Comments on: The catastrophic opening to the NRL season

By: hugh

hugh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Rugby league is a dreadful, boring, unskilled, neanderthal sport that has always been marketed and directed to attract the white trash of Sydney’s and Brisbane’s fringe, so why be surprised by the antics of the players? The rest of Australia (and many in Sydney and Brisbane too) enthuse over Aussie Rules, a spectacular, exciting, complex game that manages to attract a broad cross section of society and both genders, who generally conduct themselves without the misogynist, aggressive, dumb-is-good crap that is the essence of rubgy league. Some AFL players misbehave too, but with NRL players boorish, violent conduct is almost a given rather than an exception. Jeff, you really should ditch league for something a lot better. And if you can’t manage the switch to AFL, try rugby union and discover that rugby can actually be quite a good game.

By: Digby

Digby — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

They own a licensed club - why hold their launch at another venue? Also where were the club officials? Oh and when is the hotel going to be done for non-compliance with RSA?

By: Dr Harvey M Tarvydas

Dr Harvey M Tarvydas — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Men get drunk. Young men with encouragement can get very drunk and in such a state any one of us would need a nurse maid to keep us and everyone we come in contact with out of trouble or it can all be left to chance. A bunch of people, or even one, pissed is far more dangerous than the same whacked with heroin. It’s the nature of the drug.
Society has serious rules like ‘don’t drink and drive’ with serious consequences for the breaking, so society knows.
The nicest guy in the world whom everyone loves can get drunk (drunk enough not to realize he shouldn’t drive home, wake up in hospital unable to remember that he drove through a ‘red’ light and killed a whole family).
He’s actually no less nice but the victim of a most predictable ugly accident but will have to pay a heavy price because of the consequences.
An organization of adults who will intoxicate its young and then let whatever happens happen needs to go back to Adult Kindergarten and rethink all the issues here without the “ ooh we’re OK mate, we’re good guys mate” Neanderthal delusion.

By: b.crooks

b.crooks — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

as a former country pub operator, I have had the misfortune of watching first hand the loutish and aggressive behaviour of rugby league players and officials in some of the country towns I have operated hotels in, the standover tactics attempted to force sponsorship payments, like, your pub will be off limits to players and officials, or the end of season trashing of public property, the abuse when prevented from entering the hotel because of extreme drunkeness, the physical assaults of owners or other patrons,which usually occur at the end of season, week long alcohol binges, like defecating in containers and putting it in one publicans private frig, admittedly ,this was some years ago, I am well and truly retired now, but I am sure , judging by recent headlines, these acts are still common behaviour, instead of making hotels responsible, make these idiots responsible for their own behaviour, lock them up, and hit them with big fines.