Fuck these c*** at NRL and our club... CHN absolutely did not deserve to get sacked at all. Okunbur yeah fair enough. Gone are the days the club looked out for their players, dirty c*** tarred Corey with the same brush and hung him out to dry.
The club were damned if they didn't report this to the NRL and damned if they did. Let's get serious the media would have canned the club if they tried to sweep it under the carpet.
As a supporter and being selfish about my feelings towards the club I love, I am filthy about the whole situation. We lost 2 players who did nothing wrong from a legalistic point of view.
I have to leave the emotion to one side and consider the facts. What JO did was dumb & unprofessional. Yes the girl contacted him. Yes the testosterone kicked in and he couldn't say no. Let he who hasn't sinned cast the first stone. Consider this....If JO followed the same path and used common sense by taking the girl to another hotel to ensure he DID NOT BREAK CLUB AND TEAM RULES would we know about his exploits? Would the media know? The media didn't know until the players were stood down by the club. At that point in time they smelt a story and went fishing for info. We lost Sponsors. JO deserved the outcome.
I feel for CHN. Again he did nothing illegal. A suspension would have sufficed. But the club could not stand down JO without standing down CHN because they both broke the rules.
The self righteous NRL have created this environment of fear where most clubs (and especially ours because of everything that's happened in the past) feel compelled to report everything.
There are many on this site belittling the current board. One posting a photo of the wiggles. This board is working hard to instil a new culture to this great club. It's a work in progress. They could have swept this under the carpet. Is that what some of you Muppets really want them to do or alternatively do you want them to have a vision and to operate with the utmost integrity. If they did nothing and allowed this to go through to the keeper and the media got a whiff you would be calling for their heads.
The players broke the rules and we lost Sponsors worth in excess of $2M. If the players did things discreetly & used their big head rather than their little head in all likelihood we would not have heard about any of this and the club would have $2M plus in the bank.
Finally opinions on here seem to be based on the importance of the player to the team. Thus they are happy to see JO go but not CHN. Sadly they both broke the same rule however Greenturd, the worst CEO ever employed by the NRL, decided that he couldn't trust our club to do the right thing so he had to step in and cut them loose. Blame the NRL not the board.
In terms of this board they haven't been afforded the opportunity to operate properly from a financial point of view since they were elected (twice). Going forward they have to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Tough times. I will judge them at the end of 2021.