SMH, comes to aide an old ally

[Headless Chook]

I couldnt agree more.
Its such a easy mistake to make and yet they wanna take Carney to the gallows and hang him for it.
I say fine him, aa meetings and community service.
I would be very surprised if it is anymore then that.

So you have a big night on the turps and think your blood alcohol level is back to zero a few hours later? I have a bridge I'm trying to sell, you might be interested...gets great tolls and heaps of traffic

[Guest]

I think everyone knows it was a morning after low range reading tough luck thing, but the haters still hate. Phil Rothfield is another class all together. He sees dragon flames and earthquakes here. He wants to rip and tear Carney's arse out. His teeth are biting and he tastes the blood but he's a sad F66k with a hate for The Roosters.

In the end, it won't matter... Good will always triumph over evil.

[supermario]

I think everyone knows it was a morning after low range reading tough luck thing, but the haters still hate. Phil Rothfield is another class all together. He sees dragon flames and earthquakes here. He wants to rip and tear Carney's arse out. His teeth are biting and he tastes the blood but he's a sad F66k with a hate for The Roosters.

In the end, it won't matter... Good will always triumph over evil.

And just to make it clear to ALL...Rothfield is the EVIL ONE !

[Guest]

So you have a big night on the turps and think your blood alcohol level is back to zero a few hours later? I have a bridge I'm trying to sell, you might be interested...gets great tolls and heaps of traffic

I think you should build a bridge before you try selling one...

[Cockadoodledoo]

It led to a charge of sexual assault. At the same function, Watmough punched a sponsor after he was told to stop harassing the man's daughter.
If one of our boys did that they would be crucified.

Which he was found not guilty.. That girl and family have form...

[Headless Chook]

I think you should build a bridge before you try selling one...

I can run with the 'it's an easy mistake to make' line for somebody on a full licence, but to think a guy who's blood alcohol has to be zero has made an 'easy mistake' is just too big a stretch for me. I have an 18yo son who is a P plater and we won't let him drive of a morning after a few drinks. Now you want me to believe that a 25yo heavy drinker thinks he's got no alcohol in his system at 7am the morning after? Please...don't worry about building the bridge....Toddy can just walk straight across the water!

I agree its not the crime of the century like Rothfield and the like have made out, but please, lets not make excuses that Carney doesn't deserve. It wasn't an easy mistake to make, it was just plain, downright stupid!

[Guest]

What did Stewart do? he just got drunk at a club function.. He wouldn't be the last also.

Stewart was found innocent of the charges in court because they played on the girls mental state.

He was as guilty as it gets but was always going to win in a he said she said scenario against her.

The excuses from stewart were remarkable

" i was too drunk too be held responsible"
" i honestly cant remember what happened"
" it was consensual"
" it was a set up "

shit i may just take up drinking and insert a digit in every female i see, then blame the grog or claim she is crazy

[Guest]

Stewart was found innocent of the charges in court because they played on the girls mental state.

He was as guilty as it gets but was always going to win in a he said she said scenario against her.

The excuses from stewart were remarkable

" i was too drunk too be held responsible"
" i honestly cant remember what happened"
" it was consensual"
" it was a set up "

shit i may just take up drinking and insert a digit in every female i see, then blame the grog or claim she is crazy

what complete bullshit - you live in a fantasy world

Stewart never said any of those things

this is what he said

“It was getting dark but you could see very clearly,” Stewart said.

He said he saw a girl dressed in a singlet and shorts near the letterboxes and he guessed she was quite young.

“I would have said she was 13 to 14, she was very short, in a singlet and shorts.”

He described what the girl was wearing as “very weird”.

“I kept walking up, she stopped at the gate as I was going to walk through and said, ‘Are you Brett Stewart?’, I said ‘yes’ and she said ‘I’ve seen you on TV’ and I said “you probably have’.

“It took me by surprise that she was at the gate ... I said what are you doing here and she said ‘smoking’ and I said ‘yuk’.”

Earlier the court had heard Stewart say that he detested cigarettes. “I said what you are doing that for, that’s not good for you.

“She didn’t respond. That’s when she grabbed my arm and said ‘I just want a kiss’.”

Stewart said he backed away from the girl as she pulled him down towards her and tried to kiss him.

“She was very short, I lent back and said ‘I just want to go home, I’ve had a long day’.”

He said the girl left and he continued to wait outside near the letterboxes for about a minute.

“I’ve always been told at the club that if there is a scene stay there and let the dust settle.”

He said he did not know the girl or that she also lived in the complex.

“A larger man came running out the gate and said ‘Is this him?’ and the little girl was behind him and he said ‘Did you touch my daughter?”’

Stewart broke down in the witness box when he was asked what impact the media intrusion had had on his life.

“It’s affected me a fair bit,” he said.

why do you feel the need to just invent bullshit stories?

you're a weirdo

[Andrew Walker]

what complete bullshit - you live in a fantasy world

Stewart never said any of those things

this is what he said

“It was getting dark but you could see very clearly,” Stewart said.

He said he saw a girl dressed in a singlet and shorts near the letterboxes and he guessed she was quite young.

“I would have said she was 13 to 14, she was very short, in a singlet and shorts.”

He described what the girl was wearing as “very weird”.

“I kept walking up, she stopped at the gate as I was going to walk through and said, ‘Are you Brett Stewart?’, I said ‘yes’ and she said ‘I’ve seen you on TV’ and I said “you probably have’.

“It took me by surprise that she was at the gate ... I said what are you doing here and she said ‘smoking’ and I said ‘yuk’.”

Earlier the court had heard Stewart say that he detested cigarettes. “I said what you are doing that for, that’s not good for you.

“She didn’t respond. That’s when she grabbed my arm and said ‘I just want a kiss’.”

Stewart said he backed away from the girl as she pulled him down towards her and tried to kiss him.

“She was very short, I lent back and said ‘I just want to go home, I’ve had a long day’.”

He said the girl left and he continued to wait outside near the letterboxes for about a minute.

“I’ve always been told at the club that if there is a scene stay there and let the dust settle.”

He said he did not know the girl or that she also lived in the complex.

“A larger man came running out the gate and said ‘Is this him?’ and the little girl was behind him and he said ‘Did you touch my daughter?”’

Stewart broke down in the witness box when he was asked what impact the media intrusion had had on his life.

“It’s affected me a fair bit,” he said.

why do you feel the need to just invent bullshit stories?

you're a weirdo

Actaully TOK The I dont remember a thing was reportedly said for some time by Stewart and his legal team as were the other things. From memory it was reported in your paper . Amazingly he did though get his memory when he went to court

[Kingbilly]

why do you feel the need to just invent bullshit stories?

Are we looking at a demarkation dispute here.
You are the last person that should need to ask that question.

[Guest]

Actaully TOK The I dont remember a thing was reportedly said for some time by Stewart and his legal team as were the other things. From memory it was reported in your paper . Amazingly he did though get his memory when he went to court

no Andy, that's incorrect

neither he nor his legal team made any comment about the charges before they went to court, except to say "the charges are denied"

when they got to court, his defense was as I outlined earlier

[elo]

LOL@ToK, that was 11 months after he was charged, ofcourse his "best in the land" legal team had the perfect (and plausible) scenario worked to a treat by then - the issue would have never made it to court if he had stated that from the start, instead he refused to answer questions when charged by the police due to not remembering.

The truth would be somewhere in between, she pashed him then Stewart quickly realised how ****ed up the whole thing was and pushed away which made her mad and lead her to turn it into a sexual assault in the typical woman scorned manner.

[Guest]

LOL@ToK, that was 11 months after he was charged, ofcourse his "best in the land" legal team had the perfect (and plausible) scenario worked to a treat by then - the issue would have never made it to court if he had stated that from the start, instead he refused to answer questions when charged by the police due to not remembering.

The truth would be somewhere in between, she pashed him then Stewart quickly realised how ****ed up the whole thing was and pushed away which made her mad and lead her to turn it into a sexual assault in the typical woman scorned manner.

that's what you reckon happened - maybe you're right

but my point was that Stewart never said

"i was too drunk too be held responsible"

or

"i honestly cant remember what happened"

or

"it was consensual"

or

"it was a set up

[Andrew Walker]

no Andy, that's incorrect

neither he nor his legal team made any comment about the charges before they went to court, except to say "the charges are denied"

when they got to court, his defense was as I outlined earlier

Are you saying what was reportedly said not only in your paper but on national television as well were lies ?

[Guest]

Pity the telecrap didn`t initially report the story like that.
As usual,they had him convicted and hung with their diatribal reporting when the events first happened...