Kurow Rugby Club must be the saddest, most dysfunctional club in New Zealand

Kurow is a small town in North Otago that can barely throw together enough fit adult men to form a pool team, let alone, let alone enough to field a single senior men’s rugby squad. 

One thing they are not short of down the Hakataramea is the propensity to get ‘trolleyed’ after a game of rugger.

That’s what men-folk in country football teams do & have done for decades. 
 
You would have thought the death of a club member in a car accident after one of these prescribed after-matches (2016) would have tempered this practice & brought some sanity to this small sporting club.
 
Made the local community as whole take-a-look at themselves.
 
Like fuck!

Here they are, at it again.

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/north-otago-rugby-pair-jailed 

This blog features many rugby clubs up & down the country.

All for the wrong reasons I must add.  

Per head of population The Kurow Rugby Club must be the saddest, most dysfunctional club in New Zealand. 
 
Richie McCaw should be embarrassed every-time someone uses the sobriquet 'The Kurow Kid'.   
 


  

 

It goes without say another Rugby Pro Escapes Conviction

One pissed-up rugby star. 

Heated late night domestic. 

You already know this won’t end-up well.  

By the end of the night she ends-up suffering bruising to the side of her face and waist, bleeding from the knee. 

Who is ‘he’ in all of this? 

Sevu Reece of Waikato & his court appearance was today.

Facing the charge of common assault, he was discharged without conviction. 

Now replace ‘rugby star’ with say ‘taxi driver’ or ‘office manager’. 

 

Ask yourself?

You’ll doubtless come to the same conclusion as me as to justice being served evenly in this country. 

Up-Date Wednesday 03^rd Oct: Irish Club, Connacht, that Reece was due to join has dumped him despite his discharge. Clearly Irish Rugby officials treat domestic violence differently than N.Z Rugby. If ever there was an opportunity to show decisive action in-line with the sports Respect and Responsibility protocols – this was it. Reece is due to play this weekend for Waikato. What was his punishment again? Remind me.   

2^nd Up-date Monday 15^th October: Well what else did you expect from N.Z Rugby? They would act in the same chivalrous, decisive fashion as their Irish counterparts? Make a stand against domestic violence? You gotta be joking! Reece has been sent on some wishy-washy course, stood down for a single game. Wow! That will teach him a lesson, show the public that wife beaters have no place in the sport of rugby in 2018. Waikato Rugby Union sponsors include the likes of McDonalds, Vodafone, Waikato University, YMCA, The Breeze Radio Station etc.  These sponsors have had their name tarnished.

 

More ref bashing

What a sad state of affairs.

A 'nothing' club rugby game in the sporting backwash of Oamaru enrages one fan enough to 'smack' the ref.  

Read if you want to increase your blood pressure, despair at the state of N.Z's national sport. 

Another day another pissed-up All Black, no make that All Blacks

Just a few beers claims Jordie Barrett.

"I had a couple drinks in town with mates and basically can recall everything that happened that night and I was not intoxicated".

Pull the other-one Jordie. 

Not even the most staunch All Black fan believes you simply walked into the wrong flat in the wee smalls because of a simple mix-up, unmitigated by your alcohol consumption. 

You went out drinking into the early hours and only “had a couple”? 

Maccers is the AB breakfast of choice and any aspiring junior player should take note.  

The Tui beer marketing company could have a field-day.

You and your mate were too-pissed to tell where you were, seems to fit the bill.

That is what anyone with half-a-brain-cell thinks is what happened.

But wait there’s more, the night after in what are called hi-jinks by All Blacks and Blues winger Rieko Loane.

Loane ends-up with a cut above his eye in an incident with an unnamed team-mate at an after-match piss-up.

Ooops typo sorry, I meant ‘private function’ it could never be a piss-up because these are top professional athletes with strict protocols.

I can't find any media report to indicate if Loane got Maccers on the way to or from hospital? 

They play in the most successful international sporting team on the planet we are told by N.Z Rugby's marketing department & N.Z media. 

Which are locked at the hip. 

 

Now picture the German World Cup Soccer Squad getting ready for camp and two of their players getting involved in similar incidences.  

