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'. 

Now it’s two New Zealand Rugby Players in France accused of gang rape!

Rory Grice (Chiefs, Waikato) Dylan Hayes (Marlborough) are face rape allegations along with four other Grenoble team mates, after a game in Bordeaux.

 

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What’s that five professional rugby players from N.Z in front of French judiciary in a month? 

It’s a disgrace! 

 

And guess what?

 

The sad thing is most Kiwi's don't give a rats. 

 

If it was a bunch of Mongrel Mobsters they'd be baying for blood. 

 

Screaming on talk-back and ranting on Facebook for The Police or their MP to do something.  

 

But seeing the accused in this case are rugby players the public will likely hit Social Media to slate the woman.

Up-Date 13/04: Rory Grice has been charged for rape along with two Grenoble teammates, a Frenchman and an Irishman. Since Dylan Hayes is not mentioned amongst those charged the presumption is he's off-the-hook, innocent. Grice however could be looking at 20 years in a French clinker.   

 

 

 

 

Chiefs Players trash talk Traffic Wardens

 

Imagine if you went up to the daughter, sister or wife of a Chiefs player going about their job and called them cunts, useless and lazy?

 

What would you expect to happen if they heard you? 

Well more than what happened to a group of Chiefs players that allegedly used the same profanities to two female Hamilton traffic wardens, after getting ticketed.   

N.Z Rugby’s Respect & Responsibility Initiative is a farce.

 

Those Chiefs players that gobbed-off at the traffic wardens and this ever-burgeoning blog being a living testament to this.       

Homophobic Slurs – A Normal Day in N.Z Rugby

Rugby is possibly the world’s most homophobic sport. 

Most certainly the most homophobic sport in N.Z.   

Little wonder the number of known gay All Blacks sits at zero. 

Little wonder to read reports of homophobic slurs coming out of the mouths of leading players. 

Probably not even newsworthy given it’s the norm in Michael Allardice’s sporting circles. 

 

It's great the mainstream press is giving him stick but in reality it won't change rugby 'kulture' in New Zealand.  

School’s National Championship 1st XV Coach Done for Assault

Robert Simpkins (a.k.a Robert Ngarimu) was a hooker for the Bay of Plenty Steamers NPC at one stage. 

 

Let's not forget North Harbour and The Chiefs for good measure. 

Since his retirement from the sport he’s now turned his hands, as in clenched, to coaching rugby. 

To the highest level you can in N.Z Schoolboys.  

He’s the coach of the current N.Z champs; Rotorua Boys High. 

Well up-till last Friday that was.  

Him and his old-man have just pled guilty to two charges of assault on a child under 14 and one charge of injuring to injure – if the later charge makes sense?  

Far be it for moi to suggest this affair may well make him an even more a suitable candidate to coach rugby in this country.

 

The gory details can be located here. 

Repeat offender Sione Lauaki in the poop again

Former 17 test All Black Sione Lauaki has appeared in the Auckland District Court after an alleged incident last year outside an Auckland whorehouse. 

 

Luakai will be well versed in Court Proceedings having faced two charges (assault and careless driving) in Hamilton in 2010.  

That assault happened in the natural habitat of an All Black: seedy bar late at night.   

Oh yeah, then there was damaging windows and a television at a motel in Auckland on New Year’s morning 2009.   

He was proven guilty, in all those cases.  

But wait there’s more! 

In 2006 Lauaki admitted a charge of assaulting a security officer in Hamilton.  

Gets his breath back…… 

But back to the latest incident, Police allege Lauaki and his co-accused intentionally damaged a taxi in Epsom in ‘the wee smalls’ of December 13th. 

Police won’t say if booze is involved but this is an All Black, be it one with kidney problems, so it goes without saying he’ll be pissed to the gunnels.   

Steinlager?  

Look at Lauaki’s record and ask yourself “Would I get off a jail sentence if this was the latest in a long line of similar offending I was appearing in court over?”   

Buy hey, you are not a former All Black.  

 

No automatic 'Get Out of Jail Free Card' for you.  

Doubtless, he’ll get off, yet again.  

This isn’t Australia where the judiciary are finally taking a hard-line on boozed-up, violent ‘sport star’ offenders.

 

OVERWEIGHT ALL BLACK HOPEFUL PINGED FOR DRIVING WHILST DISQUALIFIED

An aspiring All Black continued to drive while disqualified because he said he needed to get to training to work on his fitness.  

Benjamin Tameifuna, a 21-year-old prop who trained with the All Blacks before the test series against Ireland earlier this year, was dropped from the Hawke's Bay Magpies front row during the NPC season because he was thought to be overweight. 

On September 13 he was caught driving the 16 kilometres from his Hastings home to rugby practice at Park Island in Napier, despite having been suspended last year for having too many demerit points.

He had also been caught driving twice before when he should not have been.  

Tameifuna pleaded guilty in Hastings District Court on the 13^th November to two charges of driving while disqualified. He was also caught on October 25, driving to get his car deregistered. 

Judge Richard Watson said that, although Tameifuna breached a court order, he had not been caught speeding or driving recklessly.  

In yet another example of one rule for high profile rugby players and the man on the street.  

Judge Watson sentenced Tameifuna to just 50 hours' community work and disqualified him from driving for nine months. He told him he hoped he would use his community work to talk to and inspire young rugby players. 

Tipping the scales at close to 140kgs wow what an inspiration Tameifuna will be.     

As part of his community work they could hold pep-talks at KFC.  

The judge was evidently impressed with a submission from Chiefs assistant coach Tom Coventry, who had known Tameifuna for some time. He said Coventry had "wonderful insight" into Tameifuna's background, which was "not as privileged as some".  

Tameifuna may not have had a privileged up-bringing but he sure the hell now knows the privileges of being a professional rugby player in New Zealand when it comes to the even-handed implementation of the law.