I cant beleive the hypocracy by the fans of some clubs here.

Wigan - Feka got longer punishment for a more serious crime

Leeds - Players went to prison for a much more serious assault

Wire - Signed Gleeson on a ban for gambling



Non of these clubs punished the players involved further, why should we?



the reason seems to be that saints are too good and loosing Pryce would damage their team, but noone will admit that.

i still feel that the r.f.l will issue a ban of some sort!

wait and see what Saints do first before you judge.

Just because other clubs have no moral values, why shouldn't we?

i think it's fair to say they payed for their crimes in full(no let off's for bailey and chev)

As Pryce is doing by doing community service so what is your point?

And according to a court of law, so has Leon.

While i agree their sentencing for a much more serious assualt was incredibly more severe and they duly served their time without any trouble. But Leeds saw fit to retain them and still do in the form of Bailey and the same with Feka at Wigan - now HERO's amongst the short memoried fans who are clambering for Leon blood!!



Saints may well ban him for the duration of the Community service make / him apologise / extra fine etc... time will tell with the board meeting and only then the club should be judged on morality not before.



The problem with any punishment unless Saints get rid - the same people will complain its not sufficient, but only as they do want Saints to lose a top player rather than complaints about justice.

well the judge who said he was thinking jail time isnt the guy who handed out the punishment was it!! the change of judge at the 11th hour was a real blessing, as it sounds like the other bloke was gonna through the book at them.



but my real was not in contrasting pryce and the leeds lads. my point was by going to jail which is the highest punishment we have in this land that leeds as a club probably felt they players had been punished enough. lets be honest whatever you think of bailey and chev they have been on the straight and narrow ever since!!

again my comment was about what leeds did to its own not what saints should do.

I think a fine and a public apology would probably be the best solution as otherwise the club are punishing themselves in a way for a players off the pitch stupidity and really I don't think banning him would gain a lot.



But like you say no matter what the club do it won't be good enough but mainly that seems to come from fans of other clubs dislike for Pryce and wanting to see him harshly punished and see Saints suffer.

No one would disagree with the point about Chev and Bailey, however, a Judge (it doesn't matter who it is) has said that Leon Pryce's crime, taking into account his previous, does no warrant similar.



What Leon now has to put up with is the humiliation every week of getting abused by opposition fans. There will be many young children who will no longer look up to him, and the club are likely to shame him further.



If I were in Leon's shoes, I would have issued an apology through the Saints website yesterday, unless the club are holding back on releasing it until they have worked out a punishment.



Leon has to grow up, I was talking to my step dad about the situation last night (the first he'd heard of it) and the term he and I always use for people who act like Leon is a burk. I'm willing, if Leon can show he is going to walk the straight and narrow, to say it was stupidity on both counts. I knew a lad who at 16 was running round punching grannies and putting windows through shops. One day he had a revelation and is now finishing his degree. Leon could yet turn it around and become the role model he has the potential to be.