You've gotta love the Aussies - could you imagine a magistrate over here saying, "you've gone from the penthouse to the shithouse" and the press putting it in print?
Sent from my keyboard using fingers.
That magistrate didn’t hold back
screaming in the family corner, scaring the kiddies
I’m sure Wire must have some room on their Salary Cap.
Awkward one really, I think these days Saints try to have a moral standard so they most probably wouldn't want him back but then again would we want him playing for another SL team.
Then again we took him with a drug ban so you never know
His lawyer is a class act..Scales of Justice tattoo on the back of his hand...
Would you really want him back after his impression of the Invisible Man for the second half of the season?
Its a weird one as iirc Todd Carney was told by the NRL that they would not accept his registration with any club, yet there was little issue with him coming over and playing for Catalan, other than them paying a bond for his registration, and Carneys rap sheet was considerably longer than Barbas.
Greenberg was appointed to make the NRL seem proactive in cleaning up the issues around club and player behaviour, flexible salary cap at the Eels and the 2010 incidents around Carney, Monaghan and the players accused of gang rape.
This was during the inception of the social media explosion and players since have naturally become more guarded as they are brought up with these consequences.
He is now viewed in some teams board rooms as authoritative on all matters and inflexible., his popularity waning.
He seemed to have it in for Benny and he was almost certainly not impartial in his judgements towards him, a bit like a certain referee is towards us.
Imagine if we had a Domestic Violence policy similar to what they have in Major League Baseball, Gelling would be banned for at least half a season based on the evidence currently out there and likely permanently banned if convicted. At the end of the day players are meant to be role models any controversy off the field brings bad publicity to the sport, something we need to avoid, i am not saying the players need to be perfect but there must be a code of conduct they have to follow off the field, domestic violence has to be a major no-no in that, with according serious punishment.
Can't stop the spirits when they need you.
This life is more than just a read through.
Greenberg was Bulldogs CEO in 2013 when the first allegations of wife beating were levelled at Barba (in a Murdoch paper). Ainsley refused to accuse him and Greenberg let it go. Greenberg was criticised and it stung him.
When Barba was banned for 12 games for his positive coke test, Greenberg seemed to take it personally when Barba figured he'd serve his ban by playing RU on a fat short-term contract, and Greenberg spitefully declared the ban would only commence when he returned to the NRL, but Barba again tried to circumvent that by signing a SL contract (pity for us the RFL kissed NRL arse... although if the scum or Leeds would have signed him, I'm not convinced they would have taken the same stance)
When Barba flipped in the Townsville casino, Greenberg saw the opportunity to get his revenge.
In a nutshell: no criminal conviction for assaulting his brother in law. There is a clause in his Spanish contract that states if he is approached by an NRL or SL club he will be released. Can’t see it happening here.