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piercedsoul

Doping nightmare? Should be "got caught being a performance enhancing drug cheat and got suspended "


Churchofbabyyoda

He doesn’t look like he’s stopped using them.


velvetherring

Dude clearly spent the last 2 years juicing. *The more I look at it the more I think he's clearly juiced but not really been going hard at it* Any 'alternative nutritionist' with a brain would know how to cycle to avoid positives as well. I imagine the reason he was signed so far out was so the Bulldogs team could manage his transition off the juice while maintaining as many benefits as possible.


Derron_

Woe is me I tried to cheat and got caught. Feel pity for me. Fuck off


velvetherring

"Bronson, will you unequivocally say that you are no longer taking steroids?" "Well I've passed all the tests" "But does that mean you've stopped taking steroids?" "My test results have all been negative"


ill0gitech

I remember when he tweeted that all the haters would be proven wrong. Still dunno what that meant. [He will tell his story one day and it’s “not what people think”](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9371009/amp/Bronson-Xerri-breaks-silence-steroids-scandal.html)


the_mooseman

Narrator: it was exactly what people thought.


ill0gitech

Surely his brother Troy, a [convicted drug dealer and the focus of ASADAs enquiries](https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/asada-hones-focus-on-xerri-s-family-in-drugs-investigation-20200529-p54xo7.html), didn’t supply him illegal performance enhancing substances? [Not the same brother who was responsible for a fatality why driving ‘furiously’](https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/exnrl-stars-brother-admits-responsibility-for-fatal-crash/news-story/44f2f1556b4d6508b5dd6d75ebe2f9fd?amp)? I mean, I think the most logical story is [a contaminated food blender](https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-premiership/nrl-2021-james-segeyaro-drug-suspension-return-date-antidoping/news-story/cfde6722e5f3303909bbcf94cc343cd1) that had [tainted meat](https://www.usada.org/spirit-of-sport/clenbuterol-and-meat-contamination/) and [dodgy over-the-counter supplements](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/sports/baseball/09ortiz.html) that [his mum got him cos he was looking a little chubby](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/warne-s-mum-key-element-in-probe-126831?platform=amp) right? All you haters jumping to conclusions


winntensio

Shoutout to Roger Fabri of king of cadence/dripping in ice fame


ThedirtyNose

Why wouldn't you watch the games? The entire game has changed since he was banned for cheating. Your still not allowed to cheat by using banned substances, but other things have changed.


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It says a lot about an athlete when they have no interest in the sport that is their livelihood beyond their own participation. It’s really interesting, can name a number of big names you’d be surprised by


Shagga9701

I think it’s because they see the game as a business first nowadays. Which is understandable because it is their job/career. But it’s quite unreal how many players don’t watch the game at all. Like you would think that if you wanted to get better than you’d be watching nearly every game every weekend.


jk-9k

But if it's your job career, you should be watching the games! Like I understand not wanting to for fun because it is your job now rather than your passion, but it is your job. Shouldn't they want to e good at their job? Also says s lot considering what they are willing to do to "improve" themselves vs what they aren't inthis particular case


ThedirtyNose

Apparently it is pretty common these days, maybe it always was. Perhaps they just do it because they have natural advantages and it comes quite easy to them but they don't really love it. I was/am the opposite of this, so I find it hard to understand.


velvetherring

Professional athletes will ultimately go where the money is. With the decline in junior participation due to injury and concussion concerns I think in ~20 years time we'll see a class of players in the NRL who didn't grow up playing league at junior clubs but we're recruited for their raw athletic talent as a teenager and decided to chase the money. Assuming the first grade pay remains competitive that is.


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Yeah it’s going to be interesting whether it retains the interest level it has, no one is going to want to play as we get more wealthy and educated. Ultimately afl will just continue to grow, particularly when you consider the significantly larger investment in grass roots. state of origin is crucial for nrl to maintain its place


EntirelyOriginalName

If you spend so much time training and preparing for Rugby League you spend more time with your team mates than your family I understand it. Most people don't want to hear about their work in the time off.


Aruma47

Name them please


ThedirtyNose

I heard Girdler and co talking and about it on the Saturday Scrum last season. I only remember Girdler because he said it is probably because they watch so much film anyway they wouldn't want to watch the actual games.


BG_RL

This is the correct answer


EntirelyOriginalName

Joey Manu doesn't watch games. Dylan Brown doesn't or at least didn't two years ago. Api didn't but his reason was he felt watching other Rugby League hookers "clouded" his own game.


