Soliola the Monster
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It's the exact opposite. I want the players to be treated exactly the same as a normal person. In Seymour's case here, he did nothing except get a bit too drunk. I've been there. I'm sure you've been there. Virtually everybody over 18 (and quite a few under) have been there.
If they are accused of a crime, they should get the 'innocent until proven guilty' that everyone else is. If they are then proven guilty, then they should be locked up just like everybody else would have been.
Read the biographies of any player from 15+ years ago and you'll see that they went out and drunk themselves silly far more that the players of today do. But because the media generally didn't force them to live in a fishbowl, nobody really complained then.
That's just it mate. These blokes are earning 5 times what we earn as a "hard working" public. Do you think it is professional of them to go out, drink up and act the idiot?
Let's look at their public image. Kids look up to these players. I remember when I was a little bloke, I loved blokes like Mal Meninga, Steve Renouf, Ken Nagas, Laurie Daley, Glen Lazuras, ect. I rarely (yes, rarely), heard any issues in regards to football players and their drunken behavious.
The media has always been around and has always been hungry for a story. Whilst yes, there have been your Willie Carnes, Andrew Walkers of the past, I still can't remember seeing my hero's back then doing any wrong in the public eye. Granted, I wasnt old enough for the nightlife and probably missed alot of stuff "swept" under the carpet, but you cannot honestly tell me that these kids handle the grog as well as the blokes of yesteryear did?
Especially nowadays with the polynesians. NO, I'm not racist, I have loads of great polynesian mates and have played footy with a hell of alot of them. But let's be fair dinkum, these guys can't handle the piss. They will fight their best mate as soon as they touch adrop. And that's the issue. It's been like that for years. Even with the aboriginee's, and I am one myself. Islanders from the asian pacific just cannot handle alcohol.
I ask you, is it that hard to get off the piss for 5 months whilst earning 250k a year? Could you do it?
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