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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 2805169, member: 8275"] That is my view as I said earlier, yes I feel we need a player that I feel he can be, but not at any cost. However cynical I or we may be, giving people second chances has to be the way our society deals with problems. Place conditions on those chances by all means, but the alternative is we start building very, very large prisons and watch an endless downward spiral unfold. If Lodge does what we all think he should. Receive the medical / psychological help he needs, works to make amends for his actions and improves himself as a person, that is the sort of role model the NRl should be looking to develop. Not the cheesy redemption story, but providing a genuine pathway for people who need help and are prepared to work for it. Not all NRL stars are as gifted as each other. Many get there on pure hard work and graft. Someone like Cooper Cronk should be the pin-up boy for this. Not that he has ever got in any known trouble per se, but overcame any lack of talent or experience with sheer hard work, to make him into the player and from all apperances, person he is today. If Lodge is will to do all that, he deserves his chance. If not, he deserves everything that will come his way and that won't include an NRL career. Trying and failing is always better than never trying at all. [/QUOTE]

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