Michael Ennis is bringing rugby league into disrepute.

[AlbertRosenfeld]

Michael Ennis's conversation with the referee at last night's game against the Roosters was peppered with the F- word. This on national television in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands. He was chastised briefly by one Fox Sports commentator, but this was hardly enough. The club and the NRL need to discipline him. A $10,000 fine would be a start.

It is one thing for Ennis to be unable to hold a conversation in the locker room or in a bar without using foul language. It is another thing for him to do this on national television. The referee should have told him to stop immediately or he would be sent to the Sin Bin.

This incident confirms the view of many people, including some soft-core fans, that rugby league is a game played by thugs and moral lowlife.

NRL CEO David Gallop, Canterbury CEO Todd Greenberg and the Canterbury coach Hasler (himself a bit of a rough piece of work) need to discipline this foul mouthed man, so that he understands that he has responsibilities on how to talk in public, especially on television.

 

[Ausguy]

dont put mics on the refs...

what is said on the field should stay there.

ever sweared at work albert?

get over it.

 

[Fire]

f**k

 

[Danish]

What shit me is Ennis can stand there swearing his head off calling a refereeing decision f**king bullshit for 3 minute but when Anasta questioned a decision without swearing later in the match he gets warned about dissent by the bloody ref.

Johns got suspended for how many games back in the day for swearing at s touch judge?

 

[AlbertRosenfeld]

dont put mics on the refs...

what is said on the field should stay there.

ever sweared at work albert?

get over it.

Read my post agan carefully.

You don't behave on national television the way you do at home or work. There are standards of public behaviour.

Ennis is too stupid to work this out on his own. He has to be taught a lesson that he might understand.

 

[BranVan3000]

They are way too sporadic with when the refs are heard or not heard. Either go all out on boom voice like NFL or don't do it at all

 

[Ausguy]

Read my post agan carefully.

You don't behave on national television the way you do at home or work. There are standards of public behaviour.

Ennis is too stupid to work this out on his own. He has to be taught a lesson that he might understand.

what year were you born albert?

 

[Fire]

It's a well known fact that Ennis is a bit of a c**k smoker. Even in his days at the Dragons, to say he was a pest or sledger was an understatement.

The guy is a nong.

 

[Danish]

dont put mics on the refs...

what is said on the field should stay there.

ever sweared at work albert?

get over it.

Tomorrow at work walk up to your boss, or a customer, and tell them they are f**king bullshit and to get f**ked a half dozen times.

See if it is accepted without consequence.

Dissent - which Ennis showed in spades - is a sin bin offence in our game. It should have been used

 

[MatthewA]

Yes to Toulouse!
Yes to Perth Reds!
Yes to grabbing a pack of tissues!


Fair dinkum mate, it isn't his responsibility to remain perfect in the heat of the battle. So he swore during a game of rugby league that was unfortunately picked up by a referees mic. Big f**king woop.

 

[Fire]

p.s. I mean look at what Hindy did to him last year or the year before. If Hindy wants to belt you it pretty much says it all.

 

[MatthewA]

Tomorrow at work walk up to your boss, or a customer, and tell them they are f**king bullshit and to get f**ked a half dozen times.

See if it is accepted without consequence.

Dissent - which Ennis showed in spades - is a sin bin offence in our game. It should have been used

Such a nuffie.

Ennis wasn't swearing or acting threatening towards the referee.. He was talking about the decision to the referee and used foul language during it. There's a massive difference.

The thing Joey Johns did and the thing that Anasta does often is insult the officials and act threatening/abusive towards them.

 

[Rod]

Don't mic up if the refs if you can't handle what sometimes gets said during a game.

That being said, I'm stunned the referee didn't tell Ennis to belt up when he started dropping f-bombs like they were going out of fashion. Particularly when Anasta got a warning for a lot less in the second half.

 

[Usain Bolt]

Ennis is a grub but it should be the responsibility of the broadcaster to not broadcast that conversation, they would be better not showing it live but editing the footage in the truck and showing it with the beeps at the next stoppage in play or whenever they could fit it in, I was amazed Fox stayed with the conversation once the first F bomb was dropped

 

[Tom Shines]

It's not like Ennis hasn't been on television before either, you'd think he'd know not to drop the F bomb on live television.

Fine the f**king merkin.

 

[MatthewA]

You lot are acting as if he was being interviewed or something.. He dropped a couple of F bombs during a f**king on field conversation during a game of f**kING rugby league! Get over it!

 

[Bretto]

Read my post agan carefully.

You don't behave on national television the way you do at home or work. There are standards of public behaviour.

Ennis is too stupid to work this out on his own. He has to be taught a lesson that he might understand.

He's not really going on national TV. He's playing Rugby League, which happens to have cameras there to show to Australia. If he was appearing on a talk show or similar, then fair enough. But he's not. If the broadcasters, or whoever, want the referees to have mic's on them to pick up some on field chatter, then they can't get upset when players swear. It's what happens sometimes. I work with people who are on massive salaries ($300k+), get them alone or in confidence, and they swear like troopers.

 

[Fire]

A lot of people are missing the point here. It's not whether the refs should be micked up or whether or not Ennis should've sworn.

What it is all really about is the message this sends to the children. :music2:

 

[Bretto]

A lot of people are missing the point here. It's not whether the refs should be micked up or whether or not Ennis should've sworn.

What it is all really about is the message this sends to the children. :music2:

Oh yes, the children. I personally think it's the government's fault. If they would regulate these things more strictly, then the children wouldn't be getting hurt. It's like kids who commit crimes. Clearly when a child under the age of 17 threatens to kill another child unless they give them their iPod, the government should step in and lend assistance in the form of monetary handouts to the parents of the children, in the hope that the parents will spend the money on better educating their children.

 

[Fire]

Oh yes, the children. I personally think it's the government's fault. If they would regulate these things more strictly, then the children wouldn't be getting hurt. It's like kids who commit crimes. Clearly when a child under the age of 17 threatens to kill another child unless they give them their iPod, the government should step in and lend assistance in the form of monetary handouts to the parents of the children, in the hope that the parents will spend the money on better educating their children.

Gotta think of the children :music2: