Somewhat have to agree with Big Mal Meninga on his statement today about JDB should be stood down from playing.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...s/news-story/5765fa5a5ff759fdd6bda02cc1df2d83
So we go to court (first stage) and an unbiased magistrate was happy to alter bail conditions so as to
let him play. So with all info, evidence and initial testomonies before the magistrate he or she was happy to do that. Why?.
But yet we all want football organisations to override this to suit the media and part of the public because the perception is guilt and an image problem...Rubbish.
Mal's comments...We all still come back to the same crux and problem of the issue. Inglis and Papali were already guilty of charges before being stood down. JDB is not yet.
What stand him down for a couple of years if the verdict takes that long. Boy if he is innocent..look out for the counter action.
The NRL introduced a policy 10 years ago of a wait and see guilty charge before we act, so why has not someone come out in the media and dispelled this in the past 10 years.
Now the NRL have put themselves between a rock and a hard place with their policy of wait & see approach. If they turn around now and stand JDB down, they would have to do the same to Dylan Walker and others pending court appearances and it would look so much like another knee jerk reactive decision to public outcry, if they were going to do this, it should of been done by the NRL on the 9th December and their Brett stewart fallout policy torn up some time ago.
I believe the NRL will not stand him down because what information has changed since the initial charges and reasons except people and the media voicing their opinion. If they do, just shows what a week kneed reactive mob they are and cant make hard decisions on their own.
I would like to stand him down now just for 1 reason only..his own well being, not for anyone else...as I said before..out of sight out of mind until judgement day, because the peanut gallery wont let it go now unfortunately.
How does someone get a fair trial with all this played out in the media...and I mean for both sides of the fence.
And no he has not brought the game and the NRL into disrepute. He has done nothing wrong officially yet except go out and the rest is ATM... he said..she said....and of course police have enough to charge him on her word alone and after interviewing the boys...so they should.
But what would we be saying if down the track if he is proved innocent and what went on was different to how it is being reported!.
Answer..just stop all rugby league players or high profile sports having contact with alcohol and the public so nothing can go wrong...let alone try and have a mutual relationship with a partner.
Lock em in a building only to be let out upon supervision for work duties until their career is over.
That is what I am hearing from media and high profile people outcrying and people on here..cause that is the sanitised way of life its heading for.
