Too right Josie!josie andrews wrote:Well said.Wigan_forever1985 wrote:I find it disheartening how many people feel like this is "a bit of nothing". Might be a reflection of modern society but i find this video utterly abhorrent. Joel is a big fella and for him to push/threaten and abuse a female member of staff who was simply asking him to leave due to intoxicated nature cant be anything than a sackable offence to someone earning probably 7-10 times the average wage.
If this was me i would expect to be sacked by my employer. The "he's just a bit drunk" argument doesnt cut it
if this standard of behaviour is accepted by Wigan then that sets the stall out on the values of the club
I used to work part time as a barmaid in the 80’s at the Griffin. Thursday night the majority of Wigan players used to do the ‘Lane’.
By the time they got to the Griffin they were nearly all drunk. The worse thing I heard then was swearing, which wasnt used as publicly as it is now.
I would tell them regularly to either stop or move out of the ‘lounge’ area & go into the games area, where it was mainly men anyway.
They would all stop! One of the more sober players would come & apologise & that was that.
The only other thing which has me confused, is why were the police not sent for as soon as it could be seen that trouble was starting & being asked to leave was being ignored? As far as I’m aware, that is the first thing the police tell you to do!
When I started drinking in 1958 in Whitehaven there were some very rough Pubs.
There was a mixture of hard coal miners, Irish contractors building Sellafield and sailors. Friday and Saturday nights were wild to put it mildly. Fights galore.
But......abusive language to the bar maids was not tolerated by the regulars. If you crossed the line you were thrown out - literally! - and barred.
Respect is the word I'm looking for.
JT should thank his lucky stars he didn't go to one of these Pubs. He wouldn't have lasted 5 mins.