Cayless admits to drunken rage

[Eelectrica]

I guess the parra theme song for this year is "No More Mr Nice Guy"
Damn doesn't it just keep getting better.

 

[Eelementary]

in 30 years of supporting this club, this is by far and away the worst week in the clubs history, I just don't know anymore, we're a complete and utter laughing stock and to be perfectly honest with you, it's really getting to me.

Don't worry mate - you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel affected.

 

[Cammo]

I know this probably won't help much, but keep your heads up Eels fans. You know you can trust me when I say that if you stick with your team through the bad times it makes the good ones all that much more sweeter.

Your club will come through this and you should never let your support waver.

Good luck guys, I know what it's like when your club goes through the ringer (mine still does it very well at times )

 

[Eelementary]

I know this probably won't help much, but keep your heads up Eels fans. You know you can trust me when I say that if you stick with your team through the bad times it makes the good ones all that much more sweeter.

Your club will come through this and you should never let your support waver.

Good luck guys, I know what it's like when your club goes through the ringer (mine still does it very well at times )

You're a class act, Cammo.

Thanks for the kind words.

I can't remember if the Dogs have played this weekend or not, but good luck!

 

[chrismiass]

Whats hurts us as fans can only make us stronger.

 

[yy_cheng]

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,19205734-23214,00.html

Cayless in drunken casino rage
By Rebecca Wilson
May 21, 2006

THE Parramatta Eels have plunged into an even deeper crisis with the revelation that skipper Nathan Cayless recently smashed a security camera in a drunken incident at Star City Casino.

Cayless was staying at the casino hotel last Sunday week with champion forward Nathan Hindmarsh when the incident occurred after a long drinking session.

Trouble erupted when the two most high-profile players at the club were refused entry to the gaming area and the nearby nightclub because they were intoxicated.

The pair had been drinking all day after playing in the Anzac Test on the Friday night and then against the Canberra Raiders on the Saturday night.

Returning to their hotel rooms, Cayless smashed a security camera in the hotel lift with his fist. Casino security employees fronted the two players in their room. A source revealed that Hindmarsh acted as a calming influence and settled the situation with casino staff.

A remorseful Cayless later agreed to pay several hundred dollars in damages he caused to the hotel security camera.

A star City spokesman refused to comment on the incident but when we approached Cayless yesterday, he confirmed the story.

"I was just frustrated at being refused service," Cayless said. "I know I've done the wrong thing.

"After it happened I spoke to their security manager and got it sorted out. I was stupid.

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"But I've had 10 years of first grade and it has been incident free up until this happened.

"And it should be stressed that Hindy did nothing wrong at all. He was just there with me."

This latest incident again proves that player discipline and misbehaviour at Parramatta is out of control and puts further pressure on the club's embattled chief executive, Denis Fitzgerald.

We predicted in this column earlier in the season that player discipline would be an issue after coach Brian Smith failed to show up for the official season launch and Fitzgerald himself turned up two hours late.

The poor example they set has been followed by the players.

Two weeks ago NSW State of Origin winger Eric Grothe got so drunk on a harbour cruise that he slept through his alarm clock and arrived two hours late for a medical with the City team to play Country in Dubbo.

Last week halfback Tim Smith and hooker Mark Riddell were both sacked from first grade and fined $5000 for turning up to training intoxicated.

When contacted yesterday about the latest incident, the normally talkative Fitzgerald simply said: "I don't wish to say anything about it."

The Sunday Telegraph

 

[The EELiminator]

im sorry to say this but if it's true he should be stripped of the captaincy immediately nothing against caylo personally but your club captain should be setting the example for the other players on and off the field

 

[thedux]

im sorry to say this but if it's true he should be stripped of the captaincy immediately nothing against caylo personally but your club captain should be setting the example for the other players on and off the field

And I know the players are adults but the administration now needs to be made accountable. Guys like Overton have dodged the bullet from all this crap but they are the ones who are ultimately responsible for the club's image. I think it will be a very interesting AGM this year!!

 

[eelsta]

They'll probably update their website in an hour, so we can get a link to the source then...

This season must've really driven our guys to the drink? :lol:

Well they are driving me to drink, and i dont drink

 

[Cammo]

The article is by Rebecca Wilson so no doubt it has been blown way out of proportion. She is someone that can hardly be called a journalist, she is a muckraker of the worst kind.

