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Message: [QUOTE="Flutterby, post: 2139697, member: 1853"] And people who actually don't live in the same 'world' as the rest of us. These days they are taken from home at a young age, given a whole heap of money to play sport, hero worshipped, 'protected', given free stuff wherever they go and ultimately never actually learn good social skills or to be 'real people'. As Hammo and others have said many times on this board - society needs to stop seeing sportspeople as heroes. I am not saying I absolve them from taking responsibility for their actions whatever they may be, but it might be less likely to happen if we just cheer them on for their on-field performances, and off-field, treat them the same as any other random person we might see out and about that we don't actually know. Naive of me I know and I don't think for a second that society is going to change in this attitude, but at some point we have to realise that 'we' have had a part in creating the current climate by the way we have turned sportspeople into heroes (at a younger and younger age) In regards to them just having a BBQ at each other's places - well maybe the don't actually like all socialising together. Seriously I don't think I'd have my work-mates around for a barbie. They spend a lot of time together already, maybe they want to get away from one another in smaller groups. And on the original question/comment posed by andymac about all these new accusations all suddenly coming out - it was always going to happen. Establishments may have been a bit 'afraid of the consequences' of bringing these things to light, but now that someone else has done it first, they are more confident about bringing it up. I am not saying any of them are necessarily true, but I am sure that a lot of things go on involving high profile people that never get reported. (and on a side note re the Lockyer allegations, Bruno said today that while the 'tackler' wasn't Lockyer, he did recognise some of the other people in the footage as Broncos players) [/QUOTE]

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