SMH once again sticking it to League

[Chook Norris]

League's Annus Horribilis

Stewart, Bird and Fai: what a year it was ....

Why do they feel the need to repeat the past discprencies of the year? it's already been done to death.. obviously there is an agenda out there in the media

http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/20...lis/index.html

[Cockadoodledoo]

Why do they feel the need to repeat the past discprencies of the year? it's already been done to death.. obviously there is an agenda out there in the media

http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/20...lis/index.html

All funded by the AFL no doubt.

[Chook Norris]

All funded by the AFL no doubt.

Jacquelin Magnay really is a f**ng disgrace, the way she bags out the NRL and 'helps' other codes..

[Hawkeye]

It's not all that surprising is it ?
You've had Fevola drunk and carrying on like a public d*ckhead, and there was another player (can't recall the name) who was busted for assaulting a cabbie the day after
...... guess they need something to deflect the bad AFL publicity this week !

[Chook Norris]

and then recently.. Danny fukhead Weidler comes up with an 'exclusive-all revealing' interview with Reni Maitua.. like we didn't know what happened

Now today:

Manly star Brett Stewart has case to answer over sex assault charges, lawyers admit


MANLY rugby league star Brett Stewart will face a committal hearing early next year as his lawyers conceded in a Sydney court he does have a case to answer.

Stewart, 24, has already pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent and one count of indecent assault.

The charges relate to an incident after the club’s season launch in North Manly on March 6 this year, just 48 hours after the NRL launched its $1million advertising campaign in which Stewart starred.

Stewart’s lawyers were back before the Downing Centre Local Court this morning to discuss witnesses for a committal hearing, which will take place on February 4 next year.

However by agreement with the DPP solicitor Fiona Gray, there will be just one witness at the hearing – the alleged victim’s treating psychiatrist.

Stewart’s barrister Clive Steirn SC told the court the committal hearing would contain a concession by the defence that there was “a prima facie case” on the set of allegations to be tendered in a statement of facts by the DPP.

“There is a case to answer,” Mr Steirn said.

However his client would vehemently deny the allegations and defend the case at trial.

A number of other procedural issues relating to the subpoena of medical records were set to be worked out in the intervening months.

Magistrate Jane Culver adjourned the case for a mention in October.

Stewart would not be required to attend court until the one-day committal hearing on February 4.

as if there isn't a case to answer at this stage..
if there was no case to answer, no 'ammunition' whatsoeva, then nothing would've been made of it.. great timing, Gf week, Telecrap.

[stephenj]

doesnt matter , manly are also rans like us?