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Rebecca Wilson at it again

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Parramatta half-back Kieran Foran has thanked NewsCorp for their kind words and support during his darkest hour, it has been confirmed.

In late April, the Eel?s star recruit was granted a leave of absence by the club to deal with mental health concerns, in a story that grabbed headlines across print, radio and TV.

Rumours that questioned the legitimacy of the footballer?s new child were quashed early on, but Foran did thank everyone for wondering.

?Kyle and Jackie-O were quick to show they cared,? said Foran to media in Parramatta this morning.

?The story wasn?t true, but it was good to know that everyone was thinking about me while I was battling against one of the most stigmatised illness in the country,?

?It means a lot?

Shortly after arriving back at training last week, a new report claiming he lost $75,000 while gambling,, the day he returned from rehabilitation, was published by his friends at The Daily Telegraph. Foran also made sure to extend his gratitude.

?I also want to thank the tele? for informing everyone about how I?m travelling, at all times?

?They haven?t missed a beat.

The NewsCorp story said a TAB account linked to Foran lost the huge sum in a matter of hours. The accuracy of this story has since been questioned by management and the Rugby League Players Association.

?I?m not gonna comment on too much, but I want to thank all of these media outlets,?

?For future reference, this is exactly how you should treat someone who is struggling with mental health illnesses?

?If I didn?t have these rumours swirling on my newsfeed and on television, radio and in the newspaper while I was away at the clinic, I don?t know where I?d be,?

If you, or someone you know is battling with mental health issues and a tacky and weathered radio host decides to question whether or not you are the parent of your own child on the highest rating breakfast show in the nation ? or a failed high school sports prodigy decides to leak personal information surrounding your own financial records and/or gambling issues ? you can call Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 for support.

Obvious sarcasm is obvious.
 

Johnny88

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Bec justified her story about Foran because he left rehab to play footy on Sportsline last night. :lol:
 

Rhino_NQ

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A little bird tells me that someone from LU made that story up and fed it to her...

this opens up many trolling opportunities. Something to ponder on over a few beverages tonight to get through channel 9's cringeworthy SOO pre-game coverage
 

El Diablo

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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/n...a/news-story/671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70

Rebecca Wilson: No place in rugby league for Andrew Fifita

671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70

Rebecca Wilson, The Daily Telegraph
671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70


NOBODY likes it when we do this.

Comparing the codes and the individuals who take part in league, AFL and rugby union leads to ugly discrimination, occasionally unfair bias and an even denser line between the three.

The latest example is Cronulla’s Andrew Fifita — a disgraceful human being, with a long record of bad behaviour who has now decided that he can find a violent prisoner in jail, go and visit him and then decide that everything the bloke has done is absolutely fine even though a family has lost not one, but two sons as a result of the thuggery he committed on the beautiful Kelly family.

I’m not even sure that idiotic Fifita knows who the Kelly family are — the one that lost a son to a king hit in Kings Cross and then lost another one because he simply couldn’t go on living without his beautiful brother.

Instead, Fifita has made a habit of going to see his friend, convicted one-punch killer Kieran Loveridge, in prison.

This has not been something of a one off — it has gone on nearly all year and the visits are underlined by wrist strapping that states FKL — Free Kieran Loveridge or For Kieran Loveridge. Fifita denies the F stands for Free.
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If it wasn’t so serious, you mighty even raise a wry laugh at the pathetic, disgusting nature of Fifita’s reaction and the way in which he has perpetuated it. The man has no shame, no guts and is excused by his club and his code.

For so long, he has behaved vilely towards junior league, other opponents who get in his way and even his own club that must look at him and think what are we doing?

Cronulla fans have a laugh but the rest of the league find it abhorrent and entirely wrong. He is a bad person but because he can play, the Sutherland Shire is his oyster.

Fifita should not be playing rugby league.

He should be banned by coach Shane Flanagan, and Laurie Daley, boycotted completely by the Sharks fans and stop being picked for rep teams without any questions being answered.

The Sharks juniors don’t need him hanging around their kids making trouble.

So that’s when the league steps in. Dare I say it but incidents like this do not happen in rugby union or AFL.

While there are bad eggs in both, nothing in either comes close to the atrocities that are almost routinely committed in league.

Let’s look at the club bosses who have overseen this rubbish — Flanagan, a candidate for coach of the year who has allowed it to go on right under his nose.

Then there is club boss Lyall Gorman who looks like a mild-mannered Clark Kent but has failed to put a stop to the place being one of ill repute.

Gorman appears to be honest but his credentials are questionable. Too many dodgy occurrences happen at Cronulla.

The place is competitive so everyone is applauding them but peel back the layers and things like this still go dreadfully wrong.

Fifita’s teammates are not emerging unscathed either.

Where is Mick Ennis? The wonderful example of leader Paul Gallen? Why didn’t either of them say, “Hey bro, what’s with the tape and the initials?” Surely they would have thought it?

Fifita is one of those people who is in a side box that nobody can get to.

He is not included in the group list, there’s no what the hell is that all about?

There is no fear from him.

Todd Greenberg needs to assess the value of someone like Fifita to the code and then decide if he sacrifices him for the greater good.

No coach or trainer should say leave the poor bloke alone and let him get on with it.

