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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 681870" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>To be honest I'm just glad this ridiculous storm in a tea cup is over... I won't go over it all again, as I think dasNdanger has summed up the reality of the situation perfectly, but I will say that people do need to get off their high horses on this one and accept it's not a simple case of "Beale's a c##t and it's all sexism". Was there sexism? Sure, but that doesn't mean that Patston's character should be beyond rebuke. This is afterall an individual who tried to sue the Qld local government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for emotional stress because she suffered a spider bite at work. </p><p></p><p>Now, I know that's got nothing to do with this case in particular, but it is relevant when trying to form a picture of her character, and frankly along with the strange circumstances around her "qualifications" and experience - which das is right in saying were put oddly and incorrectly for a job that apparently requires none - do suggest her character was at least questionable. </p><p></p><p>Ironically, if she'd have been a bloke and something like this had happened all this stuff about background wouldn't be dismissed as mere "sexism", but a rightful investigation of the other party involved.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day though, as a massive NRL fan I just think the fall-out from this mostly reflects on the huge gap in management skills between Union and League in this country. This whole affair was rank amateur hour bulls##t from the Wallabies management - Patston, Link and Doyle - and just terrible oversight and brand management from the ARU. To me THAT's the story of this whole affair; that a couple mean texts and an argument over T-Shirts on a pre-dawn flight to a country where no-one has heard of Rugby was managed in a way that was so incompetent, so lacking in transparency and urgency, that it was allowed not just to drag on for months, but to cost effectively the entire Wallabies coaching set-up their jobs.</p><p></p><p>Now, I was a big fan of Link, but this is very much on him and Pulver, and it the entire thing has been profoundly disappointing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 681870, member: 12207"] To be honest I'm just glad this ridiculous storm in a tea cup is over... I won't go over it all again, as I think dasNdanger has summed up the reality of the situation perfectly, but I will say that people do need to get off their high horses on this one and accept it's not a simple case of "Beale's a c##t and it's all sexism". Was there sexism? Sure, but that doesn't mean that Patston's character should be beyond rebuke. This is afterall an individual who tried to sue the Qld local government for hundreds of thousands of dollars for emotional stress because she suffered a spider bite at work. Now, I know that's got nothing to do with this case in particular, but it is relevant when trying to form a picture of her character, and frankly along with the strange circumstances around her "qualifications" and experience - which das is right in saying were put oddly and incorrectly for a job that apparently requires none - do suggest her character was at least questionable. Ironically, if she'd have been a bloke and something like this had happened all this stuff about background wouldn't be dismissed as mere "sexism", but a rightful investigation of the other party involved. At the end of the day though, as a massive NRL fan I just think the fall-out from this mostly reflects on the huge gap in management skills between Union and League in this country. This whole affair was rank amateur hour bulls##t from the Wallabies management - Patston, Link and Doyle - and just terrible oversight and brand management from the ARU. To me THAT's the story of this whole affair; that a couple mean texts and an argument over T-Shirts on a pre-dawn flight to a country where no-one has heard of Rugby was managed in a way that was so incompetent, so lacking in transparency and urgency, that it was allowed not just to drag on for months, but to cost effectively the entire Wallabies coaching set-up their jobs. Now, I was a big fan of Link, but this is very much on him and Pulver, and it the entire thing has been profoundly disappointing. [/QUOTE]
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