Rugby head lauds violent nut-case ex South Canterbury Rep shot by police

An armed ex South Canterbury Rugby Rep Donald Iveson was scarpering the scene on Sunday after terrorising his own family, when he drove directly into a policeman alerted to the gunfire.  

The injured constables companion returned fire and Iveson was killed.

Good thing, if you ask me.

Not so, the rugby administrators. 

Serial apologist for the continual anti-social actions of his constituents, South Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Craig Calder, glibly dismissed Ineson's death as “a tragic loss to the rugby family”

Calder wants to reassure us "He was a lock sort of in the mould of a Brodie Retallick today”

So, fucking what you dick?!

I’m sure his family left cowering in their house whilst this nut-bar poured round after round into the front door were interested in this sporting analogy.  

Fortunately, most people in New Zealand don’t think like rugby administrators.
  

Normal New Zealanders place the victims first. 
 
We still care about the family that was traumatised, first. 

The policeman lying in hospital, first.

The policeman defending himself, first.

Normal New Zealanders care little about some violent nut-cases rugby credentials. 

Only the rugby fraternity wants a Donald Ineson in their ‘family’.

They are welcome to him.

 

Note: If you check out previous posts from the middle of the year, you’ll see the South Canterbury Rugby ‘family’ is plagued with violence issues, that not unsurprisingly show no sign of being abated given stewardship of the organisation.    

 

 

 

Kurow Rugby Club must be the saddest, most dysfunctional club in New Zealand

Kurow is a small town in North Otago that can barely throw together enough fit adult men to form a pool team, let alone, let alone enough to field a single senior men’s rugby squad. 

One thing they are not short of down the Hakataramea is the propensity to get ‘trolleyed’ after a game of rugger.

That’s what men-folk in country football teams do & have done for decades. 
 
You would have thought the death of a club member in a car accident after one of these prescribed after-matches (2016) would have tempered this practice & brought some sanity to this small sporting club.
 
Made the local community as whole take-a-look at themselves.
 
Like fuck!

Here they are, at it again.

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/north-otago-rugby-pair-jailed 

This blog features many rugby clubs up & down the country.

All for the wrong reasons I must add.  

Per head of population The Kurow Rugby Club must be the saddest, most dysfunctional club in New Zealand. 
 
Richie McCaw should be embarrassed every-time someone uses the sobriquet 'The Kurow Kid'.   
 


  

 

It goes without say another Rugby Pro Escapes Conviction

One pissed-up rugby star. 

Heated late night domestic. 

You already know this won’t end-up well.  

By the end of the night she ends-up suffering bruising to the side of her face and waist, bleeding from the knee. 

Who is ‘he’ in all of this? 

Sevu Reece of Waikato & his court appearance was today.

Facing the charge of common assault, he was discharged without conviction. 

Now replace ‘rugby star’ with say ‘taxi driver’ or ‘office manager’. 

 

Ask yourself?

You’ll doubtless come to the same conclusion as me as to justice being served evenly in this country. 

Up-Date Wednesday 03^rd Oct: Irish Club, Connacht, that Reece was due to join has dumped him despite his discharge. Clearly Irish Rugby officials treat domestic violence differently than N.Z Rugby. If ever there was an opportunity to show decisive action in-line with the sports Respect and Responsibility protocols – this was it. Reece is due to play this weekend for Waikato. What was his punishment again? Remind me.   

2^nd Up-date Monday 15^th October: Well what else did you expect from N.Z Rugby? They would act in the same chivalrous, decisive fashion as their Irish counterparts? Make a stand against domestic violence? You gotta be joking! Reece has been sent on some wishy-washy course, stood down for a single game. Wow! That will teach him a lesson, show the public that wife beaters have no place in the sport of rugby in 2018. Waikato Rugby Union sponsors include the likes of McDonalds, Vodafone, Waikato University, YMCA, The Breeze Radio Station etc.  These sponsors have had their name tarnished.

 

More ref bashing

What a sad state of affairs.

A 'nothing' club rugby game in the sporting backwash of Oamaru enrages one fan enough to 'smack' the ref.  

