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