These two would be out of the Russian tournament before it started.

Disgraced by their actions, they would be dumped.

Contrastingly these two muppets will be playing test rugby next weekend.

If South Canterbury Police want to lower domestic-violence then get Sky to ‘black-out’ All Black games

I’m left aghast at the belief by South Canterbury Rugby & Police they can some-how ‘combine’ to drop domestic violence in their region. 

Is this a smoke-screen tactic to divert the public’s attention from a major source of family violence?  

Televised rugby.  

I’m not against the principals of the initiative, after-all this country leads the world in domestic violence. 

There’s one major issue both the Police and Rugby fraternity in South Canterbury seem to ignore.  

High profile rugby games lead to an increase in domestic violence. 

This inconvenient fact comes from none-other source than the Police themselves!  

READ

It’s rugby-heads getting liquored-up and giving the ‘mrs’ a clip that add to the country’s appalling record. 

Indeed, the local rugby clubs in South Canterbury should feel morally obligated to continuously raise money for Women’s Refuge given ‘big game’ nights lead to an increase in women seeking their services.

Women’s Refuge have highlighted this fact repeatedly.

READ   

Incidents spike when the local team loses.

 

This will be the same in South Canterbury and 'my money' is on the Polices own regional crime stats agreeing with this summation.  

 

Rugby is not the cure here.  

It’s a major problem.    

 

White-Ribbon should be distancing itself from the sport altogether.       

 

 

 

South Canterbury Rugby Players are part of the problem not the solution

“The campaign does not suggest domestic and family violence are in any way directed or attributed to rugby players or rugby clubs, but instead recognised the influence of rugby in the community”

 

South Canterbury Rugby Football Union chief executive Craig Calder is taking the piss....right?!  

Or at least so enamored, deluded with his beloved sport not to see the facts?

Think no-one in Timaru knows there’s an internet search engine called Google?   

The donation of 10 phones will go anyway to mitigate the sad record rugby has in the community. 

His community, the one that needs to address violence and it's his organisation that's some-how going to lead that change.  

 

Like f*ck!

Perhaps he's forgotten that 13 months into his own tenure a former South Canterbury representative rugby player called John Junior Faavae  who was sentenced in the Timaru Court to two years and six months in jail. 

His crime? 

Indecent assault and attempted sexual violation by rape.  

 

I guess that's not community violence in 'rugby speak'. 

In 2013 four South Canterbury players faced allegations of rape, which were later dropped due to in-sufficient evidence.   

But wait there’s more!  

April of 2000 South Canterbury Player Kemipolo Tongotongo was found guilty of sexual violation by rape.  

His lawyer proudly told the court at the time "He is a rugby player of some considerable talent"  

"The South Canterbury Rugby Union went to a lot of trouble to bring him from Auckland to play for them." 

Clean-up your own act Mr Calder. 

 

Put your arrogance to one side and face the facts you can't influence what goes on in the wider community.

 

You can influence the paltry 25 odd semi-professional players you have under contract. 



 

 

 

 

Southland Rugby Poster Boys for Respect & Responsibility

The recommendations provide all of rugby a pathway to continue to ensure everyone involved in the game has the right information and understanding with regards to respect and responsibility to enable them to make the right decisions. This includes ensuring that our attitudes towards women in rugby, diversity, respect, responsibility and inclusiveness are in keeping with a world leading sports organisation (N.Z Rugby ‘Respect & Responsibility Review 2016)  

Ex Southland Stags Assistant Managers & Southland Maori Rugby Coach JASON TE HUIA drunkenly racially abuses an Asian Doorman at the Queenstown Casino.   

Mostly “Shoe lace eyes” don’t play rugby – they are fair game I guess.  

Just up-the-road ex Southland front-row forward DREW RIORDAN appears in Gore District Court after scribing drunken intimidatory posts on Facebook against a female journalist. 

 "I bet there's no bush telegraph the night when she's lying dead on [sic] after being run over by a guy heading to the station" is all part of N.Z Rugby’s wonderful inclusiveness. 

Just remember Kiwi readers: Rugby is part of our DNA. 

Sad.