Jack Wighton - Nightclub Fight (Still gets paid)

[Timbo]

and a headbutt.. What you don't get is that a professional footballer weighing around 100kgs throwing punches isn't like some average joe on the street. I would be amazed if he doesn't repeat offend.

So much this.

If a wasted professional footballer walks up to you, is in your face and starts throwing a few, you aren't thinking to yourself 'eh, just a love tap'.

 

[Chief_Chujo]

Look I agree its deplorable behaviour and deserving of punishment. I just don't agree that he should have been jailed for it.

 

[mozza91]

What race card is he playing? The merkin is whiter than I am.

 

[Vic Mackey]

At least the Offsiders will be talking about rugby league this week

 

[Vic Mackey]

What a deadshit.

Well played by his barrister to play the race card.

 

[carcharias]

Look I agree its deplorable behaviour and deserving of punishment. I just don't agree that he should have been jailed for it.

Just wait until some pissed f**kwit throwing punches at strangers kills someone before you start locking them up?

 

[wittyfan]

I love this part.

In court, Whighton said his family had paid the price for his actions, saying "it has been difficult on everyone".

"My partner, she has to look after two little girls … it's been breaking her down a little bit," he said.

Maybe she wouldn't have suffered if Wighton wasn't a grub who attacked people unprovoked in the street. Her suffering unfortunately will be a lifetime of living with this jerk, unless she has the good sense to dump his arse.

Lol! I love their fights on Instagram!

 

[TheFrog]

It was a few pissy punches and some chest puffing.

Wightons a dickhead and I'd be glad to be rid of him. But the stories made it out like he was on a coward punching rampage throwing haymakers throughout the city.

Is that not what happened?

 

[nick87]

The footage was exactly as the accusations suggested

A drunken f**kwit assaulting people without any physical provocation. He should have been sacked imo.

As for the setencing, it’s entirely in line with most cases of this type. Which is a problem, this sort of thing should be more harshly punished

 

[carcharias]

Also
Him as a footy player has had this sort of shit drummed into him over and over.

Raiders should sack him.
Other clubs do it.

 

[GC_Gladiator]

I don't get the raiders stance, he isn't even that talented.

 

[_snafu_]

Should be sacked.

 

[firechild]

If he got sacked, the Cowboys or Rabbitohs would just sign him. Not much of a lesson for him unfortunately. NRL should step in and deregiser him. Not likely given Fudge did much worse and is rolled out like some kind of redemption story because he's managed to not kill anyone in the last 2 seasons.

 

[nick87]

I don't get the raiders stance, he isn't even that talented.

Someone on the GH made this comment yesterday but given the players we’ve sacked over the years for off field issues, this is a strange choice to die on hill with.

He’s not close to the talent Carney was

 

[Generalzod]

Every one deserves a second chance I guess....

 

[2 weeks]

You’re all missing the point about his punishment which hasn’t been published
1. He remains under the tutelage of Ricky
2. Privately, he would ‘be hurtin in the sheds’

More footage of Jack's arrest

 

[carcharias]

Same merkin that king hit Feki ?

Lucky for Feki the merkin can’t throw em to save his life.

He has form .
Should be sacked.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

If he got sacked, the Cowboys or Rabbitohs would just sign him. Not much of a lesson for him unfortunately. NRL should step in and deregiser him. Not likely given Fudge did much worse and is rolled out like some kind of redemption story because he's managed to not kill anyone in the last 2 seasons.

Packer actually did gaol time and missed a season (or was it two?) though, plus he got sacked.... you’d think Wighton should at least be forced to sit a year out of footy.

 

[Saxon]

I was expecting the footage to be rough as but it's pretty tame tbh.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-14/jack-wighton-avoids-jail-over-assault/10495980

If you lot want first offenders locked up for that we're gonna need some more jails.

You're an idiot. All it needed for one of those to connect properly and then you are looking at serious damage.
Jail a few high profile f**kwits when they do this sort of shit and it'll do more to stop this sort of behaviour than a hundred Danny Green "Coward punch" commercials

 

[Saxon]

As an aside, I wonder what the club trainers think about him smoking? (You can see the durrie in his left hand at about 29-30 sec into the clip)