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'.   
 


  

 

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. 

Cops unjustifiable target another top ex rugby player

What’s the list of charges against Shane Carter? 

Obstructing police, resisting arrest, male assaults female and assaulting police. 

Still he is a one-time Hurricane, Wellington player and not to mention, coach of the local provisional side. 

Surely there must be some misunderstanding here?  

 

He must have been forced to plead guilty.

We all know there’s no link with violence and rugby in N.Z.  

Read about how the coppers are stitching Shane Carter up, how his wife deserved what she got. 

HERE

 

Rugby Mentality Divides South Island Township

The Kurow rugby community is apparently 'devastated'' by the crash that occurred after drunken members went on ‘the ran tan’ after pissing up at their clubrooms. 

Cue ‘Yeah Right’ meme.  

The drunk idiot driver at the wheel that night, ex North Otago rep Regan Laughton, crashed the vehicle resulting in the death of Jarrad Blackler (23) and injuries to all his fellow rugby-club passengers. One of which was in hospital for 10 weeks.  

Kevin Malcolm the coach of the Kurow Rugby Club throws at us that old-standard (quote) ''Somehow we need to find a way to make community changes to prevent this from happening again, because it is a community thing.''  

No admission from Malcolm that the club could have prevented an intoxicated driver to get behind the wheel with five passengers after pissing-up at their clubrooms.   

No talk of a club policy that involves a nominated sober driver.  

The booze in part came from his premises.  

The family, supporters of the victim are up against this ingrained small town ‘rugby’ mentality. 

This after-all is the township that is raising funds to build a statue of Richie McCaw.   

Does anyone think tragedies like this are merely the collateral for living a rural lifestyle?  

Remind me – it’s 1916, eh?  

The fact the seemingly unrepentant Laugthon escaped a jail term is another issue that sticks in one’s craw.      

As does the matter of this rugby club still being able to sell alcohol.

Same with 'the local' that tanked-up 'the tanked-up' waved them goodnight.   

If the Kurow community really cared, they would now be building a statue to Jarrad Blackler and not McCaw. 

So this young-man didn’t die in vain and this could be a fitting permanent memorial of the folly of drink-driving.

Looking after your mates. 

Fat chance.

This is rugby heartland.