The difference is the history that LGBT people have had to endure vs "adulterers, liars, atheists". you've never felt unsafe because you lied or got drunk, or felt like you couldn't be out in public drunk.

Iain Watson has been up in arms this last few weeks as Catalan have been trying to tap-up a couple of Salford's forwards a few weeks before the start of the season. They are morally bankrupt as an organisation, so signing Folau will be no skin off their noses.

And they will reap what they sow on that front. They are morally bankrupt, and that’s why their culture as an organisation and team is dreadful, and that’s why, regardless of how much they spend and who they sign, they’re going nowhere fast in terms of success.

Leave them to it.....

As I said the Hypocrisy runs deep.

explain how it's hypocritical.

It's strange how Union dont want him, the NRL wont touch with a barge pole and yet, Catalan are happy to take him on.
If he'd posted the same things about a different group say, blacks or Jews etc, there would have been an international outcry and rightly so.

The analogy against other "criminals" in our game is a little different.

In the modern world, you just cannot say the kind of stuff that he tweeted, especially if you are a public figure.

Just look at the characters who come into the sport. We've had wife beaters ffs. Their was no pitchforks out demanding they not be allowed to play.

If people don't want Izzy in the game so be it but don't upset about that yet criminal convictions are ok.

Robert Lui was released from the Tigers for beating up his wife and then made SL his home? You cool with that?

Great signing for Catalan. Players have done lot worse stuff then him and have been welcome to play.

Izzy should be allowed to play in Super League.

You can't allow players who have beat up there wives or girlfriends to play while refusing Izzy.

The RFL knew they could not stop this.

NRL clubs did want him just the NRL wouldn't register him.

Bad behaviour didnt damage this guys career; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/spor ... -case.html Didn't Izzy win his case against the ARL?

Bad behaviour didnt damage this guys career; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/spor ... -case.html Didn't Izzy win his case against the ARL?

Quote ="Exiled down south"Bad behaviour didnt damage this guys career; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/spor ... -case.html Didn't Izzy win his case against the ARL?'" We're back to, if you can play, we will forget any misdemeanors

Quote ="Exiled down south"Bad behaviour didnt damage this guys career; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/spor ... -case.html Didn't Izzy win his case against the ARL?'" We're back to, if you can play, we will forget any misdemeanors

Lui didn't say everyone should beat their wife, or that all women deserve a beating (which is, in effect, what Folau said about homosexuals)

I have asked this question before, how is hitting a woman any worse than hitting a man?, violence is violence.

using a phrase like "you cool with that" is letting that mask slip.

Only a crass RLfans poster would link to an article about a man who has just died, along with 8 others (including his daughter)

All the expansionists defending this signing, what a surprise.

How long before a French RU club sign him on big money?

It's not but I don't buy someone inflicting violence on an innocent party is somehow more tolerable than words someone used.

Come on, that has nothing to do with this discussion and by bringing expansion into the argument, you are deliberately or otherwise, deflecting the heat from the issue.
Catalan have signed numerous "bad boys" but, to argue in favour or against expansion based on this is just ridiculous.

A good post.

It was an observation, those defending the signing of this homophobe also seem to be pro Toronto.

What odds would I get for Catalans to beat Wigan in the Grand final and Folou to score the winning try?

you are entitled to your opinion, the morality of it is something for you to wrestle with yourself.

What odds would you like cos, that isn't going to happen

I think it's a safer bet that when he receives less than warm welcomes on his travels and the Dragons choke it again this season, that he'll be unable to help himself and say something again.

In fact, they've put in a cast iron get out clause for him by saying that his contract is void if anything occurs. I can see him exercising that in the future if all doesn't go according to his plan.

Are you for real, go on then where was the prosecution? What an idiotic comment.

I hope 10k extra people come to the KCOM when he plays against Hull just to boo him