Has anyone on the Shirley Rugby Club Committee heard of Social Media or even got a Calendar?

A quick ‘google’ shows embezzlement is riff of late amongst South Island recreational sporting entities. 

Eric Lee recently had his grubby fingers dipping into the Queenstown Bowling Club. 

Tania Lind did the same to The Sunset Speedway in Westport.  

Now we’ve learned in today’s The Christchurch Press, Howard Morel has been diddling The Shirley Rugby Club. 

The difference between these three cases is when the funds were found to be missing the bowling club & the West Coast speedway correctly took their concerns to the police. 

But, not the Shirley Rugby Club. 

Oh, no.   

In a hark-back to the days of ‘what happens on tour, stays on tour’ The Shirley Rugby Club thought they could keep fraud of this scale ($200,000) their hush-hush deal quite.  

Un-bloody-believable.  

Make no bones about it The Shirly Rugby Club are the victims of a criminal undertaking. 

 

Betrayal on a massive scale from a life member. 

They deserve restitution and Howard Morel his day in court.

A serious crime has occurred here.

Were three teens to break-in & trash the Shirley Clubrooms and one was found to be a member of the club, would the committee tell the Police just to investigate the other two? 
 

Even when the ‘cat was out of the bag’ The Christchurch Press knew the frame-work of the crime, deal struck & they were about to publish the details -  they still naively tried to obfuscate.

“He’s (Morel) away on leave of absence.” 

Like fuck! 

Can they see how this smoke-screen looks to an outsider?

The Shirley Rugby Club Committee handling of this affair have made laughing-stocks of their club and showed yet-again that N.Z Rugby Clubs function in a decades-old bubble. 

It’s 1977 down in their patch, disco is in its hey-day, long side-burns are in.