Tongan players threatening boycott

[Bojackhorseman]

I'd be stunned if a country boycotted because of Folau.

To me this should be Tonga's call, I doubt the RLIF would interfere if Australia selected someone controversial.

Agree to differ then. Codes of football have clear codes of conduct and diversity commitments. It’s clear Folau can’t be trusted to support these. He’s made himself an outcast.

 

[morningstar]

This will be fascinating, on what grounds can the RLIF block it?

- No player signs a contract with the RLIF...and let’s be honest they are a tin pot organisation at the best of times. Does anyone think they have a code of conduct regarding social media?

- There is a precedent set of Union players rocking up and playing league tests with no prior league game time in the preceding season.

- Commercials for the end of year tests are looking pretty grim as it is. Are Greenberg & Beattie going to pick up the tab when Tonga take their ball home.

....let’s face it the RLIF doesn’t have a great track record in legal challenges by Tonga either.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Agree to differ then. Codes of football have clear codes of conduct and diversity commitments. It’s clear Folau can’t be trusted to support these. He’s made himself an outcast.

Do the RLIF have a code of conduct that applies here, and can it be applied retrospectively?

I can’t think of another codes governing body banning a player in a similar circumstance. Many worse people are allowed to play pro sports, I think if Folau gave a commitment to be quiet that’d be enough for me.

 

[Bojackhorseman]

Do the RLIF have a code of conduct that applies here, and can it be applied retrospectively?

I can’t think of another codes governing body banning a player in a similar circumstance. Many worse people are allowed to play pro sports, I think if Folau gave a commitment to be quiet that’d be enough for me.

Re your last sentence. Rugby Australia says hello!

 

[herbert henry1908]

Re your last sentence. Rugby Australia says hello!

I meant world body.

Rugby Australia were his employers, but a world body is just administrative.

 

[Bojackhorseman]

I meant world body.

Rugby Australia were his employers, but a world body is just administrative.

The fact you’d trust anything I$$y says is the issue.

 

[stryker]

I think this arguments been done to death. Fact is the aru warned him and he went ahead any way with more homophobic crap. And he didn’t quote the bible by the way.

Why do you only single out the anti gay sentiment? He said far more than that.

 

[Bojackhorseman]

Why do you only single out the anti gay sentiment? He said far more than that.

Because the other are life choices. Being gay isn’t. Pretty simple really.

 

[herbert henry1908]

The fact you’d trust anything I$$y says is the issue.

I don’t need to trust him, I’d make him sign a contract to that effect. One strike and he’s out.

If he can’t agree to that, then no dice.

 

[Bojackhorseman]

I don’t need to trust him, I’d make him sign a contract to that effect. One strike and he’s out.

If he can’t agree to that, then no dice.

Well good luck with that. This bloke is driven by the mightiest force of all. The dollar. Why on earth we’d want him back I have no idea.

 

[taste2taste]

Do Greenburg and Beatie actually have a say on the RLIF board ?
If so we're stuffed as an international game, they'll always make decisions that best suit the NRL.

 

[herbert henry1908]

Do Greenburg and Beatie actually have a say on the RLIF board ?
If so we're stuffed as an international game, they'll always make decisions that best suit the NRL.

Yes. They’re both on the board.

Although Beattie will likely be gone from it when he steps down as ARLC chairman.

 

[stryker]

Because the other are life choices. Being gay isn’t. Pretty simple really.

Not true

 

[morningstar]

Exhibit A in the case the RLIF are tin pot. The deputy chairman Peter Beattie just doxed the CEO Nigel Wood in an epic hospital pass.

 

[Foreign Legion]

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/kristian-woolf-set-to-be-re-appointed-tonga-coach-reports/

 

[yakstorm]

Exhibit A in the case the RLIF are tin pot. The deputy chairman Peter Beattie just doxed the CEO Nigel Wood in an epic hospital pass.

Niel Wood and Nigel Wood are two separate people. It was Niel Wood who sent out the Media Release and handles media for the RLIF.

 

[sportas]

Hopefully this all gets sorted and Tonga are able to play their best team and smash GB

 

[Mr Angry]

https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/kristian-woolf-set-to-be-re-appointed-tonga-coach-reports/

EAD George the treacherous Tongan.

Shamed by your own PM.

Piss off and try to ruin kickby, you parasitic scumbag.

 

[Burns]

Hopefully this all gets sorted and Tonga are able to play their best team and smash GB

Lol, they aren’t smashing anyone tbh. Would wager they will get closer to Australia than GB.

 

[yakstorm]

At the moment, in the interest of the 9s, the Oceania Cup and even the GB Tour, the quicker this gets sorted, the better for the code... I fear how low the crowds would be for games like Tonga v GB if this dispute wasn't sorted...

We need the Tongan fans out in force....