Regarding the clubs response to one of or former players...


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OP has a point. What if the club knew exactly what the outcome of this would be from the start? What if they thought they couldnt afford, given the clubs recent league positions, to sacrifice one of their 'so called' best performers? What if they paid him since it all came out up until now, fully aware of how things would pan out? Money vs moral? I think a full statement from the club is the least we should expect. In fact we should demand it as fans.
Not many people on here will want to believe the above, but rotten cores get mentioned a lot on the board. Maybe the rotten core stretches a little further up the corporate ladder? Who knows?
I have to be honest that it crossed my mind that the club may have been aware, but with your CEO being a lawyer the idea that it was swept under the carpet simply doesn't sound reasonable as she would be completely aware of the possible ramifications. With so many at clubs being from different parts of the world you could reasonably expect different attitudes as the age limit varies. Your owner comes from a state where the legal age is 17 and if the other person is over 21 it is illegal. Curiously it is legal for two fourteen year olds to have relations. The law there seems to protect the less mature from the predatory mature. Having grown up in that environment I can't see him having turned a blind eye to it either. I think the bloke has lied to everyone. I wonder how his lasses parents felt now when they told the press he'd done nothing wrong months ago.
 
The problem I have is that Johnson admitted to the police when questioned that he had interacted with the girl via social media and at least kissed her. Surely that would have been grounds enough to sack him. Or was the club not aware of his confession? He must have known the truth would come out at the trial, surely he was aware of the evidence against him.

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The problem I have is that Johnson admitted to the police when questioned that he had interacted with the girl via social media and at least kissed her. Surely that would have been grounds enough to sack him. Or was the club not aware of his confession? He must have known the truth would come out at the trial, surely he was aware of the evidence against him.

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Seperate from this case, text/facebook could just have been lol. Kissing could have been like a playful peck on the cheek. Nothing sackable. However, suggesting activity in the back seat and full on kissing with tongues is different. It depends on what is known and when.

Which so far equates to a kiss basically.
He has pleaded guilty to grooming. That is not on the statute as a criminal offence because it is less than a kiss.
 
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I think we've now proven we can talk about this without getting anyone into bother. Well done all, the board may be heaving with WUMS and halfwits but every now and then you're reminded why this is such a great place to be. :)
 
So the club sack him for a kiss, your going for head moron tonight marra

Of course, at the time they sacked him not had been revealed. Even if that's all that happened the club still had to sack him.

He literally pled guilty!!!

I know, to kissing her her. And grooming her. I was more referring to those who are already presuming more took place.
 
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As @rocky says, the lad is thick.
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We have some right f***ing idiots on this board.
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They won't. They said they won't.
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All I wish to say is, well done to the warriors who abused me on this thread. I had a gut feeling the club would make a further statement and I was proved right!
 
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I really don't give a monkeys any more........the player is an ex-employee - fact.......the CEO fell on her sword rightly - fact.....

Don't worry about more coming out.....the media will see to that...

We got far more pressing matters
 
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All I wish to say is, well done to the warriors who abused me on this thread. I had a gut feeling the club would make a further statement and I was proved right!
Watch out. He's been let back on for sentencing day. Welcome back. We'll all miss ********* though.
 
Do you think we can expect a longer more detailed statement from them, once proceedings are finished? Or do you think they will just shut up and close shop?

Oh and mods, please give the thread a chance, no one has been named, this is more about the club... Pretty Pleeeeeeeease!

It's a cover up I tell you!!!!!
 
I really don't give a monkeys any more........the player is an ex-employee - fact.......the CEO fell on her sword rightly - fact.....

Don't worry about more coming out.....the media will see to that...

We got far more pressing matters

We have mate.

I'm just highlighting to the arse bandits (who gave me some unnecessary shit on this thread) that I was right all along. :cool:

You just called her a simpleton marra. ;)

He is a grade A simpleton marra.
 
We have mate.

I'm just highlighting to the arse bandits (who gave me some unnecessary shit on this thread) that I was right all along. :cool:



He is a grade A simpleton marra.

Ah for fucks sake.....is your ban up?! I've really enjoyed the last few weeks where you haven't been near this board in any way, shape or form :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Do you think we can expect a longer more detailed statement from them, once proceedings are finished? Or do you think they will just shut up and close shop?

Oh and mods, please give the thread a chance, no one has been named, this is more about the club... Pretty Pleeeeeeeease!
No they would just do it now. Saying stuff before the judgment is the bit they can't do. Sentencing is sentencing and follows guidelines so it wouldn't make any difference therefore they would have done it already. They wouldn't put anything else out there now to get bad pr back in the papers- why would they?
 
Do you think we can expect a longer more detailed statement from them, once proceedings are finished? Or do you think they will just shut up and close shop?

Oh and mods, please give the thread a chance, no one has been named, this is more about the club... Pretty Pleeeeeeeease!

Are we talking about The True Geordie being an ex lads fan and going to the 1998 playoff v Charlton as a lad here?
 
The buck very rarely stops at the top.This was too serious for the man at the top not to know.they sat next to each other at games ffs.
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