N.Z Rugby players appear to be front & centre when it comes to purchasing performance enhancing drugs

Imprisoned drug dealer Cantab Josh Townshends’ identified clients numbered around a 100. 

Over 40 per cent of them were involved in the sport of rugby, one at ‘elite’ level. 

If what-is in the public domain is to be believed.     

That’s details that are being drip feed to the public as each separate sporting code deals with the fall-out.  

This is an astonishingly high percentage given rugby playing numbers are not anywhere close to say Kiwi cyclists.

And when you think of illegal anabolic steroid and hormone abuse, it’s cycling most people think of as the main ‘offender’ along with body-building.  

And whilst N.Z Ice Hockey has dealt-out two-year bans to two national representatives who purchased products from Townshends Clenbuterol NZ website, all we’ve heard from N.Z Rugby is promises to co-operate. 

Mutterings of wanting the sport to be clean.

 

No cathartic name and shaming a-la N.Z Ice Hockey.    

Where are N.Z Rugby's “tough responses” given the Townshend ‘went down’ in May?  

If rugby in N.Z so ‘clean’ why have Drug Free Sport NZ instigated drugs tests at schoolboy rugby level!?   

 

Made drug tests the norm for school first fifteens. 

Surely rugby players themselves must want to know who these drug cheats are? 

This situation is yet another case of N.Z Rugby wiping things under the carpet in the hope it goes away.  

Sponsors want nothing to do with a sport that’s tainted with drugs.  

Rugby is staring down a barrel here.

 

Former All Black Prop Pleads Guilty to Drink Driving

Prop forward Tony Woodcock scored the match winning try in the 2011 World Cup Final. 

Has had public honours lauded upon his massive frame.

Well, he was fingered in March for drink driving.    

This incident won’t register with the N.Z public.   

 

Just the try.

Whenever you read the words ‘Promising Rugby Player’ the gory court details normally follow

The ‘promising’ Canterbury rugby player is called Joel Hintz.  

On the piss at a party.    

A boyish wrestling match between two party-goers occurs in front of him.    

What can go wrong, eh?  

This.  

Canterbury Rugby don’t give a rats.

 

Little surprise in that.   

The judge thinks he’s a man of promise.

That character judgement may well come back to haunt him.

Now it’s Women’s Rugby Players getting in on the act

You strike a person twice. 

They strike back, more forcefully.   

You then then bitch to the coppers! 

“Ooh, I’ve been assaulted”  

No bull, this is true. 

The coppers take the bait, see you as a victim.  

 

In court you get a pay-out from the person you baited and struck twice first.

Why? 

Because you happen to have two X chromosomes.  

A rugby representative no less.   

That’s justice N.Z style folks. 

 

Read: HERE

 

Former All Blacks Player & Coach’s business going down the gurgler

The report on the state of Dunedinite Laurie Mains company Clan Construction is in today’s OTD. 

READ 

He owns 70 per cent and is the sole director, the buck stops with him. 

His protestations he has nothing to do with the company “I’ve had nothing to do with the business” clearly don’t wash with the creditors, nor myself.      

Mains is the Godfather of the sport of rugby in the region.  

Mains is a recipient of an Order of Merit for Services to Rugby. 

That will mean little to the small businesses compromised by the actions of his company.  

If he had any integrity he’ll dip into his own pocket and ‘do the right thing’.  

Clearly just joking on that last one.   

 

The vast majority of folk in Otago will still fawn over him.   

 

Rape Conviction no barrier to representing New Zealand in Rugby

Subsequent, to being found not-guilty of a rape that was said to have occurred in 2016, it has been revealed Deaf Rugby Representative, Christian Grey was convicted in 2009 of the very same crime. 

Grey’s extensive record also includes: drugs, burglary and dishonesty.  

 

 

Leading one to wonder, what barriers/vetting are done by N.Z Rugby Officials when it comes to being selected to represent your country?   

Short answer to that curly one, appears to be = none! 

