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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2280302, member: 1992"] Legend that he is but this is too much from someone who must know better. He knew when he had his first drink that driving was off the menu so it's a conscious decision that preceded the offence. As an aside and in light of how we deal with other high profile drink drivers amongst whom we have Federal and State Politicians, High Court and lower court judges, not forgetting the highest levels of the Medical Profession in the company of fellow professionals from our Institutes for learning we should, in the interests of fairness and impartiality, consider Alfies punishment. On that basis, a stern warning, hefty fine and accompanying loss of licence plus a public mea culpa and a contrite expression of remorse should be sufficient. I would'nt expect it to impact on his job as well simply because he is a very minor player, a lowly employee who runs water and instructions and helps out in the training of a local footy team. He's hardly in the class of the upper echelon mentioned in the preceding paragraph, esteemed members of society so the only thing different is he's well known for former sporting glory. That we should punish him by removing his employment when we don't do that to members of society we hold in much higher estimation smacks of hypocrisy. Sure he's representative of the club but no more so than a politician is of their state or country or any of the others mentioned. [/QUOTE]

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