Sack him on misconduct, offer to re-sign at £10,000 per week for any periods of a FA ban (further encouraging good behaviour), returning to higher price when not suspended.
People seem to be saying that its wrong to increase punishment because the perpetrator has previous. On the contrary, it is very right and necessary. Every Court in the land takes the individual's case history into account when deciding on a sentence. Why not the FA?
I hate to say it, but this is where you should have stopped typing. Sent from my iPhone, but typed with my nose whilst sitting in my back garden in 89 degree sunshine.
So the FAs done their usual 4 match ban for each of 3 red card offences (was the improbable nut aimed at Kompany a red card offence, really?). Anyway, that's that as far as the FA's concerned. Now what about the club? The guy's been punished, surely that's enough - but is it? It'll be interesting to see what Hughes makes of it all. There's loads of approaches open to him, from retaining a midfielder who was doing us a cracking job over a number of games until the red mist descended against City (by most accounts on here); to fining him a few weeks wages; to charging him with a gross misconduct offence aimed at terminating his contract altogether. There's been no indication which way Hughes will go but if it was me (an erstwhile Joey fan), there'd be no question in my mind: summary dismissal on the grounds of dereliction of duty and bringing the club into disrepute. Contract torn up, no further payments, job and Joey done. My reasoning? Nothing to do with all the moral outrage I'm reading on here. Slug fests happen all the time in life and in sport. No, it's more simple than that. As professionals, we're expected to contain our personal feelings in the best interests of the organisation we're paid to represent; and as captain of a team fighting a £40m battle for survival, Joey had accepted the responsibility to protect the point we were on at the time. With Bolton winning at Stoke that point was the one to keep us up. In getting involved in a personal ruck with Tevez on the edge of the penalty box, Joey failed in his duty. Suddenly it was all about Joey's need to show Tevez who's badder and **** everything else. He's as much the reason we lost a game we should've at least drawn as anything else. That's the dereliction of duty. The bringing the club into disrepute is self-evident from the footage of the mayhem. So is Joey Barton a man QPR can rely on to see us alright? Clearly not. Get him gone Mark, the guy's an absolute proven liability. And as I said, that's coming from an erstwhile Joey fan.
Yes you are partly right, my stance towards Barton has always been a strained one. But as long as he's an R I've tried to stand by him, now I'm afraid we're at the end of that line and there is no way back for him. I know you're not into long written pieces but thisismyengland's latest article finally swayed me, it is well worth the read. "Arriving at this view brings no pleasure. It's all a great shame. But it is what it is." thisismyengland Sums it up perfectly.
Norway, can you post the link? Sent from my laptop whilst in the bath having a wa...... Ok, I'll stop that nonsense now.
I'm astonished at the outpouring of invective on this board today because I don't remember there being as much outrage expressed at the time of the incident(s). Was everybody waiting for the imprimatur of the FA before unleashing their fury? I said it at the time that TF will simply not allow his name and that of his enterprises to be contaminated by association with thuggery. For him image is everything. I would be very surprised if his legal team have not already worked out a strategy whereby Joey Barton will no longer be employed by QPR FC at whatever cost. This will cost him, but nowhere near as much as the reputational damage his businesses would suffer if Joey were to stay.
Thank's Norway, a very good read. Personally I never wanted him at the Club and knew it was only a matter of time before this craic started happening. But the man who's too elegant to come on now and blow his horn must be saluted as to being spot on at the time: Roller, my friend, you told us so.
As I stated previously, when is a football club going to smash the myth that a contract has to be paid-up? By dismissing Joey for gross misconduct and bringing QPR into disrepute in front of a worldwide audience there is ample grounds for a dismissal, adding the tweets he later made merely underlines that intent. I read in the ST prospectus today TF's airline has balls, well now is the time for TF's football club to show them and swing the axe!...
Somewhere in between yours and GrinningCur's post lies the answer methinks. But Sooper, swinging axes and balls in the same sentence bring up a horrifying image
Another factor to be considered here is in the dressing room. When he returns to training, how will all the other players now feel towards him? ( If they hadn't before? ) As captain he is supposed to lead by example, how can they take anything Barton says serously or without a degree of contempt. Especially as he left them in the proverbial for thirty five minutes against the champions elect.
Not too good I would think. If he called Mackie a one trick pony, what the hell must he have called Bothroyd?
Oi OI..steady on.....! What makes hyou tyjink he could cut it in the A-League then? We've got the likes of Harry Kewel And Bret Emerton as our Marque' players over here... Now I hear the Queensland under 16 Origin team are looking for a few new players..There all 100kg and 11-teen feet tall but Joey fancies himself against the youngsters doesnt he!! Send him to Irish League..we dont want him !! Shamrock Rovers or what ever... Sent from the Other side of the world, sitting in my Air conditioned office, looking out over Mount Tanbourine, Wearing shorts and a T-shirt NOT drinking beer!! -using my PC and all 10 fingers - unlike the Norwich mob using all 12!
We dont want him!! No, Oz is the place for him. Its where all the convicts were sent after all Sent from the bottom of a rainbow on me pot of gold, whilst using all 10 fingers to pluck Shamrock out of my arse
I dont think theres a criminals in the world so hated that barton is among majority on this board. Quite laughable really this kind of hate. As i said before it is difficult to see barton play in blue and white hoops again (if not in the fake ones) and that just might be for best. Having said that i think that bartons 12 match ban is ridicilously big. How on earth they can give four match for that "possible" headbutt against kompany i just never know.
