Simon Chisholm is an Embarrassment

 

 

SunLive29th April 2013 Te Puke rugby player Simon Chisholm was sent off for punching another player on Saturday in his second game after spending months recovering from a brain injury received in a king hit by another player last year. 

Simon was red carded for allegedly landing a straight left following earlier unsavoury incidents that were not picked up by match officials, according to a BOP Rugby report. 

 Te Puke player Simon Chisholm was red carded for punching another player at a game on Saturday. 

Te Puke Sports president Ashley Peat confirmed the red carding today, but didn’t see the game and hasn’t spoken to Simon.  

The match between Tauranga Sports and Te Puke Sports at Tauranga Domain was won 39-15 by Tauranga. 

Last year Simon pressed charges after he received a king hit during a match against Te Puna. 

Te Puna player Uenuku Pieta, 22, a farmhand, was charged with assault with intent to injure and was sentenced last month to 200 hours’ community work. He was also ordered to pay $500 reparation and received a year-long ban from playing rugby. 

Tauranga Sports president Trevor Grainger said after the game on Saturday the player was “okay”, and the incident is "ironic" given what happened to Chisholm last year. 

Te Puke Sports vice-president Graham Donald says the club will not comment until after Chisholm’s case is heard before the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union judiciary committee this week.

 

 

Boy did I get it wrong backing Simon Chisholm in a prior article.

I tried to treat him as a hapless victim of needless on-field violence.   

When in contrast and ironically he is made of the same cloth as the person who he took to court.

Simon Chisholm is an embarrassment.  

 

If there is any justice he'll be banned as well.

 

Two high profile New Zealand Rugby Players in Court within 24 hours

Just a day after Hurricanes and All Black winger Julian Savea appeared in Wellington court facing common assault charges we have news of yet another top rugby player facing his own day in front of a judge. 

Blues back Francis Saili will get his time in Auckland court tomorrow, facing driving charges. 

Saili was caught driving without a licence which he lost because of demerit points and speeding tickets. 

Coach Sir John Kirwan says Saili has apologised to his teammates and will face some internal discipline. 

Woop de doo.  

A Danish soccer player lost his place in the national team over a similar driving offence. 

 

It's called no tolerance.   

What is it with these arrogant sods?   

Do they think they are immune the laws of the land simply because of sporting notoriety – being big fish in a small pond? 

Evidently so.      

All Black Julian Savea promotes the Adidas Brand outside Wellington Court

I'm sure Adidas in Germany will be right-royally chuffed with this publicity. 

Julian Savea proves once again Violence is part of N.Z Rugby’s fabric.

‘It’s Not OK’ is an admirable New Zealand campaign against family violence. 

One of its literal poster-boys (refer above) is, or more rightly now was, Julian Savea. 

He's just been charged with giving his ‘mrs’ a slap around.  

It’s called common assault.  

Here’s what the naïve but well-meaning anti-violence group has to say on their web site…. 

In a sports-mad country like New Zealand, sportspeople can play an influential role in promoting a culture of non violence.  

The Campaign is working with sports clubs all over New Zealand at a national and local level, in partnership with family violence networks.  

Sports clubs and their leaders and players are influential in their own communities. Role models can talk to younger players and build a community of support that says no to family violence.  

It's not OK messages can strengthen efforts to improve behaviour on the field and on the sideline. 

Why the hell would any group trying to promote anti-violence go anywhere near a toxic group like rugby union given their sordid record?  

Rugby and violence in New Zealand are intertwined.  

The predictable from Steve Tew (a.k.a Spew) chief of the NZRU was “Without judging the rights or wrongs of this case, we are concerned that this is another incident involving a young player.  We need to find out whether we are doing enough to help these young men cope with the pressures of the professional game.”

Yet again it’s the ‘pressure of the professional game’ that we are to believe is the root cause of so-many players going off the rails.   

In what must be a world-breaking criminal research, the NZRFU have concluded there is a causative link between playing sport at a high level and assaulting people, getting pissed-up etc.       

The same sort of pressure that apparently doesn’t exist in any other top code like say N.Z Soccer players who by my recollection have never been involved in a single off-field incident, yet arguably play at a far higher level of sport on a global scale than any rugby player.   

The pressures of competing at The Olympics that have resulted in all those assaults by our rowers and triathletes – not!     

When is the NZRFU going to break-through its alcoholic like haze and admit “Our game has a serious problem”?  

 

It's not O.K to blame the profession 'rugby player' as an excuse for family violence.   

 

 

 

N.Z Rugby can learn something from Aussie Soccer

Fail a drugs-test for smoking a joint or two in soccer’s A-league and your contract is ripped-up. 

Just ask ex Phoenix player Troy Hearfield.  

Effectively it’s time for him to find a new job. 

This heavy-handed approach by soccer officials to drug/booze abuse doubtless accounts for the fact you hardly ever see their players in strife.