Ex Southland Stags Captain pleads guilty to attempting to pervert justice

Ex Southland Stags rugby captain Davin Heaps, who also played for the Highlanders, Hurricanes and Blues, admitted in Invercargill Court, Friday, to the charges of willfully attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Sycophantic references -- yawn -- from former All Black buddies Justin Marshall, Kees Meeuws and Simon Culhane failed to sway the judge.

That’s a breath-of-fresh-air in itself.

Heaps (48) was sentenced community detention and ordered to pay thousands of dollars reparation after instructing an employee who suffered a hand injury on his farm to lie to Worksafe investigators.

Surely having played in so-many Super franchises, Air New Zealand could see fit to also included Heaps in their next lavish safety video? 

Help the bloke out of a hole - one he dug. 

Lately I've been wondering, why Kiwis would bother with a genealogical DNA test, when it's invariably only going to show-up 'Rugby'? 

Not that your grandmother is part Albanian & you didn't get your blue eyes off your father.

Still, this is N.Z after-all.

Who wouldn't want to be a part of Davin Heaps fine lineage?    

French Court hears how 45 Test All Black Physically & Mentally Abused his wife

Evidently all Kiwi’s want their sons to grow-up to be an All Black in the mold of Carl Hayman.

They breed them tough in Otago. 

See look. 

Who wouldn’t want to have a son like him, eh?

Go weak at the knees at the thought of your daughter marrying a bloke like 'Hard-Man Haymam'?  

Hell, if you play it right you could get The New Zealand Women’s Weekly to pay you ‘an undisclosed amount’ for the wedding day photos.

They can do wonders these-days disguising bruises.

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.   

 

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

 

 

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.  

    

Aaron Smith Spreads the All Black Kulture all up the toilet wall

For the record what Aaron Smith gets up-to in his own time is his own business. 

He only has to answer to himself and his family for his conduct.  

But this loo-shagging incident wasn’t on his watch. 

He was representing his sport at the time. 

 

In the public domain.

Yet again (starts to yawn, think about grabbing a coffee) All Black management were questioned about this incident before it became more than internet gossip and they did what they normally do: wait and hope it goes away. 

This all took place on September the 18^th after-all.  

 

Half if not all the team knew what went on within minutes.   

Kiwi’s hear ad nauseum about The All Black culture as if it was something to aspire to. 

This team is world-beaters, not because rugby is secondary sport in many countries, but because of this special culture.    

Well Aaron Smith is currently doing a brilliant job of spreading this culture globally.

 

Still, it can't be said that Aaron isn't one not to spread his love.

 

Just ask the cleaners at Christchurch Airport.

 

The Age in Melbourne.

 

Bangkok Post.

 

BBC

 

Irish Times

 

Le Matin (France)

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

No kidding a top N.Z rugby player assaults a bird in a bar?

ONE: Ex pro N.Z Rugby Player in a bar late at night

PLUS ONE: Getting absolutely blotto  

EQUALS: The inability to conduct oneself civilly, nor with respect for others – the later coming as a God-given right of being a top rugby player in N.Z.

 

It appears not even your team mates ‘mrs’ is off limits.

The female clients of Peter Mirrieless now need to decide whether to take their business elsewhere.

Deliver him the result he deserves.

I was also going to suggest his [unnamed] rugby club boot him out.

But that would be unthinkable.  

This is New Zealand where's there's no real issue.   

Which is what most drunks say.

The drunk man of N.Z sport being the NZRFU.

 

Rugby Hero ‘Lima’ (Allegedly) Bash’s the Mrs

Subsequent to a weekend incident up in Samoa Highlanders/Blues and Samoan International Brian Lima has been charged after a public assault involving a weapon against his ex-wife.  

This is Lemalu Sina Retzlaff,  Lima’s ex missus after ‘the bash’…… 

 

  
This is not the first time ‘wife slapping’ by Lima came to the attention of Samoan media.

Accusations were aired in 2011. In one incident fellow players went to protect his wife from a drunk and abusive Lima.  

Through-out his career Lima was renowned and even celebrated amongst rugby circles as a violent player, out to inflict injury legally/illegally on his opposition.    

I am not going to give the loser more precious ‘media air’ so I’ll allow you to go to You Tube and do your own searches for Brian Lima: Sinne Tu’ipulotu, Johnny Wilkinson, Jaque Fourie, Budge Pountney.  

Well back in 2008 his (alleged) spousal abuse, issues with alcohol were aired on this Samoan board.

Last year Lima accused his wife of forgery and falsifying documents but later withdrew his complaint. 

None of these ‘red flags’ dulled his lustre in the eyes of the IRB who inducted him into Rugby’s Hall of Fame in 2011.    

None of these behavioural issues saw him prevented him becoming the coach of the eighth best rugby nation on planet Earth.     

Even today The Herald headlines Lima as a ‘Rugby Hero’.

(Alleged?) Thieving Maori All Black gets a second chance

Willie Ripia is a player who has donned the N.Z Maori jersey. 

Ripia ended-up at The Western Force in 2010 as part of a ‘foreign’ allocation Australian Rugby have that gives a pathway for overseas born players into The Wallabies.   

He was unceremoniously booted out of The Force at the beginning of 2012 after CCTV footage caught him flogging money from the wallets and kit bags of his own team mates!  

He denied the claims but couldn’t argue with the footage, said he had gambling issues.   

But who thinks ‘honesty and trust’ are necessary attributes of a professional rugby player?  

Last season Ripia was made the captain, of all things, of Bay of Plenty ITM team and now he’s got a Super 15 contract with The Highlanders.     

Thieving from your team-mates must be one of the lowest acts one can perpetrate, unless the sport is rugby where it’s clearly not an issue to anyone in N.Z.   

Jake Paringatai is a good fit in any rugby team

This is the Joseph Goebbelsesque bio on the Highlanders web site…   

Jake Paringatai started his Super Rugby career with the Crusaders back in 2007 after making his domestic debut for Northland in the NPC back in 2003.  A hard-nosed loose forward, Paringatai has been plying his trade in the Japanese Top League over the past few seasons.  He will join a Highlanders forward pack that has plenty of experience and he will be a good fit for the men from the South. 

There’s of course a gapping hole in this account of Paringatai’s rugby career. 

Perhaps a reason why he went off overseas to ply his trade? 

Back in 2009 the then-Crusader was found guilty of Sexual Assault. 

That’s him in the photo leaving court.  

His lawyer tried to paint a picture of a player no longer able to be a part of the New Zealand rugby scene.   

A good fit for the men of the south?  

I hope the WAG’s of the Highlanders wear something skimpy to after-matches.