Simon Chisholm just can’t help himself!

His rugby legacy continues (read: here) propensity for violence seemingly knows no bounds.

Two questions...

 

Who is going to stop Simon Chisholm?  

What is going to stop Simon Chisholm?  

 

More violence mars schoolboy game

Just weeks into the NZRFU’s anti-violence ‘respect’ campaign started, an under-16s schoolboy game in Wanganui was called off early after a number of fights broke out between two high-schools.    

This comes shortly after a teenage player was killed after a post-practice brawl. 

Schoolboy rugby violence in New Zealand rather than being the exception is now the rule.  

The NZRFU’s APPLAUD campaign was always due to fail miserably, is already in tatters.  

Why should parents, amateur players obey the law of the land when so many high profile players in this country are in front of courts, escape substantive sanction from their employers?

NZRFU’s Campaign to stop spectator abuse gets off to a great start

Three South Canterbury rugby players and a spectator have been sanctioned after an on-field scuffle turned into an "all-in brawl" involving more than 20 people on Saturday (8^th June) 

South Canterbury Rugby Union chairman Brent Isbister said it was a tight senior grade game between Geraldine and Temuka in which tensions boiled over. 

"At the very end of the game a scuffle started and that erupted into an all-in brawl. The brawl went over the sideline in amongst the spectators and I guess a couple of them just couldn't help themselves," Mr Isbister said today. 

About 20 of the 30 players on the field had been involved, as well as several spectators, one of whom was a Temuka player who was not taking part in that game. 

When asked to comment Steve Spew (PeO of N.Z Rugby) quickly quashed suggestions the South Canterbury incident was anything to do with the sport he heads.

 

“This is a media beat-up. None of this has anything to do with the game, simply an indictment on society”

“Those grounds were also used for cricket in summer” Spew went on to state.

“One of the players uncles involved with the brawl had a recent death in the family and was under intense personal pressure”   

“These are young men letting off steam who happened by chance to meet at the same ground one Saturday”  

“Our investigations show two players and one spectator were involved with soccer at a junior level”

 Spew went on to suggest “The links to rugby in this case were very tenuous”.    

 

Drunken Racially Abusive Southland NPC Player gets Convicted

Today in the Invercargill District Court Judge Michael Turner convicted Southland Stags player Nelson Ngaluafe, 21, (above) on charges of assaulting a female and intentional damage. 

Despite attempts to be discharged without conviction Ngaluafe, described in court as a ''Jekkyl and Hyde'' character, was fined  $500 and sentenced to nine months supervision.  

Although Ngaluafe has no previous criminal convictions it came up in court Ngaluafe was involved in an altercation in Queenstown in 2011 in which he was charged and granted police diversion.  

Diversion and now supervision, how many ‘lives’ does he have?   

To cut and paste the Southland Times report which reads like other similar cases, the overtones are always the same: rugby player gets drunk after game and throws his weight around…..  

The judge said Ngaluafe began drinking after a rugby game on April 27 and had continued drinking until 2am when he walked out of an Invercargill tavern heavily intoxicated.  

He approached a parked car in which a man and a 17-year-old woman were sitting, and without provocation, he racially abused the woman, calling her a ''white b#@tch''. He had never met her before.  

She said ''excuse me'', and Ngaluafe grabbed her and tried to drag her out the car window before the male driver intervened, the judge said.  

Ngaluafe then walked to the driver's side of the car and smashed the window with his elbow.  

Police arrived on the scene and arrested him.   

Rugby is never to blame, eh?   

 

Homophobia is part of N.Z rugby’s DNA.

Gay slurs ruin rugby night

Unfortunately for this complainant homosexual hatred is indeed an essential part of ‘rugby circles’ – being ‘a man’ in this country.  

Hannah Spyksma learnt this salient fact the hard way.  

Homophobia is part of N.Z rugby’s DNA.  

"If you don't like us using the word faggot then don't come to the footy because it's just part of the game” is bang on the nail.  

If you object to slurs and attacks on your sexuality, excepting heterosexuality, then the last place you want to be is in a crowd of New Zealand rugby fans.   

The question one must ask though is 'Why are rugby men in this country so threatened by homosexuals?'  

Do they believe openly hating homosexuals is a defacto public admission you yourself are not a homosexual when all the evidence is to the contrary?  

