Gavin Henson believes that doping cheats should face a jail sentence, following Warren Gatland's Off The Ball interview on the matter.

Henson spoke to Wales Online about the issue that has plagued the sport, particularly at under-age level.

Henson spoke in response to Gatland's interview with Joe Molloy.

Gatland on doping

"I think we all want [rugby] to stay as clean as we possibly can," the British and Irish Lions coach said in his interview with Off The Ball.

“You know I haven’t come across personally any players from a Wales perspective that I would - well sorry, maybe one. Maybe one, now that I think about it."

Asked if the player in mind had played for Wales, Gatland responded: “He may have done, yeah.”

“It’s probably a little bit unfair of me to say I had suspicions about one of them because I’ve got no evidence or anything like that.

“Because it’s kind of like just saying, ‘Is there a possibility?’... It was more like a couple of people making jokes sort of thing. And you go, ‘Oh is that…'

Gatland was referring to truth in humour.

Gavin Henson on doping

"I've been in an environment where the drug testers come in and there's one or two boys who run out. That's happened at professional level," he told Wales Online.

"How it is acceptable, I don't know, but as a player you can't do anything about it.

"Of course it made me angry. Boys are cheating and those kind of things give you such an advantage. There are boys who have had careers on the back of taking stuff that has cost other players international places, or even club team places, which is really lucrative.

"For me, I feel the rule that should be in place is if you get caught taking drugs it should be a jail sentence, because you are stealing a living. You are taking money from someone else. One or two boys were quite open and honest about it but there's no proof.

"There was always changing room talk but unless you are a doctor or something you can't prove it.

"For a coach to say what Gatland did, I felt like there should be an investigation, but there we go."

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