Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
You need to look at it a different way. He is publicly backing his player and sending a message to umpires and other teams as well.

He is limited in what he can say against the umpires, but his message has been sent. Calling him a sook by the MSM just shows we have a real problem in society. These people are out of control.
How does half answering the question and pulling back half way help achieve anything for us or Naughton?

The professional way would be to escalate this with the umpires and follow the process that is in place.
I have no problems if he goes in full bore but his 'half in' approach is inviting the criticism fair or unwarranted.
I don't definitely agree that he is a sook as the reporting indicates but he opened the door there.
It's not new news that the journo's are going to blow up a story if you give them a chance but calling him a sook isn't right.