Dogwatcher wrote:
And, yet, even with video vision, people still said the woman should have minded her own business.
So, just when should people make a stand when appalling behaviour is being presented?
The Dude apologised.
The Dude did not refute any of the claims.
If it was not what had occurred, The Dude and his club would have fought their corner by minimising the claims (as we've seen with every other case of footballers behaving badly in the past).
It was a straight-out apology, with no other comment from the club or party involved, which is pretty rare in these cases.
Seems like he did something wrong.
Yeah, he stated that he shouldn't have been drunk, anything on top of that is deemed as inappropriate, perhaps he didn't want to draw it out and become a he said, she said thing.
He did not say "I'm sorry for my aggressive behaviour towards a woman", it's of my opinion that she was getting her 5 minutes of fame as he was an easy target.
I'm not a Richmond supporter (my heart wouldn't handle it), I don't particularly like Dustin Martin, but it does annoy me how they have to live in a shell, who hasn't been slightly loud in a bar? It's generally the bar staff or manager that will tell the patrons to keep it down a little.