No points scoring at all,just replied to a previous post.

A thread to discuss Jason Crookes, fair enough, but to compare it to Travis Burns (which happened on the rugby field) is slightly pathetic & only started to insight a tit for tat battle.



To all the Hull fans responding with the Cooke & Cockayne comments, just leave it, don't lower yourselves to arguing with such a blatant troll.





Anyway, IMO, get rid of the guy. I don't want blokes like that representing Hull. I'm not sure what AP means by saying he was 'harshly dealt with'?

I must confess I am a bit confused and disturbed as to why AP thinks Crookes has been harshly treated. All sounds a bit shady with Radders sending 25 text messages to the father!!



Crookes should be sacked simple as that for me.

I dont think he has been un fairly treated. Like I said. Fairness would be giving his squad number to someone more deserved. I.e youth player or young championship player

Playing devils advocate.



What would AP get out of sacking Crookes?



We need a winger with Lineham injured, we need on for next season if Briscoe goes.



Should the RFL step in if we did sack him, refusing to let him play for a year? Otherwise we get penalised while an other club can strengthen?

I don't think you'll find there are grounds for sacking him, even if we wanted to.

Not after he beat up that bloke you didn't, he was given a few chances.



He should be sacked, keeping him is setting a bad example to the young fans, it would be a blow, but its the right thing to do.

Really? I'd have thought they'd be a few.

Depends what his contract says (obviously).

To keep him just because lineham is injured is for the wrong reason. But I agree this is why ap has stood by crookes. Give him the best chance possible in the cc.

Most businesses would use the grounds 'bringing the business into disrepute', this covers court cases (usually excludes minor driving offences)

Wouldn't it also count as gross misconduct?

He has been convicted for assulting a woman and IMO should be sacked.



Unless the club / AP comes out and tells us why he has been harshly dealt with then that's all we have to go on

That can be a tricky one in a case like this, since he never ted some-one in the work place and his actions took place outside his working hours, so not subject to internal disciplinary, however once dealt with in a court of law it can then be dealt with in the work place via bringing the business into disrepute.