Has anyone on the Shirley Rugby Club Committee heard of Social Media or even got a Calendar?

A quick ‘google’ shows embezzlement is riff of late amongst South Island recreational sporting entities. 

Eric Lee recently had his grubby fingers dipping into the Queenstown Bowling Club. 

Tania Lind did the same to The Sunset Speedway in Westport.  

Now we’ve learned in today’s The Christchurch Press, Howard Morel has been diddling The Shirley Rugby Club. 

The difference between these three cases is when the funds were found to be missing the bowling club & the West Coast speedway correctly took their concerns to the police. 

But, not the Shirley Rugby Club. 

Oh, no.   

In a hark-back to the days of ‘what happens on tour, stays on tour’ The Shirley Rugby Club thought they could keep fraud of this scale ($200,000) their hush-hush deal quite.  

Un-bloody-believable.  

Make no bones about it The Shirly Rugby Club are the victims of a criminal undertaking. 

 

Betrayal on a massive scale from a life member. 

They deserve restitution and Howard Morel his day in court.

A serious crime has occurred here.

Were three teens to break-in & trash the Shirley Clubrooms and one was found to be a member of the club, would the committee tell the Police just to investigate the other two? 
 

Even when the ‘cat was out of the bag’ The Christchurch Press knew the frame-work of the crime, deal struck & they were about to publish the details -  they still naively tried to obfuscate.

“He’s (Morel) away on leave of absence.” 

Like fuck! 

Can they see how this smoke-screen looks to an outsider?

The Shirley Rugby Club Committee handling of this affair have made laughing-stocks of their club and showed yet-again that N.Z Rugby Clubs function in a decades-old bubble. 

It’s 1977 down in their patch, disco is in its hey-day, long side-burns are in.  

 

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.       

Rugby Mentality Divides South Island Township

The Kurow rugby community is apparently 'devastated'' by the crash that occurred after drunken members went on ‘the ran tan’ after pissing up at their clubrooms. 

Cue ‘Yeah Right’ meme.  

The drunk idiot driver at the wheel that night, ex North Otago rep Regan Laughton, crashed the vehicle resulting in the death of Jarrad Blackler (23) and injuries to all his fellow rugby-club passengers. One of which was in hospital for 10 weeks.  

Kevin Malcolm the coach of the Kurow Rugby Club throws at us that old-standard (quote) ''Somehow we need to find a way to make community changes to prevent this from happening again, because it is a community thing.''  

No admission from Malcolm that the club could have prevented an intoxicated driver to get behind the wheel with five passengers after pissing-up at their clubrooms.   

No talk of a club policy that involves a nominated sober driver.  

The booze in part came from his premises.  

The family, supporters of the victim are up against this ingrained small town ‘rugby’ mentality. 

This after-all is the township that is raising funds to build a statue of Richie McCaw.   

Does anyone think tragedies like this are merely the collateral for living a rural lifestyle?  

Remind me – it’s 1916, eh?  

The fact the seemingly unrepentant Laugthon escaped a jail term is another issue that sticks in one’s craw.      

As does the matter of this rugby club still being able to sell alcohol.

Same with 'the local' that tanked-up 'the tanked-up' waved them goodnight.   

If the Kurow community really cared, they would now be building a statue to Jarrad Blackler and not McCaw. 

So this young-man didn’t die in vain and this could be a fitting permanent memorial of the folly of drink-driving.

Looking after your mates. 

Fat chance.

This is rugby heartland.

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.  

 

 

Girl Basher ‘Big Man’ Losi Filipo sentenced to supervision

Another ‘Great Out Jail Free Card’ issued to a rugby starling by the weak at the knees N.Z judicial system. 

A paltry nine months supervision.  

Weekly meetings to be held at 7’s Bar?   

Nothing positive has come out of this sorry affair.

The victims have not received justice. 

Still N.Z Rugby fans can rejoice whilst at the same time the public shakes their heads and hope they are not on the receiving end of a similar beating from a street thug like Losi Filipo.   

Odds on Filipo will appear somewhere on the field once his token sentence has been completed.

 

He'll be able to continue to taunt his victims. 

 

That’s the way it works in New Zealand.      

Gregor Paul and his fellow journalists are little more than sock puppets of the N.Z Rugby Union

“Statistical reality that professional rugby, so heavily populated by young men, is going to incur such incidents” 

Gregor Paul in his 21^st Oct 2016 N.Z Herald article perpetrates the contemptuous crap that comes from the N.Z Rugby Union - that offending by professional rugby players is endemic of society. 

Seriously if males in N.Z acted like professional rugby players we’d be looking at Soweto as a relatively safe holiday destination.  

Proving this claim by Paul and his puppet-masters is a falsehood is easy.

Anyone with access to Google can do so. 

Perhaps Paul should Google ‘google’?       

Let’s compare the conduct of N.Z professional rugby players with say N.Z professional soccer/football players and see what results we get. 

Remembering in just the last few weeks on the rugby side of the ledger we’ve had: 

A player caught wanking in front of kids 

One up for attempted rape

One let-off for a vicious assault 

 

Of the later Filipo assault Steve Spew Tew also wanted us to believe 'it was a reflection of greater society'.

 

Let's examine this claim along with NASA faking the moon landings.  

 

Kiwi soccer players are littered about the globe.  

They earn good money & have the same temptations as say their rugby compatriots.

 

It's a fair comparison.  

According to fiction writer Gregor Paul and arch-apologist Tew statistically they’ll be in the news for all the wrong reasons at the same level of the bell curve as rugby.   

Yet, the only return on the search “New Zealand footballer arrested” I got were cases of cardiac arrest.

What about “New Zealand soccer player arrested”? 

Nothing in the first four pages, unless you count incidents of overseas players. 

I tried a broad search under Google NZ for “Soccer player drunk” and also struck out. 

A repeat of before, not one return in the first four pages.

“Soccer player charged”?

 Zip.

The very same demographic as rugby players, yet not one has come to the attention of not just the New Zealand media, but global media as well.

If one of the Kiwi soccer squad faced criminal charges in the country they played-in professionally this would soon be news back in their homeland.  

Paul and his fellow sycophants would be all over a juicy story like a rabid hyena.   

Probably have a headline ‘See I told you it wasn’t just Rugby Players’  

So why don’t N.Z Journalists report the disturbing level of criminality amongst professional rugby players that is way out of proportion to any other demographic? 

They are pussies. 

Post a highly critical article on rugby and you’ll risk being blacklisted. 

New Zealand journalists like Gregor Paul are scared to tell the truth about New Zealand rugby least their biggest source of ‘click bait’ is pulled from underneath their feet.

 

Paul himself would be out of the 'stocking filler' rugby book for Christmas business pronto and he knows it.  

What masquerades as investigative journalism in New Zealand end-up being little better than NZRFU media releases. 

Australian coach Michael Cheika isn't afraid to highlight the collusion between the N.Z Herald and N.Z Rugby Union.  
 

So we end-up with articles that are so wildly inaccurate they actually insult other sportsmen by falsely asserting by default their chosen sport engages in the same sort of criminality as rugby players.

They don’t. 

That’s a fact not fiction.