Jackson Topine sues Bulldogs

[bazza]

Hazing and work place stuff is a thing of the past. It might’ve been ok to do soggy sao, gangbash work/team mates, bastardise, marginalise or have sump up the rump in the past, but not now.

should have sent him to the hardware store for a left handed screwdriver

 

[MugaB]

should have sent him to the hardware store for a left handed screwdriver

See that there is a mind f**k if ive ever heard one, psychological tourture, walking up and down each isle in bunnings, too afraid to ask the staff for where the left handed isle is

 

[Penrith fan]

or get him to go to Bunnings and ask for stripped paint.

 

[ouwet]

Reading the article, this seems to have gone well beyond the "do some extra because you were late" and into full-blown bullying/humiliation by the trainer. Sounds as if some psychological damage was inflicted as well.

Topine didn't even realise he was late - turned up at 8:10 for an 8:30 session, he thought only players who needed strapping were supposed to be there by 8am.

If the NRL is serious about supporting mens mental health they ought to intervene - dismissing this incident as "club culture" or "that's how it's always been" simply isn't good enough.

Please... Your club and the NRL will be praying the Dogs pay him quietly or win in court (NRL will have to help the Dogs), this will impact every single Club and team sport basically worldwide!

Penrith brag about the Army training camp (Brisbane too previously) where players are deprived of sleep... Wait till those players who no longer play hear about this and sue also.

 

[Dragon Slayer]

This. If his career wasn’t over before this broke, it certainly is now.

Why is that?

 

[Bazal]

Depends when they were born.

First hand experience bruv, apart from the youngest gen it gets more likely the older a person is...the boomers are the worst for it. Hilarious really.

 

[Penrith fan]

What about at the Storm preseason camps where the players literally have to walk over broken glass without sleeping for 3 days.

 

[ouwet]

Based on the report I fully support the guy. It's bullying and intimidation. Exactly what I would have expected from a Gould dominated club. The fact that RL is a game played by blokes doesn't mean you're entitled to deride and physically dominate anyone. These dickheads need to grow-up.

Nathan Brown slapping Trent Barrett and Lance Thompson in public was bullying!

They should've sued.

 

[bazza]

im sure the past fellas would hate it if topine wins the case, as they went thru a similar hazing, yet learnt from it and became better players, or they could have just sued the club,

or those players never said anything because they wanted to stay in the team and are supporting him in this case

 

[Dragon Slayer]

Honestly my heart bleeds for these poor merkins getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to play a game for a living

Just like the rest of the scum in the Bulldogs Kennel Forum you can all go f**k yourselves.

 

[dogslife]

We've looked as good recently as we have in the last 10 years, so I'm happy. It's almost like driving standards at training and not letting the inmates run the asylum works.

 

[ouwet]

or what about at the Storm where they literally have to walk over broken glass without sleeping for 3 days.

I'm sure every club do something!

Those punishments for being late every club has... FMD Liam Knight hair a few weeks back LOL

 

[bazza]

Penrith brag about the Army training camp (Brisbane too previously) where players are deprived of sleep... Wait till those players who no longer play hear about this and sue also.

I guess in those scenarios it is the team doing it together rather than management asking the team to pick on one person

 

[ouwet]

I guess in those scenarios it is the team doing it together rather than management asking the team to pick on one person

Even worse! They'll just say no opportunity was given to stop because no one else stopped!
Manly player who died a few years back (RIP) if he stopped what would've happened as punishment? NRL is farked.

 

[Mojo]

Nathan Brown slapping Trent Barrett and Lance Thompson in public was bullying!

They should've sued.

Well, it was hardly the coaching high-point for Brown was it!

 

[Chins get the wins]

Nah. Gen X.

f**k off you're like 70 merkin

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Nathan Brown slapping Trent Barrett and Lance Thompson in public was bullying!

They should've sued.

That was foreplay

 

[dogslife]

That was foreplay

I edge to it almost daily

 

[Bazal]

That was foreplay

It was performative though so it was definitely pornography.

I fap to it anyway

 

[soc123_au]

f**k off you're like 70 merkin

f**k me, got a few years to hit that milestone. Closer to that than 30 though, and now I'm depressed....