NRL Players and family members in hot water

[Morkel]

Birdy is clearly trying to break his contract for next year. He's obviously one of those players that, had League not been good to him, he'd be in jail. But even the dumbest players wouldn't do the same dumbshit stunt two nights in a row. It's the easiest way to break a contract now.

 

[Mitchell_Broncos]

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Foul mouth JT, always has a sook when something doesn't go his way.:laugh::thefinger:

Everyone says he should've been sin binned

 

[broncos4life]

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Foul mouth JT, always has a sook when something doesn't go his way.:laugh::thefinger:

Everyone says he should've been sin binned

Why wasn't he binned though? That's what I want to know? He is a serial whinger but seems to get excused for this behaviour for some reason.

 

[Unbreakable]

Yeah he was like straight up verbally abusing the referees all night.

"**** off"
"Get your fucking calls right"

Anyone else says that and they're sin-binned and charged by the MRC.

 

[Mitchell_Broncos]

Why wasn't he binned though? That's what I want to know? He is a serial whinger but seems to get excused for this behaviour for some reason.

Because its JT haha he is a protected specie...

 

[tommy]

Why wasn't he binned though? That's what I want to know? He is a serial whinger but seems to get excused for this behaviour for some reason.

Because he hands the kicking tee back to the ballboy he can say what he wants about refs and NRL.

 

[Mitchell_Broncos]

Because he hands the kicking tee back to the ballboy he can say what he wants about refs and NRL.

So he thinks so haha.

 

[Foordy]

Yeah he was like straight up verbally abusing the referees all night.

"**** off"
"Get your fucking calls right"

Anyone else says that and they're sin-binned and charged by the MRC.

Except players lick Mick Ennis or Cam Smith

they do the same shit for no sin bin or charge.

It is the usual inconsistency of the amateurish NRL.

 

[Broncoman]

Thurston never gets suspended because he is the golden boy who does no wrong. The NRL care about him more than anybody else in the game.

 

[Foordy]

Thurston never gets suspended because he is the golden boy who does no wrong. The NRL care about him more than anybody else in the game.

what a load of shit ... there are plenty of players in the game that do much worse that Thurston and barely get a slap on the wrist. for example Josh Reynolds ... repeatedly trips players and rarely gets suspended for it.

while Thurston may go off at referees from time to time (and believe me I understand that feeling given the standard of officiating in the NRL), he isn't a dirty player ... just a passionate and competitive one

 

[Nashy]

what a load of shit ... there are plenty of players in the game that do much worse that Thurston and barely get a slap on the wrist. for example Josh Reynolds ... repeatedly trips players and rarely gets suspended for it.

while Thurston may go off at referees from time to time (and believe me I understand that feeling given the standard of officiating in the NRL), he isn't a dirty player ... just a passionate and competitive one

Who should be sat on his ass for swearing at a referee. He's the top of the game, and that's the example he sets? That makes him a grub.

 

[LittleDavey]

Didn't Corey get us marched 10m for simply asking "what was that for?" one late-season game? FMD the inconsistency...fucking amateurs, the lot of them.

I understand passion, it's one of JT's strong points, and they were on the end of some rough calls, but you can't abuse the refs. He should have been sent. A James Graham or similar would have been.

 

[tommy]

Aaron Gray and Dylan Walker have again landed themselves in hot water after being involved in an incident in Thailand.
A man reportedly complained to the NRL Integrity Unit about the players after his son was arrested in Phuket, Thailand.
Both players were reportedly at the same venue as the man who was arrested.
Gray and Walker are currently being investigated by their clubs South Sydney and Manly.

The two players have history together after almost losing their lives last year due to a prescription drug overdose.

NRL: Dylan Walker and Aaron Gray involved in Thailand incident - Yahoo7

 

[Morkel]

Their crime so far is being at the same location as a guy who was arrested, and that persons dad dropped the two player's names to take the heat off his son. Is that about right?

 

[Morkel]

I'm sorry, Fifita trying to act the victim is just hilarious.

