Surely this is media bs and not an official statement from the club.
Bulldogs source my foot! Surely not!
"But the Bulldogs look set to let the incident slide - unless the Integrity Unit rules otherwise.
"At the end of the day it wasn't something we condone but he (Elliott) didn't break any laws," a Bulldogs source told Wide World of Sports.
"Hopefully he learned a lesson from it - our attitude is that he just gets back to training and moves on.
"He won't be talking to the media or anything like that - that won't achieve anything.
"Unless the NRL decides otherwise, we will just try to forget about it."
I dont believe, for one minute, that our Board would speak in those terms regarding such a concerning, bad publicity moment for the club. Whilst the incident is not involving the club, or illegal, it does call into question our ethics with handling this frequently brain dead player who has a serious drinking problem.
Happy to leave it with the coach, players and club to decide but it better be dealt with professionally and with least impact on the club. He should come out and front the media like Pearce did, which will direct a lot of the attention back on him personally and not on our undeserving coach and club.