Who knows just my gut feeling.

After McDermotts comments to the press today, I don't think they should play him. McDermott has made a massive error today, and shown he is not at the standard of dealing with these sort of issues. You don't hang your players out to dry like that, not when and offence has now been cleared up. Hardaker is a pretty popular member with his team mates, and those comments today could cause a lot of disruption.

Should have been kept in house until they had made a decision, no need to tell the world at this point. And the fact he lied about ringing the police straight away, forgetting to mention they already knew about the issue.

Agreed gotcha. defimately can see where you're coming from. Do you think we'll give him anymore chances?

“As soon as we were made aware of the pictures that were on the Yorkshire Evening Post website, we actually rang the police themselves. We were keen to make sure that he helped the police in everything they needed to do. He did that and now we conduct our own investigation.

“We made that phone call straight away and then phoned Zak.”

He says they rang the police straight away WHEN they saw the photos in YEP.

Before that if they knew then I'm guessing both players probably denied any knowledge or involvement or even being in that building. So until the pictures showed up as evidence it was merely a case of their word against the students word.

As for what McDermott's said on the whole I have no problem with it. I think Hardaker has worn out his protection from management card and and McDermott whilst he's Hardaker coach, also has a duty to the club to tell his and the club's side of events and standpoint instead of just looking stubborn and straight batting all questions on the subject.

Hardaker may be a popular player in the group and if any of his mates are disappointed with McDermott's comments then they need to give their heads a shake......they should save their disappointment for their two teammates. Likewise if Hardaker is feeling any disappointment in what McDermott said then he's a fool. He's not hung him out to dry, he just told it how it is and I can't see anything he's said that Hardaker or any others could be upset about.

Seriously? you honestly believe that the players told a lie when it was brought up?

As for your comments on McDermott, not really surprising. You really don't think that a better situation would have been for him to keep his gob shut on the subject and deal with the disciplinary before mouthing off to the nation? Having concluded a disciplinary and if decided action needed taking, fair enough, and you handle it with the knowledge of the team, but not before.

He was named in squad for the Warrington game

Really do not have any idea as to why if he doesn't play tomorrow hardaker was named in the 19, wouldn't make any sense. They've had enough time to find out what happened before naming the squad.

I'm really disappointed as to how they're dealing with the issue at hand, taking way too long for my liking.

Yes, why would they admit it? Especially with Hardaker's recent past? Doubt they even considered the possibility of any CCTV footage coming back to haunt them. Given that they were both involved in his incident I don't think you can't place a halo over their heads and portray them as guys who would never lie.



Again what in particular did he say that was so bad? What comment "hung Hardaker out to dry"?

McDermott said that Hethrington only returned from Australia last night/this morning so I imagine they've had to wait for him before concluding anything.

I think listening to McDermott's comments on Hardaker that actually he will play. Also when asked about Golding he said "he'll play again this year even if he doesn't this week", that kind of "he'll get another shot at some point" line makes me think it'll be Hardaker. Given that Sinfield is out then I don't think he'll want two youngsters in Sutcliffe and Golding in the pivots.

Well as I put the post up long before the club came out with anything, I can tell you that the club knew everything to the exact situation, a few weeks back, fully co-operated by the players. Not only that, but the coaches also spoke to the younger players about it, to ensure they understood the consequences. They wasn't the only players there by the way.

If you seriously believe it was a good thing for a coach to come out with such muck in public the day before a big game, then fair does, that's your prerogative. My view and ones with a less biased to the coach view, would see that if you are currently going through a disciplinary you don't make public such things before it is concluded.

Gotcha, where do you get your information from