Hasbag wrote:
My opinion is that people only care because Albert Kelly is arguably the best player at a club which is going to be pushing for a top 4 place and challenging for silverware.
Nobody cares about the woman who was offended.
Nobody cares about what "damage" it will do to the sport (let's face it, it will do nothing)
Nobody cares about whether it damages Hull FCs name (as this should only be a concern to Hull fans)
The only reason people are making a huge fuss is because they want one of the league's best players to be banned, weakening Hull FC. And the only reason Rovers fans are putting so much time into it is because 1) it's Albert Kelly, and 2) as a points scoring agenda against Hull FC and their fans, 3) deflecting a bit of attention from one of their players who has failed a drugs test.
Only my opinion, of course.
Agree with much of this. From my perspective, if it had been a less polarising and high profile Hull player, without his history at Rovers and ‘rub their nose in it’ cult status at Hull, the comedy of this drunkeness and lack of professionalism would have been much less. As would the volume of my criticism of the verbal abuse, if not the scale - this as well in part because, knowing it was going to be more low key, I think there’d have been slightly more readiness to more strongly condemn (the ‘i don’t condone’ thing is very obvious when it’s somebody else, but I assume I do it too) from Hull fans.
I think the HDM’s lack of coverage, and Hull FC’s lack of a public statement were surprising and probably have increased the heat a little. However, thinking about it again, it is very difficult to apologise and acknowledge fault nowadays because those statements have become so stereotyped - I was pre-emptively taking the pee early in this thread.
