Every Winter Saturday approximately ten Rugby Players in New Zealand are assaulted on the field requiring hospitalisation.

The on-field bash in rugby is real, normal part of every Saturday.   

The statistics say so.  

Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) receives 250 assault-related claims involving rugby each year. 

Don’t believe me? 

Looky here.

 

 

PS: Because of the lack of clarity around the incident there was no formal investigation by the CRFU [Canterbury Rugby Football Union] Cripes, don't these parents know getting bashed on-the-field is all part of the sport?    

Auckland Blues Player being investigated……yet again

The N.Z Herald is  reporting Peter Saili is alleged to have beaten a 13-year-old boy whom he caught burgling his home, to the point he needed to be hospitalised for four days. A vacuum cleaner pipe was allegedly employed by the number eight. 

His bro(ther) Frances got caught driving whilst disqualified in 2012 and only last month fellow Blues player Tevita Li admitted drink driving.   

Peter Saili joins a growing list of Blues players involved with assaults, police investigations there into.  

Rene Ranger (2010)

Kurtis Haiu (2011)

George Moala (2013)

 

They are of course just young men doing what young men do. 

Which apparently, in rugby circles at least, involves getting into a spot of trouble with the law.  

Naturally home-town hero Sir John will sort them out. 

He’s making he great job so far of maintaining discipline off the field…..NOT!