Rugby’s image in N.Z is now in tatters but that won’t change a thing

Being the biggest ape in the jungle rugby followers in New Zealand have a supercilious, contemptuous view of rival football codes.   

Soccer is for poofters. 

League is for inhabitants of State Houses.  

So where are the high-profile soccer players facing charges of intent to rape guys? 

Refer latest report about a Mid Canterbury rugby player.  

There are heaps of soccer players plying their trade overseas. 

Surely some of them get up-to mischief? 

Evidently not. 

Certainly not to the level of rugby players in N.Z.   

Rugby’s image is now in tatters, going down the tubes sordid incident by sordid incident.  

The public is finally waking-up to the high rates of criminality associated with rugby in New Zealand. 

This site is littered with them.  

Of course there will always be an element of Kiwis who will defend the indefensible. 

Most of them are buffoons and gravitate to fellow buffoons for solace. 

The more-staunch ones join rugby-club committees.   

They honestly don’t care as long as the precious All Blacks keep winning and it’s not their daughter or son assaulted by a profile rugby player.    

The sports image is paramount. 

The victims are just collateral, worthy only of token apologies.    

Rugby buffoons chortle away and run-down sports like League whilst ignoring the bleeding obvious.  

Rugby culture is to blame for the issues the sport faces. 

Other sports don’t have these problems to the same degree.   

And there’s no way that’s going to change under the current regime, regardless of what the public think.

 

Coroner blames Rugby Booze Culture for two deaths.

[Stuff NZ] The deaths of two young rugby players in a high speed crash could have been avoided if a culture of mixing drinking with sport was not so prevalent. Jack Henry Ballantyne and Tui Huruata Candish-Thompson died on May 11, 2012, after crashing into a power pole at high speed near Hinds, south of Ashburton. Ballantyne had been drinking alcohol and was driving about 185kmh when he lost control of the vehicle on the rural road.

Candish-Thompson was in the front passenger seat of the car when the crash happened. In findings released today, Coroner Richard McElrea said the deaths were a "tragedy that could have been avoided". "It was an example of the mixture of sport and alcohol." The two teenagers had visited the Hinds Tavern after rugby training on May 10 – something the team regularly did after practice.

 The coroner has clearly made the wrong conclusion. 

At least according to Steve Tew who consistently plugs the line there is no drinking culture in N.Z Rugby circles.   

Try telling the poor parents.