With respect to everyone, I think you are all missing the point. The attire issue has nothing to do with whether suspected crims get better treatment when they suit up. This alleged incident occurred in a work setting - they were on tour because of their work, their airfares were paid by their employer and they were staying in accomodation paid for by their employer and even though they were not playing a game of football or training at the precise moment of the alleged incident they were in a work environment and representing their employer the whole time they were away. The consequent police investigation is therefore connected with their work whether they like it or not. Their employer cannot be charged with a criminal offence - although do not rule out the potential for the club to be sued in civil proceedings for failing to enforce their own behaviour rules which could be argued to have contributed to the incident. So, for that reason alone, their employer does have some say on how the employer wants to be represented via its employees in the follow-up investigations to the alleaged incident that happened on the employer's work tour.
Quite apart from that, these boofheads are too thick to realise that the only reason they are getting paid big or small $ for playing footy is due to the overall marketability of the game. Given what is allleged/assumed to have occurred, if these brain surgeons stopped and thought for just a second, they might understand that with every "up yours, we're just a bunch of blokes at the end of the day" piece of behaviour they are the Dogs that are biting not only the hand that feeds them but the hand that feeds all the professional players - the sponsors.
Don't kid yourself BTR, this whole saga is making League less marketable and every Dogs "get stuffed" piece of attitude is making it worse.
If these boofheads want to be just one of the boys, do what they like, when they like, they should go play amatuer A grade in the local park and get a job to pay for their own booze ups, accommodation, and the hookers they'll need to pay for to replace their alleged never ending supply of groupie "buns". If they want to continue to have a job that consists of being paid big bucks for playing sport, then they should treat it like it is a job that depends on the sport's marketability for the $ the job can give them. It's not PC imposition, it's not interfering with their rights to behave in their own way to a personal criminal investigation, it's just business.