This is the latest chapter in an ongoing book that makes us all cringe and seethe with anger.

Make it the last instalment because normal people are completely over this bloke and the level of acceptance he’s granted in rugby league.

It’s finished and we won’t be the poorer for it.
 

LESStar58

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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/n...a/news-story/671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70

Rebecca Wilson: No place in rugby league for Andrew Fifita

671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70

Rebecca Wilson, The Daily Telegraph
671f800b927ba1ab2d4ce206382fdd70


NOBODY likes it when we do this.

Comparing the codes and the individuals who take part in league, AFL and rugby union leads to ugly discrimination, occasionally unfair bias and an even denser line between the three.

The latest example is Cronulla’s Andrew Fifita — a disgraceful human being, with a long record of bad behaviour who has now decided that he can find a violent prisoner in jail, go and visit him and then decide that everything the bloke has done is absolutely fine even though a family has lost not one, but two sons as a result of the thuggery he committed on the beautiful Kelly family.

I’m not even sure that idiotic Fifita knows who the Kelly family are — the one that lost a son to a king hit in Kings Cross and then lost another one because he simply couldn’t go on living without his beautiful brother.

Instead, Fifita has made a habit of going to see his friend, convicted one-punch killer Kieran Loveridge, in prison.

This has not been something of a one off — it has gone on nearly all year and the visits are underlined by wrist strapping that states FKL — Free Kieran Loveridge or For Kieran Loveridge. Fifita denies the F stands for Free.
.
If it wasn’t so serious, you mighty even raise a wry laugh at the pathetic, disgusting nature of Fifita’s reaction and the way in which he has perpetuated it. The man has no shame, no guts and is excused by his club and his code.

For so long, he has behaved vilely towards junior league, other opponents who get in his way and even his own club that must look at him and think what are we doing?

Cronulla fans have a laugh but the rest of the league find it abhorrent and entirely wrong. He is a bad person but because he can play, the Sutherland Shire is his oyster.

Fifita should not be playing rugby league.

He should be banned by coach Shane Flanagan, and Laurie Daley, boycotted completely by the Sharks fans and stop being picked for rep teams without any questions being answered.

The Sharks juniors don’t need him hanging around their kids making trouble.

So that’s when the league steps in. Dare I say it but incidents like this do not happen in rugby union or AFL.

While there are bad eggs in both, nothing in either comes close to the atrocities that are almost routinely committed in league.

Let’s look at the club bosses who have overseen this rubbish — Flanagan, a candidate for coach of the year who has allowed it to go on right under his nose.

Then there is club boss Lyall Gorman who looks like a mild-mannered Clark Kent but has failed to put a stop to the place being one of ill repute.

Gorman appears to be honest but his credentials are questionable. Too many dodgy occurrences happen at Cronulla.

The place is competitive so everyone is applauding them but peel back the layers and things like this still go dreadfully wrong.

Fifita’s teammates are not emerging unscathed either.

Where is Mick Ennis? The wonderful example of leader Paul Gallen? Why didn’t either of them say, “Hey bro, what’s with the tape and the initials?” Surely they would have thought it?

Fifita is one of those people who is in a side box that nobody can get to.

He is not included in the group list, there’s no what the hell is that all about?

There is no fear from him.

Todd Greenberg needs to assess the value of someone like Fifita to the code and then decide if he sacrifices him for the greater good.

No coach or trainer should say leave the poor bloke alone and let him get on with it.

This is the latest chapter in an ongoing book that makes us all cringe and seethe with anger.

Make it the last instalment because normal people are completely over this bloke and the level of acceptance he’s granted in rugby league.

It’s finished and we won’t be the poorer for it.


Dustin Martin hangs out with ex-Sargent At Arms of the bandidos. Our aboriginal players don't have bananas thrown at them either and the UPFdon't turn up to games with racist banners.

Go home, Becky. You're drunk.
 
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Ohmigod!!! I can't believe that was printed.

On one hand news Ltd telling all and sundry they're doing league finals etc. On the other, they print rubbish like this.

Unbelievable. I shake my head.
 

taipan

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Anyone got her email address,would love to give her some home truths,from her drinking ,to AFL incidents to News ltd's appalling behaviour around the world.
 

Pedge1971

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Dustin Martin hangs out with ex-Sargent At Arms of the Commancheros. Our aboriginal players don't have bananas thrown at them either and the UPFdon't turn up to games with racist banners.

Go home, Becky. You're drunk.

Let's not forget Martin threatening to stab a woman with a chop stick in a restairant last pre season. Played all season and a leading contender for their Brownlow Medal.
 
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Dear Beccy.

You are drunk. Sober up, take some chill pills and take a good long look at yourself in the mirror.

Whilst Fifita is a wanker, you madam are full of shit, your articles are trash and your targeting of league and in particular the Sharks, is abhorrent.

Go write some articles about banana throwing AFL fans, yes those that boo indigenous players because they dare suggest the average AFL fan are racist pigs. Why don't you demand Essendon be kicked out of the AFL or that players who dodge mandatory drug tests be outed? Why are you not carrying on about the AFL's three strike policy?

You hate league, we get it okay. We hate you and your trashy articles you try to pass off as journalism.

Please accept that no one takes you seriously.
 

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