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.

The Future of South Canterbury Rugby is in good hands

A mass brawl erupted last Friday between the respective Roncalli Combined and Aoraki Combined Under 18 teams. 

It was supposed to be a friendly. 

One that involved both sets of substitutes joining in the melee. 

And what pray-tell was the punishment meted-out to the players involved? 

Being virtually both entire squads? 

In a game the referee called off due to the violence?  

To quote the words of South Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Craig Calder “No further disciplinary action was needed”  

Welcome to the world of rugby in N.Z lads. 

You are untouchable.

Has anyone on the Shirley Rugby Club Committee heard of Social Media or even got a Calendar?

A quick ‘google’ shows embezzlement is riff of late amongst South Island recreational sporting entities. 

Eric Lee recently had his grubby fingers dipping into the Queenstown Bowling Club. 

Tania Lind did the same to The Sunset Speedway in Westport.  

Now we’ve learned in today’s The Christchurch Press, Howard Morel has been diddling The Shirley Rugby Club. 

The difference between these three cases is when the funds were found to be missing the bowling club & the West Coast speedway correctly took their concerns to the police. 

But, not the Shirley Rugby Club. 

Oh, no.   

In a hark-back to the days of ‘what happens on tour, stays on tour’ The Shirley Rugby Club thought they could keep fraud of this scale ($200,000) their hush-hush deal quite.  

Un-bloody-believable.  

Make no bones about it The Shirly Rugby Club are the victims of a criminal undertaking. 

 

Betrayal on a massive scale from a life member. 

They deserve restitution and Howard Morel his day in court.

A serious crime has occurred here.

Were three teens to break-in & trash the Shirley Clubrooms and one was found to be a member of the club, would the committee tell the Police just to investigate the other two? 
 

Even when the ‘cat was out of the bag’ The Christchurch Press knew the frame-work of the crime, deal struck & they were about to publish the details -  they still naively tried to obfuscate.

“He’s (Morel) away on leave of absence.” 

Like fuck! 

Can they see how this smoke-screen looks to an outsider?

The Shirley Rugby Club Committee handling of this affair have made laughing-stocks of their club and showed yet-again that N.Z Rugby Clubs function in a decades-old bubble. 

It’s 1977 down in their patch, disco is in its hey-day, long side-burns are in.  

 

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.       

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.