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Message: [QUOTE="bianc, post: 2139704, member: 2048"] Hero worshipping has gone on forever. Be it sports people or movie stars. Technology that is around today just makes it harder on the sportspeople to act as young people. I was listening to a panel on ABC radio the other night. Warren Boland says these guys are role models. The others disagree. One of the panel said he was talking to a young footy player who said how the hell could he be a role model as he was bought up in a caravan park and that was his life. He did not know what he was to do to be a 'role model'. Another thing they raised was the Union players after the Cup last week. The kiwis guys were sitting laughing and talking together with their families and the admins, hangers on etc were too boozed to be interviewed sensibly. The players had left it to go back home to celebrate in their own way. My husband immediatley jumped to defence of league and dragged the name of a few union guys who had run a muck in NZ just recently. Honestly though there has to be a line and our boys have crossed that line. As Gordie said the other night the only thing we can do is give them body guards when they go out cos Wayne can't be there to hold their hands and neither would the players want him to be. Manly players though have four bodyguards. Bennett says they are young and should be allowed to celebrate a win. Gees how I wish now he had let them do it in Sydney instead of giving them the weekend off training. Hindsight is wonderful. Sportspeople in every code and even in country towns get into mischief in one way or the other. They do think they are the greatest. Lets not pretend any different. Not only the young ones either. [/QUOTE]

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