You’ve heard it quite a bit lately in the media, “NRL IN CRISIS”, words along those lines. It’s amazing how the NRL can stumble from one drunken escapade to another isn’t it. These badly-behaved degenerates are killing the game! There is a culture in Rugby League that needs to be sorely addressed before one of these fuckwits murders one of the poor girls they’re trying to rape!!!
Of course it’s only Rugby League players that muck up as such. Au contrare, motherfucker. What about the case of Albert Proud? “Who?” probably all of you are saying, “what has he done?” Well my fellow readers, he did this (from goldcoast.com.au):
BRISBANE Lions player Albert Proud hung his head as a Gold Coast court was told how a night of drinking in Surfers Paradise ended in bloodshed.
The AFL professional faced the Southport Magistrates Court yesterday, charged with assault causing bodily harm after allegedly throwing a glass at a woman’s face on January 31.
The court was told the 23-year-old woman from northern New South Wales suffered a laceration on her eyelid requiring four stitches.
Police prosecutor Rosanna Doolan told the court the woman was at Cocktails and Dreams Nightclub on Orchid Avenue on the Saturday night. About 1am Mr Proud poured a drink on her friend.
In her statement to police, read to the court, the woman said she went to confront him and was 2m away when she saw him raise his right hand which held a glass.
She told police she felt a ‘hot, sharp pain’ in her left eye and her vision became blurry.
She was taken to hospital with a 5cm cut on her eyelid and a lump over her eye.
Defence lawyer Simon Francis Miotti said Mr Proud’s recollection was not clear that night as he had been drinking alcohol since 6.30pm.
But he said the woman confronted his client by trying to throw liquid from her glass over him.
Mr Miotti said Mr Proud attempted to block her and that was where the sequence of events became confused.
Mr Miotti said the woman had not seen if it was Mr Proud’s glass that hit her in the face. If it was a glass, it was unclear whether Mr Proud had knocked her glass out of her hand and into her face or if he had thrown his own glass at her, he said.
He denied Mr Proud had deliberately smashed a glass into her face.
“(Her injury) was bad but it’s not a gashing wound that would have come from hard glass penetration,” he said.
“If a glass slipped from his hand or her hand then that is more consistent with a shallow cut to the eye.”
Mr Miotti told the court the exact sequence of events might never become clear as no video surveillance footage was available from the club.
Magistrate Brian Kilmartin said too many key facts were in dispute and ordered an adjournment until April 14.
“There is an enormous difference between losing grip on a glass or deliberately smashing it into someone’s face and the penalties are oceans apart,” he said.
Thats right, he glassed someone. Funny how you never heard it huh? Not only that he was suspended by his club, but it was then lifted so he could play for them in their trial matches. Weak as piss isn’t it?
People might say it’s because he’s from AFL that’s why he didn’t make news in Sydney, well he didn’t make news in Brisbane neither (on Page 26 of the Courier-Mail to be precise), and thats where he plays! “Hang on”, those same people say, “he’s only played 9 games at the highest level”, well Jake Friend from the Sydney Roosters NRL team has only played 6 First Grade games before he got splashed all over the back page of the Daily Telegraph for drink driving (which last time I checked, didn’t end up with a glass in a girls face). Something strike you about the inequality about coverage there?
Well of course it would, when you signed guarantees with News Limited and ACP to guarantee you good stories in the paper about AFL! To quote this article(http://www.smh.com.au/news/football/we-are-not-out-to-gag-sbs-says-football-chief/2005/11/08/1131407636275.html)
“As part of the previous deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd and Kerry Packer’s Nine Network, the AFL secured guarantees about editorial coverage. News undertook to provide marketing and support in its newspapers and Nine agreed that ACP, Mr Packer’s magazine publisher, would generally support the AFL and run a minimum of four stories a year to promote its growth and development.”
This agreement may be a few years old now, but is it still valid? Is this why Rebecca fucking Wilson steadfastly refuses to have a decent swipe at the AFL? Is this why we in Sydney got a stupid goddamn season guide about the AFL, yet no NRL season guide? Is this why, despite 4 major incidents happening in the AFL in the last week, that it hardly makes any news outside the area which it happens, yet the NRL news makes national news? I’ll list the 4 major incidents of the last week that you may not know:
Collingwood player Ryan Cook decks some cunt at a servo in Sale(http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/stor…17-949,00.html
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Three Collingwood fans bash Melbourne player Nathan Jones’ father senseless (http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,…-23211,00.html)
The coolest ever AFL player (he ain’t beating a big field there) Spida Everitt reveals the massive drug culture in the AFL (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sto…-24218,00.html)
Adelaide player Nathan Bock charged with assualting his girlfriend (http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/bre…0405-9t5y.html)
Apart from Bock, none of these made any real headway in the media. You know the big AFL crisis at the moment? Some North Melbourne fuckwits parading around town with a rubber fucking chicken (http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews…869972286.html
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That was the 4th lead-in story when I watched the 4:30 news today; not the drug taking, the wife bashing, the chicken skylarking. They’re distracting people from the real issues! The fact of the matter is the AFL has as bad a culture problem as the NRL, but the fact is the AFL has its hand in so many pockets as to guarantee postive publicity and brush aside any bad stories, while News Limited ( WHO HALF OWNS THE NRL BY THE WAY!) continue to blow stories way out of proportion. It’s a fucking disgrace.
As final proof that I’m not just talking a load of shite, I present an unprovoked review in the TV guide (writer Jackie Tracy) of Adelaide newspaper the Sunday Mail (News Limited owned by the way) this week:
“DON’T BOTHER
NRL Knights Vs Sea Eagles
Sunday midnight Ch 9When is Rugby League going to simply admit defeat? If the drunken antics of it’s thick necked heroes don’t sink it, then the fact that it is about as exciting to watch as repeats of Antiques Roadshow surely will.
In this age of AFL, A-League and international rugby union, the NRL is looking increasingly irrelevant.
Tackle your flatmate and reclaim the remote if you fing your TV tuned to this sorry excuse for a sport.Sunday Mail TV guide 5/4/2009″
The inequality must end.
I agree wholeheartedly! And for the record I said so here
http://nofuninpublic.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/afl-uniting-society-rooting-chickens/
and here
http://nofuninpublic.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/drunken-brumbies-escape-scrutiny/
Excellent stuff you’ve written there mate, glad to see others are noticing what’s going on in the media as well! If you explain it to people, they gradually see whats going on.