Ex Mako’s player gets off assault conviction

Type ‘one rule’ into the search blog search engine and you’ll see what gives me the motivation to take time to run this site. 

Can’t be stuffed writing too much about Braden Stewart. 

I’d only be repeating myself, increase my blood pressure needlessly.   

'Bags' your kids get him as a teacher.

 

Waikato Rugby Stalwart Learns How N.Z Rugby Hegemony Operates

Salt of the earth ‘club men’ like Mike Cochrane (Hautapu Sports Club, Hamilton) learns the hard way that Super Rugby players are higher up the totem than him.   

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Even when you are the victim taking-on the likes of Craig Stevenson, the club was never going to back the no-one.

 

Cochrane should pick another sport. 

 

There are plenty that would appreciate his efforts, not 'throw him under the bus'. 

Yet another N.Z Rugby Player is up for assault and wants his mandatory get-out of jail free card

His name is being kept secret. 

All we know is he’s based in Blenheim. 

Player X admits the assault occurred, but now wants to be let off scott-free. 

Simply, because he’s a professional rugby player. 

And you’s (sic) know professional rugby players in New Zealand have scant respect for the law of the land, less respect for the courts. 

That’s because the courts treat rugby players differently.  

 

All tares of the sport.

Don’t believe me? 

Below you’ll see a tag for the posts on ‘One Rule for rugby players’ 

Take 15 seconds to scan through the articles I’ve produced on this theme.  

If you are ‘a tiger for punishment’ try also searching the label ‘assault' as well.    

Then you’ll agree with my summation, that he’ll walk free. 

The precedent is so entrenched. 

That’s the way it is in New Zealand. 

No point in getting up-set.

 

If we want successful N.Z rugby teams, players like this have to be allowed off the hook.

 

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Just another New Zealand Rugby Rep getting pissed and doing stupid things.

 

No real story here. 

May as well blog 'it rained in Fiordland over the weekend'.

Just another New Zealand Rugby Rep getting pissed and doing stupid things. 

How pissed and idiotic was MacKenzie Haugh?

Well he almost drove his vehicle into a bus in N.Zs # 1 tourist resort whilst being four times over the limit.  

Alarmed the public to such a degree, they stripped him of his keys.

No respect for the Police or the public, but hey acting like an arrogant jerk comes as a mandatory character trait in such circles.  

 

Perhaps N.Z Rugby could run say a Respect and Responsibility review to sort this in-grained sh*t out?

In what should have been jail time, given the seriousness of his actions and the small fact Haugh was caught only 12 months ago similarly drunk behind the wheel, he get’s just supervision and community work. 

MacKenzie Haugh is a name we will see again. 

I’m sure he’ll remember the day he played in the same team as Richie McCaw.

Just how big is drug abuse amongst N.Z Rugby players?

Only a month back Drug Free Sport New Zealand told us its investigation looking-into Josh Townshend on-line steroid shop, involved rugby players ‘mostly at the lower levels of sport’.  

A wee bit on Josh Townshend’s’ operation, before I address the crux of this post. 

Anyone buying performance enhancing products off his Clenbuterol site, all 100 odd known customers, knew what they were getting. 

They were not naive to this fact, just the belief they wouldn’t get caught.   

Those caught when Townshend went down were not largely what the N.Z Public think about as purchasers of performance enhancing drugs. 

His main clients weren’t Kiwi bodybuilders or cyclists. 

The largest recreational demographic were rugby players. 

Over half, if media reports are accurate and this story is constantly evolving.   

We were also told, as rugby circles raced into damage control, that no top players were involved. 

Just a bunch of no-name club players we were led to believe. 

Wrongly as the individual cases came to light.   

We’ve now learnt Clenbuterol clientele included a player from the female equivalent of The All Blacks (Black Ferns) and two NPC players. 

There are hundreds, if not thousands of sites on the net where anyone can but performance enhancing drugs. 

Not just out of the backrooms of Christchurch houses. 

Townshend’s operation was a global small-fry. 

What are the odds of other Kiwi rugby players purchasing steroids off an overseas site?

 

I am not being flippant or churlish when I say 100% chance this has occurred.       

Enough ‘smoke coming from the fire’ already for New Zealand Rugby to start testing schoolboy players.  

Steroid abuse within N.Z rugby is a marketing nightmare. 

Who wants to be involved with an athlete/team/sport where cheating is involved? 

Ask U.S Postal Service for the short-sharp-sweet answer to that one.  

So just how many drugs cheats are involved in N.Z Rugby?  

 

The starting mark is 50 + and counting.

 

 

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.