The NRL has been in a constant decline in popularity for a fair few years now. The promoters have thrown everything at the sport to keep it alive. Unfortunately for today's NRL footballers they can no longer get away with the shit they got away with in years gone past. The hierarchy of the sport at club and administrative level were able to cover up for these thugs for many years.Case in point, Joey Johns, who was doing drugs for the most part of his career but was never singled out for a drug test. In the past few years, hardly a week goes by without one of these entitled thugs making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.