Young Australian Rugby Player Needs An Louisville Slugger Kind Of Attitude Adjustment-NRL Star Glasses American Katie Milligan
There are many rugby players in Australia with a reputation for not being able to handle their booze, are known for assaulting women, and last but certainly not least think they are lot of tougher than they really are when they are barhopping with their mates after a game of footy.
The problem is so bad that many rugby teams now have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to alcohol or drugs, or if players are charged with violent criminal offences.
Of course the policy has little or no effect on a lot of the players, and week in and week out it’s not uncommon to read in the Monday morning newspapers tales of muscle-headed rugby players being charged with alcohol related offences or serious violent offences.
This goes on until the footy season ends, and the rugby players in Australia are giving the game a bad name, and their antics are really driving fans away from the game, which in turn hurts the team’s gate receipts, and ultimately their bottom line.
Now being a Canadian boy, I know that there are similar problems in the Canadian pro sporting ranks, but at the end of the day I can say without a slightest doubt in my mind that the problems pro sport franchises in Canada have with unruly and obnoxious players pales in comparison to the kind of bullshit that is happening hear in Australia.
The worst bunch of professional athletes I ever came across during my days as a bartender in Regina during the early Eighties was the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders. Some of those players were dickheads whenever they visited the Old Gold nightclub at the Golden Mile there was always one player who mixed it up with other bar patrons for the dumbest of reasons.
But like I said, the bullshit that goes on with professional athletes in Canada pales in comparison to the muscle-headed steroid using young footy players here in Australia.
Take the latest incident to make headlines here, the story about National Rugby League star Greg Bird, and the fact that he took a glass and smashed it on his American girlfriend’s face. His cowardly act almost cost his 24-year-old girlfriend her eye, and she remains in hospital expected to be released by the end of the week.
The glassing took place at Bird’s apartment Aug. 24 at 7.30am and shortly thereafter, the 24-year-old Cronulla Shark drove his victim to Prince of Wales Hospital. Along the way, he tried to convince his girlfriend to play along with him in his attempt to pin the glassing on his roommate who was away at the time of the attack.
Why would he blame his roommate for the attack you might ask? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he is accused of attacking a 20-year-old woman in a Cronulla nightclub back in January.
The guy is a loser who is quickly becoming known as a drunk who gets his kicks out beating up helpless women instead of doing it on the footy pitch. As far as I’m concerned, he should given the maximum prison sentence allowed under Australian law. In fact, I think any rugby player who assaults women (and there are a lot of them here in Australia in my opinion) should be sentenced to the maximum prison sentence available for a judge to hand down.
Of course, that will never happen as long as NRL teams continue to interfere in criminal matters that have absolutely nothing to do with them. It’s the same with any professional sports team really. For some reason or other when one of their players under contract is charged with a criminal offence away from the game, they are first to rise to occasion to see if they can help the player either beat the rap or receive a lesser sentence. That attitude is bullshit, and pro sport franchises should just focus on the product their selling to sports fans instead of interfering in criminal matters that have nothing to do with the game.
As long as team owners and management meddle in their player’s criminal matters, players like Bird and many, many other just like him will never change. It’s a sad but true fact.
As for Bird’s girlfriend Kate Milligan, she has since undergone surgery for glass wounds she suffered to the eye and a fractured eye socket. While police have yet to interview her, if she’s a smart woman, she should go out of her way to make sure that Bird is locked up behind bars for a while, and then she should sue the shit out of him, take him for every cent he has made from footy in short professional footy career.
Barring that, maybe she could arrange a meet between me and Bird, and then let’s see how tough he is with a glass in his hand. I have a Louisville Slugger that will take care of Bird and his glassing ways in a heartbeat, and I won’t even break a sweat, though it good bugger me up with my immigration status her in Oz.
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