Brett Seymour under investigation for alcohol incident

[Perth Red]

Surprised the video hasn't appeared on YouTube yet. Come on shire folk what's the delay?

If as a 19 year old my employer and had given me a contract that said "we will pay you $100k+ a year if you don't get wrecked and embarass us" then yep I reckon even at that young age I would have been tea total! As said its a culture thing and partly an Australian culture and mostly a RL club culture. The fact the coach meets up with players for a few beers in the afternoon says it all really.

 

[SaveTheChildren]

Surprised the video hasn't appeared on YouTube yet. Come on shire folk what's the delay?

If as a 19 year old my employer and had given me a contract that said "we will pay you $100k+ a year if you don't get wrecked and embarass us" then yep I reckon even at that young age I would have been tea total! As said its a culture thing and partly an Australian culture and mostly a RL club culture. The fact the coach meets up with players for a few beers in the afternoon says it all really.

Do you think your employer should have the right to tell you how to live your life? What if a rugby league club thinks players should abstain from sex all season to enhance performance? Should they have the right to do that? To what extent should an employer be able to reach into your life?

 

[Perth Red]

If they were going to pay me enough money and I was aware of what the expectation was to earn that money then yep I would make a choice. if the money and the job were appealing enough then yes they could tell me to do what they liked!

NRL club: "OK here is a contract for $200k a year, for it we expect you not to drink more than two beers a day and not to get arrested for a criminal offence"
Me: "Where do I sign!"

 

[Garts]

Fact is you could try and get players to stay off the piss, abstain from sex etc etc but it would not improve their performances. Players need to relex and unwind like any other person. For alot of society that means going out on the piss with friends and socialising. I would be totally against making players only be allowed a certain no of drinks per week. At the end of the day it would probably negatively affect their performances.

 

[adamkungl]

So what did he get stood down for? Throwing a slice of pizza? This is becoming ridiculous. Cronulla are f**king gutless. Gallop already showed with the Jake Friend incident that standing down Stewart was a one off PR stunt.

 

[The Dodger]

Surprised the video hasn't appeared on YouTube yet. Come on shire folk what's the delay?

If as a 19 year old my employer and had given me a contract that said "we will pay you $100k+ a year if you don't get wrecked and embarass us" then yep I reckon even at that young age I would have been tea total! As said its a culture thing and partly an Australian culture and mostly a RL club culture. The fact the coach meets up with players for a few beers in the afternoon says it all really.

Thats such a load of shiit.

first of all, most contracts don't have anything in them saying you are not allowed to drink.

why should all nrl players be forced to agree to a drinking ban?

weren't the parra players talking about walking out on the club if fitzgerald enforced a drinking ban?

it is not illegal to go out for a drink, its just those that can't handle the alcohol that need to watch themselves.

but i agree, if a player has a history of alcohol related incidents, then the club should write up a contract including fines for drunken behaviour.

and for you to bring up the fact that sticky went for a few beers with them is just ridiculous.

what are you trying to say, that he encouraged them to get on the piss all night after he had left?

oh and your cctv footage request will not show you what you want to see...

Cronulla's Brett Seymour in clear after club views CCTV footage of his ejection from nightclub

SHARKS halfback Brett Seymour could still play this weekend after CCTV footage cleared him of any serious wrongdoing just hours after Cronulla officials stood him down.
Club staff and police yesterday viewed video footage of Seymour's ejection from Cronulla night spot 2230 Restaurant & Bar following a 10-hour bender on Sunday night.
Venue manager Michael Major last night told The Daily Telegraph the footage showed Seymour being removed for drunkeness and wearing thongs, but that the 24-year-old did not fall into a garden bed.
"The footage shows Brett being escorted from the club by two security staff and then walking up the mall," Major said.
"It does show a man falling into the garden bed - but that wasn't Brett."
Major also denied TV reports that Seymour had wet himself.
"That's not correct - he had a drink spilled over him," he said.
Sharks officials, however, have hired a private eye to investigate Seymour's behaviour earlier in the evening. Witnesses said he threw pizza and abused patrons at another bar.
Sharks CEO Tony Zappia met Seymour yesterday morning, and the playmaker admitted he had too much to drink after starting out with casual lunch alongside coach Ricky Stuart and teammates at Caringbah Inn about 2pm Sunday.
Zappia immediately stood Seymour down from "training and club commitments" pending the club's investigation. Zappia hoped to know the results later today, when he might be in a position to reinstate Seymour in time for Monday night's home game against Newcastle.
Seymour already has a warning from the Sharks after a 2008 conviction for drink-driving.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/nrl/story/0,27074,25207739-14823,00.html

its good to see sanity slowly prevailing.

 

[The Dodger]

So what did he get stood down for? Throwing a slice of pizza? This is becoming ridiculous. Cronulla are f**king gutless. Gallop already showed with the Jake Friend incident that standing down Stewart was a one off PR stunt.

i think it has more to do with cronulla covering all bases so they don't look like they let this type of stuff happen.

something the rooters need to take note of.

