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. 

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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.

 

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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”

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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.