matchday) it is only an anonymous warning

I think Ive mentioned this before in relation to Hardaker but I really do not care how players behave off the pitch as long as they perform on it (obviously Hardaker wont be performing for a while), Maradonna in the peak years of his career drank a bottle of whisky a night plus he did a load of cocaine, but I bet the Napoli and Argentina fans didnt mind

Yea that would really help attract sponsors & new income into the sport knowing a lot of the "Stars" are off their t!t$.
Behaviour/habits on/off the pitch go hand in hand.
Wrt Maradonna he wouldn't have made half as many apps at Club/International level under todays scrutiny & rightly so.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:41 am  

Aye, different world, different time wasn't it.

Easy to use the "back in my day" excuse. But the world is a completely different place in 2017.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:42 am  

Easy + weak argument.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:37 pm  

RHINO-MARK wrote:

A false rumour as it turns out but he has left Cas by mutual consent.

Gone down to the Championship with Leigh. He's really gone downhill. Looked very good 3/4 years ago at Hudds but never really worked for him on loan at Wigan and hasn't really shone in a Cas team that has seen most shine. Prime years ahead at 28 and he's not even in SL.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Oct 16, 2017 4:44 pm  

Bang wrote:

Easy + weak argument.

Self critique?

Hardaker? : Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:34 pm  

Curiosity really and I may have missed it but has a decision on Hardaker been made by either Cas or the disciplinary.

Re: Hardaker? : Sun Nov 12, 2017 6:04 pm  

Not yet but don't think Rangi Chase or Adam Walker have either and they were back in August.

Re: Hardaker? : Sun Nov 12, 2017 6:50 pm  

I vaguely remember reading something along the lines of the B sample needing testing & there being a period of time where ZH could appeal.
Either way i doubt we'll hear anything until the World Cup is over the RFL wont want more negative press.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Sun Nov 12, 2017 8:37 pm  

Just had a look and he had until October the 27th to appeal. Unlikely he has as he pretty much admitted he messed up. So I'm guessing he'll eventually be announced as a 2 year ban sometime in the offseason.

What Cas do with him is bigger question mark. Unlike Hock who was welcomed back at Wigan, given the timing of Hardaker's suspension and what might have been in the GF had it not happened makes it a lot harder and a lot of Cas fans don't want him back.

Re: CONFIRMED | Zak Hardaker to Castleford Tigers : Mon Nov 13, 2017 6:10 am  

If I were a Cas fan I wouldn't want him back. Imagine if one of our team had done this just before the 2004 GF and we'd lost the game.

Hardaker will probably have to start at the bottom of SL and work his way back up. If I were a club CEO I'd want to see clear signs that his attitude had changed AND that he had kept himself fit over the period of his ban before even considering signing him.