Peter Fitzsimmons has written a lengthy piece on Fox today
sorry for screenshot
waiting for wiz and his " would never listen to the raging lefty " comment
anyway thought it interesting and prob pretty accurate
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Not what I expected him to say. This is an opportunity for the club to make some real change in this area. They can't do that if they walk away from harsh realities of life.
Yeh me too
I was surprised
He makes some reasonable points in there, especially about the involvement of alcohol and gambling in the game, both of which generate a lot of harm in the community, but he also misses a key point when implying JAC hasn't done anything bad. Imagine driving your car past a primary school at 3pm doing 200km/h, but you don't kill anyone, so it's no biggy. This is where we are with JAC, he hasn't harmed anyone, but it's well established that driving while impaired significantly affects your ability to drive safely. If he keeps getting in a car like this, he's sooner or later the next Ezra Mam, or worse, he kills someone.
But the charge is not driving while impaired. Its driving with illicit subtance in saliva. That illicit substance could have been taken 2-3 days prior.
Im not necessarily supporting JAC just supplying a bit of info.
To be fair, some of that is speculation. I'm not claiming you are wrong, you may well be right, but it's also possible he took it 1 hour before getting in the car.
Fitzsimmons penned this without his red bandana on.