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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Low doses maybe 24 hrs max but medium to high up to 72 hrs.
Fitzsimmons penned this without his red bandana on.
Totally agree with his views. It's off season for him so whilst what he did was plain wrong and he will be charged by cops, at same time it technically doesn't affect his game performance or is a parra eels problem whilst on holidays. He loses his advertising contracts that's fair enough and is enough of a punishment.
Wonder if Josh or club checked him into rehab first time around? Curious.
fact JAC has checked himself in this time around, sits very well with me and shows a will to change.
believe testing takes place during season, and first offence is never disclosed. Bet there are a few players in that bunch.Everyone knows at least half the players would infulge as do many in society, so if Josh copped the sack it would purely be on the basis that he is stupid? Stupid/irresponsible to have driven.
Think him doing rehab immediately is great and is a good lesson for clubs image fans/kids perspective too.
Thank God he didn't hurt anyone and Josh should feel very v lucky that did not happen.
Thanks for the screenshot Carlo
I don't need to read any media article to have an opinion on this matter. What the Eels should do ( or any other club) is exactly what they would do if the offending player was #30 in their roster. If they want to set a strong standard regarding recreational drug use especially when driving a motor vehicle, the fox should have his contract torn up. However, if he receives a fine and suspension, the same should apply to anyone else who might get caught doing the same thing .
I know someone personally who had his contract with the West Tigers torn up and he only had a bag of nose candy in his pocket. He didn't test positive and he notified the club as soon as he was caught. He offered to do a drug test the next day but was denied.
And nobody gave a shit as he wasn't a big name player. Which is exactly what would happen here if we were flush with talent. I like everyone want us to have the best team possible in 2027 , and honestly could not care less if we had a heroin addict playing halfback as long as they didn't have innocent victims in their wake. Literally don't care if we keep him . BUT, when the next players done , the bars been set.
I just want people to admit it rather than going on tangents about JAC's legal rights as some victim of unfairness to have this swept under the carpet 🤪. Just admit he's a good player and we wish to give him special treatment. There's probably an element of leftism due to which we won't speak of , creeping into peoples opinions too if we are being honest .
I understand your opinion and your thinking it. When a situation like this occurs the club must consider several things, whereas, us fans only worry about wins on game day. For example, if the fox gets nothing more than a slap on the wrist, considering he is a senior player at our club, the message sent to our younger players is poor. Another thing. I think I heard during the week that a sponsor was removing themselves from JAC. It wouldn't be outlandish to think that 1 or more club sponsors reconsidered their financial support to the club.
You and I both know the use of nose candy on a Saturday night in Sydney is as common as an Indian delivering food for Uber. If everyone out partying tonight was tested majority would have something in their system. What I can't understand is how/ why would a NRL player earning the best part of $10,000 (or more) per week, get on the gear and drive a car? If he is happy to spend the best part of $1000 on a couple of bags, why not spend a couple of hundred on Ubers?
Whatever the punishment is, 50% of it should be for utter stupidity alone.
Totally agree . When you're earning that kind of coin , I've never understood why they don't get a Airbnb , a couple of groupies and get on the bags in lockdown . Not even that , having had a few mates and aquantaces over the years who've been pro sportsman , we both know they have oodles of hangersona's that would be more then happy to be their drivers for the night.
I'd say you're on the money re sponsors and also guess the club may find themselves under pressure from sponsors should the NRL not do the dirty work for them and rub him out .
The only thing that may help Josh is the fact the lefty media types who'd usually be the ones hunting an NRL player down are taking JAC's side for some reason .... The king of woke pirate Pete is on Josh's side so we wouldn't think he'll be chased by the wokeness police to have sponsors act on it.
This! Do it, but do it at home. Don't get in the car and risk and risk other people's lives!? That for mine is the issue here.
I agree with you Wiz. The Dogs cut him loose because he was on big money, was carrying too much weight and was out with injury too often.
With us, he has lost the weight, has been relatively injury free, is teaching the younger players, is a clear favourite within the team and, most importantly, has been a bloody good player for us!
The answer for me is simple. We keep him. If it was player number 30, do whatever.
The same shit happens in every workplace. If you're the best salesman in the team, you get away with being gropey at the Christmas Party and showing up to work once a fortnight completely hung over. As an employment lawyer, I see this all the time.
Look at what the Knights did in 1998! They kept Roids O'Davis and Roids McDougall yet fucked off Wayne Richards because they wanted to win a premiership - which they did at our expense three years later!
don't need to read,the club must show thier serious about setting standards and sack him. This dipstick took a ileagle substance and drove a vehicle, he could of cause an accident causing harm or worse killing someone, you need to look at what the stupidity could of caused and think well yes what if it was 1 of my family members he could of crashed into and maimed or kill bet if he did it to your family you'd want him sacked. nothing changes unless you stand and force change by holding them accountable.
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