Art Vandelay_
TheBrownDog
- Oct 28, 2012
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I wouldn't have been upset if a more permanent punishment was found for Smith and Warner. They got off lightly, for all of Candace's whining. But once back in that was that.I’m in no way playing down his role…but to single him out because he was the one caught doing it when they were all in on it (and believe me they were ALL in on it) is pretty harsh - rightly or wrongly they believed the Saffers were doing it so they insanely believed they’d take the law into their own hands and got caught red handed. It’s a classic case of upper management sacrificing a pleb to save their own arse.
Shouldn't exclude me now from wanting the main culprit to not represent us again. And I agree he is the pleb they sacrificed to be seen to having taken action, whilst also saving the rest.
Pro sport imv takes too light a touch to cheats. Whether it be like this tampering a ball, match fixing, drugs and doping etc. Deflategate was a wet lettuce suspension given the result and importance of the game - and I'd have life banned Willie Rioli after being convicted of drug offences while on a drug ban.