But don’t let a trivial case of a convicted rapist being able to represent N.Z in Rugby place doubt on the integrity of the organisation that sees itself as above all other N.Z codes. 

The sport that purportedly believes in respect and responsibility.

Unicorns as well.  
 

Makes coughing sound, as if to dislodge something stuck in his throat.

Ex Highlanders and Southland Stags player suspended due to alleged cocaine use

 

 

I’m not going to spiel on about John Hardie who has switched allegiances to Scotland. 

Read about his issues with Scottish Rugby officialdom HERE. 

There is however an emerging thread of high cocaine use in professional rugby. 

 

A quick poke-around here will be enough to convince most. 

An issue mainstream media are deliberately ignoring.

 

Note: All individuals are considered innocent till proven otherwise

 

 

Cops unjustifiable target another top ex rugby player

What’s the list of charges against Shane Carter? 

Obstructing police, resisting arrest, male assaults female and assaulting police. 

Still he is a one-time Hurricane, Wellington player and not to mention, coach of the local provisional side. 

Surely there must be some misunderstanding here?  

 

He must have been forced to plead guilty.

We all know there’s no link with violence and rugby in N.Z.  

Read about how the coppers are stitching Shane Carter up, how his wife deserved what she got. 

HERE

 

Re-integrated sicko Dylan Halaholo caught wanking in front of kids AGAIN!

I don’t want to waste too much time on this deviate, also known as Dillion Halaholo.  

Read more here.  

I wonder what Kathryn Beck, the chair of the N.Z Rugby Respect & Responsibility Review has to say about Halaholo? 

After-all his cases came-up before her committee recommended a series of ineffectual recommendations.

 

The comments by the chairman of his current club - Suburbs - beggar belief.      

 

Children in his community need to be protected from deviates.

 

That is a clear priority, not getting the best team you can on the paddock, irrespective of their potential to re-offend.     

 

Harm the very community you say you represent. 

 

Would The Suburbs Rugby Club welcome a known sex-offender amongst their midst even if he was just as a supporter attending games, functions?    

 

I think not. 

 

He would have been banned from even stepping on a sporting-ground.   

 

Former Maori All Black captain up for assault & drink-driving

In a case that dates to 2015 Te Rua Tipoki has plead guilty today to assaulting his victim whilst he lay unconscious. 

It came out in court he was also up for drink-driving in 2016 as well. 

What a great leadership role model for Maori youth.     

A proud alumnus of The Blues & Highlanders to boot.

Sordid details are here if you require any more evidence N.Z Rugby has an issue with violence and booze.     

 

This site sits as testament public apathy towards a sport where violence & drunkenness are part of it's very fabric.  

    

Now there’s a 4th Ex All Black in France facing trouble in the same year!

As I’ve said before, if all New Zealanders that visited France acted in the same fashion as our prized AB’s then we’d all be banned!  

We'd be put on the same list as ISIS. 

So far in the same calendar year we've had cocaine possession, accusations of gang rape, slapping the mrs around and now a good ol’ fashioned brawl. 

More about Jason Eaton here.   

 

Is it really necessary to indicate alcohol was involved?

 

Let's just take that as read

 

Just how far through the French penal code book are these ex AB's? 

 

Where the hell do I start?

 

West Auckland Rugby Final Ends in Chaos after players set on a mother  it's alleged, but no doubt there was an ugly incident involving players and spectators  

Another Auckland schoolboy rugby game finishes early following brawl 

Christchurch High school rugby brawl investigation focuses on referee abuse (involving St Bedes College for something completely different)  

Canterbury Country Coach allegedly grabs and abuses opposition player at an under 14 match (and it’s a woman coach!)

 

Still, there’s no problem with violence in the sport according to Steve Tew. 

 

The papers are full of similar mayhem at local hockey matches.

 

We see the same thing littering the media at Netball courts up & down the country.

 

Don't we?

