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Robinson suspended


TheRey said:
He made the tweets 8 years ago for fucks sake.

People say stupid shit when they're kids. I'm one of the most woke people about these days, but when I was in my teens I was sharing similar jokes. You learn as you grow up.

It's only come to light now, and he's clearly a different person. The way he fronted up after the First Day shows that.

It happened before he played for England, a long time before in fact.

The lads had an excellent debut and one of the few to come out with any credit, and now the ECB are throwing him down the shitter for being a prat before he knew the impact of his words.


Absolutely f***ing stupid.
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The thing that makes it more ridiculous is Overton is likely the replacement.

Who was racist in a game as a professional more recently than Robinson tweets.

Massive double f***ing standards
 
PeteFTM said:
Doesn’t seem prudent to slap a promising player with a suspension straight after a career-changing performance for their country.

Surely putting him on an awareness course would have sufficed.
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Absolutely.

I've mellowed a bit on the "no case to answer here" vibe I had at the start, but I still feel a suspension is a bit Draconian.
 
What the fuck did people think would happen? He would get off scot free?

Silverwood's new selection regime is looking a bit of a joke already. He might want to think about employing some subordinates to carry out background checks in future.

Same will no doubt happen again if he picks Overton in the second test.
 
smoker said:
What the fuck did people think would happen? He would get off scot free?

Silverwood's new selection regime is looking a bit of a joke already. He might want to think about employing some subordinates to carry out background checks in future.

Same will no doubt happen again if he picks Overton in the second test.
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Can’t believe the ecb didn’t pick that up in any pre-selection check mind. Most larger employers would pick that up in background checks, would have thought the ECB being in the public domain would be doubly as thorough, especially given the large focus on BLM recently
 
TravellingMackem said:
Can’t believe the ecb didn’t pick that up in any pre-selection check mind. Most larger employers would pick that up in background checks, would have thought the ECB being in the public domain would be doubly as thorough, especially given the large focus on BLM recently
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I can believe it of them.
 
TravellingMackem said:
Can’t believe the ecb didn’t pick that up in any pre-selection check mind. Most larger employers would pick that up in background checks, would have thought the ECB being in the public domain would be doubly as thorough, especially given the large focus on BLM recently
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For once you are spot on
 
If he should have been suspended tonight, he should have been suspended on Wednesday
GordonMuchallNo1Fan said:
where do we draw the line though? I was a little (unt when i was 12-18 year old.......... Anyone on here who pretends they were a brown nosing teachers pet angel 100% of the time are liars.

whole thing is utterly pathetic. culture of this country is worrying
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I didn’t know you were 12-18 years old
 
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If he ends up being punished for this beyond already having to face the embarrassment of apologising then it kind of destroys the concept of rehabilitation really. He’s clearly not the same lad he was when he was 17 so should those decisions punish him for the rest of his life?
 
I'm just grateful that I'm old enough to not have my every word and action recorded for posterity. I'm sure we all said and did things as a teenager that we wouldn't decades later.

However... the ECB really have to be seen to take action here. I can't see any punishment being serious but it is an opportunity to send an educational message to youngsters
 
Darlo1973 said:
I'm just grateful that I'm old enough to not have my every word and action recorded for posterity. I'm sure we all said and did things as a teenager that we wouldn't decades later.

However... the ECB really have to be seen to take action here. I can't see any punishment being serious but it is an opportunity to send an educational message to youngsters
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My thoughts exactly
They will send the message out with a form of a short spell on the sidelines for the player I would expect
 
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