It didn't take long but the family club have some issues to resolve again with their players:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 21,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/s ... 21,00.html
Bulldogs Drama
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Bucking Beads
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- Mar 5, 2008
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Bloody Barba must have been smashed or just way to brave Idris is a mountain.
- Mar 26, 2008
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Yeah, no arguement really about all that, in reality the players have to realise this. It just shits me that so many ppl are ready to run to a newspaper with this type of crap.
It is the same old arguement, but nobody will ever stop bad decision making where booze is a factor.
It is the same old arguement, but nobody will ever stop bad decision making where booze is a factor.
mrslong
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are people not going to watch because two teenagers got into a fight?????? Seriously, if you care that much then you need a good hard reality check.
I was down at my local footy club on Friday night. Almost every 2nd person there was on the drink. It's the society, the culture.......
I was down at my local footy club on Friday night. Almost every 2nd person there was on the drink. It's the society, the culture.......
This is all far beyond a joke now, I applaud Denis Fitzgerald (I am as shocked as you are) for calling for total season long alcohol bans for the players because there is to much to lose in terms of fans, sponsors and money to let these kids ruin the games image and reputation even further. If a club boss offered me a $100,000 contract and it said I had to not drink for the duration of the playing season to play the game I love for a living, I like 99% of fans would have the same answer.
mrslong
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Well you guys are the only ones getting upset about it. The sponsors Only care what we think about it and if it's going to do damage to their products, so if you all go "argh these guys are morons and need to be stood down" then that's what they'll do. If you go "well, how about a 3 strikes and they're out policy, we've all been young before let's give these guys a chance to make up for it" then that's what they'll do.
No, i'm not dumb, I've just been around longer than you to care if 2 teenage boys get into a fight in a night club.
No, i'm not dumb, I've just been around longer than you to care if 2 teenage boys get into a fight in a night club.
Bucking Beads
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If the NRL or clubs ban Alcohol for players imagine how many players we will lose to overseas clubs and rugby union.
People do care whether you like it or not, I for one don't like players from my team fighting eachother, having intercourse in toilets after 12 hour benders, urinating on other pub patrons or drink driving and will like the moral majority voice my disgust at this behaviour both by footballers and society in general.
Sponsors will not want to associate with teams full of players who don't know how to act like decent human beings. Regardless of public pressure you can bet a potential sponsor will choose to invest in a club in a sport that doesn't have the horrible perception that the NRL currently gets which boils down to one common factor ALCOHOL.
Sponsors will not want to associate with teams full of players who don't know how to act like decent human beings. Regardless of public pressure you can bet a potential sponsor will choose to invest in a club in a sport that doesn't have the horrible perception that the NRL currently gets which boils down to one common factor ALCOHOL.
Yep union and OS are welcome to them if they continue to carry on like idiots.
Now I don't think that there is a lot to this incident in isolation, but it can't be seen in isolation - every incident involving a RL player is just added to the rapid growing list and they are all seen as a whole. I like almost everyone else am sick of it, I care about the worsening image our game is getting.
Now I don't think that there is a lot to this incident in isolation, but it can't be seen in isolation - every incident involving a RL player is just added to the rapid growing list and they are all seen as a whole. I like almost everyone else am sick of it, I care about the worsening image our game is getting.
