Best Off-field incident of the NRL era

[parrawentyfan]

The Johns brothers
- Joey in London and Toowoomba airport
- Matthew in Christchurch with the Sharks was very high profile.

- The Australian captain squid games comment

- Josh Papalii calling police to report his own drink driving.

- I'm sure the bromance of Ferguson and Duggan did some things.

 

[soc123_au]

Have to go with the Gower incident, mostly because it culminated in Pearce scoring a runaway try after the siren to beat him when they played each other for the first time

Even better that it was off a very ordinary kick from Gower when the game was pretty much over.

Rooftop Vodka Cruisers deserves a mention, pretty mild in comparison to some of the gems in here though.

 

[Ruby Roundhouse]

1999 is the NRL era, so Julian O'Neill wins easily.

People remember him taking a dump in Jeremy Schloss' shoe, but they oft forget the smearing of his own shit all over his hotel room, too.

Class act.

This!

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Sione Faumuina had a few gos, one abusing the sh*t out of Ivan Cleary (his current coach) and captain Ruben Wiki at Awen Guttenbiel's testimonial dinner, he'd had the cops called on him at a club awards dinner as well, then rolling his car over when up at the Cowboys. Was once going out with Temepara Clark (Erin's mum, former NZ netballer) and F'ed that up, too.

Has turned his life around now, to be fair to him

 

[Valheru]

Manu Vautuvei deserves a mention, he actually served jail time. He wasn't in the NRL at the time but was far less removed in terms of time retired than Finch was.

 

[Desert Qlder]

Matthew 'loves a bun' Johns Four Corners was the biggest off-field incident as far as news coverage that I can recall.

Matthew Johns in group sex scandal

NZ woman 'left traumatised' after night of group sex involving rugby league identity Matthew Johns.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Trifili13]

Gus making a late run down the outside. He has supposedly shared some embarrassing bathroom selfie. It's behind a paywall thankfully.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Villa the Gorilla in the Kangaroos camp stealing from his team mates.

 

[mxlegend99]

My favourite for how wild and funny it is has to be Gower. Just a wild series of random events.

But Matt Lodge definitely has him covered for being more crazy and tops him from that perspective.

 

[gerg]

Josh Papalii throwing a bottle of moisturiser at another motorist he was having a road rage incident with. Not as scandalous as others listed but worthy of a (perfectly moist) round of applause.

 

[Danish]

My favourite for how wild and funny it is has to be Gower. Just a wild series of random events.

But Matt Lodge definitely has him covered for being more crazy and tops him from that perspective.

yeah but Gower did it with a bit of panache and whimsy.

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