New rape allegation

[Southern Rooster]

Oh come on!! Is this a forum for Rugby League or society? 90% of MEN aren't representing a club and a game and a business venture when they're out on the p*ss. If 90% of men go out and get laid on a weekly basis, it doens't make national news and there are no threats of fines for bringing anything into disrepute.

If they go out and get laid the way the allegations have stated they got laid. Then it certainly does make the news.

As for the 90% of men aren't representing a club or game when they go out on the piss. You are right, but the 10% that do represent there club are the ones that have a public profile. Ones that people recognise and can associate with a club and game.

A few weeks back I was at the Kings gamel behind 3 Roosters first graders and a Tigers first grader. There behaviour was exemplerary. They signed autographs when asked, posed for photographs all the while having a few quiet beers. people associated those players with the NRL and there respective clubs and the responded accordingly.

Players are representing there clubs all the time when out in public whether they like it or not. It is part and parcel of being a first grade player.

 

[*trojan*]

I agree. People recognise professional sportspeople as part of what ever sport they play.

 

[melon....]

I see it like this. The Media has a lot to answer for. Without naming the players, they have condemned the club with their innuendo and dirt digging. Love or hate the Bulldogs club, regardless of what a player or a group of players have done, the media has no right to cause the damage to the game that they continue to cause daily with there "stories". Unfortunately, Gallop is paid by News and as such cannot speak up against the media controlled by News. If he could, he should be saying, no media coverage until such a time as police investigations are completed and charges are laid or dropped.

All the media are doing is feeding off the "bad boy" image of the club since the Salary cap scandal, and to condemn the club before the facts are evident is wrong, damaging, and defammatory. The potential loss of revenue for any club due to this unwarranted exposure could be huge. If players are found they have a case to answer for, let the law deal with them, and let the club deal with them in the form of de-registration and life ban from League ontop of criminal charges.

Until the truth is actually reported, the media have no right to defame any club and more importantly the game. If I was Peponis, regardless of the outcome, I would be mounting legal challenges against the media that have put the club in a bad light without knowing if it deserves to be.

The sponsors, fans and the club should not pay on the back of a group of individual's actions. Especially before any charges have been laid.

 

[*trojan*]

Yeah, the media haven't been all that professional and unbiased, but their job is to print the news. And this is news. Sure, there's better ways to go about it, but in a situation like this, it's up to the readers to determine fact from fiction, fact from emotion and fact from plain lies.

 

[Edwahu]

It is the papers jobs to report the news but its their responsibllity to do it based on facts that are propery sourced and cross checked and in a manner that doesnt push an agenda or sensationalize the story. Editorial and opinion pieces should not be used as news pieces.

Its ridiculous that the media can use un-named taxi drivers, bar staff, players and other so called "witnesses" as sources of facts. It gives them carte-blanche to write what ever they want. Cant say im suprised though, its sad that these days the papers are geared to be sources of entertainment and not actual news.

 

[melon....]

Yeah, the media haven't been all that professional and unbiased, but their job is to print the news. And this is news. Sure, there's better ways to go about it, but in a situation like this, it's up to the readers to determine fact from fiction, fact from emotion and fact from plain lies.

My point is at what cost to the club in question. They say dont shoot the messenger. Well you can shoot them if they portray you to be something without the facts. The newspapers job is to print the truth. But in this case they are more concerned in pushing their own agenda.

 

[*trojan*]

Fair call. When you look @ it that way, it's not just the players integrity and morals being questioned, the club could lose so much in terms of revenue becasue of a few loose comments in the papers.

Sure, the media's job is to print the truth, but do they ever? Or is it all about pushing agendas?

 

[Foz]

They interviewed the reporter of the 43yo woman's story on the radio.
The reporter said there was no reason not to believe her.(the woman). It was made quite clear she wasnt coming out now for money and she didnt even know about the compensation involved. The reporter confirmed this by dates of police reports etc.
What she said (in a reply to a question if she knew if the same player(s) were involved in the first incident as the second)was she wasnt aware of any of the first offenders being involved in the second incident.
She did say she had heard names (but she wasn't positive of the people involved in the latest incident) but from what she knew different people were involved.
Sounded creditable to me.