Studies show the people that virulently hate homosexuals such as these blokes at Eden Park are more likely to cloister homosexual tendencies than someone who stays silent.  

 

Up-Date 16^th June: All Black Israel Dagg was ‘heard’ commenting on Twitter that his Auckland team-mate Brendon O'Connor was a "fag".    

 

 

Fallacy: It’s never rugby’s fault

 

When will this drunken-man of N.Z Sport, NZRFU, have the gumption to take ownership of ‘his’ issues?  

When will the NZRFU’s hollow words resonate with the public? 

When will the public see through their well-manicured propaganda veil?   

Irrespective of the on-field and off-field indiscretions, even murders – apparently it’s never the game at fault.  

Its society, the pressures all sort of excuses etc but never the game and the players. 

Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary the NZRFU plug the line that violence is not part of the game of rugby in N.Z.  

The NZRFU is in denial, drunk with its own importance.   

Happy to ignore the elephant in the room, knowing full well a lap-dog media will print their propaganda verbatim without challenging its validity.  

Just how many more deaths do we need before this ‘drunken bully’ owns up to ‘his’ issues?   

When is the N.Z media going to call the bully-boys bluff and ask them “What is it always rugby players engaging in criminality and not say soccer players or rowers?”   

 

Why weren’t the Domestic Violence Campaigners protesting outside Eden Park last night?

Reminder to N.Z Public cheering for this bloke and the NZRFU who audaciously selected him in the first place.

Julian Savea is on bail after appearing in court for the second time last month on a charge of common assault.

Truly shameful exercise, lack of respect to the victim - but I'm seemingly alone in this opinion.  

The presumption of innocence is always a factor in these cases.

But do these sound like the words of an innocent man to you?

"I'm not making excuses for myself. I know what I did was wrong, and I'm taking steps to make sure this will never happen again."

"But I will say my partner and I had an argument, I did some things that are wrong, that I shouldn't have done, and I apologise for that".

Tell us Jules what were you tearfully apologising for with the NZRFU Chief Executive by your side?

"I did some things that are wrong"

Being what?

Women in particular should be outraged. 

The Press all over this.

But hey this is New Zealand.

The likes of Women's Refuge aren't even willing to highlight this abasement.

The All Blacks always have a get out of jail free card, the sycophantic 4th estate by/on their side.

If Savea was just 'Samoan Joe' a factory worker from Lower Hutt or an international League or Soccer player the public would want blood, demand he was stood down from representing the country. 

I'm putting my money on Savea walking free from court despite those damning statements he issued at the press conference.  

There is one rule for high profile rugby players in New Zealand and another for you and me.

Rugby Bad-Boys front NZRFU side-line campaign

Imagine picking the following characters to front a campaign to clean up side line abuse at junior rugby games…. 

One guy 'right and centre' was charged with disorderly behaviour.  

Another bloke killed an endangered species and brutally and unprovoked king hit an opposition player from behind. 

This very same Neanderthal claims as part of the NRFU APPLAUD campaign for side-line responsibility claims laughably that “Rugby wasn't violent, it was a contact sport”  

This is him on the paddock.  

 

Kiwi mums must love the prospect of their boy being on the receiving end of this sort of 'contact'.     

There’s also another headliner N.Z representative, an idiot who drives whilst suspended. 

Sadly that’s the calibre of rugby stock in this land.

It’s hard to find anyone with any credibility to front a campaign like this.  

What a sham law abiding parents are being preached to by this 'role model' rabble.  

What a joke the NZRFU putting these players up in the first place. 

 

Seriously, is that the best you've got?  

 

Kiwi parents who care about how their kids turn-out should sit them down and tell them sternly "See that All Black over there don't grow up like him"

 

Is it any surprise to see School Rugby player die from violence?

Is it any surprise to see School Rugby player die from rugby related violence in New Zealand?

 

Given the 'love' of on-field aggression and outright thuggery.

 

# 1 Watch

 

 

 # 2 Read (press on the deceased photo)

 

 

School Rugby violence is not just isolated to Auckland.

 

In Christchurch the police are out in force for annual 'elitist' Christ College versus Boys High game to prevent fans clashing.

 

 

 

Violence and rugby are inter-twined in this country.

 

Every strata of N.Z society embraces on-field violence, so it's no wonder we are now seeing teenagers killed on a rugby pitch.