I don't feel sorry for him but surely having to live with these pics being public is punishment enough. He didn't hurt anyone. He's an object of ridicule now for the rest of his life. Should we lynch him?
image management for cronulla.
seen to be doing the right thing by the wider community.
reports are Carney was slowly veering off the rails throughout the season and back to his old ways with the drink.
Like most clubs in the NRL, there is no action until the shit hits the fan.
This is amplified at a club like Cronulla which virtually has little resources that a professional sports organisation should have - financial and manned. Add to that the issues with ASADA which are taking up a good proportion of the hours of the little resources that are on hand, then rogues will run loose and problems can get out of hand quickly.
Now I'm not saying Carney is absolved from responsibility. He is a 28yo who should have some discipline for a bloke with the coin he is on, the chances he has had, his status at the club, and most importantly his fame within the community. But if the club were turning a blind eye to other indiscretions in the lead-up no matter how minor they may have seemed initially, then they deserve the adverse publicity they cop when one of their representatives are caught larricking around in a manner that the community perceives as distasteful.
A player f**king up is reflection of a club's or organisation's culture. These things aren't merely one-offs. They fester. If clubs don't clamp down on the minor shit, even BS talk in dressing room and attitudes, then it generally gets to a level that the club - and the game - will ultimately regret.
This is one thing Rugby League continually fails with. They talk about education programs and shit, but I'd say the coaches and bosses at these clubs do little to rein in poor attitudes and behaviour when teams are actually together in the 99.9% of situations. Education programs are just BS box-ticking regulation satisfiers. It's what the action of the leading players, coaches, CEO's etc that determines what the playing group perceives as acceptable.