Read if you want to increase your blood pressure, despair at the state of N.Z's national sport. 

Another day another pissed-up All Black, no make that All Blacks

Just a few beers claims Jordie Barrett.

"I had a couple drinks in town with mates and basically can recall everything that happened that night and I was not intoxicated".

Pull the other-one Jordie. 

Not even the most staunch All Black fan believes you simply walked into the wrong flat in the wee smalls because of a simple mix-up, unmitigated by your alcohol consumption. 

You went out drinking into the early hours and only “had a couple”? 

Maccers is the AB breakfast of choice and any aspiring junior player should take note.  

The Tui beer marketing company could have a field-day.

You and your mate were too-pissed to tell where you were, seems to fit the bill.

That is what anyone with half-a-brain-cell thinks is what happened.

But wait there’s more, the night after in what are called hi-jinks by All Blacks and Blues winger Rieko Loane.

Loane ends-up with a cut above his eye in an incident with an unnamed team-mate at an after-match piss-up.

Ooops typo sorry, I meant ‘private function’ it could never be a piss-up because these are top professional athletes with strict protocols.

I can't find any media report to indicate if Loane got Maccers on the way to or from hospital? 

They play in the most successful international sporting team on the planet we are told by N.Z Rugby's marketing department & N.Z media. 

Which are locked at the hip. 

 

Now picture the German World Cup Soccer Squad getting ready for camp and two of their players getting involved in similar incidences.  

These two would be out of the Russian tournament before it started.

Disgraced by their actions, they would be dumped.

Contrastingly these two muppets will be playing test rugby next weekend.

If South Canterbury Police want to lower domestic-violence then get Sky to ‘black-out’ All Black games

I’m left aghast at the belief by South Canterbury Rugby & Police they can some-how ‘combine’ to drop domestic violence in their region. 

Is this a smoke-screen tactic to divert the public’s attention from a major source of family violence?  

Televised rugby.  

I’m not against the principals of the initiative, after-all this country leads the world in domestic violence. 

There’s one major issue both the Police and Rugby fraternity in South Canterbury seem to ignore.  

High profile rugby games lead to an increase in domestic violence. 

This inconvenient fact comes from none-other source than the Police themselves!  

READ

It’s rugby-heads getting liquored-up and giving the ‘mrs’ a clip that add to the country’s appalling record. 

Indeed, the local rugby clubs in South Canterbury should feel morally obligated to continuously raise money for Women’s Refuge given ‘big game’ nights lead to an increase in women seeking their services.

Women’s Refuge have highlighted this fact repeatedly.

READ   

Incidents spike when the local team loses.

 

This will be the same in South Canterbury and 'my money' is on the Polices own regional crime stats agreeing with this summation.  

 

Rugby is not the cure here.  

It’s a major problem.    

 

White-Ribbon should be distancing itself from the sport altogether.       

 

 

 

South Canterbury Rugby Players are part of the problem not the solution

“The campaign does not suggest domestic and family violence are in any way directed or attributed to rugby players or rugby clubs, but instead recognised the influence of rugby in the community”

 

South Canterbury Rugby Football Union chief executive Craig Calder is taking the piss....right?!  

Or at least so enamored, deluded with his beloved sport not to see the facts?

Think no-one in Timaru knows there’s an internet search engine called Google?   

The donation of 10 phones will go anyway to mitigate the sad record rugby has in the community. 

His community, the one that needs to address violence and it's his organisation that's some-how going to lead that change.  

 

Like f*ck!

Perhaps he's forgotten that 13 months into his own tenure a former South Canterbury representative rugby player called John Junior Faavae  who was sentenced in the Timaru Court to two years and six months in jail. 

His crime? 

Indecent assault and attempted sexual violation by rape.  

 

I guess that's not community violence in 'rugby speak'. 

In 2013 four South Canterbury players faced allegations of rape, which were later dropped due to in-sufficient evidence.   

But wait there’s more!  

