Rene Ranger adds to AB’s illustrious history

Booze.

Drink Driving.

All Black.

Next I'll be blogging about it snowing in Russia during winter.

Troy Favell wants Kiwis to “Do as I say, not as I do”

Kiwis are very forgiving people. 

We appreciate that people make mistakes. 

Like former All Black Troy Favell who this week plead guilty to a count of driving with excess breath alcohol.  

Hankies at the ready.

 

Favell wants the whole country to know "I made a terrible, disgusting mistake and an embarrassingly poor decision. Obviously my actions come with consequences and I want to take that on the chin and move forward from this. I want to urge young people to understand - don't get behind the wheel after drinking."

 

Not a dry eye in the court that day.

 

Only Troy forgot to mention in his pleading for forgiveness, that this is the second time he’s been caught DIC, the last time was 1995. 

Do as I say not as I do.  

Then there’s also the little matter of last time he appeared in court. 

No not 1995.  

In 2004 when he admitted assaulting a 23-year-old man.  

His lawyer must love recidivist buffoons like him.

 

Ex All Black Destroys Image of all Kiwis in France

Drunken destruction and domestic violence. 

Hmmm? 

Where have I heard those terms before in relation to a N.Z sportsman? 

Give me a starter for 10. 

Oh that’s right, now I remember!   

And if one was to visit Byron Kelleher’s rugby themed pub in Toulouse – what would I expect in terms of a customer experience?  

Punch bags with dresses?  

Roman Vomitorium?  

Hopefully it will be 3^rd time unlucky with the French judiciary for Byron Kelleher.

 

His girlfriend won't need to 'fear his reprisals' knowing he's behind bars, facing deportation.   

St Bede's College Rugby: A History of Violence and Abuse.

In a country where being the captain of the national rugby team bestows you the title of ‘New Zealander of The Year’ it will come as little surprise that secondary schools get all weak at the knees over the performance of their first fifteens. 

More-ever secondary schools jump at the chance to publicise success of their rugby teams, even offering scholarships for top players, rather than say top mathematicians. 

I mean who really cares about trifling matters like scholastic subjects?  

So parading and lauding your top rugby players as being the epitome of what the school represents is the norm. 

More-so single sex boy’s schools. 

Like St Bede's College a private integrated Catholic boys-high school down in Christchurch.  

If the school name sounds familiar think two litigious parents and that rowing coach the southern decile 9 so-called college left out to dry. 

St Bede's Rugby has a history of serious off-field violence, controversy which ‘the wider Bedean’ family would rather was wiped under the carpet.  

Beadeans as they gormlessly like to be known and the rugby community would rather prefer we knew just about their ex best-in-show All Blacks, sundry old-boys that have done good. 

 

Not scum-bags who use to scrum down.   

Diddums to that revisionist approach.   

Not least the 2005 assault of the current rector by what was termed by The Christchurch Press at the time as; ‘two unknown mystery assailants.’  

Really Rector Justin Boyle?  

Hand on a St James bible?    

Far be it for me to suggest these two thugs were ‘sporty-type’ ex pupils of Mr Boyle and the case stalled because of the ‘tarnishing’ scandal that would ensued had it gone to court and everyone knew how some St Bede's old-boys act.     

Then there was the brutal assault by the former captain of the St Bede's first XV captain in 2010. A charge which was upgraded to injuring in circumstances where, if death had occurred, he would have been guilty of manslaughter. 

A year later after losing to Wesley College (Pukekohe) members of the St Bede's First VX aided by fellow pupils engaged in on-line racial abuse.

Now we come to the latest case, involving Tyrone Davies a player St Bede's ironically poached from another South Island school.  

Rugby junketing Davies is awaiting sentence in Ireland after admitting ‘glassing' a patron at a pub. 

That’s right he smashed a broken glass into some poor Irish punters face.  

Tyrone clearly benefited from the ‘core values’ instilled during his time at St Bede's College.  

What a disgraceful legacy St Bedes has produced from its rugby ranks.     

 

 

Yet another so-called ‘promising’ young rugby player walks free from a N.Z Court

At the back end of last year yet another young rugby thug walked free from a New Zealand Court after pleading guilty to assault.

Those familiar with the board-game Cluedo will solve this particular riddle quickly…

Rugby player

In the pub

Drunk late at night

In a fight

Tyrel Lomax is on the books of The Brumbies.

Seriously I don’t know why the N.Z Police bother to prosecute high profile rugby players given the Courts propensity to allow the guilty party to walk all-but free, time after time.

Discharged without conviction for assault.

It’s a waste of taxpayers money even charging them given they seemingly never get jail time, their societal standing protects them.   

Search ‘One Rule for Rugby Players’ on this site for more examples of how the ‘O.J Simpson' Justice System works in New Zealand.

Ex Junior All Black and partner defraud IRD of close to a million

Former Junior All Black and Waikato lock John Williams and his partner, have admitted  charges relating to tax, GST and PAYE evasion by their company Stewart Drake International Ltd. 

The company/couple ran the bar, JJ's @ On Tap in Taupo.   

Stewart Drake International Ltd was put into liquidation in September last year. 

Their offending stretched from April 1, 2008, to November 30, 2014, and totalled a hefty $911,311, inclusive of penalties.  

Sentencing will be next month and a stretch in jail is not out of the question. 

No doubt Williams is familiar how the justice system works. 

 

 

Promising young Plumber escapes conviction over Bar Assault

A promising young plumber with a "glittering career" ahead of him has avoided a conviction for punching a man who was at a bar with the tradesman ex-girlfriend. 

In summing up the case the judge suggested “The information which is before me suggests that you have every opportunity to pursue a productive career, may-be even rising to owning your own plumbing and electrical contracting business if your development continues." 

No not really.

A plumber facing an identical situation would in all likelihood face a fine or imprisonment. 

Unlike Teariki Ben-Nicholas a plumber, government clerk, courier driver, panel-beater etc can’t possibly have ‘a glittering career’ in New Zealand. 

These people never, ever travel overseas on their OE, work etc.  

Just rugby players.

 

The Justice system in New Zealand is once again made to look on par with a Latin American Banana Republic.