Rex
Bencher
Better alternative than letting Gallop decide guilt, as he does currently, or not, as suits his current whim and emotional state and political pressures.BErKeLEy_eAgLe link said:
What offences are not serious? And for how long would you suspend, BE? It took Laffranchi over a year to be found innocent. In that time he played and won his first caps for State and Country, and increased his market worth in huge leaps. Â You'd take that away from him for what the Courts decided were untrue/unprovable allegations?
If you suspended Laffranchi for a shorter period then there'd be the same screams for further suspension when he returned as there were at the start.
And then there's the prospect of players being set up before a crucial match. Â You only need to read our postings to know how wacky and unbalanced us fans are.
How simple would it be if we just let the police and courts do their jobs, as they do for every other person in the country, instead of second-guessing who the courts will find guilty and who they will find innocent? Is that too radical?
And if the papers try to do their sensationalising, then the NRL chief simply says what Dessie said. Â The players are entitled to presumption of innocence just like every other person in Australia. Give them no other answer. Â Train the media, just like you train a dog that you don't put the food bowl down until they sit and stay sitting. No matter how much barking and whining and jumping they do. Persistence.
