Rugby Mentality Divides South Island Township

The Kurow rugby community is apparently 'devastated'' by the crash that occurred after drunken members went on ‘the ran tan’ after pissing up at their clubrooms. 

Cue ‘Yeah Right’ meme.  

The drunk idiot driver at the wheel that night, ex North Otago rep Regan Laughton, crashed the vehicle resulting in the death of Jarrad Blackler (23) and injuries to all his fellow rugby-club passengers. One of which was in hospital for 10 weeks.  

Kevin Malcolm the coach of the Kurow Rugby Club throws at us that old-standard (quote) ''Somehow we need to find a way to make community changes to prevent this from happening again, because it is a community thing.''  

No admission from Malcolm that the club could have prevented an intoxicated driver to get behind the wheel with five passengers after pissing-up at their clubrooms.   

No talk of a club policy that involves a nominated sober driver.  

The booze in part came from his premises.  

The family, supporters of the victim are up against this ingrained small town ‘rugby’ mentality. 

This after-all is the township that is raising funds to build a statue of Richie McCaw.   

Does anyone think tragedies like this are merely the collateral for living a rural lifestyle?  

Remind me – it’s 1916, eh?  

The fact the seemingly unrepentant Laugthon escaped a jail term is another issue that sticks in one’s craw.      

As does the matter of this rugby club still being able to sell alcohol.

Same with 'the local' that tanked-up 'the tanked-up' waved them goodnight.   

If the Kurow community really cared, they would now be building a statue to Jarrad Blackler and not McCaw. 

So this young-man didn’t die in vain and this could be a fitting permanent memorial of the folly of drink-driving.

Looking after your mates. 

Fat chance.

This is rugby heartland.

N.Z Rugby has normalised abnormal behaviour

What a joke. 

A token panel to review toxic rugby culture. 

A dead cert is the major conclusion to come from this farce will be a lack of women in positions of power.  

Like that will stop street thuggery at one o’clock on a Sunday morning. 

Why is this review even necessary when the N.Z public has been told consistently the off-field actions of N.Z Rugby players are merely representative of society as a whole? 

That’s to say other males this age get-up-to exactly the same criminal activities as professional rugby players. 

The thinly veiled insinuation from rugby apologists, tabloid journalists at the likes of the N.Z Herald, is our cricket and soccer professionals etc. conduct themselves in exactly the same fashion as rugby players.    

We have been fed the line that what rugby players get up-to in terms of drunken violence, sexual abuse etc. is a microcosm of life in New Zealand.

Only it isn’t. 

That’s why no other sport deems it necessary to have a similar review. 

N.Z Rugby has normalised abnormal behaviour to the point any conclusions made by this panel will be symbolic at best.

Mark my words this blog will be as busy as normal: review or no review.  

 

 

Girl Basher ‘Big Man’ Losi Filipo sentenced to supervision

Another ‘Great Out Jail Free Card’ issued to a rugby starling by the weak at the knees N.Z judicial system. 

A paltry nine months supervision.  

Weekly meetings to be held at 7’s Bar?   

Nothing positive has come out of this sorry affair.

The victims have not received justice. 

Still N.Z Rugby fans can rejoice whilst at the same time the public shakes their heads and hope they are not on the receiving end of a similar beating from a street thug like Losi Filipo.   

Odds on Filipo will appear somewhere on the field once his token sentence has been completed.

 

He'll be able to continue to taunt his victims. 

 

That’s the way it works in New Zealand.      

Gregor Paul and his fellow journalists are little more than sock puppets of the N.Z Rugby Union

“Statistical reality that professional rugby, so heavily populated by young men, is going to incur such incidents” 

Gregor Paul in his 21^st Oct 2016 N.Z Herald article perpetrates the contemptuous crap that comes from the N.Z Rugby Union - that offending by professional rugby players is endemic of society. 

Seriously if males in N.Z acted like professional rugby players we’d be looking at Soweto as a relatively safe holiday destination.  

Proving this claim by Paul and his puppet-masters is a falsehood is easy.

Anyone with access to Google can do so. 

Perhaps Paul should Google ‘google’?       

Let’s compare the conduct of N.Z professional rugby players with say N.Z professional soccer/football players and see what results we get. 

Remembering in just the last few weeks on the rugby side of the ledger we’ve had: 

A player caught wanking in front of kids 

One up for attempted rape

One let-off for a vicious assault 

 

Of the later Filipo assault Steve Spew Tew also wanted us to believe 'it was a reflection of greater society'.

 

Let's examine this claim along with NASA faking the moon landings.  

 

Kiwi soccer players are littered about the globe.  

They earn good money & have the same temptations as say their rugby compatriots.

 

It's a fair comparison.  

