Coroner blames Rugby Booze Culture for two deaths.

[Stuff NZ] The deaths of two young rugby players in a high speed crash could have been avoided if a culture of mixing drinking with sport was not so prevalent. Jack Henry Ballantyne and Tui Huruata Candish-Thompson died on May 11, 2012, after crashing into a power pole at high speed near Hinds, south of Ashburton. Ballantyne had been drinking alcohol and was driving about 185kmh when he lost control of the vehicle on the rural road.

Candish-Thompson was in the front passenger seat of the car when the crash happened. In findings released today, Coroner Richard McElrea said the deaths were a "tragedy that could have been avoided". "It was an example of the mixture of sport and alcohol." The two teenagers had visited the Hinds Tavern after rugby training on May 10 – something the team regularly did after practice.

 The coroner has clearly made the wrong conclusion. 

At least according to Steve Tew who consistently plugs the line there is no drinking culture in N.Z Rugby circles.   

Try telling the poor parents.

 

Police Custody is the best place for Pita Wilson

 

Four people, including ex Southland/North Harbour player Pita Wilson have been variously been charged with kidnap, serious violence and methamphetamine-related offending in Central Otago. 

Wilson made the Southland Stags in 2003 after playing for North Harbour. 

Also a former cage-fighter Wilson is a right bit of works. 

In 2006 Wilson was shot during a gang confrontation on The Gold Coast.  

Pita Wilson is a proud product of both Waitaki Boys and Otago Boys High School.

So good he made the New Zealand Secondary Schoolboys team.  

The coach of Wilsons local Wakatipu club premier team, Damian ‘Dippers’ Petre labelled Wilson a “huge asset”.  

I’m sure the police and non-rugby circles have other words to describe Pita Wilson.  




 

 

Dunedin Judge Confirms Rugby’s Privileged Position

Fracture a blokes jaw, punch one of his front teeth out, in a drunken piece of late night street thuggery. 

All because the bloke made a feeble remark about the rugby club jersey you were wearing.   

What would you expect the punishment to be in a case like this? 

An assault conviction would surely be the minimum?  

Unless of course you are an up and coming Otago rugby starlet like Riley McDowall and not say a clerk in a government department. 

As I am at pains to indicate there is a separate law in New Zealand for Rugby players and Judge Kevin Phillips has merely re-confirmed this by discharging this drunken punk without conviction.  

If you're related to the All Blacks, you can do anything.

If you're related to the All Blacks, you can do anything.

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The sad truth!

Mr Karma meets Zac Guildford

I took no joy on hearing Zac Guildford was recently assaulted in France. 

No one deserves to be attacked and beaten-up, even him. 

According to a sycophantic journalist at the N.Z Herald [09^th Sept] Guildford’s own propensity to get drunk and assault people “Stemmed in no small part from the personal tragedy that struck him in 2009 when his father died of a heart attack while watching from the stands as his son and his New Zealand teammates won the Junior World Cup title in Tokyo.” 

Talk about making-up a sob story to mitigate his alcohol issues and violent streak. 

If the attackers in France are caught and come up with a similar extenuating line “It is all linked to my father leaving me when I was 18” then I guess we should be similarly happy and forgiving.  

Only that sort of excuse only works if you are an All Black.   

Hung-over All Black Misses the Team Flight

The All Blacks are held up as some template for sporting professionalism in New Zealand.   

They set the bench mark. 

New Zealanders are constantly bombarded with AB’s in adverts from cell-phones to deodorant sticks. 

Even booze sales which is rather fitting given the propensity of the players like Aaron Cruden to use the product to excess.   

“It’s out of character”. 

That’s why my site never has anything to write about.

 

Every Winter Saturday approximately ten Rugby Players in New Zealand are assaulted on the field requiring hospitalisation.

The on-field bash in rugby is real, normal part of every Saturday.   

The statistics say so.  

Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) receives 250 assault-related claims involving rugby each year. 

