Sam Newman, Garry Lyon face Supreme Court grilling in Susan Alberti defamation suit

[Remi Moses]

It's got nothing to do with standing up for rights of women.

They called her a liar and a hypocrite and that she was not qualified to be on a football club board, all of which were wrong.

All she wanted was an apology. Today she got her apology and $220,000 for her troubles.

Bingo ! We have a winner. it really was a childish idiotic comment from Newman,but then again he does have a reputation to uphold

[bornadog]

So it's not okay for Newman to say that women are useless on a footy board, and that Alberti et al. were liars and a hypocrites, but your broad sweeping statement is okay ... mmm

Exactly, and not sure why you are sticking up for some one like Sam Newman who was clearly in the wrong.

Can't stand the bloke, he can't put two words together that are coherant. The guy is a dinosaur some one from the past when women were not treated as equals (still cases of this) and were the brunt of male jokes.

[Topdog]

Thats a rather sweeping statement. $220k is a fair whack though but really if you think about costs of lawyers and the courts plus negative publicity they may have figured that is a good break even point for them.

I'm disappointed in Sue with this though. For those saying she has won and is standing up for the "minority" I pose this question.

If it was about standing up for the rights of women, why do you settle out of court meaning the smallest amount of publicity possible? Basically this had 2 days news coverage which means very little publicity and very little standing up for the little people.

After the articles today I am satisfied that she got what she was after. I retract the above statement....

[boydogs]

$220k settlement, and $500k in legal fees before the case started. Something is wrong with this picture. The lawyers seem to be the ones profiting here, it is unfortunate this was the means selected to make a point