No, the project is working WITH the perps, silly. That's why it's appropriate. To work with them to move forward, change things, etc, etc.

Thank god FC dont play against any team with women in them then. It would be carnage.

Im afraid you are banging your head against a brick wall in trying to explain certain things to people on this board.

mayb we should, im up for that

Player of the month for April

And that starts with rewarding them contracts? Other clubs punish players for being idiots. We decide to bring them in. Most clubs would fine, suspend or sack players for this sort of behaviour (Cockayne suspended, Reardon sacked). Us? No, we reward it.

I don't see what sort of message this signing is going to send out, other than our club condones this type of behaviour whilst other clubs don't.

Look everyone deserves a second chance.

Well he won't play for long, not with is injury record and his impending court case. I think that that is a disgraceful signing by the club in view of our stand against domestic violence against women and children, which was reinforced by our public showing at the game yesterday. The board should hang their heads in shame. What next, signing Harland, Pryce, and Cockayne? Its as bad as signing the Ku Klex Clan as they have empathy with coloured players. Its about time the club pulled their fingers out and signed a world class scrum half and stop quibbling about the cost! That is if we want to win something! Give the fans what they want.

No. It starts with giving them an opportunity to turn their lives around and thus, at some point in the future, maybe avoid the same situation occurring again. Wouldn't you prefer it if blokes are provided with a means of dealing positively with how they feel and in their relationships with others? Do you not see working with perps to offer them alternative ways of dealing as being something productive for both the perp and society as a whole? I sure do and as a woman myself I'm glad that the perps (either male or female, since both are capable of domestic violence) are being offered some support to turn things around.


It shows that should people want to, they can find a positive way forward even if they have broken da law.

Incidentally, Cockayne pled to ABH (a tougher charge than Reardon) and I suspect it suited Wire perfectly to let Reardon go given that recently they have also let Gleeson go. Agendas and all that.

What are you talking about? The Klu Klux Klan strung black people up from trees until they died. You comparing that to signing Reardon? If so, you need your head read lad, coz you are entirely off it!

I wanted to say that but i was too shocked