Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:45 pm  

Its about as racist as calling Jack Tordoff the car man or that guy that sold beds the bed man as far as I'm concerned. Stewie would have something to say about it though.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:56 pm  

Billybob1 wrote:

Fair point Highlander. Hopefully they will dual reg and along with what remains maybe things will pan out.

Noy sure what will happen next year with DR. Don't SL teams have to run reserve teams next year anyway.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:57 pm  

Bulls4Champs wrote:

Its about as racist as calling Jack Tordoff the car man or that guy that sold beds the bed man as far as I'm concerned. Stewie would have something to say about it though.

Yeah I'm not one to defend Pestegg and anything that may have got "them" kicked off here would have been ok with me, but I tend to agree with you (to a point). It's what Omar is known for, I don't think the comment was to do with his ethnicity.
That being said, I don't know why you'd refer to him as the curry man, but the other two by their names (why "Green" instead of "security guy"). That bit felt wrong. It's not like his name is hard to spell.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:14 pm  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Yeah I'm not one to defend Pestegg and anything that may have got "them" kicked off here would have been ok with me, but I tend to agree with you (to a point). It's what Omar is known for, I don't think the comment was to do with his ethnicity.
That being said, I don't know why you'd refer to him as the curry man, but the other two by their names (why "Green" instead of "security guy"). That bit felt wrong. It's not like his name is hard to spell.

I hear ya. Good point well made.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:19 pm  

Just noticed this in the RL statement:
“This means the ELEMENT of special measures that restricts the registration of player contracts has been lifted”( my emphasis)
Does anyone know which ,if any, other special measures remain?

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:26 pm  

DILLIGAF wrote:

Yeah I'm not one to defend Pestegg and anything that may have got "them" kicked off here would have been ok with me, but I tend to agree with you (to a point). It's what Omar is known for, I don't think the comment was to do with his ethnicity.
That being said, I don't know why you'd refer to him as the curry man, but the other two by their names (why "Green" instead of "security guy"). That bit felt wrong. It's not like his name is hard to spell.

Yep that's the bit I fundamentally disagreed with. It's the fact two can be called by their surname yet one is implied as just the curry man.

What if Marc Green had only been made reference to by his religion (everyone knows Green was Jewish)... would that have been acceptable?

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:27 pm  

Bullnorthern wrote:

Just noticed this in the RL statement:
“This means the ELEMENT of special measures that restricts the registration of player contracts has been lifted”( my emphasis)
Does anyone know which ,if any, other special measures remain?

I think they have still to agree to the budget related to the academy (According to Sawyers interview with Matthew Shaw).

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:52 pm  

Pestegg's comment is quite clearly a racial slur. As others have said it is the change in employed language that differentiates the comment as racist. It also doesn't take long to prepare a retraction of said comment. I could do it now:

"I apologise for the misguided comment xyz. It was never intended as a racist comment and the post has now been edited to reflect this. I do not endorse racism in any form".

That would cut it. Pestegg plays by different rules though, apparently. Rules that I personally do not support.

Please get rid of them.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:09 pm  

Bulls4Champs wrote:

Its about as racist as calling Jack Tordoff the car man or that guy that sold beds the bed man as far as I'm concerned. Stewie would have something to say about it though.

I don’t think it’s racist but deliberately inflammatory and like all of pest eggs posts, it was designed to provoke a reaction.

Why not the restaurant bloke and as DILLIGAF said, why is it only Omar who didn’t get his name used?

As others have said, Omar seemed to always have good intentions even if it didn’t end any better. He deserves a hell of a lot more respect than most of the others.

Re: Bulls Takeover : Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:32 pm  

According to John Kear at tonights forum players definite for next year include Jordan Lilley, Rosss Oakes, Steve Crossley, Sam Hallas, Rhys Evans, Joe Brown, Thomas Doyle plus others not yet sorted.