Alleged incident at hotel on Sunday night

[Merdo5555]

Coudl I suggest that before any of the 5 be accepted back into the SS ranks that hey should firslty front the females directly involved with the club ) AFLW players and staff and then separately the remaining AFL players and staff to explain their actions on the night and seek forgiveness. Both meetings should be controlled by appropriate experts in Attiutude to Women.

Forgiveness for what?

Engaging in legal behaviour in their hotel room?

[mcs]

No the club stuffed our season by its complete overreaction, a rest of season suspension was totally and completely over the top for the alleged offences committed (which explicitly excluded any of the alleged sexual offences).

Instead of bowing to the braying mob they should have applied a fitting punishment for the crime (1 or at absolute most 2 matches). To be honest being out drinking and having strippers in their room might even just be a hefty fine.

We have now lost a season and a good player because the club and majority couldnt resist the howling noisy mob.

No they shouldnt have been out drinking and hiring strippers but no that doesnt justify a 3 match suspension (including finals) for engaging in legal behaviour.

As usual people are more concerned with optics than actual justice.

Or is someone going to say engaging in legal, but ill-advised behaviour, justified the punishment meted out?

At least you cant call me a hypocrite I have maintained the same view; the punishment was to satisfy the mob not a fair whack for ill-judged behaviour.

If the club didn't do it, the AFL would have. There was no world, irrespective of the rights or wrongs of it, where any of those guys playing again this season was going to be seen palatable nor acceptable, irrespective of the final outcome of it all.

And I reckon Blakey was on his way out before this anyway - too much smoke around for 18 months now. It was a convenient trigger to push a trade through sure, but I suspect he may have went anyway.