Official Andrew Fifita

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Now we are premeriers I hope we take a leaf out of other powerhouse clubs books in the future, if crisis strikes no matter how big or small just go into lock down, offer no comment until due process has been followed, just stick flanno or lyall out there to reinforce our due process stance. And tell the players no comment is no comment 5k fine for any sentenced offered to a jorno without the clubs consent.
if it's one glaring thing we should have learnt in our 1st 50 years is to stop making rash media friendly decision even if they appear to be well founded, just go through the process dot the I's and cross the T's.
Toddy deserved the ass he gave up Putting in for his mates, if you believe the stories, how in hells name we now owe him some sort of compensation is laughable but due to bumblings understandable.
 
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Thresher Shark said:
But Sparkles, your arguments seem to imply that he's always shooting his mouth off and talking to the media. Which he is not.
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I don't mean to... I just felt that when i heard him speak in The interview, it was a bit of a glimpse into his... naivety? He's like a little kid always getting into trouble and doesn't understand why. I find it a bit sad to be honest. I like the big lug, but he had to begin understanding how much more there is to footy than just playing.
 
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Sparkles said:
I don't mean to... I just felt that when i heard him speak in The interview, it was a bit of a glimpse into his... naivety? He's like a little kid always getting into trouble and doesn't understand why. I find it a bit sad to be honest. I like the big lug, but he had to begin understanding how much more there is to footy than just playing.
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I get where you are coming from, imo, Fifs doesn't do himself any favours the way he conducts himself, whether that be naivety, lack of common sense, being a scally wag or whatever, I genuinely don't think 99% of the time he means no harm or malice in his comments but the media know how to twist things to suit the story agenfa etc.

I have said for a while, I really hope both the club & his manager are helping him out with some education, support etc as most of the media are germs who will continue to use him as story material whenever its a slow news day.
 
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Bundy Shark said:
I get where you are coming from, imo, Fifs doesn't do himself any favours the way he conducts himself, whether that be naivety, lack of common sense, being a scally wag or whatever, I genuinely don't think 99% of the time he means no harm or malice in his comments but the media know how to twist things to suit the story agenfa etc.

I have said for a while, I really hope both the club & his manager are helping him out with some education, support etc as most of the media are germs who will continue to use him as story material whenever its a slow news day.
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Do you mean the comments in his Fox interview? If not, which ones?
 
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"[Loveridge's] parents rang Andrew because Andrew knew him, their son was in jail, was depressed and thinking about committing suicide himself," the statement said. "Andrew went and visited him with another person on the request of his family. Now he has a wife and family at home wondering each day when a decision will happen on his future."

The mere suggestion or even hint of Andrew's contract being torn up still absolutely bamboozles me - his doomsayers are off their heads
I would rather be in the trenches with someone like Andrew (who is far from a perfect person) than alot of the knob heads in the media and at NRL HQ. They would knife ya in the back and run away as soon as they got the chance

Andrew supported a friend in serious need while contingently struggling with his own demons - he wore an armband in support of that very same friend who is at his lowest point
He didn't support the crime or invalidate the victims family's grief

The armband was a misjudgment for a professional athlete in the public view, but one that he only expected a few people to understand the meaning behind
If the cops don't come up with anything on him in regards to consorting, the phone call in prison ect it will just further highlight how irresponsible the media and NRL are. They want players to be accountable without displaying any of their own.

Anything more than a caution/small fine from the NRL will be a disgrace to the concept of fairness.

Hang in there Fifs and keep pulling on that Black, White & Blue jersey
 
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Andrew has done nothing wrong supporting him and he shouldn't be persecuted for it. However, considering the circumstances he should have done it on the down low.

Andrew has invited this scrutiny into his life. If he wants to publicise a friendship on national TV then you have to wear the public response. Real friendships don't require publicity IMO.
 
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CrankyShark said:
Andrew has done nothing wrong supporting him and he shouldn't be persecuted for it. However, considering the circumstances he should have done it on the down low.

Andrew has invited this scrutiny into his life. If he wants to publicise a friendship on national TV then you have to wear the public response. Real friendships don't require publicity IMO.
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He didn't publicise it. Not one bit.
 
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One bloke (Penrith player maybe, can't remember) wrote 'JESUS' on his forearm strapping a few weeks after the whole farce had started.
I wonder if he'll be crucified for that too.

The media had their outrage, sold papers and ad space. The club didn't do anything stupid for once (i.e. suspend or worse sack Fifita).
We're the Premiers. Let this thing die down, please. It doesn't serve anyone's interest anymore.
 
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You don't exactly need the Enigma Machine to decode the FKL message but unless someone had spelt it out to a media hack no one would have known.

If they want to dig dirt on someone because they give good returns for click bait they will.

And once they've created a click bait star they won't leave them alone.

If the click bait star does nothing wrong the hacks will make something up.

No wonder he was at the end of his tether (according to the click bait hacks).
 
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3 letters and no one knew what the **** it meant and no one even questioned it for months. What a public statement.
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So he kept it up until people started asking what it meant?

The idea that people should be abandoned because they are in gaol and have no right to friendship or redemption is not something in accordance with my personal beliefs at all. Kieran Loveridge can never undo what he has done but he will be out sooner rather than later and needs to be a normal citizen and be accepted as such or it will be more of the same.

Regarding Andrew, flaunting friendships on national TV, esoteric or otherwise is going to attract attention. He drew attention to himself and he needs to suck it up. If he was supporting Kieren privately and he was outed on national TV then I would be outraged. He did it in public and he drew the public's attention, that is on him.
 
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Well he didn't really do anything illegal. What he did was incredibly stupid, but not illegal.

I'm all for supporting your mate and everything, but when your mate is a convicted murderer and your a public figure who, lets face it, was already an easy target for click bait journos due to his idiocy regarding the junior refs, you simply have to have some sort of common sense that tells you maybe it's better to support him in private, not scrawl three letters on your wrist tape that everybody can see. Go visit the grub in jail and support him that way, talk to him and help him work through his issues in private. But when you've got the public profile that Fifita has, you can't be seen supporting a convicted killer, the media were always going to eat him alive for this purely for who he is. No, it's not fair that he's a target due to his past but that's the world we live in, he's got to either adapt or get out of the spotlight.

I think he just needs to be sat down and get drummed in his head about having common sense. It'll be a crime if the NRL bow to public pressure and hand him a heavy punishment.

I'm still disgusted that he was denied the Churchill medal on what was essentially, for the lack of a better word, political grounds. That medal was intended for the best on ground in the Grand Final, that's it, it shouldn't be used as a political tool to get the public onside.

I really hope he smartens up and keep himself out of the papers for a bit. Eventually the media will move onto new targets.
 
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