Just looking at the story that Souths have laid out. A lady contacts them to say that players did this thing & said she were going to email them with the details. Any normal CEO would take her name & contact details & the names of the players involved. After he got off the phone, surely he would have contacted the players to get into his office immediately to get their side of the story, so he at least should know who is in the gun. Then when the girl (allegedly) doesn't get back to them or the email is in the junk folder & not seen (although my email alerts me to stuff in the junk folder which I deal with). With such a serious allegation, wouldn't you get back in touch with the girl in 24 hours to ensure it hasn't got misplaced? As a CEO wouldn't you take ownership of the issue & particularly in this #metoo time wouldn't you follow this up?
The story does not make sense to me unless your CEO is incompetent.
All sensible comments here. Yes it does defy belief that the alarm bells ( like the one they rung on GF day 2014) wouldn't have been going off deluxe.
You are right in saying that if a complaint of such nature was lodged that there should have been swift immediate follow up. Were the players interviewed and asked if these allegations were true?
Was the CEO apprised of the situation: it is after all a serious one and you would imagine it would at least be CC'D to them.
If you received an original email that you replied to it is extremely odd that any subsequent ones were junked unless of course you then go back and mark that email address as blocked or spam yourself, but why would you do that if there is undeniable proof that you did in fact open and acknowledge that email in the first place?
I could not help myself this morning whilst having a coffee in town, in looking at the Telegraph. Front page and a not quite double page 4-5.....
BUT NO editorial, no opinion pieces even from Kent although he did have a S Burgess article relating to his passion on field and his penchant for targeting those who go after his brothers.
Then I watched the FOX news who had a little mention of it at the top of their news and then left it to an even smaller mention in the match preview for tonight along the lines of them ( Souths) leaving it behind to focus on the game tonight.
Knowing it could be Burgess it is no wonder his coach was running like a rabbit from a fox at their press conference when he threatened to walk out and no longer speak to the press if they continued to ask questions.
All they need to do is find the player who was wearing a gold watch ( unless of course Russell has gifted all of his boys one of them)and who has what looks like a small mole/ mark on his left arm. Below the picture of the exposed genitals there was a smaller one showing someone laying on a bed in a pair of black undies.
Peter Beattie must indeed be psychic ( remember his comments regarding women in relation to the Mad Monday even though none were present and the incident was never done as a deliberate attempt to get photos etc. in the paper...that was all the doing of the Tele crew) ;this one
is degrading to women because it was done purposefully and on a face time video. Dumb to say the least as it is out there now in cyber space for all time.
Will be interesting to see the reception Burgess gets tonight..has he even DENIED IT???? He was given the opportunity to stand down for his "well being" but instead will play. What about the well being of the woman involved?????