Madge confirms Mam not getting the boot

[Socnorb]

I wonder if Ado Carr's ultimate punishment will have any bearing on this.

 

[Redfern_1980]

I wonder if Ado Carr's ultimate punishment will have any bearing on this.

The Fox has been given a termination notice by the Bulldogs. He will front the dogs board next Thursday to show cause why he should not be sacked. He's definitely gone. To the bunnies most likely, unfortunately.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Some people don’t want help they’d rather blame anything and everyone other than themselves

If that is the case for Ezra then we should absolutely be showing him the door regardless of the police findings.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

I wonder if Ado Carr's ultimate punishment will have any bearing on this.

Of course it will, because the media will start bleating on about "How is Mam's situation any different from Addo Carrs" in a bid to pressure the Broncos to sack him, because that act creates a whole new branch of potential articles and narratives to write about, not least of which "omgomgomg one of the best young talents in the game is a free agent, WHO will pick him up? Will it be this club or will it be that club" etc etc.

That is how these parasites work, their entire agenda is based around self interest.

 

[Sproj]

If he gets sacked, you reckon either the Dragons or Chickens will pick him and Walsh up?

 

[I bleed Maroon]

If he gets sacked, you reckon either the Dragons or Chickens will pick him and Walsh up?

Walsh isn't going anywhere, stop panicking about it

 

[Renegade]

**** the roosters boogeyman shtick gets really tiresome

 

[Mustafur]

If he gets sacked, you reckon either the Dragons or Chickens will pick him and Walsh up?

Walsh wouldn't leave SEQ regardless, I don't see a scenario where he would leave us.

 

[Gaz]

If he gets sacked, you reckon either the Dragons or Chickens will pick him and Walsh up?

Chickens have just extended Sam so I doubt it. Walsh maybe.

 

[McHunt]

Abdo said the NRL will act, in conjunction with the club, on Ezra very quickly after the court decision, and not comment before that.

Given how Ezra has gone to ground without comment since the incident, I would say it's fair to assume he's expecting a positive drug result and realizes he has nothing to gain by confessing or denying at this point. We also haven't heard a peep about why he swerved across the road. It's entirely speculation. For all we know he could've had a seizure. But my hunch is he hadn't been to sleep since the night before.

Going by Abdo's tone, I would expect a number of weeks suspension: 5, 6, 7 something like that. It will depend on whether Ezra's lawyer can come up with some kind of plausible explanation that might lessen his sentence. The fans will want to see blood, so he's not going to get off without suspension.

The buzzword now is "care" rather than "punishment." Meaning it's a pointless exercise banishing him to another club.

If he weren't famous, this wouldn't have been newsworthy.

 

[McHunt]

Walsh wouldn't leave SEQ regardless, I don't see a scenario where he would leave us.

The only scenario I could see is falling out with the coach. And I wonder who'd go first?

 

[lynx000]

3 tired and dozed off

4. Swerved to miss something - error of judgment in doing so.

I have just started reading this thread and hence I am late to the party. I am also not going to express a view one way or the other simply because none of us will have all of the relevant facts. The only ones that will go close to having all of the facts will be the decision makers at the club, so I am comfortable with running with their decision.

I often see people being highly critical of judges and magistrates with their decision making, but without having all of the relevant information that is available to that decision maker when they make their decision.

There are so many variables with the Mam situation. What if he was experiencing a significant mental health crisis due to a combination of factors that simply overwhelmed his coping mechanisms and he was too proud or too silly to reach out for help? We had the racial vilification incident in Las Vegas, what if that was still impacting and then on top of that he has a close relative pass away or dying with cancer? At the same time he experiences a relationship break-up (a possible explanation for the move) and he tries to cope and ease his pain by resorting to a drug. Due to the conflation of those circumstances he is also sleep deprived and in that state he makes a stupid decision to drive.

In that scenario a fairly strong argument can be mounted that dismissal is not warranted.

I will wait and see.

 

[I bleed Maroon]

That. Is. Outrageous.

What is this the U.S Election?

 

[Santa]

Abdo said the NRL will act, in conjunction with the club, on Ezra very quickly after the court decision, and not comment before that.

Given how Ezra has gone to ground without comment since the incident, I would say it's fair to assume he's expecting a positive drug result and realizes he has nothing to gain by confessing or denying at this point. We also haven't heard a peep about why he swerved across the road. It's entirely speculation. For all we know he could've had a seizure. But my hunch is he hadn't been to sleep since the night before.

Going by Abdo's tone, I would expect a number of weeks suspension: 5, 6, 7 something like that. It will depend on whether Ezra's lawyer can come up with some kind of plausible explanation that might lessen his sentence. The fans will want to see blood, so he's not going to get off without suspension.

The buzzword now is "care" rather than "punishment." Meaning it's a pointless exercise banishing him to another club.

If he weren't famous, this wouldn't have been newsworthy.

You would hope Ezra has been upfront with the club about what happened, even before any results come back. You would also hope that if it is as bad as many think it is (unlicenced, drugged up crash which could have killed someone) the club would have the balls to terminate his contract (he's overpaid and seemingly overrated anyway).

Maybe it's not so bad, and it's all a big misunderstanding. But if it is bad, I would be disappointed with us (and our new coach) if we kept him. Can't complian about our attitude on the field, if we're going to allow an attitude like this off the field continue to happen.

 

[Johnny92]

Another thing that could of played a part is the lane assist feature on those newer rangers, I've driven one for work and a few times it's wanted to put me into on coming traffic or into parked cars on the side of the road. I would always just turn it off because I thought it was dangerous.

Obviously Ezra should still be paying attention while driving but a small lapse in concentration or hands off the wheel and the car could shoot you off to where you shouldn't be and if you haven't got much driving experience you panic and accidents happen.

 

[Sproj]

“I’m not really interested in that sort of stuff and the party life,” Levi said.

“I’d rather focus on spending time with my family … and being professional.”

This is from soon to be Lions’ father-son Levi Ashcroft when asked about drinking on his 18th birthday when he legally can later in the year.

How nice would it be if our idiots at the Broncs could have a desire to be professional.

 

[Bucking Beads]

I didn't think about the lane assist when it comes to Ezra having the smash. I wonder how he managed to veer across the road like he did.

 

[Xzei]

“I’m not really interested in that sort of stuff and the party life,” Levi said.

“I’d rather focus on spending time with my family … and being professional.”

This is from soon to be Lions’ father-son Levi Ashcroft when asked about drinking on his 18th birthday when he legally can later in the year.

How nice would it be if our idiots at the Broncs could have a desire to be professional.

Just lip service imo could be 100% legit but I've been fooled to many times by 'good guy' sportsmen to believe a word that they put out in the media