NRL: Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson insists Michael Jennings' milestone match should be celebrated, in spite of off-field issues.
Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson says he weighed up “all the facts” before handing Michael Jennings a career lifeline and that celebrating his 300th NRL game this week is “not disrespectful to women”.
Jennings denied the allegations, was never charged by police and appealed the civil case ruling but it was upheld. “We had to have all the facts … I knew the character of Michael, I’d worked with him quite a lot but then we had to be very clear on what were the circumstances and we were happy with that, with where we got to on our look at that, and so was the NRL,” Robinson said.“We thought we could improve someone’s life, we didn’t know if he was going to play NRL again.
“It’s to rewrite his name as a rugby league player and as a father for his kids. It’s so clear and pure, it’s really simple. “It’s not disrespectful to women because there has been no judgement when it comes to a criminal case in that way,” he said.“I’m not naive to people’s opinion on it, right. But there’s no criminal conviction on that, he’s done his time and we feel the responsibility to allow him to earn in the way he wants to earn and I don’t think fireworks and streamers and all that… that’s not what it’s about.
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