If he was such a bully would he really be retained and would the players want to play for him? Theres a lot more to this than what has been volunteered outwards
When the rest of the league and the media is pushing for maximum punishment then thats you need to push back, not to cave in. Nobody is going to help the club or show any pity when they seek to benefit from the outcome
I've long been a big fan of Adam Blackmore and enjoyed his commentary but I do think he has let himself down a bit and massively overreacted to this whole episode.
I'm in favour of keeping him. The spying was a terrible idea and a badly executed one but the punishment has been disproportionate and the media have blown the whole thing up bigger than it needed to be.
Zooming out a bit reg 3.4 and the rule of "acting with utmost good faith" is a strange one. Obviously spying on an opponent before a game is going to breach that but what else is considered not acting with utmost good faith in a sporting context? You can probably find instances each and every match of people not acting with utmost good faith. Are those going to warrant point deductions? What are the guidelines?
Isn't a better anecdote that the burglar is being given a 20 years sentence instead of an earlier burglar being given 6 months? Not a debate whether or not the burglar is guilty or not.