a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SnMVL2okFKI/AAAAAAAADP0/YOvD7v2RVcY/s1600-h/coke-bath.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SnMVL2okFKI/AAAAAAAADP0/YOvD7v2RVcY/s400/coke-bath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364654874516788386" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Amid one of the biggest drug scandals in rugby history, former Bath trio Michael Lipman, Alex Crockett, and Andrew Higgins face a Rugby Football Union hearing over their alleged use of prohibited substances. /spanbr /br /They are accused of conduct which is prejudicial to the interests of the sport due to a number of charges, including the consumption of prohibited substances, and refusing to undergo drug tests while under contract at Bath.br /br /All three resigned from the club suddenly, but have vowed to fight the charges.br /br /"This is a matter that we take very seriously and will do everything possible in order to clear our names," they said in a joint statement.br /br /The hearing decision is expected to be heard on Monday.br /br /Earlier in the month, fellow Bath player and former Australian international Justin Harrison was suspended for 8 months after admitting to cocaine use.br /br /Harrison was released early from his contract prior to a misconduct hearing following a London party which ended in him being punched in the face.br /br /He was in line for a 18 month ban, but the way he dealt with himself subsequently, and his admission of guilt were taken into consideration.br /br /In February of this year England prop Matt Stevens was handed a two year ban after a doping test showed that he had used cocaine. Stevens too admitted his guilt, and is now attending regular counselling sessions for a drug problem.br /br /Clearly it's not worth it.br /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOvd7p79SLEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOvd7p79SLEamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time: /span01:22br /span style="font-weight: bold;"Note:/span Clip courtesy of Sky Sports/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-7763504011554254510?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=QJiXsYYwl5U:0h6rmzp5JEQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/QJiXsYYwl5U" height="1" width="1"/ More...