I hope for the lads sake the case isn't as it is being reported but doesnt look good does it

What do you care? You've condemned him already in an earlier post.

Your argument is still completely irrelevant, as always.

Has the player been proven guilty? Sentenced?
If not, why should other parties be implicated in the matter? What does it have to do with them?

got nothing to do with timing this paper has a vendetta against the club for years, it will not print anything of a positive nature and I would give two hoots if the publishers went bust.

not bought it for years and never will

On the contrary Snowmiester. I would give 2 hoots if the whole sorry disgrace of a waste of rain forest went bust.
No your right , I would give a million hoots.

I believe that they have caused more harm than good with this story, when this goes to court mr johnson`s representative will say that he has been sentenced by the media & probably get it thrown out of court. Not much justice for the victim !

Have your say with the express,let them know how you feel,my e-mail's on it's way,bombard the paper!!

FFS!

Lol

What a sordid, nasty little cabal of anti-Wakefield tosspots runs our local rag; it's clear that they revel in denigrating the city and for some reason, reserve the worst of their gutter press aspirations for our only professional sports team.

We all have a responsibility to boycott the paper and to bombard the editor with complaints about their blatant editorial agenda against WTW; it's a total disgrace.

In the interest in balance i do agree there has to be some publicity re: this but. Timing and FRONT PAGE!! maybe an article on the back pages would have been more appropriate.

You have to be joking though. with all the positivity and a club saved and they write about one young player who has signed and as yet not been convicted.

Very poor and i buy every week but i will avoid now.

How much paper do you think they will dedicate to printing an apology if he is found not guilty?

If the story is true we can hardly complain, we are trying to get the folk of wakefield behind us by promoting ourselves as a family club. If true the cowardly act is despicable and the person concerned should not be at our club. Imagine if the girl involved was your daughter what would be your feelings then ?

If he is convicted then he will no longer be at the club, he will be behind bars.

The club did sign him in full knowledge of the baggage behind him so can't be too surprised at this headline, no matter how sensationalist it is. Perhaps they should've waited till the after the hearing before moving in. Of course Huddersfield might not have been wanting to get rid if he was found not guilty.

Why the heck not? No-one is saying don't run the story - but we're grateful just to have a club right now and yet one negative story, about someone not even from Wakey, and it's on the front page FFS!

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

Until the lad is charged and tried maybe we should all keep our oppinions to ourselves including the Wakefield Express.

It's the front page thing that gets my goat, and the way the headline is put. Judgement by media is not acceptable.

The story is true as the Express have reported as in a girl was glassed and Johnson has been arrested for it. The important bit is whether he is guilty or not. I totally agree that what has happened to this girl is disgusting and terrible. I think we crossed the line of being a 'family club' a good while ago regarding the players that we sign and the behaviour of players on our books. Would be interesting to know where people think the line should be drawn on players who have broken the law ect.

As to the Express is not the fact that they have printed this story it is the fact that it is on the front page and that it comes on the back of a hugely positive and important week for the club.

You're missing the point; the player hasn't been convicted of anything and on the week that the club has been saved from administration, it seems reasonable to expect that Wakefields local paper would show some support for its only pro sports team; this didn't need to be front page news. I don't think that view conflicts with feeling sympathy for the victim and her family and wanting to see justice done.

On a side note - if every player with a questionable incident in his past was kept out of our 'family' game, the pool of available players would shrink quite significantly wouldn't it?

The article printed on the front cover as a lot of you have previously said will always be the one that sells the most "rags". Everything in life is down to money and stats and calculated risks. Wakefield when signing said player decided the pro's far outweighed the con's, whereas the Express decided that by running the story they would sell to more individuals than they would alienate. However, It is understandable that so many of you feel aggrieved with the momentous week you have had in light of the last few months!!

Let’s hope that you carry on getting the plaudits from other media sources (maybe even the Pont n Cas . . . who knows) . . .



Good luck for the season and with the successful re-building of the club!!

and that has to come from the tv media which is more noticeable

I think we were a family club the trouble was it was a family of Richardsons

that I see again in the letters page Feline has thanked but that is her view and I respect that.
The problem I have with this article is that it's Huddersfield news I don't expect to buy a Normanton edition of the express and read whats gone on in Huddersfield

Yes but it became Wakefield's news once they bought the player!! In regards to TV coverage I really do hope that the current wrestling over TV rights will bring about greater coverage as it is ridiculous that our great sport gets so little.

Anyway back on topic . . . I do not believe that the great work been done at Trin will be undone by a single "sensationalist" story!!!