The long bow about the Rebels improving Beale's character is one I wouldn't be drawing. Yes, I think he should have been shunted at that time and the game since then would have been in a much better place.
So we're back to square one, and it's really just all Beale's fault. Gotcha.
I just don't agree - players like him are a symptom of a problem, not the cause. If it was all him, then squad members wouldn't be leaking like the Labor Party before Rudd got the job back.
If "management" wasn't included in the matter in the first instance it can't be held to be poor management.
The victim was a key member of management, and therefore the matter is emphatically related to management. Beale certainly had no authority here, and the matter should never have been dealt with behind closed doors. Just because the victim is part of management doesn't mean the fall-out from the issue is suddenly then not related to management, and in fact I honestly can't understand how anyone could think it isn't.
I don't mind at all if Rugby upholds higher standards than other football codes.
And now you just sound delusional. No offence, but right now the image of Australian rugby isn't one of upholding "higher standers than other football codes"; it's become the symbol for the lowest.
