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excellent assessment St. Hope
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excellent assessment St. Hope
I am convinced our CEO is useless, he picked himself for the job, he resigned McGregor and he let Robson go - 3 strikes, enough said.
Nathan brown will never win a comp ,at anything just to cover all bases
Go go Gorgio
Only to the chosen few
How does Scott Bolton , who pleaded guilty to assault on a woman, get to keep playing yet JDB who is accused but yet to be found guilty be stood down. NRL please explain the anomaly
ARL rule for no fault stand downs is offences with max penalty of 11 years or more. Bolton was charged with common assault which carries max of two years. No conviction was recorded.
Thanks TS. Like the offences: not in the same league.
And AFB?
Browny has some of the best stats in the comp do a search. Bennett can coach a team full of stars but Browny is turning a team of squires into knights. I want him back where he belongs, slapping our 5/8 around
Poss, I assume you're referring to Aiden Fonua Blake when he was with us in lower grades a few years ago. He was charged with assault (not common assault) for striking and kicking his wife. Bolton allegedly put his hand on a woman's thigh during a drinking session. Improper, unwelcome, yes, but obviously the judge or magistrate considered on the lower scale of seriousness that no offence was recorded. AFB' s case was also before the NRL's no fault rule came in.
Well then I guess it could be read as assault on women is fine so long as the penalty would be under 11 years. As such it makes a mockery out the NRL’s defence at JDB’s appeal for surely Bolton’s actions could be viewed as harming the product , maybe not to the extent of JDB case if guilty but harms none the less, further, JDB is not even considered guilty by all standards of law and Bolton was , so in harming the product if the innocent before being guilty are to be punished then surely the guilty are harming the product more so, and the Bolton case was a plea bargain to boot. I think it stinks as it leaves the players open to blackmail as all that is now needed is to accuse and career over. So of course if this happens, and it will, the player and manager will surely pay the money if they can’t produce a solid and indisputable alibi and JDB case was also before the no fault rule but for him it was retrospective
