Aussie Pro Rugby
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Johnson and Cheika will be joined by a third, independent selector to make up a new National Selection Panel that will oversee Qantas Wallabies squad and team selection. The independent selector will be appointed in early 2019
..and Cheika reports to Johnson. So you’d assume Johnson is the head of the selection panel?
I can’t see that working. Cheika will be accountable as coach for a side he’s lost control of selecting
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Johnson remained in charge of Scotland and the 2014 Six Nations was a disaster, including a 20-0 humiliation by England at Murrayfield and a record 51-3 thrashing by Wales in Cardiff. "Under Johnson, supposedly a guru of attacking rugby, they went through the entire campaign without scoring a single try against any of the other home nations. When Cotter finally arrived, Johnson could not have looked more relieved to be passing the baton," Reid wrote in The Times. Reid noted that without actual coaching responsibilities Johnson "underwent a remarkable transformation" as he concentrated on his director of rugby role. "To all intents and purposes, the fast-talking, wisecracking, larrikin Johnson disappeared from public life. "The disappearing act was so successful that Johnson, the most senior rugby figure in the Murrayfield administration, was not mentioned by name in any of the past three SRU annual reports. The union tried to argue that he was working quietly and diligently behind the scenes; the first part was true, the second part open to question." Reid felt it was "debatable" whether Johnson could be linked to the lift in performance by Scottish clubs. Classy coaches Dave Rennie (Glasgow) and Richard Cockerill (Edinburgh) had been lured by "paying the going rate". "In truth, as nobody really knew what Johnson was meant to be doing, nobody could be quite sure if he was any good at it," surmised Reid. -
Nice one Beale....
'Get it baby, get it': Corey Norman, Kurtley Beale video leaked
Video has emerged online of two rugby players laughing at a man appearing to snort a substance
Video has emerged of a man appearing to snort an unknown substance off a plate while two well-known rugby players watch on. Overnight, a video was widely circulated on social media showing an elderly man appearing to snort something off a dinner plate while three men, including St George Dragons player Corey Norman and Wallabies veteran Kurtley Beale, watch on. -
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@Machpants besides a potential charge of bringing the game into disrepute, what would you like them to do about a video from 2015?
Aaron Smith got a written warning and sent home from a tour for shagging someone in a public restroom.
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@NTA said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@Machpants besides a potential charge of bringing the game into disrepute, what would you like them to do about a video from 2015?
Aaron Smith got a written warning and sent home from a tour for shagging someone in a public restroom.
Should have got a high five for that.
Obviously he should have been sent home for “ after David” though.
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Sex in a public toilet is not laughing around with blokes snorting coke. This is on top of so the other stuff he has done, offensive texts and ignoring team rules. He's a dickhead and should be shown the door
The NRL fella got, for some other unspecified stuff too ...sanctions included an eight match ban and a $20,000 fine.
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Only someone who knows nothing about Corey Norman would equate his punishment to that specific incident.
I honestly don't know why anyone even blinks at a pro footballer doing coke these days. A huge number of people their age, but without their finances do it, so why do people act surprised when rich young people do it?
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Only someone who knows nothing about Corey Norman would equate his punishment to that specific incident.
I honestly don't know why anyone even blinks at a pro footballer doing coke these days. A huge number of people their age, but without their finances do it, so why do people act surprised when rich young people do it?
Cos they're square
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Second Kurtley Beale video emerges
Footage shows the veteran Wallaby playing with a didgeridoo near a man with a plate of white powder
Another video has emerged online of Wallabies veteran Kurtley Beale near a plate of unidentified white powder. The footage was filmed shortly after the 2015 World Cup at a Maroubra apartment, in Sydney's east, with a group of people he met on a night out, 9News understands. The 30-year-old can be seen playing a vacuum cleaner like a didgeridoo before the camera pans to an unidentified man holding a plate with lines of white powder on it, in the background. -
At best those videos show he has friends/ acquaintances who make poor decisions. I'm not sure what the media wants the ARU to do about it.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby in general:
At best those videos show he has friends/ acquaintances who make poor decisions. I'm not sure what the media wants the ARU to do about it.
It's some point it almost becomes impressive that he is around it so much and isn't caught on camera having a sniff.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Rugby in general:
At best those videos show he has friends/ acquaintances who make poor decisions. I'm not sure what the media wants the ARU to do about it.
Its fucking ridiculous, this outrage. Am I going to get arrested or fired because I walked into a room where someone was going the dancing powder?
IMHO drugs should be decriminalised and people can do what the fuck they want. If they die or hurt others, THAT is where you have authorities step in and clean up the mess and start throwing books at people. That was the original intent of the police force: stop people hurting others. NOT stop them hurting themselves.