Andrew Fifita, Allan Jones; Todd Greenberg; NRL; quit;

NRL CEO Todd Greenberg has refused to be drawn on accusations he is mishandling the Andrew Fifita case, despite being branded a “ning nong” who is “out of his depth”.


Speaking with The Daily Telegraph last night, an NRL spokesperson said Greenberg would not be responding to comments made by heavyweight Fifita supporters — Sydney radio talkback host Alan Jones and former Labor leader Mark Latham.


During an interview with the Cronulla prop on his Sky News program, Jones and Co, the 2GB breakfast star described Greenberg as “out of his depth” and threatened to go “toe to toe” with the NRL boss should he attempt to remove the 27-year-old from the game.

Latham also branded Greenberg and his team “ning nongs”, telling Fifita: “You’re more important to the NRL than the idiots in the bunker and down there at Moore Park. You’re the man they love.”

The Jones attack comes only days after Fifita, under fire for publicly supporting convicted killer Kieran Loveridge, was banned from Australia’s Four Nations squad.


The Sharks premiership hero last month received a consorting warning from the NSW Police’s Strike Force Raptor and continues to be the subject of an ongoing NRL Integrity Unit investigation.


It is understood Integrity Unit officials are awaiting more information from NSW police on Fifita, who was also controversially overlooked for the Clive Churchill Medal despite an outstanding grand final performance.


Comments on The Daily Telegraph website yesterday were divided, with many pointing out Fifita has also previously been sidelined and fined $30,000 for threatening a referee at a junior rugby league game.


During the Tuesday night TV interview, the tattooed enforcer not only suggested he was ready to walk out on rugby league but questioned if his profile as a NRL star was behind the police consorting order.

“It’s just ... they’re trying to make a fool of myself,’’ he said. “Someone high profile.


“Why didn’t my best mate get done when we went to the jail (to visit Loveridge)? I don’t know why I just got done. There was two of us.”


A NSW Police spokesperson said yesterday they would be making no further comment on the matter.


Quizzed on how the saga had affected him, Fifita continued: “To be honest, I think it’s punishment.


“I feel like I’m on my last chance with the NRL — they all know that, I know that — (and) I’m thinking the worst at the moment.


“I’ve got one more mess up and I’m out. My contract is ripped up.


“So I’ve already approached my management team, already had talks with the CEO about going elsewhere. Different codes.


“I don’t know if my contract is going to get ripped up tomorrow, if it’s going to get ripped up in six months time.”

If you don't want to read all of that, it's worth it just for this gem:

“It’s just ... they’re trying to make a fool of myself,’’

 

[Nashy]

He's a fucking idiot. He's right though, the NRL are useless. He should have been flat out banned when the junior ref thing happened. Why does he feel like this game owes him a god damned thing after they still let him play?

 

[Morkel]

He's a fucking idiot. He's right though, the NRL are useless. He should have been flat out banned when the junior ref thing happened. Why does he feel like this game owes him a god damned thing after they still let him play?

Absolutely agree, the ref shit should have been the final straw. The NRL is too gutless, it's like the code is too scared to lose a decent player to another code, even if that player is a deadshit that tarnishes it for every other player. Has the NRL missed Carney? **** no. He's really the only one that has been properly booted (as opposed to shameful overnight resignations like Monaghan) and even then he had, what, 15 chances?

 

[Huge]

Absolutely agree, the ref shit should have been the final straw. The NRL is too gutless, it's like the code is too scared to lose a decent player to another code, even if that player is a deadshit that tarnishes it for every other player. Has the NRL missed Carney? **** no. He's really the only one that has been properly booted (as opposed to shameful overnight resignations like Monaghan) and even then he had, what, 15 chances?

Just playing Devils advocate here but how are the exact details of the ref thing known to Joe Public ? Before anyone jumps up and down I don't condone violent confrontation or intimidating behaviour towards officials nor do I have any great respect for Fatfeeta but I personally think if it was just words thrown and not true violence then that shouldn't be enough to end a career ! I would think second offence drug taking could be but angry words and unfulfilled threats shouldn't be enough.