You were saying, Alan
So many points, so little time on the Folau situation, so let me keep it light, tight and bright.
The Super League revolt against his signing with Catalans is fascinating. For, you see, according to the likes of Alan Jones, at the height of the saga: “Only an insensitive, incompetent and virtue-signalling outfit could have brought rugby to this point. And now they have to fork out more millions.” Get it? It was all Rugby Australia’s fault. All other organisations would have copped it sweet and moved on.
But, in fact? In fact, the RA stance was quickly followed by all of their sponsors, the NRL and then other Super rugby franchises in NZ, South Africa and Japan, where exactly the same incontrovertible dynamic applied: If you are professional outfit, living or dying by your ability to bring in the mob, you can’t have emblazoned on your marquee someone who badly pisses half the mob off. The Catalans Dragons are now facing precisely that dynamic.
As to Folau promising he won’t make any more posts, sorry, what? All those arguments about how you’ll sacrifice your career, Israel, to speak God’s truth – as a matter of fact because “God spoke to me” – and you say what? At the first whiff of a contract you do an about-face on that and make the same promise you did to Rugby Australia?
What is wrong with this picture, Israel?
Oh, and one last thing. Where are you, Martyn Iles of the Australian Christian Lobby. Do you have anything to say about this? Weren’t you strong on the ground that this was all about freedom of speech, and that is why your Israel Folau needed the $2 million to sustain the legal fight that might go for years?
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/rugby-...-will-take-some-breaking-20200207-p53yss.html
