The ulster rugby trial

[Taylor]

General question.

Irrespective of the verdict, is this the behaviour you would expect from professional provincial rugby players who are meant to be role models for young people?

Off course not

[Ethan Tremblay]

It shouldn't be expected from anyone with any morale's to be honest. 

"We are all top shaggers", what a fcking knobhead Olding is

Verdict aside Ulster have to give them the boot

[Hardy]

General question.

Irrespective of the verdict, is this the behaviour you would expect from professional provincial rugby players who are meant to be role models for young people?

At least one of these lads was pictured posing in some sort of black-and-white minstrels imitation, if I remember correctly.

Whether guilty or innocent of rape, my verdict is - knobs.

[seafoid]

General question.

Irrespective of the verdict, is this the behaviour you would expect from professional provincial rugby players who are meant to be role models for young people?

Off course not

Snooker has the concept of bringing the game into disrepute. The boys have disgraced the jersey even if they are cleared.
Les Kiss is probably very happy to have left.

[longballin]

Not company you would want your daughter to associate with

[Rois]

I've been told the IRFU have some sort of morality clause in the contracts.

Not sure what the terms are, but one would imagine the behaviour that has come out would breach it...

[Tony Baloney]

General question.

Irrespective of the verdict, is this the behaviour you would expect from professional provincial rugby players who are meant to be role models for young people?

Off course not

Snooker has the concept of bringing the game into disrepute. The boys have disgraced the jersey even if they are cleared.
Les Kiss is probably very happy to have left.

I know someone fairly closely involved in the inner workings and there has been an issue with this for some time due to the fact that many of the players were/are evangelical Christians and prayer meetings in the changing rooms involving Pienaar, Marshall etc. were common. The presence of "top shaggers" in their midst added to internal friction.

[TabClear]

I've been told the IRFU have some sort of morality clause in the contracts.

Not sure what the terms are, but one would imagine the behaviour that has come out would breach it...

If it doesnt it is a pretty meaningless clause, regardless of verdict

[Avondhu star]

Not company you would want your daughter to associate with

To paraphrase a different trial "are these the type of people you would wish your servants to associate with?"

[Avondhu star]

Not company you would want your daughter to associate with

I've no doubt that before all this happened many an Ulsterman would have loved to see the daughter and Paddy Jackson walking up the footpath to the red bricked Edwardian house in leafy South Belfast

[Rois]

Not company you would want your daughter to associate with

I've no doubt that before all this happened many an Ulsterman would have loved to see the daughter and Paddy Jackson walking up the footpath to the red bricked Edwardian house in leafy South Belfast

Ah you're romanticising...try the 15 year old yellowish brick townhouse in a large development beside a petrol station, Joe Brolly's former abode and Paisley's church.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

I've been told the IRFU have some sort of morality clause in the contracts.

Not sure what the terms are, but one would imagine the behaviour that has come out would breach it...

Morality clause hmm. Didnt stop zebo or Murray playing on

[Asal Mor]

I would still think there's more than a reasonable doubt - giving apparently consensual oral to Olding according to the only independent witness to the case. With inconsistencies and hazy memories on both sides, the eye-witness testimony is all we really have to go on.

[gallsman]

I wonder if the "why would/wouldn't she say that" crowd are asking themselves the same questions about the activities of some of the lads - deleting messages, talking about spit roasts etc when they all claim not to have had sex with her etc

[Milltown Row2]

I wonder if the "why would/wouldn't she say that" crowd are asking themselves the same questions about the activities of some of the lads - deleting messages, talking about spit roasts etc when they all claim not to have had sex with her etc

Bragging? Kids do that a lot.

Then they've shit themselves once it became obvious that they were going to be charged! Surely they would have constructed a better lie if they had have done something. They are all over the show with those statements...

Too many ifs buts and maybes for me..