If paid by the club on behalf of the players, yes. But that's not the case. It's the players making the payment so it's no different to anything else a player pays for.

Even then I'm pretty sure a club wouldn't be so close to the cap that a few hundred quid would take them over.

From the low value of the payment, maybe there was more to this than a one sided affair.

If it was a one sided beating I would not settle for £400.

That's pretty much my view too.

I'm not excusing the 2 players by the way, just that I don't think its a straight forward case.

Keep racking up those misdemeanours Zak, your adoring fans still love you, jeez half of ‘em still think Savile was innocent .

You can take the boy out of Ponte…

Altercations, absolutely loads, homophobic insults, not many in this day & age, too much pop, probably the majority of them.

But whereas most have the odd blemish in the whole of their career Mr Hardaker seems to be racking up quite a rap sheet.

This is someone who plays for a Premier S.L club & an International to boot. Nobody can doubt his talent, but excelling at the sport whilst acting like a total idiot is not mutually inclusive.





So based on your logic the likes of Cyril Smith, Lee Harvey Oswald & Heinrick Himmler were all innocent too .

Quote: southern_rhino "as for savile, until hes brought before a jury of his peers and found guilty he is innocent. thats how the law works, you dont normally wait til someone has popped their clogs before bringing charges, but hey, who am i? lets call everyone guilty that has an accusation leveled at them and then let them prove their innocence.....'" Wow. Your post is so off the charts bonkers it's even made it's way onto twitter! Congratulations. https://twitter.com/RLMeltdown

Quote: southern_rhino "as for savile, until hes brought before a jury of his peers and found guilty he is innocent. thats how the law works, you dont normally wait til someone has popped their clogs before bringing charges, but hey, who am i? lets call everyone guilty that has an accusation leveled at them and then let them prove their innocence.....'" Wow. Your post is so off the charts bonkers it's even made it's way onto twitter! Congratulations. https://twitter.com/RLMeltdown

Hope that Hardaker dosn't go the way of other RL "miscreants", he is too good a player, but sadly it's happened before and quite recently.

Time will tell.

since when is the law bonkers?

do i think hes guilty, probably. is he guilty? no, not until proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law....

Being handed a fine of a month's wages and told he must take an anger management course, well done to Leeds, measured response and I think a few others (clubs) should go the same route with anger management for certain players. www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/31 ... d-by-leeds

Being handed a fine of a month's wages and told he must take an anger management course, well done to Leeds, measured response and I think a few others (clubs) should go the same route with anger management for certain players. www.therfl.co.uk/news/article/31 ... d-by-leeds

I'm guessing this is his last chance at Leeds.
If he steps out of line again i think he will be gone.
The problem for him is finding a club that will take a chance on him with his past history.
Lets finish on a positive and say that Zak Hardacker will now tow the line and become a fine upstanding citizen.