Come and work at our place mate, we don't have HR! The directors openly say if we need HR they arnt doing their jobs. We have cake and beer!

The RFL are investigating a charge of homophobia. Not foul and abusive language. As for the police, ask them.


intention may be relevant to punishment of the offender. However, if the word faggot was used, a complaint was made, and your lack of a HR department meant no investigation was made, no diversity training was carried out and no attempt was made to change that. Then said business has failed in its duty to provide a safe work environment free from discrimination. Something all of us have a legal right to, whether lawyers, office workers, cleaners or RL players.

Insults are part and parcel when on the pitch. What if. Hardaker had called a rival player's mother a "sl*t". Would you or anybody on here be remotely bothered by this? Yet probably the player it was aimed at would find that more offensive than being called a faggot himself. Context dear boy, context.



Ok 2/3rd of people don't like team sports. OFTEN because of homophobic bullying, often.....how much does this word OFTEN cover? That's a pretty loose conclusion. Not really a number of percentage.

How many gay people did they ask? 2/3rds of thousands is quite a lot. 2/3rds when they asked 10 people isn't really.

When gay people play team sport do you honestly believe they don't throw insults around too?

Slightly off topic but my experience of HR is that they take common sense and replace it with BS legislation, which serves to hinder a business. As I said the directors at our gaff believe in the culture we have and recruiting people with the right stuff, as people and workers.

Well then you should be quoting Rogues Gallery, not me. I didn't compare the two. But he was right to bring it up, try reading the thread properly instead of coming in all guns blazing just because you thought someone had dared have a go at your idol.

Nice way to massively play one down and defend it while playing the other up though.

homophobia, like racism cannot be part and parcel of our game. The whataboutery is irrelevant. You dont have the right not to be offended. You do have the right to an environment free from homophobia, racism and discrimination.

So your answer to those questions would be, i dont believe the University of Cambridges evidence and will dismiss those concerns, even though that statement is taken verbatim from a press release put out by this very club.

HR do seem meddling and a lot of fannying about, whilst things are fine then they are just an annoyance. But if you ever need them, you will be glad they are there. I would also hazard a guess that when your directors say they dont have a HR team, they do, its simply outsourced.

And as i say, they often have cake, or at the very least some sweets

1600 children were asked in the stonewalls 2012 school report. So not a small number.

I "don't have the right not to be offended". Dear boy, I have the right to feel however I want about the situation. Or do we have to follow your opinion? Doesn't the same freedom you're fighting for mean I'm free to think however I want.

Again would you be offended/bothered if Hardaker called a player's mum a "sl*t"? That you haven't replied to that part clearly shows that you wouldn't be, yet he's offended someone with his words. Just ones that don't bother you as much, hypocrisy much.



No but nice try, I didn't say I don't believe them. I inquired into the figures. "2/3rds" and "often" are fairly loose.

Mate - you work in Australia, the commute would be a right bitch.

You could work on the plane?