Ched Evans

Afraid he'll have to start lower down the rung than Conference, probably below Conference North and South as well.....

Oldham announce they WILL NOT be signing the player

Footballers are role models on and off the pitch. If people are happy with others and kids celebrating and chanting the name of someone who was convicted of rape and refuses to acknowledge or apologise for his actions which sends out the wrong message of treatment of women then sign the guy up. I'm afraid many find this action as repulsive as any alleged action that he was convicted for. This is not my opinion it's just my understanding of why sponsors threatened to pull out of him signing for Sheff United or Oldham. I am sure Rovers wouldnt dare risk vital income from their sponsors or the gate money regardless of what goals he might score if he came - a very delicate debate.

You could say MP's are the ultimate role model, yet when they are caught with the hands in the expenses till and go to jail, they are soon back at work conning us tax payers again

Why are they not pursued like Evans is ??

Personally I've never sponsored a Roman Polanski film, supported a club in which Graham Rix is involved, or been a fan of Eastenders, so not guilty...

Yes I agree, that's a very interesting point Nobby, and quite true as well.

Which of course brings us onto Ched Evans, and why he does appear to have been judged very harshly by the Great British public, and of course the Great British Press when compared to the others that you have mentioned. I think that if the Press decides to ''big up'' a particular story for whatever reason, then that person (or body) immediately becomes a target, and once deemed to be a target it is very difficult to lose that tag. I think that once the details of his crime entered the public domain, coupled with his failure to accept his guilt or apologise for his crime, this has not helped him at all. But as you say, he does appear to have been treated quite differently to other criminals. But if you look at his treatment objectively and in isolation, then he is reaping what he has sowed.

Perhaps you could say that others got off lightly by comparison.

But as he filmed himself committing the act, and then showed his mates the clip on his mobile phone, this alone would prove that the act took place. The only issue to be resolved is whether the young lady consented. The jury at the first trial decided that she had not. As I remember it she did give consent to another male, but not to Evans.

If he had not been so stupid and arrogant as to show the mobile phone clip to others, who then took to social media and mocked the victim, then I doubt that she would have pursued the matter. As I understand it the basis of his appeal is that the heavily intoxicated lady did give her consent.

Highly endearing that.

I obviously dont condone the offence, but this is football, someone will benefit from him as other clubs have done with the likes of Lee Hughes etc.

Imagine Barnet signed him and he helped win them the Championship?

What he does on the pitch is my concern, what he does in his (and others) bedrooms isn't quite frankly.

I don't understand why any club would bother, I mean he's not world class. I would hope we wouldn't touch him with a barge-pole, morality aside it's just not worth the bother. That said he'll end up at Forest Green with the rest of the Parolees.

With regards to Rovers I've been impressed with the calibre of bloke first and foremost that DC has signed. They all seem pretty decent and I don't think Evans fits the bill.