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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2147726, member: 1764"] And as we are all too acutely aware, social change is best affected from the top down - that is, from the domain of society that has the highest level of publicity. In "olden days", that was people like the royal family, politicians and high society. What they deemed socially acceptable is what the rest of society was judged by (even if not all complied). These days sportsmen, TV personalities, musicians and movie stars seem to be held in high esteem and the "kids" will (eventually) follow their lead. We can't control tv, musicians or movie stars really, but sporting organisations like the NRL, the Broncos, the AFL etc can put controls on their players' behaviour and thus social expectations. Thing is to do it you'd need cooperation not just from the whole of the NRL, but the ARU, ESL, and anywhere else that competes for the players. Otherwise the ones that want to booze up day in, day out and don't see it as a problem will simply go wherever it is that will accept that behaviour and let them play footy. So, like most social change and revolutionary ideas, they sound lovely in theory but could never realistically be implemented so we just have to roll with the times. In 20 years we won't be worrying about binge drinking. Either it will be just common practice, or like smoking it'll be just not the done thing ... and instead we'll be worrying about persistent pill popping or something else. Trends change and move. So yes, we're stuck trusting kids coming through in a generation that totally doesn't give a shit about consequences, brought up on a belief that someone will fix their **** ups if they make them. [/QUOTE]

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