Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"Of course every headline will have Wakefield in it. When they were weighing up this signing, they got it completely wrong. Innocent until proven guilty of course, but he wasn't our player at the time of the incident, yet we still took him on.'"
We took him on because of the point you yourself raised, he was innocent until proven guilty.
Personally i would prefer we didnt involve ourselves with such people, cockayne and latu included, but at some point the players value comes into play (as it will with chase, at some point) and clubs take a punt, to refuse a player on the grounds of alleged guilt or even a conviction, because of such things as the rehabilitation of offenders act and employment law, makes things very dodgy.
You only have to look through the playing rostas in SL and the NRL to see clubs are littered with convicted criminals and players who have served lengthy bans for one reason or another to see that this is hardly something new and probably just a reflection of society in general.
The point is, if there is one, the club could do better, but everyones at it, and it is the individual that has the biggest say in such matters.