Eels Dude said:
The media will contniue to do it though because they know what "news" is. This thread is based on a nothing incident yet it's still 10 pages long. Shows what a talking point it is.
Dudley, you're the one driving it. You've also re-invented your 'opinion' on the issue several times.
I have had some fun with this thread just to stir up Tigers fans but here's my actual opinion.
lol. The "I was just trolling" defence.
Eels Dude said:
These guys earn up to 10 times what most people their age are earning and their is responsibility to come from that.
Not just responsibility but they should be aware of the fact that if they head out at 3am in the middle of the city where just about everybody else is drunk off their toes, then there could be trouble regardless of whether they instigate it or not. Because everybody knows who they are and if they cop an odd insulting comment, racist or otherwise, they should be smart enough to just ignore it as opposed to decking a bloke. Because having such a high profile has it's downside.
So if Benji hit a bloke in the face because he was racially taunted, well he should known better really. With a profile like his, you cannot just do something like that and expect it to go un-noticed. It's not a hangable offence and hopefully not as bad as it sounds. People get into fights every weekend in the city and far worse than this one... but the best thing to do is walk away ESPECIALLY if you've a profile like Benji does. If he'd have done that he wouldn't be in this position at all, wouldn't have to speak to police etc. But you cannot have it both ways.
Oh... responsibility now. It's Helen Lovejoy again. What nonsense.
None of us know what really happened in this particular incident; so the whole passing judgment thing is way too premature. What we do know is that the tabloid media have a habit of embellishing the facts.
But hey, if you want to accept the tabloid media as being the moral compass of 'responsible' behaviour, then that's your choice.
You should have stuck with the "just trolling" line.
Funny thread...
LOL @ all the wowsers saying a grown man should in bed at 3:00am.
It's incredibly naive to think a high profile person is immune to controversy if they stayed indoors late at night. Tell that to Trent Barrett who was reported doing push-ups in his underpants at a
private function. The media latched onto it and the bloke was forced to make a public apology in front of cameras. The wowsers and responsibility police had their victory.
Bottom line is that that it doesn't matter where it happens. You could be at The Rocks buying food at 3am, or hanging out in the privacy of your home in broad daylight. If there's an incident and someone catches it on camera or complains, the media jumps all over it... and often the player can be expected to be dragged over hot coals for no good reason.
There is the occasional serious incident that needs to be dealt with and the game is better off without certain players. But too many of these 'scandals' are non events.
Then there's the incidents that are milked for all their worth, even when sane people can see an overreaction is going on. The wowsers and responsibility cops are the ones driving it, the tabloids are merely meeting that demand.
Meanwhile, all the good stuff that players do in the community are considered to be non-events by the tabloids and their wowser readership. Talk about a screwed up set of values. Ironic.