 

[adamkungl]

i think it has more to do with cronulla covering all bases so they don't look like they let this type of stuff happen.

something the rooters need to take note of.

What exactly is this type of stuff. Even in the early reports the worst he did as far as I can tell was throw pizza. And fall over. But good to see Cronulla clamping down on food throwing...

 

[The Dodger]

What exactly is this type of stuff. Even in the early reports the worst he did as far as I can tell was throw pizza. And fall over. But good to see Cronulla clamping down on food throwing...

drunken misbehaviour.

you know, getting on the piss, assualting women, drink driving, that type of stuff.

 

[adamkungl]

drunken misbehaviour.

you know, getting on the piss, assualting women, drink driving, that type of stuff.

And which of these has Seymour been accused of? Getting on the piss is not a crime...

 

[kia ora storm]

What exactly is this type of stuff. Even in the early reports the worst he did as far as I can tell was throw pizza. And fall over. But good to see Cronulla clamping down on food throwing...

Throwing pizza...just leads to a "domino" effect.;-)

 

[El Diablo]

Thats such a load of shiit.

first of all, most contracts don't have anything in them saying you are not allowed to drink.

why should all nrl players be forced to agree to a drinking ban?

weren't the parra players talking about walking out on the club if fitzgerald enforced a drinking ban?

it is not illegal to go out for a drink, its just those that can't handle the alcohol that need to watch themselves.

but i agree, if a player has a history of alcohol related incidents, then the club should write up a contract including fines for drunken behaviour.

and for you to bring up the fact that sticky went for a few beers with them is just ridiculous.

what are you trying to say, that he encouraged them to get on the piss all night after he had left?

oh and your cctv footage request will not show you what you want to see...

Cronulla's Brett Seymour in clear after club views CCTV footage of his ejection from nightclub

SHARKS halfback Brett Seymour could still play this weekend after CCTV footage cleared him of any serious wrongdoing just hours after Cronulla officials stood him down.
Club staff and police yesterday viewed video footage of Seymour's ejection from Cronulla night spot 2230 Restaurant & Bar following a 10-hour bender on Sunday night.
Venue manager Michael Major last night told The Daily Telegraph the footage showed Seymour being removed for drunkeness and wearing thongs, but that the 24-year-old did not fall into a garden bed.
"The footage shows Brett being escorted from the club by two security staff and then walking up the mall," Major said.
"It does show a man falling into the garden bed - but that wasn't Brett."
Major also denied TV reports that Seymour had wet himself.
"That's not correct - he had a drink spilled over him," he said.
Sharks officials, however, have hired a private eye to investigate Seymour's behaviour earlier in the evening. Witnesses said he threw pizza and abused patrons at another bar.
Sharks CEO Tony Zappia met Seymour yesterday morning, and the playmaker admitted he had too much to drink after starting out with casual lunch alongside coach Ricky Stuart and teammates at Caringbah Inn about 2pm Sunday.
Zappia immediately stood Seymour down from "training and club commitments" pending the club's investigation. Zappia hoped to know the results later today, when he might be in a position to reinstate Seymour in time for Monday night's home game against Newcastle.
Seymour already has a warning from the Sharks after a 2008 conviction for drink-driving.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/nrl/story/0,27074,25207739-14823,00.html

its good to see sanity slowly prevailing.

i wonder if Ten news will report this after yesterday doing a bit of reenactment with a camera wobbling around and falling into the garden?

probably not seeing they're a bunch of AFL loving tossers with no interest in telling league stories with any truth

 

[t1tan]

Throwing pizza...just leads to a "domino" effect.;-)

Oh,man..thats so wrong! #-o

 

[Garts]

Throwing pizza...just leads to a "domino" effect.;-)

They can't all be winners.

 

[kia ora storm]

Oh,man..thats so wrong! #-o

Someones had to say it...

 

[BWNB]

CRONULLA has sacked half-back Brett Seymour for two matches and fined him $20,000 for drunken behaviour last weekend.

The move to suspend Seymour was made this afternoon after a Cronulla resident sold video footage of the incident to Channel Nine.

Seymour will miss the matches against Newcastle and St George-Illawarra. The club will shortly release a statement to confirm the suspension

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25210842-5001021,00.html
f**k.

 

[The Dodger]

if the NRL have forced this upon them, then i expect that farkwit watmough to cop a suspension too.

if seymour has copped two weeks for nothing, how much will friend get?

farkn joke.

 

[bartman]

:lol: So much for "in the clear".

Now we just need the NRL to get the Roosters to stand down Friend, and everyone will know that it's a level playing field from now on, and players have to pull their heads in to maintain the privelege to represent their clubs in the NRL week to week.

 

[BWNB]

if the NRL have forced this upon them, then i expect that farkwit watmough to cop a suspension too.

if seymour has copped two weeks for nothing, how much will friend get?

farkn joke.

could be action taken by the NRL as there was a meeting regarding the issue.

 

[bartman]

To be fair, Zappia has always been on top of player behaviour as an issue at the Sharks.

I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't forced, and I'd love to have someone like Zappia in charge of player discipline at my club... it's what most clubs in the NRL need imo.