: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:00 am  

ROBINSON wrote:

TO be fair, you're not going to sack your best players and matchwinners, are you?

The board have chickened out, here. A reserve player, or a player with not much to offer would have been out on his backside.

Exactly right, which is why Saints and Wigan have kept Pryce and Feka on respectively and Wire took the chance to dump the injury prone underachieving Reardon.

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:09 am  

saints35 bulls0 wrote:

hmmm would have liked to see the board be a bit stronger on this issue.

why? It was a nothing incident

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:27 am  

if anyone thinks that had Leon been a fringe player or a reservist he would have got the same 'punishment' then they are deluded.

clear case of double standards and only wanting to do a token gesture re punishment of a key player

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:40 am  

No1 Saint wrote:

why? It was a nothing incident

I agree, from what i have read i think people are blowing it way out of proportion and the right punishment has been given - only for the reason of bringing bad publicity to the game/your club.

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:50 am  

ROBINSON wrote:

TO be fair, you're not going to sack your best players and matchwinners, are you?

The board have chickened out, here. A reserve player, or a player with not much to offer would have been out on his backside.

We didnt chicken out of sacking Ian Milward our most successfull coach.
Wigan of course had no such qualms about then immediately recruiting a disgraced coach.

The club appear to have followed standard disciplinary procedures re Pryce has been given a formal warning re his behaviour.
This is not a let off as some people may think. Pryce now knows he has to be squeaky clean in how he behaves at the club.

Certainly i would expect any professionally run club such as Saints to follow employment guidelines re internal disciplinary matters. Otherwise they could find themselves at the wrong end of the law and facing a civil suit for unfair dismissal.

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:04 pm  

nikos wrote:

if anyone thinks that had Leon been a fringe player or a reservist he would have got the same 'punishment' then they are deluded.

clear case of double standards and only wanting to do a token gesture re punishment of a key player

and what did wigan do to feka?

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:25 pm  

Wow, you really told him.

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:33 pm  

Saint Simon wrote:

and what did wigan do to feka?

no, but then again this topic is not about him or any other club and their actions

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:38 pm  

gateaux wrote:

Where have they said they don't think its important?


To be fair to the board they know the facts of the case, they know exactly what happened which is something nobody on here knows.

Just like last week people were assuming because he hadn't got a custodial sentence he had "got away with it" they are assuming the exact same now. Some people wouldn't have been happy unless the club sacked him - and for most its nothing to do with what has happened but to do with a dislike of the player.

Are the full facts as per every other trial not open to the public domain and thus any one wanting to know the facts can have them to hand?He has pleaded guilty hasnt he.
I am disappointed in Saints though thought that they would have made a stance. This seems to me to put the message out that if you are a star player there is always a way that the club could accomade you.

: Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:50 pm  

nikos wrote:

if anyone thinks that had Leon been a fringe player or a reservist he would have got the same 'punishment' then they are deluded.

clear case of double standards and only wanting to do a token gesture re punishment of a key player

100% correct and i would be very suprised in the world of pro sport if you would see much different from 99% of clubs!

though the nrl which has the highest profile and highest standard of our sport is trying to clean the game up as clubs and a governing body! cronulla just sacked its captain and the raiders sacked its best player in carney.

i would like super league to follow suit!!

i think what i would like to see is a 2 strikes and your out system. first strike suspended from the rest of the season that you have brought the game into disripute and second strike banned for life.

lets see if the likes of bailey, walker, feka, pryce, raynor, readon, cunningham, cockayne and the rest dare not be well behaved then.