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Feel bad for Alex how his name got dragged in there.
It is a real shame. Anybody who has spent more than 10 minutes in the company of Alex Twal would know that he is an exceptionally fine and upstanding man. My wife and I had the pleasure of chatting with Alex at a WT function held about 3 years ago at Rose Hill Racecourse. The tigers were playing an away game against the Warriors that weekend but Alex was at the function because he had been ruled out with concussion. Brent Naden was also there because he was serving a suspension.

Alex spent 15 minutes talking with us. He was in a happy headspace having recently become engaged to his fiance. Alex told us how he loved the club and answered all of my questions about the up and coming players coming through the club. My wife generally has a low opinion of footballers, however she said that she was extremely impressed with the way the Alex had conducted himself. Unfortunately the rest of the day turned into a farce but I shan't ramble off topic here.

One of the very first statements Richo made when he joined us was that every club needed players like Alex Twal. He may be softly spoken but there is a real positivity and genuineness about the guy. People need to look at the incident re his brother as just that. An incident involving his brother.
 
It is a real shame. Anybody who has spent more than 10 minutes in the company of Alex Twal would know that he is an exceptionally fine and upstanding man. My wife and I had the pleasure of chatting with Alex at a WT function held about 3 years ago at Rose Hill Racecourse. The tigers were playing an away game against the Warriors that weekend but Alex was at the function because he had been ruled out with concussion. Brent Naden was also there because he was serving a suspension.

Alex spent 15 minutes talking with us. He was in a happy headspace having recently become engaged to his fiance. Alex told us how he loved the club and answered all of my questions about the up and coming players coming through the club. My wife generally has a low opinion of footballers, however she said that she was extremely impressed with the way the Alex had conducted himself. Unfortunately the rest of the day turned into a farce but I shan't ramble off topic here.

One of the very first statements Richo made when he joined us was that every club needed players like Alex Twal. He may be softly spoken but there is a real positivity and genuineness about the guy. People need to look at the incident re his brother as just that. An incident involving his brother.
I don’t feel anyone is having a negative opinion on Alex based off his brothers actions.
 
I don’t feel anyone is having a negative opinion on Alex based off his brothers actions.
Yeah, I think it was raised as interest, but I wanted to take the first opportunity to disconnect Alex from any inference.

Really stupid that his brother thinks being related would somehow result in the cops who were apprehending him saying;

“ Oh, Alex ay, in that case, we will issue a ticket and you can be on your way.”

It’s as dumb as dumb can get.

As is holding up a store, that’s an indictable offence. What’s he looking at 5-7 years?
 
Sorry, I missed the car jacking the article referred to, the penalty is 10-14 years under the crimes act.

He will apply for and be denied bail.

If all the allegations are true, he seems to be a serious threat and danger to the public.

Complete tool.
 
No , as much as must on here hate Bateman he is a good defender, we would need to keep him because we don’t have the depth of player should a backrower goes down , u just can’t have 6 forwards u need at least 10
Bateman not an option with Hastings there & he is digging his heels up there to stay.

Bud a definite option. They wanted him the same time as us.

Peace-Paul for Bud would be perfect. Might even get the best out of Bateman having another Pom around.
 
Bateman not an option with Hastings there & he is digging his heels up there to stay.

Bud a definite option. They wanted him the same time as us.

Peace-Paul for Bud would be perfect. Might even get the best out of Bateman having another Pom around.
Bateman has just finished playing in a team full of poms with zero visible improvement than when he played with us.I have very few expectations of him being worthwhile when and if he returns
 
Yeah, I think it was raised as interest, but I wanted to take the first opportunity to disconnect Alex from any inference.

Really stupid that his brother thinks being related would somehow result in the cops who were apprehending him saying;

“ Oh, Alex ay, in that case, we will issue a ticket and you can be on your way.”

It’s as dumb as dumb can get.

As is holding up a store, that’s an indictable offence. What’s he looking at 5-7 years?
Yeah we all have a misfit embarrassing tool in the family somewhere , this doesn't reflect on Alex at all.
In my family it's me.
 
Yeah we all have a misfit embarrassing tool in the family somewhere , this doesn't reflect on Alex at all.
In my family it's me.
Probably most of us here are out in the paddock black sheeping away, seperate from the herd or flock.

We support the Wests Tigers, we are the black sheep of the game.

No one understands why we do it, not even us.
 
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I don’t feel anyone is having a negative opinion on Alex based off his brothers actions.
G'Day 'Needaname'. I have re-read my previous post and do get where you are coming from. The intent of my post was to say that it was a shame that one of the real nice guys of our game has been mentioned in an unsavoury incident. I think I became overly emotive with the manner in which the press seem to enjoy mentioning anyone of reknown to a perpetrator of a criminal act. If I had my time again I would retract the last two sentences as, in retrospect they do detract from my original intention.
 
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