 

[eelsta]

im sorry to say this but if it's true he should be stripped of the captaincy immediately nothing against caylo personally but your club captain should be setting the example for the other players on and off the field

Absolutely, i am blown away by this i can't believe that our captain the number 1 person in our team has done this, i have always had a high opinion of cayless as a person and now this.

What next :x

 

[eelsta]

The article is by Rebecca Wilson so no doubt it has been blown way out of proportion. She is someone that can hardly be called a journalist, she is a muckraker of the worst kind.

that may be true Cammo but cayless has admitted it

 

[Cammo]

that may be true Cammo but cayless has admitted it

Yeah I know, I just don't think it deserves the whole front page of the sports section, he apologised and paid for the damages.

By all means report the incident, but to blow it up like she has does nothing for the image of the game. Cayless has already paid his dues for his misdemeanor and doesn't need some hack journalist blowing it all up in the media.

That's just my opinion anyway.

 

[fridge]

big deal, everyone drinks on anzac day.

they just finished playing two of the biggest games of their season. if there was training the next day i'd be pissed, but obviously there wasn't because it's a public holiday.

that's why what tim smith and riddell did was worse.

i like the fact our captain and then our best player go out to the town together. i think footy players should be allowed to go out, except when they know they have training the next day or a game the next day.

 

[hineyrulz]

all i want to know is why did it take two weeks for the story to come out? and as for that boozehag rebecca wilson whats her claim 2 fame? oh well it cant get any worse can it

 

[Eelectrica]

Yeah I know, I just don't think it deserves the whole front page of the sports section, he apologised and paid for the damages.

By all means report the incident, but to blow it up like she has does nothing for the image of the game. Cayless has already paid his dues for his misdemeanor and doesn't need some hack journalist blowing it all up in the media.

That's just my opinion anyway.

Cheers, you're right.

In the article Caylo says that he spoke to the security manager after the incident happened. The hotel has probably already received the cheque to pay for damages. End of story.

It's not a good look, but it's not as if Caylo tried to run away and pretend he did nothing wrong or cover it up. He owned up and dealt with the situation.

 

[scottyeel]

big deal, everyone drinks on anzac day.

they just finished playing two of the biggest games of their season. if there was training the next day i'd be pissed, but obviously there wasn't because it's a public holiday.

that's why what tim smith and riddell did was worse.

i like the fact our captain and then our best player go out to the town together. i think footy players should be allowed to go out, except when they know they have training the next day or a game the next day.

It wasn't Anzac day and there wasn't a public holiday the next day.If there wasn't training the next day then there probably was a recovery session though.
It is only one stuff up in ten years of representing our club by Caylo but surely as our captain he should have tried harder to control himself.

 

[strider]

I know what happened is NOT good and should never have happened.

I also know that its probably not great that football players are well and truely drunk mid-season .... BUT I have no doubt it happens ALOT at every club .... these are just normal people who like to get on the piss a bit at times like a hell of alot of other people.

BUT lets face it - what Caylo did never hurt anyone else, it was never likely to hurt anyone else (except a frickin camera, which he then paid for) .... Rebecca Wilson is a gutter journalist who clearly is just looking to get herself a headline at a time when everyone is going after the club. If she wants to print it as a story fine, but don't blow it up like Caylo has committed the biggest sin in the world.

Parra fans - don't let bitches like Wilson drag you down .... Caylo f**ked up and he knows it and apologises for it - he paid his damages and will now pay some more when the club gets on his back.

None of the sh*t that has gone on has harmed anyone - just our own reputation .... far worse things happen in footy and every day life.

 

[Nikki]

What gets me is where they get these stories from. Do staff at the Casino or the Rose and Crown jump straight on the phone the second a sport star walks into their establishments?

As for Wilson, well. She hasnt been in the tabloids for a while. Time to make her mark on a 2 week old story. There is a saying "More ass than class". Rebecca, you are pure ass!! NO CLASS WHATSOEVER!!!

But it does make you wonder, was Caylo's knee injury that kept him out of Friday nights game really as bad as it was. Maybe the club was trying to do an inside job of punishing him without the media knowing..:-k

 

[Redback71]

see the one thing everyone took for granted was the effect brian smith and on the players, he brought discipline and professionalisim and kept the players under control, the players respected him and it showed in there behaviour now that brian has gone all thats gone with him and our players are becoming more like the bulldogs every day.