Burnett 2 Year Ban

[Lee Taylor]

The 16 time World Champion IS a sex offender, and groped a girl on live tv, but he is championed by the PDC - Burnett did a bit of Colombian marching powder at a party and he is banned?

Funny old World.

Thought it was at a pro tour event?

At a party a couple of days before, apparently.

[Zapp Brannigan]

The 16 time World Champion IS a sex offender, and groped a girl on live tv, but he is championed by the PDC - Burnett did a bit of Colombian marching powder at a party and he is banned?

Funny old World.

Thought it was at a pro tour event?

At a party a couple of days before, apparently.

So how did he get caught unless he admitted to it? Coke only lasts in the system for a day or so.

[Lee Taylor]

The 16 time World Champion IS a sex offender, and groped a girl on live tv, but he is championed by the PDC - Burnett did a bit of Colombian marching powder at a party and he is banned?

Funny old World.

Thought it was at a pro tour event?

At a party a couple of days before, apparently.

So how did he get caught unless he admitted to it? Coke only lasts in the system for a day or so.

I only know what I've been told.

[Zeyes]

So how did he get caught unless he admitted to it? Coke only lasts in the system for a day or so.

From what I've read the metabolites they test for can be detectable for two to three days in occasional users and up to two weeks for regulars.

[el_ringo]

Possibly a strange question

but is amyl nitrate aka poppers aka room odourisour on the banned list ?

[Paddy McGinty]

Possibly a strange question

but is amyl nitrate aka poppers aka room odourisour on the banned list ?

Is that why ginge never plays darts?

[GtotheF]

It's like a Scot or a Welsh person being on X Factor.....the Scots will vote for a Scot and the Welsh for a Welsh person regardless of how crap they are....the English won't vote for somebody purely because they are English !...

Trotter admitting he watches X Factor, there.

[samrev180]

Really? Performance enhancing? Everyone I've ever seen 'high' on coke has lost all effective use of their limbs. I take your point about testing though.

The people you have seen have not been using coke then.

Cocaine makes you feel confident, gives you greater belief amongst many other things. But it certainly does not make you lose control of any limbs. Unless you count your willy as a limb. Too much ching will floppen that thing.

I cannot even believe you are debating this with a known and revered expert on narcotics

And that's about right ....do not think it would enhance anybody's dart game though.

You would be wrong in that assumption.

It's not an assumption

Cocaine does enhance peformace in darts, i don't condone it at all by the way, i know a few players that swear by it and you can really see the differance with their concentration and confidence when playing under the effects of it. Also i've been told by a few reliable sources that there are certain higher ranked players that are rumoured to be using coke but apparently they don't seem to get tested like lower ranked players.

[Zapp Brannigan]

Cocaine does enhance peformace in darts, i don't condone it at all by the way, i know a few players that swear by it and you can really see the differance with their concentration and confidence when playing under the effects of it. Also i've been told by a few reliable sources that there are certain higher ranked players that are rumoured to be using coke but apparently they don't seem to get tested like lower ranked players.

i thought everyone at the later rounds of tv tournaments get tested.

[samrev180]

Cocaine does enhance peformace in darts, i don't condone it at all by the way, i know a few players that swear by it and you can really see the differance with their concentration and confidence when playing under the effects of it. Also i've been told by a few reliable sources that there are certain higher ranked players that are rumoured to be using coke but apparently they don't seem to get tested like lower ranked players.

i thought everyone at the later rounds of tv tournaments get tested.

Not from what i've been told

[The Crusader]

If you do drugs and get caught tough sh1t, no sympathy and it certainly isn't a common occurrence amongst my circle of friends.

[trotter]

If you do drugs and get caught tough sh1t, no sympathy and it certainly isn't a common occurrence amongst my circle of friends.

I would agree with that....if any player wants to do drugs then it's up to them...but if they get tested and get caught then it's tough...they take the consequences and don't winge...if they didn't take it in the first place then they don't fail the test and the don't get banned.

[Rudy]

It seems pretty obvious the PDC/DRA have wanted to set an example here and quite rightly so as there's a lot of vulnerable youth darts players involved in their scheme of activities as well as the pro's. I feel sorry for Richie, but if the rumours about cocaïne use are based on a true matter of facts, he should have been wiser to stay away from this destructive powder.

[Welsh Wayne]

I do not think there is any problem with a penalty for drug use ....I think people's perception of how the DPA is vague ....2years is there somewhere a guide line as to penalties ????
Johnson the yank golfer supposedly has been banned for 6 months .....

[ssjsa]

It's like a Scot or a Welsh person being on X Factor.....the Scots will vote for a Scot and the Welsh for a Welsh person regardless of how crap they are....the English won't vote for somebody purely because they are English !...

When is a Scot not a Scot?

Whenever they win anything, they then become British

[trotter]

It's like a Scot or a Welsh person being on X Factor.....the Scots will vote for a Scot and the Welsh for a Welsh person regardless of how crap they are....the English won't vote for somebody purely because they are English !...

When is a Scot not a Scot?

Whenever they win anything, they then become British

Aye, and when they lose they become Scottish again

[Zeyes]

I do not think there is any problem with a penalty for drug use ....I think people's perception of how the DPA is vague ....2years is there somewhere a guide line as to penalties ????
Johnson the yank golfer supposedly has been banned for 6 months .....

The PGA Tour isn't under WADA jurisdiction. 2 years is WADA's standard punishment for substances found during in-competition testing of first-time offenders, AFAIK, though Burnett may be able to appeal it down to less than that at UK Sport Resolutions and/or CAS if he can show it's out of proportion to his actual offense (e.g. if he had no intention of enhancing his performance).

[Zapp Brannigan]

I do not think there is any problem with a penalty for drug use ....I think people's perception of how the DPA is vague ....2years is there somewhere a guide line as to penalties ????
Johnson the yank golfer supposedly has been banned for 6 months .....

The PGA Tour isn't under WADA jurisdiction. 2 years is WADA's standard punishment for substances found during in-competition testing of first-time offenders, AFAIK, though Burnett may be able to appeal it down to less than that at UK Sport Resolutions and/or CAS if he can show it's out of proportion to his actual offense (e.g. if he had no intention of enhancing his performance).

It is

http://www.igfgolf.org/medical-anti-doping/

[Zeyes]

Yes, they're taking WADA's lead on the banned substances list and the testing methods, but the PGA Tour clearly has an in-house set of rules on how to handle violations that's quite a bit different from organizations that are members of the IOC.

By contrast, my impression is that the PDC/DRA have adopted the WADA framework as a whole (via UK Anti-Doping). Whether they actually intended to have that lead to 2-year bans for any players, that's a different matter.

[Ecky Thump]

It's like a Scot or a Welsh person being on X Factor.....the Scots will vote for a Scot and the Welsh for a Welsh person regardless of how crap they are....the English won't vote for somebody purely because they are English !...

When is a Scot not a Scot?

When they had the chance to vote to become an independent state and instead decided to remain British

Fixed!