April of 2000 South Canterbury Player Kemipolo Tongotongo was found guilty of sexual violation by rape.  

His lawyer proudly told the court at the time "He is a rugby player of some considerable talent"  

"The South Canterbury Rugby Union went to a lot of trouble to bring him from Auckland to play for them." 

Clean-up your own act Mr Calder. 

 

Put your arrogance to one side and face the facts you can't influence what goes on in the wider community.

 

You can influence the paltry 25 odd semi-professional players you have under contract. 



 

 

 

 

Southland Rugby Poster Boys for Respect & Responsibility

The recommendations provide all of rugby a pathway to continue to ensure everyone involved in the game has the right information and understanding with regards to respect and responsibility to enable them to make the right decisions. This includes ensuring that our attitudes towards women in rugby, diversity, respect, responsibility and inclusiveness are in keeping with a world leading sports organisation (N.Z Rugby ‘Respect & Responsibility Review 2016)  

Ex Southland Stags Assistant Managers & Southland Maori Rugby Coach JASON TE HUIA drunkenly racially abuses an Asian Doorman at the Queenstown Casino.   

Mostly “Shoe lace eyes” don’t play rugby – they are fair game I guess.  

Just up-the-road ex Southland front-row forward DREW RIORDAN appears in Gore District Court after scribing drunken intimidatory posts on Facebook against a female journalist. 

 "I bet there's no bush telegraph the night when she's lying dead on [sic] after being run over by a guy heading to the station" is all part of N.Z Rugby’s wonderful inclusiveness. 

Just remember Kiwi readers: Rugby is part of our DNA. 

Sad.

Young Masterton Rugby Referee Assaulted over the weekend

Sad state of affairs given all sports rely on volunteers, the age of the victim. 

Wairarapa Bush Rugby Football Union chief executive Tony Hargood would like the public to believe this to be ‘an isolated event’.

There’s no problem here, move along people.  

Of-course you are right there Tony. 

This site is dedicated to a whole series of these ‘isolated incidences’ and The Sun Wolves are a shoe-in for the Super title. 

Side-line brawls at rugby games going-on up & down the country

One could be forgiven thinking mass side-line melees are an Auckland phenomenon. 

Players, fans all ‘getting amongst it’.  

Systematic of Auckland Rugby’s downward spiral.  

To their rescue comes South Otago.    

And Dunedin Rugby as well for good measure.  

 

Reports: here & here

Canterbury rugby goon loses his pro-contract

I’m crying a river. 

A semi-professional rugby player has lost his opportunity to take up a contract overseas. 

 

Keep a hanky close whilst you read about Oliver Sprott.  

Good to see overseas clubs take serious crimes seriously, unlike here in N.Z.  

 

Still he wasn't playing locally, so no one cares, no real loss.  

 

 

What? More thuggery in New Zealand rugby?

An ‘after the whistle’ all-in brawl in Auckland over the weekend simply can’t be? 

 

I could not believe my eyes when I read the article.

Help, next thing there will be a school shooting in the U.S.    

One could suggest N.Z Rugby should instigate an expensive, inevitably futile, report into Respect and Responsibility.  

Nah, just kidding.  

Violence is part of rugby’s DNA. 

Hard men are lionised.  

This site hardly touches the surface of the violence that goes on every week in N.Z Rugby.

 

Most of it unreported. 

This incident is the norm, not out of the ordinary.  

 

PS: I wonder how the playing numbers at looking in Auckland Senior Rugby? They would be turning them away at the door one thinks. Not!  

Ex Mako’s player gets off assault conviction

Type ‘one rule’ into the search blog search engine and you’ll see what gives me the motivation to take time to run this site. 

Can’t be stuffed writing too much about Braden Stewart. 

I’d only be repeating myself, increase my blood pressure needlessly.   

'Bags' your kids get him as a teacher.

 

Waikato Rugby Stalwart Learns How N.Z Rugby Hegemony Operates

Salt of the earth ‘club men’ like Mike Cochrane (Hautapu Sports Club, Hamilton) learns the hard way that Super Rugby players are higher up the totem than him.   

