Boorish Drunken Behaviour from Crusaders & All Black player Richie Mo'unga in S.A

Boy oh boy, what a memorable tour The Crusaders have had to The Republic of S.A.

Read, what the local media terms as ‘Fresh Allegations’.  

Inappropriate touching is a euphemistic term for groping.   

Spitting beer at people?

Animalistic. 

Surely, this can’t be a player from the rugby franchise which considers itself to have a sporting culture above even The Vatican’s Sunday Soccer team.

 "I'm really sorry for that I'm not aware that I did that. Obviously was intoxicated and should've gone home long before that stage, I'm sorry to you and your friends and want to assure you I don't condone that behaviour and am sorry about that"  

Now, is this the reply of someone facing a false allegation, simple case of mistaken identity? 

N.Z Rugby players and management have made understatements like this into an art form.

They have the benefit of heaps of experience, I guess.   

Should I mention that Richie Mo'unga is also an All Black?

Or, is that just taken as a given?  

Here's a suggestion for the sport.

Why not instigate a Rugby Respect and Inclusion project? 

Rape Conviction no barrier to representing New Zealand in Rugby

Subsequent, to being found not-guilty of a rape that was said to have occurred in 2016, it has been revealed Deaf Rugby Representative, Christian Grey was convicted in 2009 of the very same crime. 

Grey’s extensive record also includes: drugs, burglary and dishonesty.  

 

 

Leading one to wonder, what barriers/vetting are done by N.Z Rugby Officials when it comes to being selected to represent your country?   

Short answer to that curly one, appears to be = none! 

But don’t let a trivial case of a convicted rapist being able to represent N.Z in Rugby place doubt on the integrity of the organisation that sees itself as above all other N.Z codes. 

The sport that purportedly believes in respect and responsibility.

Unicorns as well.  
 

Makes coughing sound, as if to dislodge something stuck in his throat.

All Black Hot-Head Allegedly Starts Brawl and then Scarpers.

Malakai Fekitoa admits he has anger management issues. 

Yet, he wants us to believe he didn’t start a fight at a Seven’s tournament back in his own stomping ground over Christmas. 

 

Writer makes 'ah-hmm' noise as if removing something from his throat.   

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Then if reports are correct does a runner and blames it on petty jealousy. 

I know who I believe. 

The locals.    

 

Footnote: Great start to the year guys. Two articles in two weeks and the season hasn’t even begun.

N.Z Rugby should start an enquiry to get to the bottom of this. Oh that’s right - they have. Not that you’d know it. It's looking like a bumper year for me.

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.       

N.Z Rugby has normalised abnormal behaviour

What a joke. 

A token panel to review toxic rugby culture. 

A dead cert is the major conclusion to come from this farce will be a lack of women in positions of power.  

Like that will stop street thuggery at one o’clock on a Sunday morning. 

Why is this review even necessary when the N.Z public has been told consistently the off-field actions of N.Z Rugby players are merely representative of society as a whole? 

That’s to say other males this age get-up-to exactly the same criminal activities as professional rugby players. 

The thinly veiled insinuation from rugby apologists, tabloid journalists at the likes of the N.Z Herald, is our cricket and soccer professionals etc. conduct themselves in exactly the same fashion as rugby players.    

We have been fed the line that what rugby players get up-to in terms of drunken violence, sexual abuse etc. is a microcosm of life in New Zealand.

Only it isn’t. 

That’s why no other sport deems it necessary to have a similar review. 

N.Z Rugby has normalised abnormal behaviour to the point any conclusions made by this panel will be symbolic at best.

Mark my words this blog will be as busy as normal: review or no review.