 

  

All Black Fans Silent in the face of verbal abuse of vulnerable teens

Before the first Lions test in Auckland, a group of seven girls aged between 13 and 16 ventured out on the streets surrounding Eden Park to entertain fans with their circus skills. 

Hi Jinx didn’t just turn-up they were invited.  

For their effort’s the group were subjected to a tirade of sexual abuse. 

Mostly to be fair from the travelling Lions supporters.  

"How much for a handjob?" 

“Do you give lap dances” 

“I’d like to get into your box” 

How did it make the girls feel?

Let’s make no bones about it - these were girls.  

“Sexual comments like those made me more self-conscious when performing, because I didn’t want to be seen in that sort of way and, although I knew I wasn’t doing anything wrong, it is hard to ignore comments like those without feeling dirty or guilty about what you are doing.” (Connie, 14 years old) 

“Hearing all of the comments made me feel uncomfortable and in a way vulnerable, because when people are saying those kinds of things to you, it makes you feel smaller than them.” (Ella, 13 years old) 

Of cause rugby ‘men’ would be the first to advocate that child molesters should suffer all sorts of major indignations, but in the next breath simply allow a tourist to tell a 14 year old local girl to “Spread your legs wider”.  

 

We are constantly barraged with the image that rugby is the epitome of manliness, yet there was not one man amongst the thousands of All Black fans that night who would stand-up and tell the drunken foreign fans to STFU.

 

"Stop verbally abusing that child you sick fuck"

 

Not one AB fan intervened on their behalf.   

 

 

Drunken Kiwi Rugby Fan Allegedly Abuses and Attacks Lions Tour Manager

I have encountered several groups of Lions supporters over the past month.  

Most affable and friendly. 

When it comes to supporting their team they do so through cheery ribald chants. 

In countenance how do All Black supports express their own support? 

Arrogance mixed with boorishness. 

Booing and jeering replaces chanting.  

Insipid pre-match renditions of the national anthem. 

All too often N.Z Rugby fans express their support in a negative fashion. 

This alleged abuse and assault on a John Spencer minding his own business with his wife is little surprise.  

That’s the way we do things here.

 

It's cringe-worthy, needs to change.  

 

Learn off The Lions supporters how to act in a positive fashion.

 

Developing a few chants, learning the words to the anthems would be a start in the right direction.   

Respect and Responsibility as long as you don’t happen to be a fag, eh Lima?

All Black Lima Sopoaga should engage his brain before telling the world of Instagramers what we already know.

All Blacks hate fags. 

The teams’ manly reputation is built on strictly heterosexual lines only. 

The number of outed All Black homosexuals sits at zero. 

Naturally the All Blacks want it to stay that way.  

 

The hits keep coming for N.Z Rugby.

N.Z media dubbed 2016 an annus horribilis for N.Z Rugby for what they like to term ‘off field incidences’. 

'Off field incidences' = anti-social, criminal behaviour. 

 

Well so far 2017 has trumped 2016 in spades.   

 

The Future of South Canterbury Rugby is in good hands

A mass brawl erupted last Friday between the respective Roncalli Combined and Aoraki Combined Under 18 teams. 

It was supposed to be a friendly. 

One that involved both sets of substitutes joining in the melee. 

And what pray-tell was the punishment meted-out to the players involved? 

Being virtually both entire squads? 

In a game the referee called off due to the violence?  

To quote the words of South Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Craig Calder “No further disciplinary action was needed”  

Welcome to the world of rugby in N.Z lads. 

You are untouchable.

N.Z Herald Breaks the news that Tuipulotu’s First Drug Test was faulty

“A faulty positive drugs test” is what we are made to believe according to NZR mummy’s boy Patrick McKendry. 

READ  

McKendry must surely know something we don’t?  

So far we ‘the public’ have been fed there was ‘one positive’ and ‘one negative’. 

A hung jury.  

You walk free.  

As best I can grasp the Herald’s rugby (crime?) reporter is indicating the 1^st ‘positive’ test was in-fact  ‘faulty’ and the subsequent second ‘negative’ test was conducted correctly.

