The utter hypocrisy spouted on this thread is beyond belief. Are you perfect then? It seems to me you are an unforgiving, intolerant tw*t. The sort of person that should be condemned by your own logic.

Quote: Stanley30 "Cats fans have to stand up to this. If this was my club I'd be straight on the phone demanding a refund on my season ticket. This horrible human being cannot represent your club and how could u stand there and cheer for him !!!'" Should have started with Bird then after he glassed a women. Just look at this report from 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ont-fix-it The game is in no position to try taking some moral high ground on whether Izzy can have a career in the game. I actually think if he has a great season and keeps his mouth shout he could end up back in the NRL next year. The NRL loves redemption stories.

Quote: Stanley30 "Cats fans have to stand up to this. If this was my club I'd be straight on the phone demanding a refund on my season ticket. This horrible human being cannot represent your club and how could u stand there and cheer for him !!!'" Should have started with Bird then after he glassed a women. Just look at this report from 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ont-fix-it The game is in no position to try taking some moral high ground on whether Izzy can have a career in the game. I actually think if he has a great season and keeps his mouth shout he could end up back in the NRL next year. The NRL loves redemption stories.

If he is 80% as good as he was when young, he'll be the best player in the ESL.
He was the best player in the NRL, and he has been the best attacking player in Australian Union for a very long time.
60 tries in 92 games for the Waratahs doesn't sound impressive in League terms, but that's a lot of tries for Union, and just about every week the opposition would stack the defence just to try to contain Falou.
If the halfback can put up kicks to create a fair contest for the ball between Izzy and anyone else, Izzy is coming down with that ball.

For the sake of accuracy, he didn't say they should burn in hell. He said that, according to his religious beliefs, they, and a long list of other "sinners", will burn in hell, unless they repent - yadda, yadda, yadda - I'm sure you all heard the same stuff in Sunday school.
I have a lot of seventh day adventist relatives who, according to their facebook feeds, donated money to Izzy for his legal costs (he got millions), and have now decided they are all Catalans fans.
I live about 10 minutes away from a seventh day adventist university and a huge number of the students are polynesians, and they not only support Izzy, they think he's some sort of religious martyr.

Izzy went to great lengths to deny that he hates gays - he just believes that his God will send them to hell.

I am an atheist, so don't care in the least what his religion says about who is and who isn't going to a place that doesn't exist, but I've had enough contact with fundamentalist christians to not even be a little bit outraged by their beliefs. They really do believe this stuff.

It's about opinions, if you can't accept what he says then maybe you shouldn't respond with needless abuse.

Robert Elstone: ”Super League does not have the authority to veto the registration of players and is satisfied by the due diligence carried out by the RFL.

We all know how good the RFLs due diligence has proven to be- Chalmers and Green

Isn’t the point. If Wigan were interested in him then fine that’s up to them but to announce you were interested in him literally hours after making it clear you are opposed to him signing for Catalan, is embarrassing. Wigan trying to take the moral high ground doesn’t work at all when they’ve backed players who’ve done far worse than Folau.

A sensible post. I have no real opinion on him but from following his spat with Aus Union I think I am right that they only ditched him after a lot of sponsors threatened to pull out if he played? Otherwise he would still be playing for them!

Off the top of my head all of following have been in RL recently

Wife beating
Drug taking
Drink driving
GBH
Assault
Tazering a police officer after a high speed car chase
Assault on a drugs tester (sadly my own team has given that cretin a job)
Banging a team mates wife
Homophobic abuse
Glass/bottling a team mate
Gambling on your own team to lose.
Breaking and entering
Urinating in your own mouth on camera
Abuse toward females
Sex act with a dog

All of which were give second (and in some cases 4th or 5th) chances. And whilst i dont agree with all those chances being given, it seems a touch hypocritical to suggest Izzy shouldnt be allowed to play in SL

After the first incident they gave him a new 4 year contract.

Ben Barba got banned for life by the NRL. If that never happened I have no doubt he would be playing in SL right now.

you forgot the doggie blow job