the findings in this tribunal as in any tribunal need to be recorded and whilst potentially not being available to the public are available to the players and their representatives therefore allowing for any appeal which then puts the original case and verdict up for scrutiny. The Tribunal members do not owe you or I any explanation for their verdict.
We too are biased therefore 'if' our boys are found guilty on the merits of the case presented how many here are going to put a guilty verdict down to the bias of the Tribunal.
The fact that the findings need to be recorded and are available to the players and their lawyers is nowhere near enough. As we have discussed at length here, legal outcomes are rarely black and white. If the players are found guilty, it doesn't mean they are. It means that the tribunal will have been comfortably satisfied based on the evidence put before them and based on the evidence that was and wasn't admissible and based on what the players lawyers presented in the way of argument.
As we have established in our own discussions, none of this is clear cut.
I will want to see the evidence, what was presented by both sides, what was deemed to be admissible, what medical experts said, what the tribunal thought was decisive in reaching their judgement. A verdict one way or the other will not do it.
I don't care whether the tribunal members owe me any explanation or not. I bloody well want to know!
And give it a rest about accusing the tribunal of bias. I am not doing that, nor are the majority. But even without any accusation of bias, there is plenty of room for querying and evaluating the outcome, whichever side you are on. We should get to know and understand the full details of the hearing and how and why whatever verdict that is reached was reached.