Oh aye but be do still shop in the scratch and dent aisle, how many clubs (Widnes fans apart) do you think were sniffing around Marty when we signed him.

Wasn't Danny Ward seen as a wrong'un before he came here?

Whats your prob gutters?? A few facts never hurt anyone

I dunno, the hurt Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer quite badly.

If he was fit he'd be a useful addition to our squad, on form he's a cut above quite a few of our backs.

I don't believe in hitting women, and I'm not justifying what he did, however, from reading the press reports there is no indication that he actually did hit his wife, the press reports say he assaulted her by grabbing her arm. From my hazy memories of studying GCSE law the popular public perception of the term assault and the legal definition of assault are somewhat different; to the public assault brings up images of beating someone up, whereas in legal terms that's more likely to be covered by battery, ABH, GDH etc...

In the eyes of the law he is guilty of having assaulted his wife.
Harlequins RL have a stated aim of getting more families to the stoop..........ergo, don't go anywhere near him.

Assaulted would mean he didn't touch her, iirc.
He would be guilty of Common Assault, (Assault and Battery). Battery could be seen as much as a push.

Technically he squeezed her arm, hence the assault conviction, it's why I think it's wrong to infer that he beat her up. What he did was wrong, and he's rightly been punished for it, but it's not right to misrepresent what he did either.

If you lift someone off the ground it's attempted kidnapping

Technically Hitler didn't Kill millions of people either

He just gave the orders.

For the last time....regardless of if he squeezed her arm, nutted her or blew in her ear, he is a convicted........
and we don't want or need him at our club

Danny Ward is a convicted drink-driver.

Double standards?

That's a rather strange remark given the context of this thread.

Did he lift her up off the ground?

What were you saying about being owned GF?

No....one is a conviction for drink driving, the other is for Assaulting a woman!
Given the choice of either, I'd take the non violent drunk driver over the intimidating bully who went round with his mate (also convicted by the way) to try to do god knows what....but I bet it wasn't buy her flowers.

Most ridiculous post I have seen on here for a long time.

almost on a par with a couple of posters on the sin bin who applauded the Securitas robbers because they didn't kill anyone during.

Give them an MBE.

It may or may not surprise you to learn that unless my memory is playing tricks on me one of those posters was a certain Mr A. Donohue

Technically he "squeezed her arm".....FFS, he is a professional RL player. His "squeeze" could probably break a womans arm.....but that's OK because it wasn't the face....


This country is consistantly downgrading offences and guess what more people are offending.

You've just downgraded drink-driving to a trivial offence. Disgraceful post IMO.

Got any stats to back that up?


Oh but the fear of crime...the fear of crime....

No....do I need them?

Thread drift somewhat from topic and what a surprise, tis the usual suspects. Play in the sin bin or on pm please, nobody else gives a flying one.