Don’t believe me? 

Looky here.

 

 

PS: Because of the lack of clarity around the incident there was no formal investigation by the CRFU [Canterbury Rugby Football Union] Cripes, don't these parents know getting bashed on-the-field is all part of the sport?    

Auckland Blues Player being investigated……yet again

The N.Z Herald is  reporting Peter Saili is alleged to have beaten a 13-year-old boy whom he caught burgling his home, to the point he needed to be hospitalised for four days. A vacuum cleaner pipe was allegedly employed by the number eight. 

His bro(ther) Frances got caught driving whilst disqualified in 2012 and only last month fellow Blues player Tevita Li admitted drink driving.   

Peter Saili joins a growing list of Blues players involved with assaults, police investigations there into.  

Rene Ranger (2010)

Kurtis Haiu (2011)

George Moala (2013)

 

They are of course just young men doing what young men do. 

Which apparently, in rugby circles at least, involves getting into a spot of trouble with the law.  

Naturally home-town hero Sir John will sort them out. 

He’s making he great job so far of maintaining discipline off the field…..NOT!

Hamilton School Boys Tarnish New Zealand’s Name in Japan

Hairy legged schoolboy players from a Hamilton Boys High were caught shoplifting clothing whilst at a so called ‘world championship’ in Japan.  

I wonder if this department store was recommended to them by Jerry Collins?

West Coast Rugby rep admits vicious assault

A pub, a top rugby player, an act of violence and an inevitable court appearance which will lead to a slap on the wrist.  

It gets tiresome highlighting these all too frequent acts of criminality by rugby players in New Zealand. 

Mass Stockholm Syndrome comes to mind at times like this.

Drugged-up All Blacks allowed to take the field in 2011 World Cup Quarter Final

It is times like this it is easy to see what an ‘old boys’ amateur sport rugby sport is at its core.

Your team is in the quarter finals of the World Cup and the a couple of nights night before the game two of your players are attempting to see who can stay-up the latest by consuming sleeping pills and high energy drinks. 

Fuck me dead, who lets this happen?  

The All Black management, that’s who.   

Management find-out about the players experimenting with drugs but rather than booting the players out of team – they cover-up by stating it was an incident involving alcohol. 

Which ironically it did, they were getting pissed to boot.  

That’s right the two players ODing on sleeping pills Cory  Jane and Israel Dagg were caught on the piss as well!  

Yet both made the starting line-up.  

Could you imagine say the Brazilian Soccer team allowing two ‘drugged-up’ players to take the pitch at any level of the sport, let alone a World Cup last eight game?!  

What would be the result of a Kiwi cyclist being found taking drugs and getting on the piss a few nights before an important track meet?  

N.Z Cricket has two incidences of a player seriously breaking team protocol days apart at a World Cup and letting them play, then covering up one of them by stating X happened and it was Y?  

What we now know is the All Black management freely lie to the media, only admitting the truth when they are about to get caught out. 

They also have continued to cover-up about cases involving sleeping pills and energy drinks stating (if media reports are correct) “there had not been any similar incidents he was aware of since 2011” 

I suggest Rugby officials type ‘Tukiterangi Jahna Raimona’ and ‘Sleeping Pills’ into google and see what they get.

 

To save you the time go here.

 

Just how many other similar incidences have they covered-up?

Just how stupid do they think we are?

 

Shameful day in N.Z Sport.

 

     

Kit Fawcett in Court

Failed property developer and former All Black Christopher (Kit) Fawcett has been charged with running businesses while bankrupt.  

Nothing unusual in an All Blacks business going belly-up.  

Just ask Dan Cater.

Pill Popping Southland Player Caught

Former New Zealand under-20s prop Tukiterangi Jahna Raimona appeared in the Invercargill District Court last week where he admitted dishonestly obtaining a prescription form with intent to obtain a pecuniary advantage on February 18.  

