Heres an idea, lets put 30 charged up young footballers

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

next to a Uni female dormitory.

the tele said:
The players were back at the Country Comfort Motel by 3am but 12 players then went out again, breaking the club's code of conduct. They returned at 5am. The Charles Sturt University has a campus next to the motel.

Tell me how the Knights management arent responsible for this.

would be like taking your kids to Disneyland & making them see it from outside the fence.

What a debacle!

Balmain_Boy · Feb 22, 2005

Um, how about the players are responsible?

borat · Feb 22, 2005

They are supposed to be grown men on what is essentially a business trip. I somehow don't think a Panty Raid was specifically outlined as off the agenda, but most people with half a brain would know its not the smartest thing to do.

Mr Angry · Feb 22, 2005

They are supposed to be grown men on what is essentially a business trip

Are they, seems to me they are a group of very young men and boys.

I meet very few responsible 20 year olds in my travels.

Maturity comes with age not position in society.

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

O h didnt you know Mr Angry, When you geta job, you are instantly capable of country leading decisions.

All players in the NRL are future Prime ministers, heads of corporations etc.

In fact, if they didnt have to play stupid football, they would be now!

ibeme · Feb 22, 2005

We should blame the council for grafiti too then. Afterall, they built all these structures that are too tempting for vandals to ignore.

Bulldog-Power · Feb 22, 2005

it must be a bluemoon

good point blacktip reefy

borat · Feb 22, 2005

Mr Angry said:
They are supposed to be grown men on what is essentially a business trip

Click to expand...

Are they, seems to me they are a group of very young men and boys.

I meet very few responsible 20 year olds in my travels.

Maturity comes with age not position in society.

I think you missed what I was getting at. Rugby League is their job and they were in Bathurst to play a game. I have been away on many business trips even at the age of 20 yet I was still able to refrain from raiding a female domitory in a nearby local Uni. To say that all 20 year olds are irresponsible is far off the mark in my opinion.

If you are going to look at every single hotel to make sure that they are not within 5km of pubs and girls then maybe the club should have locked them in a cage at Dubbo Zoo for the night.

Dean Moriarty · Feb 22, 2005

blacktip-reefy said:
O h didnt you know Mr Angry, When you geta job, you are instantly capable of country leading decisions.

All players in the NRL are future Prime ministers, heads of corporations etc.

Could be. Tony Abbott was knocking them up when he was 19 and look at him now.

HevyDevy · Feb 22, 2005

blacktip-reefy said:
O h didnt you know Mr Angry, When you geta job, you are instantly capable of country leading decisions.

All players in the NRL are future Prime ministers, heads of corporations etc.

In fact, if they didnt have to play stupid football, they would be now!

It doesn't take a prime minister to realise that sexual assault is not the brightest idea in the world.

The club can educate their players, take precautions and threaten fines or suspension but even with all that there's nothing anyone can do to counter the stupidity of the individual. The best thing the Knights did was parade the guilty parties in front of the media. Finally those involved have been made responsible for their own actions - as they should be

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

Add to this, (& this one is a beauty) the Knights management in their wisdom placed the folowing rule on the players.
"No drinking until after 12, then home by 3am"

Now if anybody has seen pictures of how grown men behaved in the days of controlled drinking hours in Australia, you will know exactly how the evening went.

Pubs used to open for 2 hours on a Sunday afternoon I think, & it it was packed house ramming speed schoonerathon.

They have to be fuggen insane up there, surely?

borat · Feb 22, 2005

blacktip-reefy said:
Add to this, (& this one is a beauty) the Knights management in their wisdom placed the folowing rule on the players.
"No drinking until after 12, then home by 3am"

Now if anybody has seen pictures of how grown men behaved in the days of controlled drinking hours in Australia, you will know exactly how the evening went.

Pubs used to open for 2 hours on a Sunday afternoon I think, & it it was packed house ramming speed schoonerathon.

They have to be fuggen insane up there, surely?

I heard on the radio this morning they had a fund raising function for a tsunami appeal in bathurst after the game involving alot of players which is probably why they weren't allowed to start before 12.

bulldog · Feb 22, 2005

That is insane, it's like saying we WANT you to binge it up between these hours and then go straight to bed, it was never going to work with those rules, but personal responsibility cannot be ignored.

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

No
They placed the rule on them because they thought they couldnt get drunk in 3 hours.

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

I will go as far to actually say, that rule may have even been the cause of the problem.

perhaps if they were allowed to relax for the 3 hours before midnight, they may have been well & truly stuffd & asleep by 12.

blacktip-reefy · Feb 22, 2005

So lets re-cap.
We put 30 guys under the age of 23 in a motel.
Guys who have been through an intensive 3 month training schedule probably alcohol free.
We make sure thatthe hotel is next to a UNi dorm containg 20-40 females under the age of 22.
We then tell the guys to go out & drink only between the hours of midnight & 3am(obviously a night club)

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH!!!!

Mr Angry · Feb 22, 2005

It doesn't take a prime minister to realise that sexual assault is not the brightest idea in the world.

What sexual assault?
No one has been charged, the police are on record as saying they have no complaint.

Knights management have said they sacked the young fellow, but it has nothing to do with sexual assault.

You could work for the Herald Sun

I think you missed what I was getting at.

Could be

Rugby League is their job and they were in Bathurst to play a game.

Which they did, did anyone miss the game?

I have been away on many business trips even at the age of 20

Your doing allright then, were your after hours activites closey scrutinised?

yet I was still able to refrain from raiding a female domitory in a nearby local Uni.

I tried to root as many as I could. It is easier to pick up the later it gets.

To say that all 20 year olds are irresponsible is far off the mark in my opinion.

And to simply say they are all grown men is the same. It is the same sort of generalisation.

Chook · Feb 22, 2005

If NASA can train monkeys to flick switches in a rocket ship, surely we can train Rugby League players to think before they act?

Because when you boil it right down, that's all it wouldv'e taken for this to have been avoided.

"Let's go for a rampage through a girls dorm that's right next to our hotel...hang on, maybe that's not such a good idea"

It's not rocket science!

Chook.

mightybears · Feb 22, 2005

players need to take personal responsibility for their actions
to say knights management stuffed up by picking a hotel nr dorms is bullshit

and in university towns like bathurst, armidale etc i'd imagine most of the
motels/accomodation are nr the university dorms/university as they tend to cater for parents coming up for open days/graduations/visits

there or in the centre of town nr pubs and clubs

Mr Angry · Feb 22, 2005

surely we can train Rugby League players to think before they act?

You can train a monkey, but what happens when you get it pissed and place it next to a bunch of female monkey's?

It is after all still a monkey.

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