Ryan Sears

Quoted from davmariner

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it should be dealt with/investigated with a view to ending his contract and quietly helping him find another club. Important to send a message both to the players and to young fans, that this behaviour isn’t acceptable.

That's really going to help the lad get another club isn't it.

I can see the advert now, 'Young promising full-back sacked for drink driving requires club preferably within walking distance of home'

Probally get booted out of Grimsby Town, sign for Chesterfield within a week and next season playing regular football in League Two, that's life.

Think I would think more of the club with all this commitment to #greater together etc they keep talking about.. if they admit he had made a mistake etc only a 22 year old lad and work with him to be part of the club rather than just bin him off..

This is very disappointing.

No professional sportsman should be out at 4am ever.  This will 100% impact on performance whether it’s at training or in a match.  If other players are also doing this then it’s no surprise that form has dipped.

No professional sportsman should be drinking alcohol and definitely not more than 1-2 units.  Again it will impact performance.  Yes players drank in the past but it just isn’t acceptable.

Finally, he has committed a serious crime.

This isn’t a ‘silly mistake’.  It’s a complete failure in his commitment to his job and he has to go.  If this is part of a wider issue at the club then Hurst needs to act now.

Massively disappointed by this.

Hurst wouldnt comment on it much last night but i believe he has played his last game for the club

Couple of points, do you know of someone you work with that have been convicted of DD, and have been sacked? ( other than those whose job involves driving). If we get rid he will get snapped up by another club and play again, while we end up short of a player. He has been punished by the courts, that is their job. He isn't local so the ban will be a massive inconvenience to him and he will suffer again when he tries to insure another car. Is sacking him as well really the right thing to do just because he happens to be a professional football player?

Quoted from mimma

Couple of points, do you know of someone you work with that have been convicted of DD, and have been sacked? ( other than those whose job involves driving). If we get rid he will get snapped up by another club and play again, while we end up short of a player. He has been punished by the courts, that is their job. He isn't local so the ban will be a massive inconvenience to him and he will suffer again when he tries to insure another car. Is sacking him as well really the right thing to do just because he happens to be a professional football player?

Yes.  Even if he hadn't committed a crime its ridiculously unprofessional to be out boozing until 4am in the morning and if that's the way players are recovering after a game it needs to be addressed pronto.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Yes.  Even if he hadn't committed a crime its ridiculously unprofessional to be out boozing until 4am in the morning and if that's the way players are recovering after a game it needs to be addressed pronto.

I find it hard to believe that everyone on here seems not to have done something stupid in their early 20's. Hurst said in an earlier interview that Sears had struggled to settle in the area. Yes, he's done wrong, there's no escaping that but maybe better to put a proverbial arm round him and give him a second chance.

You can't just get rid of a player because he has got drunk, if we go down that road then there will be hundreds of ex professional footballers out of work. For a start they haven't broken any of their contract since I doubt there is a clause banning drinking. Remember Gallimore, everyone knew of his drinking, but he still turned up and did the business.

Ideally, the Club should have HR policies on dealing with players and criminal behaviour.  They can then be consistent, fair and reduce the risk of any legal action being taken.

Maybe the CE can take this forward after dealing with other pressing issues.