It reads this way.  

So Patrick please kindly show us the evidence that breaks open this case.  

The actual drug reports that collaborate this assertion?   

Starter for 10: tell us what the drugs that were allegedly found in the first test were?

Break the story. 

You clearly have the ‘inside oil’ and wouldn’t make shit up to cosy-up to rugby circles, eh?

All these reports of growing ‘fake news’ start making sense.  

 

James Linwood of Central Otago now has two claims to fame

One: The youngest player in his region to play Premiership Rugby  

Two: The most pissed driver in his region to ever be caught behind the wheel in one judges’ estimation. 

The judges’ comments are scathing describing his condition as being "totally incapacitated" to the point where he would have been "hard pressed to walk". 

Hardly surprising seeing he’s seven times over the limit.  

Given its relative lack of population The Central Otago region seems to over-represent itself in the ‘pissed & deadly behind the wheel’ stats.

 

Linwood is probably a local hero due to his drunken notoriety.

 

Now it’s two New Zealand Rugby Players in France accused of gang rape!

Rory Grice (Chiefs, Waikato) Dylan Hayes (Marlborough) are face rape allegations along with four other Grenoble team mates, after a game in Bordeaux.

 

READ 

What’s that five professional rugby players from N.Z in front of French judiciary in a month? 

It’s a disgrace! 

 

And guess what?

 

The sad thing is most Kiwi's don't give a rats. 

 

If it was a bunch of Mongrel Mobsters they'd be baying for blood. 

 

Screaming on talk-back and ranting on Facebook for The Police or their MP to do something.  

 

But seeing the accused in this case are rugby players the public will likely hit Social Media to slate the woman.

Up-Date 13/04: Rory Grice has been charged for rape along with two Grenoble teammates, a Frenchman and an Irishman. Since Dylan Hayes is not mentioned amongst those charged the presumption is he's off-the-hook, innocent. Grice however could be looking at 20 years in a French clinker.   

 

 

 

 

Media bias in favour of Rugby plumbs new depths

 

When is an ‘ex’ All Black not an ‘ex’ All Black? 

Firstly, when he goes to a different sporting code his history is wiped.  

 

Especially, when 'Mr X AB' gets into trouble. 

So rather than a headline which should read “Ex All Black star Matthew Ridge's car wash business pays up to migrant employees”   

Instead we get Lincoln Tan in the N.Z Herald telling us "Ex-league star Matthew Ridge's car wash business pays up to migrant employees”

Link HERE.

More ‘crawly’ and embarrassing journalism from the N.Z Media.   

Rugby heads in denial about drink drinking plague

The sad facts are there for all to see.

Were a brave media outlet in the mainstream media to call-out rugby’s sad and often lethal role when it comes to drink driving, they risk potentially their largest draw-card pulling their coverage in reprisal.   

 

That's why you see nothing in our largest papers.

They prefer instead to be cheer-girls for the sport.

Report on celeb weddings and a players favourite music rather than death and mayhem on our roads after clubroom piss-ups.  

All of which are down to rugby culture of entitlement, that exists from top to bottom.

Here’s but a brief recent run-down on N.Z’s rugby players love of boozing and getting behind the wheel. 

Just how many grieving parents, friends will it take for the sport to wake-up?  

2014: Auckland's ITM Cup rugby coach Wayne Pivac was banned from driving after he was caught drink-driving on Waitangi Day

 

2014:  Twenty three year old Keao players Vernon Lawrence-Samuels and Ryan Wikaira died in a head-on accident after consuming alcohol and smoking a joint following rugby training.

 

2014: 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. The coroner stated the deaths could have been avoided if a culture of mixing drinking with sport was not so prevalent. The two teenagers had visited the Hinds Tavern after rugby training, which was/is(?) the norm.