According to fiction writer Gregor Paul and arch-apologist Tew statistically they’ll be in the news for all the wrong reasons at the same level of the bell curve as rugby.   

Yet, the only return on the search “New Zealand footballer arrested” I got were cases of cardiac arrest.

What about “New Zealand soccer player arrested”? 

Nothing in the first four pages, unless you count incidents of overseas players. 

I tried a broad search under Google NZ for “Soccer player drunk” and also struck out. 

A repeat of before, not one return in the first four pages.

“Soccer player charged”?

 Zip.

The very same demographic as rugby players, yet not one has come to the attention of not just the New Zealand media, but global media as well.

If one of the Kiwi soccer squad faced criminal charges in the country they played-in professionally this would soon be news back in their homeland.  

Paul and his fellow sycophants would be all over a juicy story like a rabid hyena.   

Probably have a headline ‘See I told you it wasn’t just Rugby Players’  

So why don’t N.Z Journalists report the disturbing level of criminality amongst professional rugby players that is way out of proportion to any other demographic? 

They are pussies. 

Post a highly critical article on rugby and you’ll risk being blacklisted. 

New Zealand journalists like Gregor Paul are scared to tell the truth about New Zealand rugby least their biggest source of ‘click bait’ is pulled from underneath their feet.

 

Paul himself would be out of the 'stocking filler' rugby book for Christmas business pronto and he knows it.  

What masquerades as investigative journalism in New Zealand end-up being little better than NZRFU media releases. 

Australian coach Michael Cheika isn't afraid to highlight the collusion between the N.Z Herald and N.Z Rugby Union.  
 

So we end-up with articles that are so wildly inaccurate they actually insult other sportsmen by falsely asserting by default their chosen sport engages in the same sort of criminality as rugby players.

They don’t. 

That’s a fact not fiction.

 

 

Will Dillon Halaholo be the first topic on N.Z Rugby’s new ‘Cultural Change’ panel’s agenda?

As if an attempted rape charge wasn’t enough for a N.Z Rugby to handle in the one-day. 

We now hear that Southland Stags rugby player Dillon Halaholo was sentenced to 18 months' intensive supervision after admitting three charges of masturbating in a public place, twice in front of young girls. 

How young? 

Just 6, 9 and 10.  

What a sick fucker.  

Congratulations to the Invercargill judge in this case, Christina Cook, who weighed-up the victim’s rights versus that of a dirty sex fiend that got his jolly’s from wanking in front of kids.  

Dillon Halaholo’s lawyers attempt to play the ‘it will harm his career and travel prospects’ were rejected. 

Good thing too, long overdue.   

Coincidentally today – the same day we have two sexual abuse cases in the news – we hear flimflam emanating from N.Z Rugby H.Q that they are setting-up a cultural change panel.  

This tokenistic panel will include women, probably after they’ve got their gears off and done the dishes. 

In particular this panel will be looking at the sport's attitude toward women. 

You can’t make this sort of shit up.  

 

Can't they read todays headlines?

 

Rugby player convicted for indecent acts

 

NZR aware of Mid Canterbury rugby player on rape charge

 

We already know the attitude.

 

It's one of contempt, zero respect. 

 

I mean far be it for N.Z Rugby to let a bimbo actually get on the NZR Board.  

If they are looking for panel members what about asking the mothers of the kids from Southland?

 

I'm sure they would be keen to have their say.

Rugby’s image in N.Z is now in tatters but that won’t change a thing

Being the biggest ape in the jungle rugby followers in New Zealand have a supercilious, contemptuous view of rival football codes.   

Soccer is for poofters. 

League is for inhabitants of State Houses.  

So where are the high-profile soccer players facing charges of intent to rape guys? 

Refer latest report about a Mid Canterbury rugby player.  

There are heaps of soccer players plying their trade overseas. 

Surely some of them get up-to mischief? 

Evidently not. 

Certainly not to the level of rugby players in N.Z.   

Rugby’s image is now in tatters, going down the tubes sordid incident by sordid incident.  

The public is finally waking-up to the high rates of criminality associated with rugby in New Zealand. 

This site is littered with them.  

Of course there will always be an element of Kiwis who will defend the indefensible. 

Most of them are buffoons and gravitate to fellow buffoons for solace. 

The more-staunch ones join rugby-club committees.   

They honestly don’t care as long as the precious All Blacks keep winning and it’s not their daughter or son assaulted by a profile rugby player.    

The sports image is paramount. 

The victims are just collateral, worthy only of token apologies.    

Rugby buffoons chortle away and run-down sports like League whilst ignoring the bleeding obvious.  

Rugby culture is to blame for the issues the sport faces. 

Other sports don’t have these problems to the same degree.   

And there’s no way that’s going to change under the current regime, regardless of what the public think.

 

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)