Watmough

[Harold Bishop]

How good is Choco going! Better then his 2005 form if you ask me.
Makes well over 150 metres a game and gets a few line breaks. Is there a better hole runner then him right now?

Give the guy a NSW jersey FFS! He tackles just as much as Ryan and Hindmarsh anyway!

 

[willvillain]

Injury-free and going great guns. Origin can wait till next year, I'd prefer he played for Manly next week than in an Origin dead-rubber.

 

[chileman]

Injury-free and going great guns. Origin can wait till next year, I'd prefer he played for Manly next week than in an Origin dead-rubber.

My thoughts exactly, series is already gone.....I want him all for Manly even if that is greedy, it's a dead rubber as you said!

 

[Godz Illa]

Certainly is a bruising attacker, and a constant threat.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21963010-5006066,00.html

'Girl bash' player on AVO


By Shoba Rao

June 25, 2007 01:15pm

MANLY Sea Eagles player Anthony Watmough has been ordered to stay away from his ex-partner Gillian Rixon under a 12-month apprehended violence order, a court heard today.

With his head bowed at Manly Local Court, Watmough, 23, of Harbord, was told by Magistrate Jane Culver that he was not allowed to make contact with Ms Rixon in any way, or anyone she is involved in a relationship with, unless it is via a legal representative.

Magistrate Culver ordered the AVO to be put in place and said she found Ms Rixon "a genuine and credible witness" after she gave evidence against Watnough that he had attacked her physically and verbally on at least three occasions, before and after they ended their de facto relationship in December 2004.

Ms Rixon, 24, of North Narrabeen, had previously told the court Watmough pushed her into a table at the Manly Wharf bar on New Year's Eve 2004 before attacking her at her unit in Dee Why.

She also gave evidence that he slammed a sliding door into her on Aug 13, 2004. She also told the court of an altercation they had outside Watnough's temporary address in Manly at 5am on January 21, 2005.

Mag Culver said she accepted Ms Rixon's assertion that they were on a temporary separation in their relationship.

She also accepted that photographs tendered to the court which showed bruises Ms Rixon sustained in one of the attacks corroborated her evidence that he atacked her.

"Ms Rixon was genuine, she was credible and her evidence did accord with commonsense. The photographs of the bruises on her arm were entirely corroborative of her circumstances. I can accept her evidence on the balance of probabilities," she said.

The magistate als o recognised Ms Rixon felt scared and threatened numerous times.

"When the defendant goes drinking, she's scared of him. She feels scared by his renewed and continued threats to her," the magistrate said.

Her ruling flies in the face of Watmough's defence lawyer's case. Mr Garry Gillett argued that Watmough never atacked Ms Rixon on any occasion and he regarded her evidence as a "fabrication" and a "lie".

It is understood Watmough has not lodged an appeal at this stage.