Mitchell Pearce - wtf?

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sherb said:
If he wants to earn megabucks as a professional sportsman he has to realize that there are certain obligations that go with that. That would have been made perfectly clear to him.

Certainly I know that if I was told that to be paid $500,000 a year (or whatever) I had to refrain from behaviour which could be considered demeaning to the image of the sport - like, oh, I don't know, perhaps, as an "out there" example, bestiality (be it real or simulated) - I think I could actually manage to do that.

I found a new favourite word the other day (in relation to Mr Trump actually). It was ****whistle. If all this is true about Mitchell, I think it applies to him perfectly.

I feel sorry for his old man. From all reports a highly decent human being. He must be thinking to himself "where the hell did I go wrong?". Poor bastard. :(
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It's not so much about refraining from the behaviour as avoiding getting so drunk that that you cannot predict the resulting moral outrage from your actions or spot the opportunist with the phone camera.
 
hench said:
The lesbian should have kissed him and the guy filming the incident should be jailed.

Some of you guys should get a ******* clue.
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The girls taped it and then sold it too ACA.
They obviously were going to film something else but Pearce gave them the footage to sell.
If they were lesbians why did they want a couple of numbers?
 

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Timely re-read of Steve Mascord's piece from 2014:

On Saturday, around lunchtime, player agent Andrew Purcell asked me on Twitter "when did your s**t stop stinking?".

The query was, as the late league journalist Peter Frilingos used to say, "apropos of nothing". In fact, my most recent posts had been a series of admissions about how bad I am at writing live match reports.

Of course, his choice of words would prove prescient, even if he confused his number ones with his number twos. The toilet was where the attention of rugby league would be focused by later that night.

I have got no problem with Purcell, or anyone else, having a shot at me on social media. What I want to discuss is the sentiment inherent in his tweet: that we have all got something to hide, so none of us should highlight or condemn the actions of someone else.

My excrement certainly does still stink. I have and do perform acts which are drunken, stupid, sometimes even illicit and illegal. But it has never occurred to me to deposit that excrement in a shoe. I have never thought of simulating a sex act with an animal for a photo. The idea of imitating a drinking fountain, substituting my own urine for water, has not entered my head.

This is the bit where I am supposed to say, and have so many times before, that most NRL players are good role models and don't engage in anti-social behaviour.

But bugger that.

Rather than try to reassure outsiders that rugby league is not as feral as it seems, right now it's more important to tell the delusional insiders reading this ... how feral it seems.

Firstly, there are the matters that go before the courts every two or three weeks: assault, domestic abuse, etc. Then there are acts that most people would not even conceive of unless they heard of a footballer doing them.

If you live in most parts of the world where they have heard of rugby but don't know there are two varieties, the last time you heard of the NRL was when a talk show mentioned John Hopoate poking someone's bum, or Joel Monaghan posing with a dog. "So this guy who drinks his own urine is from the same rugby competition as those guys? Holy Hell. It's a menagerie down there."

Rugby league's popularity in NSW and Queensland ferments ignorance. Players have no concept of the extent to which many, many people in this country look down on them as "meatheads" playing a "low-rent" sport. You think you are stars but to a large part of Australian society, you are lamentable outcasts.

How do you think it would feel to be an unpaid development officer in Hobart, running on chook raffles and borrowed goalpost pads, when the only time you make the local press is when an NRL player defecates in a hallway? This is the sport you are devoting all your spare time to? These guys are on a fortune and you're being paid nothing?

A former Cronulla chief executive, Damian Irvine, is right: we are expected to laugh at Paul Gallen knocking out Beau Ryan on Mad Monday when in fact it is appalling.

I am fond of saying player behaviour has improved 200 per cent over the past 15 years. But perhaps it has only improved 100 per cent, with the other 100 going underground, hidden beneath cliched soundbites and spin. Pull up the carpet and there is still malevolence.

The rebellious response to Carney's sacking from Sharks players represents a tipping point for the game's culture in this country. It's not just a clash of cultures, it's a war of ideologies.

On one side, there is an eternal boys club, an Orwellian Animal Farm that has arisen as a result of a male-only workplace, too much money, too much time and countless troubled childhoods.

This group wants the media blamed for reporting what they do (even when not a single paper was printed between the Carney picture emerging and his sacking), they want punching and shoulder charges reinstated, they think spewing and shitting and pissing are funny.

On the other is a governing body run by a former corporate banker trying to figure out why twice as many Australian women say they have been to an AFL game as to a rugby league match, and why rugby union still gets blue-chip sponsors despite all other indicators of its health indicating imminent cardiac arrest.

The reason is in a picture circulated on Twitter on Saturday night.

I say let the first knuckle-dragging group go, let them form their own competition with their own fans (including you, who is already seething about this column), sponsorship and media. Punt them – or they'll drag us down with them.

The romantic, historical view of rugby league is that it represented a social upheaval at the end of the industrial revolution; it empowered working-class people whose talents were being exploited for the profit of the elite running rugby union.

