Solar wrote:I really don't understand the logic from lovett, I would have thought it's smarter to put your head down, work hard and fight the charges if you think your innocent. Unless this is about money(he is getting paid base rate, so missing out on incentives?) he is not endearing himself to anyone.
What would he really want to get out of this?
(a) If he really believes he's innocent, then he might think he has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion and would perhaps be trying to recover some of his reputation. He might also rather enjoy playing AFL football and wants to keep playing it.
(b) If he is concerned that he might be charged and convicted, I reckon this is still a pretty good strategy. The more he fights what the club has done, the more he will appear to the public (including potential jurors) as maintaining his innocence.
I think the really stupid thing for him to do would be to crawl off into a corner. It made sense for Wayne Carey to do this, because - while what he did was arguably immoral - it certainly wasn't illegal. And (despite him continuing to maintain publicly that he and Mrs Stevens were only "talking" in the toilet) the fact that they were caught meant that nobody was ever going to believe that he hadn't done it.
I reckon AL has a (slim) chance of coming through this. If he puts enough pressure on the Saints, and doesn't get charged, he might end up playing for another club next season (I reckon this season is a write-off).
Sadly, I assume that we will be paying for the pleasure of watching him run around in someone else's colours. Such is life.
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
