Is Latrell Mitchell overrated?

[Perth Red]

lol at NRL360 spending 5 mins talking about who took the photo and no comment on Mitchells actions.
Golden child or what?

 

[soc123_au]

Part timers getting on the marching powder is a non event.

 

[morley101]

Latrell is quality when he is on the park for Souths he has been very poor value.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Clearly he was just portioning out his sugars for this week’s morning coffees. Non issue.

 

[Angry_eel]

Obviously, the game doesn't want a serious conversation on drugs.

 

[Perth Red]

Obviously, the game doesn't want a serious conversation on drugs.

Its more important we out the person who took the photo apparently.

 

[6 more kfc buckets]

KFC shareholders are the only ones genuinely concerned this is true.

 

[Saxon]

NRL 360 was very much shoot the messenger with the Trell thing. Yep, the photographer is a grub but Trell still very much has some questions to answer,

And yet if it was a "journalist" they would be feted as a hero among photographers.

 

[kurt faulk]

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The whole premise of nrl360 are their journos making up shit about players and stating it as fact.

It reminds me of a funny headline by the daily telegraph back in the day. Some guy was taking photos of women going up the escalator at some shopping centre. That paper called him a pervert. This just days after they had a blown up photo on the front page of sunny Bill getting it on with a woman in a toilet booth at a club in coogee. Their whole business model was showing upskirt photos of women coming out of cabs.

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[Penrose Warrior]

Is there anyone grubbier than a ‘friend’ who takes photos of someone perhaps not in one of their finest moments, and then releases it publicly?

Out and out grubs. Just like the media that feeds off them.

Nope, there isn't. Not only releasing it, but allegedly trying to sell it. Pitiful.

Incidentally, what are the laws around distributing an image taken in a private place (such as this) even if it is an illegal act?

Put aside the issue of Latrell, because this is another issue for a guy who has them up the wazoo.

 

[Penrose Warrior]

lol at NRL360 spending 5 mins talking about who took the photo and no comment on Mitchells actions.
Golden child or what?

That's not exactly true, Braith said that if it was an illegal act, it is obviously an issue.

But honestly, it's very well documented that Latrell is a very troubled young man with a lot of money and time, mental health problems etc. There's not much more storyline in bashing this guy, pointing out his flaws etc. You've got to be kidding yourself to suggest he's a golden child. He's been a lightning rod for criticism for a long time now. I don't buy into the racist undertones of it that some people cite, and a lot of the time it's been justified. I've criticised him, too, for his lack of commitment.

I don't know what you're going to get out of going harder on him. He needs help, not more column inches of vitriol. Players and former players know this, and aren't going hard on him. I commend that. We can have the 'drugs are bad, mmkay' conversation and NRL can come down on it in their environment without Latrell having to be hung out to dry in public.