City fined £35,000 for anti-doping admin error

[MillionMilesAway]

Thanks for reply.

So if your last assumption is correct the Club will probably be charged again if any single violation occurs because we have used up all our warnings.

That would seem reasonable, but it may be that it resets.

However, failing again in the next year would look really inept! It's also possible that there is something written down (which I've not seen described) for repeat offences.

 

[Eccles Blue]

Please excuse my ignorance on these matters but what if the player(s) decided on the spur of the moment, as I'm sure a lot of us do, to go visit someone? Say a relation or a friend or just go to the pictures without thinking of passing on the information. Does that make the club liable?

 

[TBooksbluearmy]

What is the player suppose to do phone or text every time he plans to go out, e.g. going to the shops be about an hour, 40min later changed my mind going for a latte with the wife. Changed my mind again going for a game of ten pin bowling. I know it looks funny but it isn't meant to be. Thus this mean every time the players want to go out they have let the club know where they are going. What would happen if they got stuck in a traffic jam because of an accident is that the club's or the players fault if they miss a drug screening test. Surely thy FA could do this by screening the players at their clubs training ground before they start training, where they are sure to get the players they want. What the FA want is for the players to stay at home and lead boring lives and don't have any fun at all..

 

[Neville Kneville]

Please excuse my ignorance on these matters but what if the player(s) decided on the spur of the moment, as I'm sure a lot of us do, to go visit someone? Say a relation or a friend or just go to the pictures without thinking of passing on the information. Does that make the club liable?

If David Gill can lurk in the bushes all day waiting for the player to go out, so he can phone the drugs testers, then the least the player can do, is send a text.

 

[Eccles Blue]

If David Gill can lurk in the bushes all day waiting for the player to go out, so he can phone the drugs testers, then the least the player can do, is send a text.

*lol* A text to David Gill (urrrgghhh) or a text to the club? :-)

 

[Metalartin]

I think the smartest thing with today's technology would be a GPS app in their phone that only club can see, that way the players can at least have some freedom to lead a normal life, I don't know why a simple phonecall couldn't have cleared this up from the club to the players though? Unless they had their phones switched off at the cinema or something like that.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Chris Frome was done when the Hotel staff at the Hotel he was in refused to let them barge in to his room at 7am. That is the sort of detail that this stuff goes down to. You have to be were you say you are going to be and be available to the testers within reason. So where you sleep where you train etc as has to be disclosed beforehand. Its harsh but how else would it work.

 

[Zubrman]

Chris Frome was done when the Hotel staff at the Hotel he was in refused to let them barge in to his room at 7am. That is the sort of detail that this stuff goes down to. You have to be were you say you are going to be and be available to the testers within reason. So where you sleep where you train etc as has to be disclosed beforehand. Its harsh but how else would it work.

I wonder if Bryan Riggs used to give his brother's home address for overnight stays?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I think the smartest thing with today's technology would be a GPS app in their phone that only club can see, that way the players can at least have some freedom to lead a normal life, I don't know why a simple phonecall couldn't have cleared this up from the club to the players though? Unless they had their phones switched off at the cinema or something like that.

Not sure this makes sense.

The club tell the FA where the players will be and when training is.
If a player is not at training, there needs to be a time and place to find him. The drug testers would turn up independent of the club knowing, so they (through the FA) would need the info.

 

[Metalartin]

Not sure this makes sense.

The club tell the FA where the players will be and when training is.
If a player is not at training, there needs to be a time and place to find him. The drug testers would turn up independent of the club knowing, so they (through the FA) would need the info.

Ah yeah fair enough they are supposed to be surprise visits yes... well maybe the drug testing board could have GPS information from any clubs/players signed up to it.