If SPP didn't get sloshed on Saturday night then all this shit would not have happened. Suspended for 1 match, learns a valuable lesson for life.
If my mother had been born with wheels she would have been a bike.
Is it fair that a person be publicly labeled as a perpetrator of sexual assault without evidence or a police report?
The girl has done nothing wrong either mind you, but without a charge of sexual assault, I think that’s a slanderous label to apply to a person who is barely old enough to vote.
That is not extreme at all, it should be a genuine consideration in the way the media handles reporting on stuff like this.
The standard of journalism in this country is completely rooted.
Last year the media was lurking around public school children trying to illicit quotes about the suicide of a child due to bullying. They condemned bullying to the point that new anti-bullying legislation was passed in parliament.
But hey, this kid plays sport for money, let’s bully him because he wears black instead of navy blue.
I feel for both SPP and the girl involved. A minor incident dealt with in the best intentions hijacked by a rabid media organisation with no consideration for the effect their “journalism” will have on the subjects.
At least channel 7 will collapse when they eventually lose out on the rights to the AFL just as they lost the tennis.
TLDR: Elspeth is a dumb name.