petef
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Post by petef on Sept 20, 2024 11:31:26 GMT
Makes sense. I would imagine Austen has just been turning up for training, trying to keep fit and sharp but just going through he motions.Likeley cleaning the changing rooms and knocking off boots etc as he was still being paid no doubt and taking a valuable squad wage.
Not an ideal situation for either party. Hopefully he can return next year and try again, learn a hard lesson and be a better person for the experience.
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Post by plainmoorpete on Sept 20, 2024 16:24:50 GMT
I don't think he would have been training with the club at present as these type of bans usually prohibit the player from having any type of involvement with the football side at all.
I actually feel sorry for the lad, he actually paid money out of his own pocket to play for the club and has suffered for a youthful indiscretion. Hope there is a way back for him.
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Post by stig123 on Sept 20, 2024 20:14:11 GMT
Totally agree plainmoorpete.....hope he is able to move on from this and have a successful career.
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Post by stig123 on Sept 27, 2024 6:49:50 GMT
Interesting article in the Guardian today. 29,000 advertisements aired in the first week of the PL season.
Addiction is a health issue. I do not think handing out long bans to players who place bets solves the problem.
Time for a rethink.
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Rags
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Post by Rags on Sept 27, 2024 8:42:03 GMT
Interesting article in the Guardian today. 29,000 advertisements aired in the first week of the PL season. Addiction is a health issue. I do not think handing out long bans to players who place bets solves the problem. Time for a rethink. Excerpt: "The former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith, who co-chairs a group of MPs examining gambling-related harm, said it was now time for Labour to step in, rather than allowing football clubs to draw up their own regulations.
He said: “This appalling evidence shows us that … the industry could not be trusted to regulate itself. Sadly, the regulators are toothless and as a result we are all being flooded with adverts that the vast majority of us do not want to see. Enough is enough. This government and the Gambling Commission must act swiftly to deliver regulation capable of meaningfully reducing exposure to gambling advertising and help save lives.”
The Lib Dem peer Don Foster, chair of Peers for Gambling Reform, said the University of Bristol findings had exposed the “woeful inadequacies” of self-regulation and called on the government to step in and reform gambling advertising rules." |
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Post by stig123 on Sept 27, 2024 18:23:42 GMT
Thanks rags. The issue certainly needs to be addressed. I would welcome government intervention...although concerned about the probable timeline.
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Post by plainmoorpete on Oct 9, 2024 12:50:48 GMT
It has been reported by a reliable source on another forum that Austin has left to start a new life in Perth, Australia.
Best of luck to him.
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