the state of the Parramatta Eels bears no resemblance whatsoever to the continual line of scandals, player disobedience and lawlessness that IS the Canterbury Bulldogs and Steve Mortimer and the Bulldogs fans excitedly trawling this part of the forums would definitely do best to keep clear of pointing fingers at our club.
I don't want to go defending Piggy Riddell and Tim Smith for their stupid actions, because they were certainly irresponsible and short sighted at a time when the club needed solidarity and leadership, but 2 players missing a recovery session due to a few too many ales down at the local pub, pales into insignificance next to Reni Maitua and Sonny Bill Williams driving their cars whilst well over the limit and without a vaild licence at all in the case of SBW (if i recall correctly), not to mention the Coffs Harbour stuff - whether or not there was a rape commited, wrong doing of some sort certainly occured. These footballers have happily endangered the lives of others with their form of irresponsibility, while the Piggy/Smith case is a minor blip on the scale of what we see regularly from these so-called role models.