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Even when you are the victim taking-on the likes of Craig Stevenson, the club was never going to back the no-one.

 

Cochrane should pick another sport. 

 

There are plenty that would appreciate his efforts, not 'throw him under the bus'. 

Yet another N.Z Rugby Player is up for assault and wants his mandatory get-out of jail free card

His name is being kept secret. 

All we know is he’s based in Blenheim. 

Player X admits the assault occurred, but now wants to be let off scott-free. 

Simply, because he’s a professional rugby player. 

And you’s (sic) know professional rugby players in New Zealand have scant respect for the law of the land, less respect for the courts. 

That’s because the courts treat rugby players differently.  

 

All tares of the sport.

Don’t believe me? 

Below you’ll see a tag for the posts on ‘One Rule for rugby players’ 

Take 15 seconds to scan through the articles I’ve produced on this theme.  

If you are ‘a tiger for punishment’ try also searching the label ‘assault' as well.    

Then you’ll agree with my summation, that he’ll walk free. 

The precedent is so entrenched. 

That’s the way it is in New Zealand. 

No point in getting up-set.

 

If we want successful N.Z rugby teams, players like this have to be allowed off the hook.

 

Read: ARTICLE

 

 

 

Just another New Zealand Rugby Rep getting pissed and doing stupid things.

 

No real story here. 

May as well blog 'it rained in Fiordland over the weekend'.

Just another New Zealand Rugby Rep getting pissed and doing stupid things. 

How pissed and idiotic was MacKenzie Haugh?

Well he almost drove his vehicle into a bus in N.Zs # 1 tourist resort whilst being four times over the limit.  

Alarmed the public to such a degree, they stripped him of his keys.

No respect for the Police or the public, but hey acting like an arrogant jerk comes as a mandatory character trait in such circles.  

 

Perhaps N.Z Rugby could run say a Respect and Responsibility review to sort this in-grained sh*t out?

In what should have been jail time, given the seriousness of his actions and the small fact Haugh was caught only 12 months ago similarly drunk behind the wheel, he get’s just supervision and community work. 

MacKenzie Haugh is a name we will see again. 

I’m sure he’ll remember the day he played in the same team as Richie McCaw.

Just how big is drug abuse amongst N.Z Rugby players?

Only a month back Drug Free Sport New Zealand told us its investigation looking-into Josh Townshend on-line steroid shop, involved rugby players ‘mostly at the lower levels of sport’.  

A wee bit on Josh Townshend’s’ operation, before I address the crux of this post. 

Anyone buying performance enhancing products off his Clenbuterol site, all 100 odd known customers, knew what they were getting. 

They were not naive to this fact, just the belief they wouldn’t get caught.   

Those caught when Townshend went down were not largely what the N.Z Public think about as purchasers of performance enhancing drugs. 

His main clients weren’t Kiwi bodybuilders or cyclists. 

The largest recreational demographic were rugby players. 

Over half, if media reports are accurate and this story is constantly evolving.   

We were also told, as rugby circles raced into damage control, that no top players were involved. 

Just a bunch of no-name club players we were led to believe. 

Wrongly as the individual cases came to light.   

We’ve now learnt Clenbuterol clientele included a player from the female equivalent of The All Blacks (Black Ferns) and two NPC players. 

There are hundreds, if not thousands of sites on the net where anyone can but performance enhancing drugs. 

Not just out of the backrooms of Christchurch houses. 

Townshend’s operation was a global small-fry. 

What are the odds of other Kiwi rugby players purchasing steroids off an overseas site?

 

I am not being flippant or churlish when I say 100% chance this has occurred.       

Enough ‘smoke coming from the fire’ already for New Zealand Rugby to start testing schoolboy players.  

Steroid abuse within N.Z rugby is a marketing nightmare. 

Who wants to be involved with an athlete/team/sport where cheating is involved? 

Ask U.S Postal Service for the short-sharp-sweet answer to that one.  

So just how many drugs cheats are involved in N.Z Rugby?  

 

The starting mark is 50 + and counting.