The bar owner didn't lay assault charges, therefore it's a nothing story.
However......
I haven't seen this new footage, but if it is Lockyer then he should have known better. Given the media spotlight on player behaviour, and seeing how Tim Smith, Benji Marshall, SBW's piss on the wall etc was handled, Lockyer and the club have been absolutely stupid to tread this path.
The game continues to get a huge black eye because some players forget how to behave in public. Some young 21 year old struggling with fame and fortune one can understand. Yet a player of Heather's stature? Pathetic.
IF it is him, he should be stripped of his test captaincy. And the club, and Bennet, should wear the tide of public disgust. Gallop and the NRL backed strong action against SBW, Bird and Carney, and Canterbury during the salary cap scandal. They need to show the same balls against Lockyer and Brisbane.
And if it isn't him, then the NRL and a club need to take action to put this to bed ASAP.
We can blame the media all we like. The media has, after all, made sensationalist and damaging headlines over Broncogate, when the real crime is little more than setting a bad example in behaviour and getting on the piss big time when they, as sportsmen, should have been preparing for a big game.
Yet the media's behaviour is part of the landscape. Give 'em nothing, and they get nothing. Players like Menzies, Wiki, Bedsy, Widders, Civo, Price, Hindy, Bowen, Smith, Kimmorley, Geyer etc etc have lived through long and public careers without giving the media any fodder. How hard is it to act normal anyway? If they can do it, why can't the rest?
And players like Gasnier, Mason, Johns, SBW, Hayne, Sailor, Tim Smith, Marshall have all worn the wrath of the media for minor indiscretions. If it is Lockyer, he must be totally stupid to have supplied the media with another opportunity to run with sensationalism. As must his club. Manly apparently supervise their players party activities - from what I've heard they only allow the to go to certain 'safe' venues, and have minders to guide the young ones from potential incidents.
Utterly stupid behavior from players of a club who are the first to put the boot in when this happens elsewhere.