 

2015:   Auckland Blues rugby player Tevita Li was discharged without conviction for driving with an excess blood alcohol level. The judge said ‘a conviction against your name would have consequences in the sense that people who are involved in the recruitment of rugby players look with disdain on people with convictions, regardless of what they're for’.

 

2016: Troy Favell pleads guilty to a count of driving with excess breath alcohol. The 2nd time he’s been done.   

 

2016: Tragedy strikes the small South Island town of Kurow when Jarrad Blackler (23) dies from his injuries, the victim of a drunk driver. All passengers of the vehicle had been pissing-up at the local rugby club.

 

2016: Rene Ranger convicted of drink driving.

 

2017: Two words ‘Dan’ and ‘Carter’.  

 

2017: Two men lucky to be alive after a serious car crash involving two vehicles, had been celebrating after a long-running social rugby clash in South Canterbury. Police describe ‘beer bottles scattered all over the paddock’.

 

If Kiwi visitors to France acted like professional rugby players we’d all be banned!

As if two cases in less than a month in France involving ex All Blacks wasn’t enough for the French judiciary to deal with – there’s a third.  

And this offender, Byron Kelleher, is a serial offender in the truest sense of the term. 

Kelleher is no stranger to how the French courts work. 

The latest is domestic violence related.   

And it goes without saying he was liquored to the eyeballs.   

French Judiciary will surely be contemplating building a special court just for cases involving ex All Blacks?  

These rugby buffoons are trashing our country’s reputation in France. 

All the N.Z Rugby Union can say is “we are disappointed” and constantly allude to the fictional line ‘this is a societal issue’. 

If all Kiwi passport holders acted like professional rugby players we’d be carte blanche banned from entering France, using the same rationale as English soccer hooligans. 

 

Footnote: Seriously give me a break with this constant offending would you? Don’t you know this isn’t my full-time job, try acting like good citizens for once. It’s like a full-time job keeping this site up-dated. There’s another two articles I need to post and frankly I would prefer to be doing other stuff. 

   

 

Ali Williams suspected of possessing cocaine in France

French Rugby Club Racing 92, must be lamenting its Kiwi squad additions as news breaks Ali Williams has been arrested in Paris for allegedly possessing cocaine. 

Reports out of France suggest Williams allegedly tried to throw away several packets containing cocaine after being approached by plain clothes police officers outside a nightclub near the Arc de Triomphe.  

He was also allegedly found to be heavily intoxicated, detained by Police.  

I’ve used the term allegedly a few times here. 

My lawyer is only good at conveyance, not litigation.  

But any mainstream media running this story must have fairly good ‘oil’.  

2017 is turning into a annus horribilis for N.Z Rugby.  

 

A 'super' rugby year for me.

 

Sorry couldn't resist that.

Two big-name All Blacks collared by French gendarmerie in what a week?

 

 

Former Southland Stags Player Done in Aussie Rape of Underage- Girl

 

Former Southland Stags rugby player Craig Wells has been sentenced this week, to six years' jail for the aggravated rape of a underage girl back in his homeland, Australia. 

But sexual assault, like all the crimes perpetrated by high profile rugby players, are stereotypical of males of this age. 

 

That's what we are told verbatim.     

I mean it’s typical for 45 year olds to engage in sex with a 14 year old against their will - right?   

It’s indicative of society as a whole, eh?

 

Never reflective of a rugby culture.     

That’s why we are in week eight of 2017 and this site is already cocker-block with Kiwi pro rugby players in the courts.  

Strangely, I never go short of articles despite contracts, external enquiries etc. 

 

No such site similar to this could exist doing exposes on Kiwi soccer players or cyclists etc.

 

Despite those sports being far more global and involving a similar a high number of top athletes.    

 

No one in the main-stream sycophantic media dares discussing the elephant in the room.

 

Least they lose their biggest source of click bait.

 

Reporting on rugby, minus the 'warts'.  

 

Just humble old me.    

 

There's no issues with N.Z Rugby, nothing worth highlighting...ahem.   

