Robert Lui charged with assaulting girlfriend

@cnx_tigers said:
Inevitable. Most domestic violence stuff ends like this as the woman realises her husband will lose his job etc….............and, especially when there are kids involved, no woman wants their kids to go from having a dad with a job and supporting them to having a dad in jail etc.

That is true, but given the charges and with a child involved, I think magistrates and judges try to avoid jail. They would look to something like weekend detention or community service so the perpetrator can earn a living and support the child.
 
Playing in NQ without permission, particularly in a nothing competition, is just unforgivable. This fellow is being paid handsomely and has had God knows how many resources thrown at him by the Tigers, on and off the field. There comes a time when further investment in such players is bad business. You persist with troubled individuals like this and you run the risk of alienating other members of the playing group. Tearing up his contract is a 'no brainer'. Has to go the way of Laurie and Fifita
 
either way charges dropped or not who would want him at the club? what other club would want him after a second round of assaults? this isnt a carney situation where he's a stupid drunk, domestic violence is another level imo.
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
if he's not found guilty, they won't sack him

If the charges are dropped or similar, I reckon you might find Lui "allowed" to go back home to NQ or similar. I have no solid evidence or reason for this but I can see it as an honourable way out for all parties and to be honest some of the positioning by Humphries and the club to me point to this.
 
With everything he is doing, or alleged to have done at the moment, a sceptical person might suggest he is trying to find a way out of his contract to go elsewhere…..
 
Alleged criminal charges aside if they didn't exist then this would be a nothing story and wouldn't find itself on page 33 of the terrorgraph….
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He made it easy for the club with the knockout comp thing. If they were concerned they couldn't sack him legally if he was found not guilty, they sure can sack him now because he would have broken contractual obligations to the club. No "tough position" anymore.

He will be sacked by the end of the week and I have a feeling the club will request that the NRL de-register him for at least a season.
 
@MacDougall said:
He made it easy for the club with the knockout comp thing. If they were concerned they couldn't sack him legally if he was found not guilty, they sure can sack him now because he would have broken contractual obligations to the club. No "tough position" anymore.

He will be sacked by the end of the week and I have a feeling the club will request that the NRL de-register him for at least a season.

he should and would only be de-registered if he's found guilty
 
I don't care if the charges are dropped. Benefit of the doubt once. Twice, is goodbye. We MUST have a no d/heads policy in the club.

My sons love the Tigers and I want them to grow into responsible young men who respect women. How do I explain the outcome to them if the Tigers keep him on????

Some things are more important than football. Setting a zero tolerance example for domestic violence is one such thing.
 
Perhaps there was no assault. The rumours of Lui and his partner wanting to move home to QLD sound like they are true despite Lui denying this. So they make this allegation. He gets charged, she drops the charges. Tigers sack him and he signs with Cowboys. Anyone else thinking this way?
 
@sameulcon said:
Perhaps there was no assault. The rumours of Lui and his partner wanting to move home to QLD sound like they are true despite Lui denying this. So they make this allegation. He gets charged, she drops the charges. Tigers sack him and he signs with Cowboys. Anyone else thinking this way?

No. That is tripe. How do you explain last year's charge?
 
@sameulcon said:
Perhaps there was no assault. The rumours of Lui and his partner wanting to move home to QLD sound like they are true despite Lui denying this. So they make this allegation. He gets charged, she drops the charges. Tigers sack him and he signs with Cowboys. Anyone else thinking this way?

so he decides to completley ruin his own image and reputation as a ploy to get out of his contract? :crazy
 
Tiger99 made a rather cryptic and interesting post a week or so ago along the lines of something to do with a false police statement….

and hasn't been seen since...

there may be more truth to that then you guys think... :mrgreen:
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interesting - the plot thickens...
 
@underdog said:
Tiger99 made a rather cryptic and interesting post a week or so ago along the lines of something to do with a false police statement….

and hasn't been seen since...

there may be more truth to that then you guys think... :mrgreen:
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interesting - the plot thickens...

Must of missed it Underdog Do you remember which thread it was in ???
 
this one.

and then it vanished.

not sure if he deleted it himself, or the mods did.

We'll know for sure soon which way if my posts stay on this thread or get deleted as well. :smiley:
 
@Team Tiger said:
@sameulcon said:
Perhaps there was no assault. The rumours of Lui and his partner wanting to move home to QLD sound like they are true despite Lui denying this. So they make this allegation. He gets charged, she drops the charges. Tigers sack him and he signs with Cowboys. Anyone else thinking this way?

No. That is tripe. How do you explain last year's charge?

Who knows what he is thinking? He couldnt be thinking to much if these are actions after having a few drinks. Maybe he was looking at going home last year. Why did she drop the charges last year? And rumours today confirmed what I was thinking all along.
 
Let's just pretend for a moment this "I made it up to get outta my contract" crap is true. As GNR4LIFE said, why would he destroy his rep in this way?

And you know what? If any player wants out of the Tigers so badly as to carry on like this, GET RID OF HIM ANYWAY!
 
No team would want him after doing this, at least not straight away. He would need a year or two off to "become a stronger man and reflect" etc.

It doesn't make sense to fake this in order to get out of a contract these days. Just look across the NRL and see quite often contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on half the time anyways.
 
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