Gisborne Rugby Incident ‘fuelled by alcohol’ God Forbid, what next?

The most overused N.Z euphemism, in the context of the third-estates reporting of our national code, must be; incident. 

If you have 10 minutes try counting them-up HERE.

Incident of course doesn't do justice to what happened in the car-park of Rugby Park, Gisborne. 

Still, could we honestly expect the media to go 'full retard' on rugby in N.Z, given that virtually every page in the land currently features an article on the sport?  

Hell no!   

It's left to moi.

Whenever you read the term ‘Aspiring Rugby Player’ in a New Zealand Newspaper you know what will come next

Police.

Courts.

Violence.

All follow like day into night.

Jesse Montagu sounds like a real ‘piece of works’ & another fine,up-standing product of South Canterbury Rugby.

If ever the term ‘do as I say, not as I do’ needed a home.

It would be The South Canterbury Rugby Union.

A sporting body that has the noble aspiration to address violence in N.Z society.

Only this cessation of violence in our homes & on our streets never applies to the players from this region.  

Just the rest of us.

Southland Stag Player Facing an Assault Charge

What were you doing last Sunday morning?

No, not 8.00 am.

Say, more like 3.00 am?

Tucked-up in the scratcher probably.

Not say involved in a brawl outside a 24 hour dairy?

Oh, unsurprisingly you prefer to leave that sort of activity to professional rugby players.

Like say Southland Stags player Manaaki Selby-Rickit who fronted court in Invercargill today facing a charge of assaulting with intent to injure.

Police outlined "The victim suffered a fractured jaw after allegedly being punched then kicked whilst on the ground."

Selby-Rickit is the son of former All Black, Hud Rickit.

ODT Report. 

Kiwi's are told constantly it's part of our DNA. 

Apparently. 

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”.