Kit Fawcett in Court

Failed property developer and former All Black Christopher (Kit) Fawcett has been charged with running businesses while bankrupt.  

Nothing unusual in an All Blacks business going belly-up.  

Just ask Dan Cater.

Pill Popping Southland Player Caught

Former New Zealand under-20s prop Tukiterangi Jahna Raimona appeared in the Invercargill District Court last week where he admitted dishonestly obtaining a prescription form with intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage on February 18.  

The Southland court was told Raimona presented a prescription form at an Invercargill pharmacy for Triazolam 60 tablets, Diazepan 60 tablets and Oxynorm 40 but because of the controlled nature of the drugs inquiries were made.  

The script pad was stolen from none other than Southland NPC teams doctor!   

In case you are not up with the play so-called sportsmen are mixing energy drinks and prescription medicines, including sleeping pills, in search of a "legal high" that skirts drug and alcohol testing.  

The obvious question on everyone’s lips is “What was Raimona going to do with such a large stash?” 

Get an artificial high every night for the next five to six months?   

Taking orders seems more likely and if so who for?   

Southland Rugby is dodging that curly one!  

Wayne Pivac gets caught DIC…Again!?

OCTOBER 2004.   

Fiji's national rugby coach Wayne Pivac has failed to appear in a Suva court today to answer charges of dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.

The Fiji Times reports that Pivac allegedly exceeded the prescribed alcohol limit when tested by police on September 11. 

Magistrate Aminiasi Katonivualiku denied a prosecution application for a bench warrant, accepting a defence assurance that Pivac would appear when next called next Thursday. 

Meanwhile, Fiji Rugby Union chief executive Pio Bosco Tikoisuva will step down when his three-year contract expires in December. 

He says that after 37 years of continuous struggle, he thinks it's time to give it a rest and let somebody else have a chance in the position.   

Fast Forward a decade…….

MARCH 2014.

 Auckland's ITM Cup rugby coach Wayne Pivac has been banned from driving after he was caught drink-driving on Waitangi Day. 

Pivac, who lives in Murrays Bay, was stopped by police on Oteha Valley Rd. 

Testing revealed he had a blood-alcohol reading of 171 micrograms, more than twice the legal limit of 80mg. 

Pivac appeared in the North Shore District Court last Friday where he pleaded guilty to a charge of drink-driving. He was fined $1050 and disqualified from driving for nine months.

 

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.

 

All Blacks Front and Centre when it comes to Drinking Games

Neknominate, has been dubbed "the social drinking game for social media” 

Started in The United Kingdom it has hit our shores running and what better group to spread the gospel of drinking to excess than our pre-imminent sporting team, one well versed in pissing-it-up.

 

Cripes, it's not as if New Zealand has a drinking problem, now is it?

Here’s what the coach of All Black Steven Luatua featured in this video has to say about his charge "It’s very uncharacteristic of him as he is a great role model and has always set a good example to others."  

He’s a ‘role model’!   

Here's how N.Z Rugby role models operate......

 

 

Rugby Hero ‘Lima’ (Allegedly) Bash’s the Mrs

Subsequent to a weekend incident up in Samoa Highlanders/Blues and Samoan International Brian Lima has been charged after a public assault involving a weapon against his ex-wife.  

This is Lemalu Sina Retzlaff,  Lima’s ex missus after ‘the bash’…… 

 

  
This is not the first time ‘wife slapping’ by Lima came to the attention of Samoan media.

Accusations were aired in 2011. In one incident fellow players went to protect his wife from a drunk and abusive Lima.  

Through-out his career Lima was renowned and even celebrated amongst rugby circles as a violent player, out to inflict injury legally/illegally on his opposition.    

I am not going to give the loser more precious ‘media air’ so I’ll allow you to go to You Tube and do your own searches for Brian Lima: Sinne Tu’ipulotu, Johnny Wilkinson, Jaque Fourie, Budge Pountney.  

Well back in 2008 his (alleged) spousal abuse, issues with alcohol were aired on this Samoan board.

Last year Lima accused his wife of forgery and falsifying documents but later withdrew his complaint. 

None of these ‘red flags’ dulled his lustre in the eyes of the IRB who inducted him into Rugby’s Hall of Fame in 2011.    

None of these behavioural issues saw him prevented him becoming the coach of the eighth best rugby nation on planet Earth.     

Even today The Herald headlines Lima as a ‘Rugby Hero’.

(Alleged?) Thieving Maori All Black gets a second chance

Willie Ripia is a player who has donned the N.Z Maori jersey. 

Ripia ended-up at The Western Force in 2010 as part of a ‘foreign’ allocation Australian Rugby have that gives a pathway for overseas born players into The Wallabies.   

He was unceremoniously booted out of The Force at the beginning of 2012 after CCTV footage caught him flogging money from the wallets and kit bags of his own team mates!  

He denied the claims but couldn’t argue with the footage, said he had gambling issues.   

But who thinks ‘honesty and trust’ are necessary attributes of a professional rugby player?  

Last season Ripia was made the captain, of all things, of Bay of Plenty ITM team and now he’s got a Super 15 contract with The Highlanders.     

Thieving from your team-mates must be one of the lowest acts one can perpetrate, unless the sport is rugby where it’s clearly not an issue to anyone in N.Z.