Bit of context on the joel monaghan thing, it was on a mad Monday and it was a team mates dog, he was trying to wind the teammate up.

He's not a (total) weirdo.

I dunno, it's a bit sus.

Didn't Jon Clark do some time?

FWIW - Gelling was acquitted by jury in May 21 of inflicting GBH in the incident where his wife reversed the vehicle trapping him.

Yes, when he was at Wigan.

He left Wigan and signed for London Broncos.

Wire signed him from London.

I think Stuart Reardon was still at Wires when he & Leon Pryce were charged with assault (of Reardon's estranged wife and her boyfriend).

christ, this is all fun.

fortunately, we hadn't signed adrian morley yet when he got done for drink driving whilst playing for GB (Who were sponsored by the Th!nk safe driving promotion at the time)

Since we're on a roll, there was this one from July 2009 too:

"Warrington Wolves are investigating events that led to their first-team players Chris Bridge and Ben Harrison being arrested on suspicion of causing affray in the early hours of Monday morning.

Bridge and Harrison were arrested with two local men aged 34 and 39 following an alleged incident in Warrington town centre"

So we're saying that quite a lot of rugby players make bad decisions ....

These are just out players I bet there are similar stories at every club lol

I know so many lively lads who will tell you that they were "saved" by the discipline/release of playing rugby. A night out with the team was always a little bit of extra fun.

And then there's former Saints & Hudderfield's Scott Moore and his 150 mph car chase then being Tasered 6 times in 2016 !

This is probably the best write up - with a mug shot too !!

rlhttps://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/watch-england-rugby-star-fight-12138367rl

Yeah. I have no reason to believe RL players behave any different from none RL players from the socio economic class from which they are drawn or other RL players at other teams.

Just putting the "spitting" into perspective. We have recruited and retained players with far worse track records.

Quote: shinymcshine241 "FWIW - Gelling was acquitted by jury in May 21 of inflicting GBH in the incident where his wife reversed the vehicle trapping him.'" Indeed but he did punch her by his own admission, so the poster was correct. He had taken "angry pills". “The defendant accepts that he punched her but maintains that he did so in self-defence, fearing that he was about to get run over or injured as Ms Mackey reversed the car.” https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... ial-hears/

Quote: shinymcshine241 "FWIW - Gelling was acquitted by jury in May 21 of inflicting GBH in the incident where his wife reversed the vehicle trapping him.'" Indeed but he did punch her by his own admission, so the poster was correct. He had taken "angry pills". “The defendant accepts that he punched her but maintains that he did so in self-defence, fearing that he was about to get run over or injured as Ms Mackey reversed the car.” https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... ial-hears/

In other news wasn't the erudite Barrie McDermott 'famously' reckoned to be the first person in the country arrested by the police involving CS gas? A story recounted in the Wigan Episode of the funny R4 series Mark Thomas in Town (well worth a listen as is Stockport)

I agree and to be fair if we were in a better position squad wise, then I would jump in signing him I was initially going to say he could be the next Joel Monaghan signing for us.