But I am beginning to think that is romantic nonsense. I am beginning to think it was just a grab for cash by people who had no other means to make some, and that is all it means to those people more than a century later.

Prove me wrong, David Smith.

After 119 years of wallowing in its own – yes Andrew, stinking – slime, the game is now at a point where it can either finally escape, or stay there forever.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-your-image-stinks-fix-it-20140701-zss9q.html
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Jatz said:
Video wasn't anywhere near as bad as it was made out to be. But he's still a massive idiot with a drinking problem.

I like the idea of a 12 month suspension to get his s**t together or walk away from the game.
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Jeezus! for what? maybe some alcohol counseling and that's it. i don't understand the uproar. he's a drunk idiot. he didn't hurt anyone and he was in a private residence.
 
Big Fozza said:
Jeezus! for what? maybe some alcohol counseling and that's it. i don't understand the uproar. he's a drunk idiot. he didn't hurt anyone and he was in a private residence.
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Well he did sexually assault someone (on the minor end of the scale but still proves he wasn't in control of himself).

In isolation this is a drunken incident. But this isn't his first issue. It's time they got tough on this s**t. Make them face the fact they have a problem.
 
Big Fozza said:
Jeezus! for what? maybe some alcohol counseling and that's it. i don't understand the uproar. he's a drunk idiot. he didn't hurt anyone and he was in a private residence.
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Here's the conundrum - whether anyone likes it or not - football players on big money are somewhat subject to higher levels of scrutiny than others - you can't divorce yourself from the social responsibilities that go with the job.

Roosters have sponsors as does the NRL, they try to promote a professional and responsible competition played by elite athletes. Does Steggles or Renault want to have their products associated with Mitch Pearce right now?

Roosters are light on in the halves - can we afford to ditch Mitch on the eve of the season.

It's a no win situation - personally I think the club has to move him on - it's been far too lenient in other situations - Mitch might have to be the scapegoat
 
Jatz said:
Well he did sexually assault someone (on the minor end of the scale but still proves he wasn't in control of himself).

In isolation this is a drunken incident. But this isn't his first issue. It's time they got tough on this s**t. Make them face the fact they have a problem.
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Bomberboyokay said:
Forced his kiss on the woman, forced himself on the dog, pissed on the couch.
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if the girl wants to press charges then she can.

forced himself on the dog - give me a break. he was mucking around. he didn't force himself on the dog ffs.

pissed on the couch ? i have no idea if that was the case - he could have spilt a drink for all i know. or it could have been someone else. or maybe he did - doesn't deserve to be tarred and feathered because of that
 

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western royboy said:
Here's the conundrum - whether anyone likes it or not - football players on big money are somewhat subject to higher levels of scrutiny than others - you can't divorce yourself from the social responsibilities that go with the job.

Roosters have sponsors as does the NRL, they try to promote a professional and responsible competition played by elite athletes. Does Steggles or Renault want to have their products associated with Mitch Pearce right now?

Roosters are light on in the halves - can we afford to ditch Mitch on the eve of the season.

It's a no win situation - personally I think the club has to move him on - it's been far too lenient in other situations - Mitch might have to be the scapegoat
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i just think that it's rubbish that because someone had a camera he's getting in trouble for this. he wasn't on the street or in a night club - he was in a private residence.

he's definitely got a problem but it's a mountain out of a mole hill imo
 
Big Fozza said:
if the girl wants to press charges then she can.

forced himself on the dog - give me a break. he was mucking around. he didn't force himself on the dog ffs.

pissed on the couch ? i have no idea if that was the case - he could have spilt a drink for all i know. or it could have been someone else. or maybe he did - doesn't deserve to be tarred and feathered because of that
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Of course she can.

You're not reading what I'm saying though. If this was a one off, I wouldn't suggest 12 months. This guy has form though and abuses alcohol. Notice all of his team mates went home after the cruise and yet the 'captain' thought it would be a good idea to get plastered.

The guy needs help.
 
Big Fozza said:
i just think that it's rubbish that because someone had a camera he's getting in trouble for this. he wasn't on the street or in a night club - he was in a private residence.

he's definitely got a problem but it's a mountain out of a mole hill imo
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That's why the get the big bucks - in today's society the cameras are always rolling
 
Jatz said:
Of course she can.

You're not reading what I'm saying though. If this was a one off, I wouldn't suggest 12 months. This guy has form though and abuses alcohol. Notice all of his team mates went home after the cruise and yet the 'captain' thought it would be a good idea to get plastered.

The guy needs help.
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Yeah sure he needs help. I don't think a 12 month suspension is the answer though. That'll Probably do more harm than good.
 
Did laugh!!

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The problem is everyone in the media and positions of responsibility have to play the political correct card and come out and say how disgusting and terrible it is... imagine the harm it would do them if they just came out and said the truth...that he's just being a drunk dickhead.

Of course it's not a great look but fk me the way the media has beat this up you would think he had actually done something sexual with the dog.

Anyway as a captain of a club u cant be a dickhead like that, so losing the captaincy is a no brainer. Not sure being booted from the NRL is fair, although he does have priors.
 
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