Alleged incident at hotel on Sunday night

[UUaswan]

Total BS, there was no crime! They were punished to satisfy the baying mob!

Cant be satisfied mate, now the narrative is " just because charges weren't laid doesnt mean there wasnt a crime" followed by some BS stat about conviction success.

Boys forever tainted, the false accusations (im assuming here, due to no charges being laid) from the women who are never named or charged, Its never enough

Imagine being presumed guilty for 3 months and then still presumed guilty even when your cleared

Like with racism, everyone is a racist now and it has diminished the true meaning or a terrible racist POS.

SA charge is just a casual claim nowadays but the affect on the falsely accused is still the same, they are forever tainted.

How many scumbag politicians had their say, I doubt any will bother to correct the record.

[stevoswan]

Total BS, there was no crime! They were punished to satisfy the baying mob!

Oh FFS.....if you can claim there was 'no crime', I'm @@@@ing glad you have nothing to do with the running of our club.

There may have been no sexual assault and even that can't be totally proven but there was actions that are totally unacceptable in any decently run sporting organisation.

That's the 'crime'. It's actually pathetic that you can't see that and keep blindly doubling down on your stupidity.

[mcs]

@@@@ me I thought the crusades were over,,,,

[0918330512]

The 4 players (excluding Bice) were not charged by Vic police because of insufficient evidence. That is actually quite different to being cleared, regardless of the headlines. That being said, there is nothing more to be said by the Vic police, from their perspective, it’s over. The civil case that persists is a fishing expedition by the “ladies” and their lawyers. Doesn’t cost them much to pursue this course of action in the hope they get something. The players know what they did or didn’t do, regardless of public outcomes, it’s their cross to bear (or not, if they know their innocence) and the divided public will likely maintain their opinions, regardless of the results. IMO it’s time to move on and let the players and club do what they are meant to do. Play football.

[Merdo5555]

No whats pathetic and completely unacceptable is your inability to understand the choice wasnt between action and no action, there was a range of choices and the club took the path that had implicitly built into the fact there had been allegations of sexual misconduct and then claim in a PR statement it didnt.

Again a 4 - 5 match suspension for drinking and bringing strippers back top hotel room was the fair correct punishment, of course it wasnt.

But hey no problem the mob demanded more so they got it.

Im surprised there isnt another Russel Brand red herring thrown away. By the way its nice to see, allegations made, investigations conducted, charges laid, trial held, convicted and jailed. I'm delighted to see the system working, a convicted rapist jailed, good news for all.

Oh i see they actually did something but there is insufficient evidence, no they are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The ex-post facto attempts to justify the incredible overreaction to all are incredible to watch, the twist and turns are amusing.

Whats pathetic is the morality police feeling the need to decide what is our isnt appropriate conduct in the privacy of someones hotel room. Pathetic, stick to your own bedroom.

Drinking and bringing a woman/women back to your hotel room arent crimes dimwit. They are a breach of standards not worthy of 4+ match suspension, thats the point, thats always been the point. A suspension implicitly including a tariff for alleged criminal behaviour even though it was declined at the time. This is exactly why the punishment should have fit the actions rather than satisfy the angry mob. Its called justice, obviously to difficult a concept for you to accept in face of the mob. Better hope your never unfairly accused of something then you will understand why principle is so important.