Booooo! Get off!

This really is a very simple case. Leaf broke the rules of betting on a match on the club he was employed for, morally wrong and against the rules of the game, he's been caught and convicted and is now serving a punishment, I have little problem with this.

Of course what's amazing about Rugby League is the unreal inconsistensy of how they operate, everything from fines to this offense, to lengths of bans for high takles, dangerous play and illegal substance misuse gets a seemingly different length of ban every time, many on this thread deem the 18 month ban fair, perhaps it is, but then surely you must admit Gleeson and Long got away with proverbial murder...one could argue Leaf (and im not defending him) was simply betting on what he though would happen, where Long and Gleeson knew Saints were playing a week side in that Sanits Bulls game which i'd argue is worse if anything. Also people are quoting different cases over the years...the one constant is all the fines and bans are different lenghts...crazy!...for me its also very funny this made the front page of the Scum 'newspaper' and its one of the lengthy banes every given out by the RFL....if indeed they even had any say in it seen as the Scum knew it would be 18 months before the case concluded

Any accusations that he has 'not tried' or 'thrown matches' before are not true and Leaf has always giv 100% in the best part of a decade I have watched him playing for the Dons.

Silly boy yes...but to receive 'everything he deserves' Is to be ignorant about the case and the wider picture in general

Leaf added: "You can do it different ways — a knock-on or not push yourself to get to that ball.

"There's the tackling side, too. You think on the face of it it's pretty easy but it all depends what the other team are like ... whether they've turned up with the right mentality.

"If you run at someone you can tell whether they're tackling, you can feel it. Look at a team and see if they've got old heads — experienced players or young kids. If they've got young kids they won't do it because they've got aspirations."


... So he bets against his own team and then mentions how to throw games... whats to say he hasn't done this? He should be banned for life.

Hope long is doing well for us? This isn't Hull FC v Doncaster. This is right v wrong. I would be saying the same thing if he played for Hull. I think Gleeson should have been banned from the sport.

Good old David Bates

Quote: Goochie "Weren't Long and Gleesons bans shorter because Long wasn't playing and Gleeson scored in the game, so there was proof they were still trying to win. 18 months seems about fair to me tbh.'" Quote: Goochie "On June 17, we had our hearing. We thought we'd either get a hefty fine or, more likely, a ban. Judge Peter Charlesworth ? who tries murderers when he's not on the RFL panel ? fined us both £7,500 plus £2,205 costs. He banned me from playing for three months and Glees for an extra month because he'd played in the game. We had to pay the fines, court costs, our solicitors' fees and do without our wages for the length of the bans. The bet cost me close to 50 grand. '" www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -lose.html

Quote: Goochie "Weren't Long and Gleesons bans shorter because Long wasn't playing and Gleeson scored in the game, so there was proof they were still trying to win. 18 months seems about fair to me tbh.'" Quote: Goochie "On June 17, we had our hearing. We thought we'd either get a hefty fine or, more likely, a ban. Judge Peter Charlesworth ? who tries murderers when he's not on the RFL panel ? fined us both £7,500 plus £2,205 costs. He banned me from playing for three months and Glees for an extra month because he'd played in the game. We had to pay the fines, court costs, our solicitors' fees and do without our wages for the length of the bans. The bet cost me close to 50 grand. '" www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... -lose.html