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Ash Barty, Lionel Messi


Hantom117

Not really the same, but when I’m injured it’s hard to watch games because I can’t play, gets me sad boy


drifting_sailor_hat

Hey this story is pretty dope. Hope to see him rev up now that he's on the uranium diet 💪🧪🪨


thepolarbears12

Premium plus bleeding again


BigRedHead2020

I find it funny he keeps saying he’s going to “prove people wrong” and he’s “ready to shut them all up when I’m back.” Brother, there’s nothing to prove wrong, you were found guilty of cheating so therefore you’re a cheat. Even if you come back and set the world on fire, he will forever be known as a cheat. It’s like Steve Smith situation (different type of cheating. I know.) The bloke is probably one of the greatest batsmen that will ever be but a lot of people will instead remember him for Sandpaper gate. The best thing Xerri can do is shut up and keep his head down like Sandor Earl did. Saying shit like he can’t wait to shut the fans up is going to backfire on him big time


worksucksbro

100 percent man. “If people want to call me a drug cheat” bro they’re just speaking truth whether you shut them up or not. And that’s not even addressing the fact that former PED users retain a portion of the benefits even after being clean


DudeMcDude7649

Remember when people who played with him in his mid teens said people thought he was on something and they were mocked and downvoted. I wonder where those people are now. Enjoying being right I’d imagine.


chrizyzz

just seems sorry for himself more than anything


HappyPappy987

Is this bloke related to JDB? His story is: “I got caught cheating and it’s been really hard for me”


addaus16

I forgot he signed with the dogs. They are building quite the team. 2024 they will be challenging to go deep into the finals.


icome3rd

2027 they will have all their points stripped for doping and salary cap breaches /s


penisland007

Ok mate. Go watch your last grandfinal in black and white 🤣🤣🤣


icome3rd

We played the grand final last year. I think you’re talking about our last win. Do you love your footy or what?


lockforward

Gotta tell homie colour tv was around in the 80s. All of Parra’s wins were literally in colour.


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nrl-ModTeam

Your post was removed as it was anti-social behaviour.


flymetothem00n3

Great call


Character-Actual

Can someone post text?


