Another Day and another New Zealand Professional Rugby Thug

At time I feel like I’m fighting a losing battle trying to expose the disproportionate amount of thuggery and criminality in New Zealand professional rugby.  

The Kiwi public are ironically quick to turn-on a MP who gets drunk in a restaurant and gives the waiter a bit of stick.  

This pissed parliamentarian didn’t (allegedly) put someone in hospital with critical conditions.  

He's not facing two charges of assault.

The media commentators, politicians of all persuasions, mums over tea cups and blokes in pubs all wanted Aaron Gilmores guts for garters. 

Who in the media, in parliament in blogging circles etc is now demanding NZRFU/Auckland Rugby dismiss George Moala?  

No one!  

The lack of caring, empathy indicates the general public in New Zealand are suffering en masse Stockholm Syndrome. 

New Zealanders are so conditioned to seeing professional rugby players in court they don’t give it a second thought.    

It’s only half way through the S15 season and three N.Z franchise players alone have come to the attention of the Police.  

Players' union boss fantasies rugby professionals in N.Z are uniquely predisposed to suffer behavioural and mental challenges because of factors such as performance and selection anxiety, loneliness, relationship stress, substance abuse, stress and a lack of social support. 

So these reasons, pick one any one, are why one of Rob Nicholls charges went out and (allegedly) beat the living shit of some guy outside a nightclub in the wee smalls. 

It’s all good Rob, probably selection anxiety was behind it eh mate?  

 

Fuck the victim we need him for Saturday's game which he's still due to play!      

Without sounding like a broken record why don’t we read with the same disturbing frequency New Zealanders playing professional soccer overseas coming in front of the courts in say England and Europe? 

Soccer players face greater issues than rugby players in New Zealand playing a more competitive code, living overseas well away from their so called ‘social support’and with the tabloid-press ready to pounce on the most trivial foible. 

Why aren’t professional soccer players beating-up their partners or some bloke outside a pub Rob (the clouds are a different colour in the world I live in) Nichol??  

It is high time New Zealanders, media and public alike, treated rugby criminality seriously and the NZFU admitted it has a serious endemic problem.  

 

Footnote: I am at pains to indicate the way to make this site disappear, wither at the vine is for professional rugby players in New Zealand to respect the laws of the land. Fat chance of that happening any-time soon. All players are considered innocent until we hear otherwise.