Saints dump Lovett after rape charge

[dimelb]

Indeed.

Seeems a bit of guilty until proven innocent to me.

I cannot see how St.Kilda's reputation has 'suffered' because of all of this.

But I shouldn't really be saying this - I'm sure I will be accused of condoning rape or something crazy like that.

Carry on

Innocent until proven guilty is the requirement before any legal penalties are applied, and so it should be. But the club has other issues, such as the other players don't want him in the team and (I imagine) the leaders and coaches have lost any trust in him they may have had. I was prepared to consider him at one stage; I'm glad our people have more sense, or better info.

[CureTheSane]

Innocent until proven guilty is the requirement before any legal penalties are applied, and so it should be. But the club has other issues, such as the other players don't want him in the team and (I imagine) the leaders and coaches have lost any trust in him they may have had. I was prepared to consider him at one stage; I'm glad our people have more sense, or better info.

So you're saying that we should assume that he is innocent until proven guilty.
Then you assume that the players don't want to play with him and taht the coached have probably lost trust in him..... ???
In the end we know nothing.

What would be interesting is if he had come to the Swans and they had acted in the same way as the Saints did.
Given the Hall condemnation, I would suspect that many RWOers who sit criticising St. Kilda right now would be the same people who would be demanding Lovett's removal from the club.

Anyone who put a knife in Hall's back has no place in being critical of how the Saints have acted, given the severity of (potentially) both instances.

[dimelb]

So you're saying that we should assume that he is innocent until proven guilty.

No, I'm not.

Then you assume that the players don't want to play with him

It's been reported.

and taht the coached have probably lost trust in him..... ???

Not assume, I imagine so.

In the end we know nothing.

True.

What would be interesting is if he had come to the Swans and they had acted in the same way as the Saints did.
Given the Hall condemnation, I would suspect that many RWOers who sit criticising St. Kilda right now would be the same people who would be demanding Lovett's removal from the club.
Anyone who put a knife in Hall's back has no place in being critical of how the Saints have acted, given the severity of (potentially) both instances.

I'm sorry Hall left, but it's hard to see how he could have stayed.
And I'm not critical of the Saints' decision; in their position, I'd do the same.