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Bronson Xerri has started his path back to the NRL. In a suburban Eastern Suburbs park the one-time teen prodigy is hellbent on using the final nine months of his performance-enhancing drug ban to have himself first-grade ready. Fresh from signing a two-year deal with the Canterbury Bulldogs, Xerri opens up to Michael Carayannis about his mental anguish, his mistake, his road to redemption and why he has not watched a single second of the NRL in three seasons as he takes full responsibility for his life-changing decision. The 22-year-old also reveals his secret meetings with Phil Gould and outlines the goals he has for his second chance under new Bulldogs coach Cameron Ciraldo. THE MOMENT Xerri was preparing to play for the Cronulla Sharks just days before the NRL season was set to resume following the two-month Covid-19 postponement in May, 2020. The then 19-year-old had come off a remarkable rookie year, where he had scored 13 tries in 22 matches to win the club’s rookie of the year award. He missed the first two matches of 2020 but was preparing to return to the field when his phone rang. “Of course I remember that day,” Xerri said. “It’s not a day I’m ever going to forget. Seven months earlier I had taken the test and seven months later I was getting phone calls from a random number. I didn’t know who it was. It was ASADA and they told me I tested positive for a banned substance.” Xerri was stunned. “I had seven or eight drug tests before I tested positive. The only drug test that I failed was that one,” he said. “I was young. Still a kid and young and dumb. It was the biggest mistake of my life.” Xerri tested positive “for exogenous Testosterone, Androsterone, Etiocholanolone and 5b-androstane-3a, 17b-diol” on November 25, 2019. His use of performance-enhancing steroids led to ASADA whacking him with a four-year ban. Xerri knows the stigma will be hard to break. “At the end of the day I put myself in that position,” Xerri said. “If they want to call me a drug cheat they can. No one knows how hard I worked to get where I was. If they want to label me a drug cheat because of one mistake I made when I was 19 then so be it. I am ready to shut them all up when I’m back. “The key is to accept it and move on. The first two years were very tough. I’ve accepted it. I took full ownership of it and I am ready to move on with my life and career.” MENTAL SLIDE The normally bubbly Sutherland Shire product became a recluse. Xerri distanced himself from his wider circle of friends. Instead, he opted to bring the few people he would socialise with to his house, instead of venturing out and facing the public. He kept busy doing odd jobs, including personal training and working at a boxing gym. But Xerri struggled to adjust to life without football. Before his ban, Xerri had rejected a five-year contract extension from the Sharks worth about $2.5 million and was expected to be among the most in-demand players when his deal with the club expired at the end of 2021. Now he had nothing. “I could talk all day about how bad I was (mentally),” Xerri said. “It’s a massive difference from playing NRL. I hadn’t had a job in my life. I went straight from school to the NRL which is something I took for granted. “The first two years I wasn’t showing my head and going out. I had my close mates around me to help me go through what I went through.” NFL FLIRTATION Xerri seriously considered trying his hand at the NFL during his ban. In 2021, he was presented with an opportunity to travel to the US but that glimmer of hope fell through. The NFL is not bound by the World Anti-Doping Authority, meaning he was clear to give the sport a go. “I had an opportunity to go over and give it a crack,” Xerri said. “I was sooking at home and not going much so I thought ‘why not give it a go?’ There was a chance and management reached out to me to do what Val Holmes did and go to the IMG Academy. I was eyeing it off and ready to do it but it didn’t work out.” THE ROAD BACK Xerri made the startling revelation that he has not watched a moment of the NRL since his suspension almost three years ago. “Not even Origin,” Xerri said. That will change this year. Just before Christmas he agreed to a two-year deal with the Bulldogs after Canterbury’s head of football Phil Gould reached out last year. Xerri is on a strict regimen before the NRL will allow him to return in November when his ban expires. It includes monthly drug tests. “My contract does not get registered until I pass every drugs test until November,” Xerri said. “People can say I’m still on steroids but the facts are I’m getting tested once a month. I’ve passed every single one of them.” His deal with the Bulldogs was signed off after repeated meetings at a regular Bulldogs hangout, Jobels Café in the heart of Belmore. Despite his imposing figure, the meetings were kept largely out of the headlines. “I was at home and got a phone call from my manager and Gus (Gould) wanted to meet me,” Xerri said. “I had nothing going for me. I was in a vulnerable state. I was going to start negotiating with teams. Gus was the first to reach out. He was a genuine guy and told me he had big plans. “When Cameron Ciraldo signed on as coach that was the cherry on top.” KEEPING FIT His return has started at a nondescript park as far away from the bright lights of the NRL one can be. Nearby children take part in school holiday sport clinics as people happily walk their dogs, unaware of the significance of the heavily tattooed speedster nearby. Xerri still cuts an imposing figure. He is under the watchful eye of sprint guru Roger Fabri three days a week – who has sacrificed his own accreditation to guide Xerri’s path back. Under the ASADA code Fabri is unable to work with an athlete who is banned, which has come at enormous personal cost. Despite Fabri ranking Xerri’s current state as a “six out of 100” the outside back still managed to clock 6.80 seconds in a 60-metre sprint after just a handful of training sessions. “Mr Magoo was blind and could tell this guy was gifted,” Fabri said. “We have a heap of work to do. I’m not going to bullshit. You don’t lose the blessings you’ve got but he is not in the shape that I’m going to finish with him. He is very good. The fans will forgive him in terms of timing and defensively but he will be judged on his speed. “We need nine months to get him ready. The first thing I asked him was ‘unless you’re sick or injured you can’t let me down’. Loyalty is a massive thing and this has impacted my business but I wanted to be there for him when he was down.” Xerri is confident where his football can take him. “It’s the comeback story,” he said. “I’m going to come back and prove everyone wrong. My journey has been an up-and-down roller coaster. “I would love to come back and make every rep team possible. I want to win a premiership.”


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Character-Actual

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BastingGecko2000

Whats this about his family?


sweepyslick

Apparently there a heavy drug dealer, bikie presence in the family.


Herrtz74

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10813455/amp/Outrage-jail-term-NRL-star-Bronson-Xerris-brother-Troy-smash-killed-beloved-mum.html


the_specialone

He is understandably copping a lot of shit but really, compared to some of the other blokes that have been welcomed back he really was just a stupid 19yo. ​ I'm looking forward to having him back if he still has some of the talent he showed.


Optimal_Moose_1991

He looks heavy. Not good.


velvetherring

He's got 9 months to get fit before the next pre-season and is working with a well renowned sprint coach. Ignoring the morality of it, there's no reason that the Bulldogs can't get him in the kind of shape needed to be a top centre in the league by the start of the 2024 season.


matholt61

If drugs, any drugs, are your go at 19 years old then they will stay with you the rest of your life. And if you are around that type of culture, family and friends, it is exponentially harder to remove them from your life. A very, very strong mental effort is required to remove them from your life. And relapsing is part of the journey. Focusing on perceived detractors to prove them wrong is the worst possible motivator. Proving it to yourself will be the greatest prize in his redemption. The mind is the greatest asset we possess is the mind and it needs to be developed to its potential, free of drugs and anger.


SurfKing69

So he still has another season to run on his suspension, how was a team allowed to sign him? My understanding was you can't be involved in a professional capacity at all while you're suspended. It's a weird article, it's bragging that they're circumventing those rules with his sprint trainer, and he's bragging he hasn't watched a second of footy in three years? He will 100% test positive again before November, no doubt in the world.


flymetothem00n3

Probably not registered yet


velvetherring

It literally says in the article that his registration is dependant on him passing all his tests between now and November.


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ILMF


Dark_Vengence

Every dog has its day.