The Southland court was told Raimona presented a prescription form at an Invercargill pharmacy for Triazolam 60 tablets, Diazepan 60 tablets and Oxynorm 40 but because of the controlled nature of the drugs inquiries were made.  

The script pad was stolen from none other than Southland NPC teams doctor!   

In case you are not up with the play so-called sportsmen are mixing energy drinks and prescription medicines, including sleeping pills, in search of a "legal high" that skirts drug and alcohol testing.  

The obvious question on everyone’s lips is “What was Raimona going to do with such a large stash?” 

Get an artificial high every night for the next five to six months?   

Taking orders seems more likely and if so who for?   

Southland Rugby is dodging that curly one!  

Wayne Pivac gets caught DIC…Again!?

OCTOBER 2004.   

Fiji's national rugby coach Wayne Pivac has failed to appear in a Suva court today to answer charges of dangerous driving and driving under the influence of alcohol.

The Fiji Times reports that Pivac allegedly exceeded the prescribed alcohol limit when tested by police on September 11. 

Magistrate Aminiasi Katonivualiku denied a prosecution application for a bench warrant, accepting a defence assurance that Pivac would appear when next called next Thursday. 

Meanwhile, Fiji Rugby Union chief executive Pio Bosco Tikoisuva will step down when his three-year contract expires in December. 

He says that after 37 years of continuous struggle, he thinks it's time to give it a rest and let somebody else have a chance in the position.   

Fast Forward a decade…….

MARCH 2014.

 Auckland's ITM Cup rugby coach Wayne Pivac has been banned from driving after he was caught drink-driving on Waitangi Day. 

Pivac, who lives in Murrays Bay, was stopped by police on Oteha Valley Rd. 

Testing revealed he had a blood-alcohol reading of 171 micrograms, more than twice the legal limit of 80mg. 

Pivac appeared in the North Shore District Court last Friday where he pleaded guilty to a charge of drink-driving. He was fined $1050 and disqualified from driving for nine months.

 

Repeat offender Sione Lauaki in the poop again

Former 17 test All Black Sione Lauaki has appeared in the Auckland District Court after an alleged incident last year outside an Auckland whorehouse. 

 

Luakai will be well versed in Court Proceedings having faced two charges (assault and careless driving) in Hamilton in 2010.  

That assault happened in the natural habitat of an All Black: seedy bar late at night.   

Oh yeah, then there was damaging windows and a television at a motel in Auckland on New Year’s morning 2009.   

He was proven guilty, in all those cases.  

But wait there’s more! 

In 2006 Lauaki admitted a charge of assaulting a security officer in Hamilton.  

Gets his breath back…… 

But back to the latest incident, Police allege Lauaki and his co-accused intentionally damaged a taxi in Epsom in ‘the wee smalls’ of December 13th. 

Police won’t say if booze is involved but this is an All Black, be it one with kidney problems, so it goes without saying he’ll be pissed to the gunnels.   

Steinlager?  

Look at Lauaki’s record and ask yourself “Would I get off a jail sentence if this was the latest in a long line of similar offending I was appearing in court over?”   

Buy hey, you are not a former All Black.  

 

No automatic 'Get Out of Jail Free Card' for you.  

Doubtless, he’ll get off, yet again.  

This isn’t Australia where the judiciary are finally taking a hard-line on boozed-up, violent ‘sport star’ offenders.

 

All Blacks Front and Centre when it comes to Drinking Games

Neknominate, has been dubbed "the social drinking game for social media” 

Started in The United Kingdom it has hit our shores running and what better group to spread the gospel of drinking to excess than our pre-imminent sporting team, one well versed in pissing-it-up.

 

Cripes, it's not as if New Zealand has a drinking problem, now is it?

Here’s what the coach of All Black Steven Luatua featured in this video has to say about his charge "It’s very uncharacteristic of him as he is a great role model and has always set a good example to others."  

He’s a ‘role model’!   

Here's how N.Z Rugby role models operate......