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But what did he do to deserve being locked up for a year?

Lloyd

'There's none more blind
 than them that won't listen' - Del Boy,
                                Only Fools and Horses

Linda A.

Is this harsh or not? I don't know.

That is the story as reported in the paper anyway. We'll miss him, he's a
decent lad really - totally out of character.

Mike

Lloyd

Lloyd

'There's none more blind
 than them that won't listen' - Del Boy,
                                Only Fools and Horses

My, as well as most other Wigan fans thoughts, are not only with the victim
of this incident (who it sounds like will suffer for the rest of his life)
but also for Jon who is now serving a sentence that will serve him and
nobody else any good.

Andy Law

Dee

Cheers,
Shark.

The last thing you want to do is send out the wrong message to people - that
it's OK to go and punch someone - you'll get away with it. I don't believe
that someone should be made an example of (and I trust the law wouldn't do
this just because it is a high profile case), but this does serve a good
example to kids in the town that going out and getting pissed then smacking
someone in the gob is not acceptable behaviour and it will be severely
punished.

Again, I don't know how these things work, but I wouldn't be surprised to
see him out sooner rather than later with good behaviour inside or what
ever. Hopefully his time inside will be a humbling experience. The club has
had the guts to stick by him and when he gets out, they'll give him another
chance to get his life on track. I hope he uses that chance wisely. It would
have been easy for them to wash their hands of him, but I think they've
showed a mature attitude to this by sticking by him. I think they would have
said goodbye if he was a known trouble maker, so the reports of the incident
being out of character and alchohol induced must be somewhere near the mark.
But what better example is there of a young lad in this sort of situation
than Ellery Hanley. Hopefully he'll follow the same track.

The report I read said that Clarke and his victim have come to a
reconciliation over what happened and the bloke holds no bad feeling towards
Clarke.

Cheers,

Andrew.

The chap he hit will not be right after 18 months and while I doubt
that was Clarkes desired result you can't just expect to walk away
just because you did not mean it.

Dave
--

Wigan Warriors RLFC - 1998 Super League Champions
(Oh - and Grand Final winners as well)

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I do think however to give him 18 months electronic tagging could have
been a better deal, for all concerned, stopped him going out and he
could have earnt some money to pay as compensation.

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TM