Future All Blacks Brawling

Auckland First Fifteen School boys brawling over the weekend in the game between Mangere College 1st XV at Tamaki College.

 Will the Rugby Channel be televising this?  

Ex Southland Stags Captain pleads guilty to attempting to pervert justice

Ex Southland Stags rugby captain Davin Heaps, who also played for the Highlanders, Hurricanes and Blues, admitted in Invercargill Court, Friday, to the charges of willfully attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Sycophantic references -- yawn -- from former All Black buddies Justin Marshall, Kees Meeuws and Simon Culhane failed to sway the judge.

That’s a breath-of-fresh-air in itself.

Heaps (48) was sentenced community detention and ordered to pay thousands of dollars reparation after instructing an employee who suffered a hand injury on his farm to lie to Worksafe investigators.

Surely having played in so-many Super franchises, Air New Zealand could see fit to also included Heaps in their next lavish safety video? 

Help the bloke out of a hole - one he dug. 

Lately I've been wondering, why Kiwis would bother with a genealogical DNA test, when it's invariably only going to show-up 'Rugby'? 

Not that your grandmother is part Albanian & you didn't get your blue eyes off your father.

Still, this is N.Z after-all.

Who wouldn't want to be a part of Davin Heaps fine lineage?    

Assaulting Rugby Referees is part of our country's DNA

June 2018: Marist player Sautia Lemalu receives a 10 year ban for twice striking a referee in Masterton

July 2018: Referee punches after a match in Oamaru between Old Boys & Valley

June 2019: Central Rugby Club (Tasman) player Peter Vakaloa makes threatening advances towards the assistant referee after being red-carded.

 July 2019: A ref is punched in a match in Middlemarch, Otago (refer my last post for the gory details)

July 2019: A 15 y.o referee was punched and strangled by a spectator after he sent a player off the field at an under-12s game in Auckland, involving two teams from the same Ardmore Marist club.  

South Island Club Rugby Plumbs New Depths

July 24^th: A Nelson Rugby Club player requires reconstructive surgery after being punched in a game against Motueka.

July 27^th: A Central Otago referee was punched at the end of a game between Crescent & Strath Tairei held in Middlemarch.  

Makes me cringe every-time I now hear “Rugby is our national sport”.  

Another stellar week for N.Z Rugby N.Z Inc

On-field strangulation

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Man, in hospital over the weekend after a serious assault in a Dunedin Rugby Club

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Don’t worry people.

This is perfectly normal behaviour for Kiwi men.

Young men blowing-off steam. 

Or so we are old verbatim by N.Z Rugby.   

Post-Match All-In Brawl in New Plymouth

When I indicate all-in, I mean all-in.

Players, management, executive members of the clubs and supporters all 'got amongst it' in a post-match brawl in New Plymouth.

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I half expected their dogs & kids to be front & centre as well.

Probably chained & locked-up at home that day.  

 "We have made a stand that violence in our game is unacceptable” is what Taranaki Rugby Union have had to say.

Unacceptable, but an all-too-normal occurrence around the country’s parks, when it comes to rugger.

Wellington Lions & Ex Hurricanes player seen snorting ecstasy on social media video

Where did this happen?

One report suggests a Wellington rugby club, silly-billy.

Hutt Old Boys Marist to be exact.

Off?

A century old sporting shield.

Rugby people love their traditions.

What shit are we talking?

MDMA.

That’s ecstasy to most folk.

Surely, the player involved will be banned?

Rugby authorities in N.Z take incidents like this very seriously.

The offender, James O'Reilly, can’t play for a hefty…..drum-roll…..two weeks!

Details.