We now have the ridiculous situation of those espousing equality, freedom of speech etc denying people the very same if those people dare to doubt the wisdom of a certain tactic in favour of an alternative approach.

The bottom line this was an unnecessary controversy with the obvious outcome that the club would be applauded by those who don’t like the BLM movement for whatever reason and castigated by those who do. We should have seen this coming but the fact MC left Twitter due to the criticism would indicate that the club failed to understand that the majority of the public would only see or read about a team standing whilst their opponents knelt. I doubt whatever your view not many will have read the club statement and based their view of the club on the above.

I've just watched Phil Caplan. Didn't like his comments at all about our stance on standing as a group before our game. I normally don't mind his views, but certainly not on this occasion.

Its Hypocritical by the players because as soon as spectators are back in stadiums this will not happen

I'm damn sure World War 111 will start on Twitter, Facebook or whatever the rest of these social media things are called. For God sake let's get rid of the lot of 'em and get back to some modicom of sanity.

Who said hound, I said let him know your opinion, what the hell is wrong with that for heavens sake.

Yes and not before time, you live by the sword you die by the sword. If as an alleged journalist you’re going to sit up in your cloud casting out judgements then you’re fair game.

I don't agree with that comment. The players made their statement in front of tv cameras attracting far more than would have been in the ground.

I’m amazed how people keep rattling on about this subject, I’ve far more things to worry about than BLM stuff and who has or hasn’t got down on the knee. Let them march up and down or whatever they do and let others do what they want like enjoy a game of rugby perhaps. I’m actually sick to the back teeth of it to be quite honest.

Then you’re no better than those that have driven MC from Twitter and are spouting hate all over social media.

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Well said BLM Give it a month or two and it'll be forgotten.

Journalists have a standard to maintain and they should be fairly challenged when appropriate.

Caplan is entitled to his view - but he needs to be clear - when is he reporting news and when is he giving editorials, or column pieces.

He's there to be praised or called out, depending on your stance. He's certainly not immune.

Unfortunately, as with most things, news now has to be binary.

Well done Scarlet,don't miss an opportunity to slag off MC or the club (you pretend to support).
So basically,in your opinion,we should have taken the knee "for a quiet life"
Maybe we did see the mini controversy coming and thats why statement was issued prior to match.
The sensible thing to do was issue the statement prior to the match and would indicate a reaction was expected.
Seems the majority on here are supportive of not acting like sheep and actually have some principles.

If we stood in support of racism why would kneeling be any different. I hope that the club’s stance does not attract the wrong type of supporters who believe for the wrong reason that our stance was against the principle of racism. The problem is however that these type of people will not have read the club statement and base their views on the press coverage for example.
I suppose Saturday will be interesting because will the coverage be for our RL performance our the fact that we stand again, at least we won’t be alone because I expect Falau will for his own reason stand.

I’m amazed that some think that the vast majority are fully behind whatever they want, I honestly believe they are wildly misinformed .