TahDan
Cyril Towers (30)
You conflating multiple issues here.
Anything relevant to Patston's character is completely irrelevant to Kurtley Beale unless somehow you're able to correlate the biting habits of spiders with the sexual harassment perpetrated by a rugby player.
It may be the case that Patston wasn't suited to the role she was put in. It may be the case that she could have handled matters better once they started unfolding. Neither of those things have anything to do with Kurtley Beale.
It is clear that Patston's actions were reasonable for someone who had been sexually harassed.
Those actions might not have been ultimately in her best interests if she wanted to remain employed by the ARU or in the best interests of the ARU in dealing with an issue but that is also irrelevant to what Kurtley Beale did.
All granted. Beale should be gone, and he should have been gone in June.
What's pissed me off about this is that it has been dragged on for months and dragged the game down with it. A story like this should have been open and shut, and the fact that it wasn't is the fault of Patston and McKenzie. It's been managed about as well as ASADA handled the Sharks and Bombers.