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Message: [QUOTE="McHunt, post: 3377296, member: 9853"] I'm not pooh-poohing this, but it might be a little premature to charge at the club half-cocked. All we know so far is what we've seen on that blurry video. We've been further told it was Albert's 31st birthday bash and that Payne wasn't drunk. That's all we know. The rest is rumour. Including all talk of suspension. I would wait until the NRL Integrity Unit has delivered its findings, the penalties are made official, and we know who exactly is imposing them. The process so far - that I can deduce - is the club has got ahead a viral scandal by flicking it onto the NRL. The NRL has got the police involved, I presume so they can access CCTV footage of the night and get a better picture of what else happened. At this point we don't know whether the video we've seen is the entire incident or the tip of the iceberg. We also don't know what else has been brewing with these players. Maybe there's more to it. Maybe there's nothing. Furthermore, decide what you want: do you want all employees of the NRL punished over and above the laws of the land? Are you mad because you want to see more blood, from more clubs? Or less blood? Should the organization act like a school, and send these grown men to detention for misdemeanors? Or should they be subject to the same employment conditions as the rest of us? And now, moving up a level, do you expect your club to uphold an even higher standard than the managing body of the code itself, and impose a further set of penalties? I'm not clear in this challenge whether the point is to demand a brutal enforcement of some ad-hoc ethical code right across the league, like the Saudi Religious Police, or whether you want to leave criminal matters to the police and misdemeanors to the judgement of the general public. Whenever one of our players makes the news the first reaction in here is to gather a lynch mob and try him before a kangaroo court based on very little information. Careful what you wish for. You're the ones the NRL is trying to appease. [/QUOTE]

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