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Message: [QUOTE="Allo, post: 3223157, member: 8190"] I’ve yet to put forward my thoughts, and while I’ve gone against Folau before, it’s more so about why people don’t understand (or don’t want to) why he hasn’t been allowed back rather than what he said. He’s obviously a great player and would more than likely be an improvement to any team he may sign for. But in regards to us, you have to look at his conduct. What he said, is in a way irrelevant, it was the fact he refused to agree to not say it or anything similar again. Contrast that with TPJ who, while totally different offences, agreed to all the stipulations placed on him and has come out the other side with a new perspective and attitude. So if there’s any hint of refusal from Folau to shut his gob, then I don’t want him anywhere near our club. Now to what he said. While he cast the net fairly wide, it did catch a large subsection of society that has and does face a lot of prejudice. Mostly stemming from religion and religious people. The rest of the ‘hell-goers’ is just basically everyone else in the world, and so no one else really felt targeted. You can believe and think what you want, as we all do, but to include them or any group that has a specific social or racial identities, particularly minority or marginalised, then you need to be aware that there will be some backlash. This whole ‘cancel culture’ we live in has gone overboard at times I agree, and I do hope that Israel meant it from that well-intentioned or naive place that a lot of religious folk do when they say things like that. I get there’s a ton of hypocrisy, particularly when it comes to women in league round when you remember you could easily make up a ‘DV 17’ team, but that’s on clubs, the NRL and the judicial system. Israel didn’t do anything illegal, just shot off his mouth without considering the bigger picture consequences. To sum up my soapboxing, provided he doesn’t treat contract conditions as a joke and keeps his potentially offensive views and thoughts to himself, it’s hard to argue against him playing based on precedence of other disreputable actions players have committed. It’s entirely possible however the NRL have put out a silent stonewall memo to clubs to avoid having to deal with it. Can’t refuse to register if no one attempts to sign him [/QUOTE]

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