Forget the victims.

 

Let’s instead rejoice in the fact a new Super Season is almost upon us.

 

Don't you go picking-on Southland NPC rapists.  

 

Here's the vomit inducing article inclusive of his drunk driving escapades in his N.Z.   

 

Rugby God Caught Pissed behind the wheel

 

When it comes to Rugby Royalty ‘demi-Gods’ they don’t get any bigger that Dan Carter. 

World Player of the Year at one point.  

Caught pissed behind the wheel in Paris, where rugby is the sporting equivalent of say hockey in N.Z.

Twice the allowable level. 

Carrying no licence.  

The French judiciary will court no favours.   

The hits keep coming.  

What a stellar year it’s looking for this blog!

 

Tuipulotu’s alleged positive drug test will have HUGE ramifications

Sponsors hate having their names tarnished.  

For example in the case of Losi Filipo, Wellington Rugby buckled in part under threats sponsors would pull-out unless he was dumped. 

One global sponsor that takes a hard-line on its athletes taking drugs is Adidas. 

The International Association of Athletics Federation and Tyson Gay have recently had their lucrative deals put through their Bavarian shredder.   

So how will Kasper Rorsted (CEO Adidas) be feeling as he thumbs through Das Spiegel to find All Blacks lock Patrick Tuipulotu has reportedly been caught using a banned substance? 

 

Read the initial story here.   

What sort of drugs/chemical substances we don’t know at this stage.

One would presume ‘performance enhancing’ for example would be viewed in a very, very dim light. 

Were Tuipulotu to be found – these are only allegations at this stage – to be using a performance enhancing substance as opposed to getting caught-out smoking a joint whilst listening to Pink Floyd, this has the potential to develop into a major embarrassing issue for N.Z Rugby.

And they damn well know it. 

That’s why NZ Rugby and ’s local union. Auckland, have been plying the line since November that he’s simply had an "on-going personal matter".     

This from an entity which brandishes the words ‘standards’  and ‘professionalism’ like confetti from Richie McCaws wedding.  

What action will the International Rugby Board take? 

Protocols dictate they know the moment any professional player tests positive even for recreational use.

Especially one playing in the world’s top ranked team. 

The World Rugby dot org site is strangely silent? 

Perhaps they were trying to think of something more original than “on-going personal matter”? 

But now the story has broken.

 

This has legs, ten-times the size of Tuipulotu's.  

It will now run and run despite obvious attempts by N.Z Rugby to snuff-it-out and hide it in the closet.  

Steve Tew will be forced to front the media today. 

"Steve, when did you first know of this positive test?"

"Did Patrick play any games after the positive test was first reported?" 

"What sort of banned substances are we talking here Steve? Recreational or performance enhancing?"

Don't think you'll get a straight answer to any of these pertinent questions. 

Not right away.

But it will all come-out.  

This comes close after the failed Wellingtons Seven’s and my bet is Tew’s time is up.

 

Potentially this could be the most embarrassing thing to happen to N.Z Rugby in the professional era depending on what the banned substance was, when it was first discovered.  

Tarnishing the All Black name forever.

Up-Date Friday 10^th February: The B-Test for a performance enhancing drug came in negative. Apparently 1 positive + 1 negative = you are off the hook. I bet the cycling fraternity would look at this ‘benefit of the doubt’ decision and shake their heads. Sure, mistakes can occur in the testing process, but from the same sample? What are the chances? What exactly was the drug involved? Something you could innocently acquire off the Chemist shelf, or more nefarious akin to under-the-table body-building supplement? Kindly point it out to us on the World Anti-Doping Agency's 2016 Prohibited List.  Why call a positive drug test ‘personal reasons’ when the next time an All Black has to depart from a tour if say his child is sick, the public could think “that’s a smoke-screen”? Why wait so long for the B Sample to be tested? Why, when the news media askes these questions no-one can get a straight answer? One could feel they are hiding something were one was a nasty prick. Not me though.