Gold Coast Titans drug scandal: Club hid five positive doping tests after 2007 Mad Monday celebrations
James Hooper
February 26, 2015
9:00PM
THE Gold Coast are no strangers to players dabbling in illicit drugs on Mad Monday, with the Titans previously netting five positive results the year the club was founded in 2007.
Sport Confidential can reveal Titans management covered-up the results of the in-house testing the day after Mad Monday, which jagged one big-name player and four other members of the club’s NRL roster.
None of the players in question are still employed at the Titans, but all were issued with a written employment warning and fined five per cent of their contracts.
Under the Titans previous management structure, the club decided to covertly target test its entire roster the morning after Mad Monday.
No players were made aware of the impending drug tests, but some became flustered when informed they were about to become subject to a urine test.
Intent on avoiding a public-relations nightmare, the Titans opted to bury the five positive results.
We spoke to one former player who confirmed the results.
None of the players currently charged with drugs supply were at the Titans at the time.