What's new
The Front Row Forums

Register a free account today to become a member of the world's largest Rugby League discussion forum! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

Police recordings on Knights players

Jobdog

Live Update Team
Messages
25,696
There is no point.
I think you'll find the point is that most people are saying it's not morally the right thing to do, but at the same time it's not unusual for it to be happening. But it is unfair to label the whole club as "druggies" because of the actions of a handful of players. To label Gidley and/or Uate "druggies" is, well, laughable.
 

Maroubra Eel

Coach
Messages
19,044
Did you see the court results?

Keep up the hate people. We have you worried. Looking forward to 2012.

:)

I've had time to think about it and you're probably right that nothing happened.

Carry on as normal.

Yes also looking forward to 2012.
 

muzby

Village Idiot
Staff member
Messages
45,971
Did you see the court results?

yes... because the court always gets it right..


oj-simpson-smiling-murder-trial.jpg
 

Big Tim

First Grade
Messages
6,500
Did you read the article?

They were talking about diet supplements and prostitutes !! :sarcasm:

Bobby, you dont get it.

your mate Rza, who condones drug use, gets his stuff from somewhere. Chances are he calls them. From what I read it is reasonable to suggest that any of the named were just trying to get something for their little group, not running a drug syndicate.

Wicks on the other hand... who knows.
 

Alex28

Coach
Messages
12,010
Mate - you clowns are trying to do the job of the police force and court system that has already done it for you. Wicks is put away, Houston had no case to answer, Gidley and Aku didn't even get a mention.

You guys have more to worry about than what Knights players might or might not have done off the field - like what they are going to do to your teams on the field in the future.
 

Rockin Ronny

Juniors
Messages
1,769
You guys have more to worry about than what Knights players might or might not have done off the field - like what they are going to do to your teams on the field in the future.

Bit hard to do anything to anyone when half the team is high as a Brent!
 

Joker's Wild

Coach
Messages
17,894
If you've seen him live you're playing yaself.

Musicians can consume all the drugs they want as far as im concerned. I don't give a sh*t.

Professional athletes can't do (or f*cking sell) drugs, for many reasons. Double standards perhaps, but I don't care. It's just the way it is.

Wicks is so dope boy fresh.

An NRL player getting sentenced to 3 years in the slammer isn't a good look for the game.

Newcastle always drag the game through the mud.

Mitchell Sargeant gets fired from the Cowboys for snorting blow. Newcastle sign him up straight away without even thinking about it. Come on down Mitch, you can snort as much as you want down here!!!

:lol: That'll do me. Coming from a fan of the Raiders who's players have engaged in beastiality, multiple drunk driving offences and alledged domestic violence.

Careful throwing those stones with so much glass about mate
 

bileduct

Coach
Messages
17,832
:lol: That'll do me. Coming from a fan of the Raiders who's players have engaged in beastiality, multiple drunk driving offences and alledged domestic violence.

Careful throwing those stones with so much glass about mate
Mate, I am a Raiders supporter and even I won't deny that we've had our share of embarrassment.

Noa Nadruku, Ben Kennedy, Brandon Costin, Jason Bulgarelli, Todd Carney, Bronx Goodwin, Joel Monaghan, Trevor Thurling, not to mention the other offenders we've only been so happy to take, like Dane Tilse and Clinton Schifcofske.

Oh but that's right, Dane Tilse was a scapegoat, yet somehow Steve Irwin wasn't...
 
Last edited:

Frank_Grimes

First Grade
Messages
7,023
LOL at the faux outrage from non-Newcastle fans, and the head in the sand attitude from some Newcastle fans.

As always, the rational opinion lies somewhere in the middle.
 

gUt

Coach
Messages
16,935
I feel sorry for professional athletes who like to get high in their off-duty moments. They are caught between their own desires which don't differ at all from any random sample of people their age, society's unwinnable and pointless war against drugs, tall poppy syndrome and the media outlets who thrive on the reportage this stuff.
 

coolumsharkie

Referee
Messages
27,115
The worst thing morally about recreational drug use is that it supports organised crime but that is because its illegal. Unless you are the type of person who believes that the LAW IS THE LAW of course there really isn't a lot to make a fuss over a player taking a pill on mad monday.

MDMA is relatively harmless. It is certainly a softer drug than alcohol the drug they would have otherwise been abusing the shit out of.

As a supporter I really don't care what the Raiders do as players off the field. So long as its not hurting anyone else. I do care if they show up to games f**ked up or miss training sessions or whatever but if they want to drop some *gasp* ILLEGAL DRUGS after a game I really couldn't give a shit......

so long as we won.

Good post, some drug laws are more dangerous than the drugs themselves. Yet the legal drugs and gambling houses do more damage to society than all of the ILLEGAL drugs put together.
 

Alex28

Coach
Messages
12,010
I don't get the rant and how it applies to the Knights. Danny Wicks is in jail. Chris Houston spent a year out of the game and was judged not guilty by a court. Kurt Gidley and Aku Uate were mentioned in an article and a few text messages, yet the police never suggested they were part of the crime.

What exactly do you want the NRL or the Newcastle Knights to do? What do you want the fans to do? There is no "head in the sand" here - the people involved were tried in court and their fates sealed.

Don't much care what they do away from football to be honest - as long as they don't bring the club in to disrepute. This happened, it went through the right channels, justice was served. Time to let go guys and worry about your own clubs.
 

Perth Red

Post Whore
Messages
70,271
Good post, some drug laws are more dangerous than the drugs themselves. Yet the legal drugs and gambling houses do more damage to society than all of the ILLEGAL drugs put together.

You ever considered that is because they are more easily available and socially acceptable?

The reverse argument about illigal drugs becoming legal is they will become much more used and much more normalised leading to massive increases in their usage and subsequent massive problems that we know goes with the usage of many of these substances. No easy answer but I don't think opening the flood gates is a particulalrly good one!
 

badav

Bench
Messages
2,601
Chris Houston spent a year out of the game and was judged not guilty by a court.

What exactly do you want the NRL or the Newcastle Knights to do? What do you want the fans to do? There is no "head in the sand" here - the people involved were tried in court and their fates sealed.

Chris Houston judged not guilty by a court? What planet are you living on. That never happened. Charges were withdrawn against him on a legal technicality. A fool wouldn't be able to identify the difference between the 2 situations however.
 

Latest posts

Top