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Rupert Guiness' article lamented that Pulver wasn't able to compel KB (Kurtley Beale) to do an interview with them after the hearing or on the Saturday when Rebecca Wilson painted KB (Kurtley Beale) as Nelson Mandela. Perhaps the problem isn't with everyone else?

I see GPS has approached Andy Tucker (Uni coach back in early 00s) to see if he's interested in returning to coaching

I dunno, I kinda miss the victim blaming, Fairfax. Christ, get some muckrakers onto this- SURELY there's a Today Tonight-style insurance scam in her past, or something she did at the turn of the millennium. I mean, I'm sure the muckrakers have been looking for hints/evidence of an...

Well you can just knock me over with a feather! Fairfax continuing their call for blood of Ewen McKenzie? Sure it makes a nice change from their previous strategy of discrediting Patston, but I'm starting to think all this talk of player unrest and the bigger problem is a way of deflecting the...

I'd argue that the second (known at this stage) incident took the first from an isolated incident to a pattern; both caused public embarrassment with workmates.

With Beale's history and the described offensiveness of the text messages, and their apparent breach of Australian telecommunications law AND the ARU Member Protection Policy, there was a chance for mediation, do you? If those had come out then he'd have been sacked then - on what appears to be...

Agreed Tomikin - stinks to the high heavens of other players involved. Surely.....no....it couldn't be....but....maybe....not that's crazy...... but just maybe the other players were senior players who have been feeding a story to Fairfax to protect their own arses?

Perhaps the answer to that was in KB (Kurtley Beale)'s text: sometimes he just does stupid stuff for no reason.

Hmmmm his words don't really speak to growing unrest from a year ago either - he notes how much she does for the team etc. Could it be that the team unrest has more to do with losing a lot than with a cursed female? Remember that we're taking Fairfax's word for the player unrest and thus far...

Aaahhh remember back to the Dublin incident when we were all up in arms about lack of process, and no transparency, and a rushed decision? Those were the days. Remember the outcry for process and protocol? Remember RUPA spanking McKenzie for his actions? Welcome to the ARU MemberProtection...

And his teammates who received the message & said nothing? Patston would've been in very early days working with the team, and the first female to hold the role. Welcome to the Wallabies.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/rugby/picture-of-obese-woman-at-the-centre-of-text-message-scandal-involving-wallaby-kurtley-beale/story-fndpt9s1-1227087653405 After all the 'senior players' and 'we understand' and 'inside sources' I must say it's refreshing reading something concrete with names...

I'm not shocked his manager stuck up for his own client; it's his job. I am shocked this warrants the front sport page of the SMH.

The full document outlining process, scope etc is available online. Google ARU Member Protection 2014 and you'll find it.

Seriously? Checking qualifications on a website I swear no one uses to proactively discredit the qualifications of a non-player performing a role that most equates to a role where no former (or current at Super Rugby level) holder of that role has EVER held a qualification beyond being male? And...

Not everything is sinister. I'd say she was given two versions and chose the one of those who have always given her good stuff in the past, or the version that was going to alienate fewer people that she otherwise had to see on an almost daily basis. Must be tricky trying to extricate herself...

Those text messages were sent to teammates. There was a culture in a workplace where those teammates have then spoken to media (bravely enough not on the record...) assuring the media that Patston brought this on herself (essentially). And they swallowed it. Imagine staying on tour knowing...

Option B is that the text messages came up in the course of investigating the first incident. But that option isn't nearly sinister enough to fit in these pages.

This should answer questions. http://www.rugby.com.au/Portals/18/Files/Administration/Policies/Member%20Protection/Member%20Protection%20Policy%202014.pdf The processes were reviewed in conjunction with RUPA, I believe and this doc developed after the Dublin incident when we were all...

Ok, when Dismal Pillock has the most sensical post on a page, armageddon is nigh.