Who is the Adelaide player with the disgraceful behaviour on the week-end??

[alex_is_on_fire]

Considering you have no idea what went on alex, and there are varying points of view on what happened, I'd quietly shut the **** up for now. You really are like a broken record. The story has barely even made it to Melbourne media ffs, that is how small it is!

1st incident (where he was suspended for a match): 20 minutes late past a curfew.
2nd incident: with some mates at the casino over Christmas and gets caught near some bozo he doesn't know pissing on the slots.
3rd incident: I'm not even going to bother.

Yeah, these are the actions of a new Fev. Heck, even Jurrah has got nothing but support from the AFL and his club, and what he is alleged to have done is actually a serious life issue!

Goodness, it must be amazing living in your world of make believe, fairy floss and butterfly's.

I'm glad you have the audacity to tell me I don't know the entire story, yet neither do you and yet you are passing judgement on my opinion. The club knows more than you.

Your more than happy to tell me to STFU when you agree with the club and everything they stand for, the decisions they make, the people they hire and what coach is in charge. Now you don't agree with their stance and your still telling me to STFU. You don't know the entire story so stop passing judgement on me for expressing my indervidual beliefs.

End if the day, Bernie does drink, be late or drop his pants he will be fine. He needs to own his own behaviour.

 

[spenze]

Are you serious?

We had a 12 year old kid, YES 12 not come to school today because he had alcohol poisoning. He and a neighbor mate sculled 2 beers and 1 shot of vodka.

Why? because it's been glorified as a cool thing to do with AFL players.

Ummm yeah he didn't have alcoholic poisoning, he just had a sore tum tum but that wouldn't add weight to a dramatic argument.

I guess that both parents and their social group all abstain from the product because lo and behold they might be the social peers that the kid with the sore tum tum might have been imitating, not the AFL footballer who had 2 beers.

I don't mind your argument Alex but when people start to fall back on the chestnut of footballers being role models, I see it as a chance for society to absolve themselves of that job.

I had heroes as a kid but I never enacted their behaviours. For example I was a big Paul McCartney fan as a kid, yet I haven't embraced vegatarian diets, smoked copius amounts of pot or banged a crazy one legged chick.

On the flip side I will have a beer after a hard weekends work ( like my dad), I appreciate a good red wine ( like my dad ), I have a leadfoot ( like my dad) and I married someone good with money, like my dad.

The role models we imitate aren't on the TV screen but next to us on the couch.

 

[WALL-e]

Derferred suspension would mean that if he fks up within a certain time period he gets that penalty plus this one match as well - IMO.

Plus it costs him $1800 odd dollars as well.

They've lost the plot down there IMO - they're using a steam-roller to kill an ant.

I certainly hope the club footed the bill and told Bernie this is PR BS.

Even so, the club should have had all the players drop their dacks at the press conference. Who gives a flying ****.

 

[Vader]

Realistically, what choice did the club have?

Taken in isolation this was just a silly incident, barely newsworthy in & of itself. The problem is that the incident cannot be taken in isolation. It's Vince's 3rd incident inside 12 months and he's already had 2 previous club suspensions. Vince has placed the club in a situation where they had to take action - or at least be seen to be taking action (to keep the sponsors happy).

Vince's punishment has 2 parts. The first part is forking out $1800 for free tickets for the public. That's a lot of money for someone like you or me - to him it's 1 or 2 day's salary, a slap on the wrist at worst. The second part is a suspended 1-game sentence. If Vince manages to keep his nose clean then he'll never have to worry about it. If he doesn't, then he will have at least 5 strikes against him and a 1-game suspension will be thoroughly deserved.

 

[swanfan]

I am going to do a boxer shorts run at the game this weekend.

Come, get me Rucci.

*Stay the hell away from me Rucci.

 

[Wood_Duck]

Whether or not you think Bernie did the wrong thing is a judgement call I guess, and comes down to the individual.

What concerns me is Trigg crapping on about how it affects the brand of the club. Anonymous emails to radio stations do not affect the brand of a football club.

What affects the brand of a football club is a CEO going out of his way to make this an exercise in public relations, desperately trying to reinstate us as the club your grandmother would support, when all it needed was a swift backroom response and a short statement to the media.

Here's a message for Steven - don't EVER speak about our club's brand again, because you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Cant say I disagree with you here SP. The CEO would have done more for his brand if he had shut up and said nothing.

At the very most it could have been a statement to the press along the lines of 'Bernie is a young bloke who was being a young bloke and celebrating a premiership with some mates. The allegations are baseless and as such the club will be taking no further action'.

 

[swanfan]

Yes, he does WD. He is stocking up.

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Ummm yeah he didn't have alcoholic poisoning, he just had a sore tum tum but that wouldn't add weight to a dramatic argument.

I guess that both parents and their social group all abstain from the product because lo and behold they might be the social peers that the kid with the sore tum tum might have been imitating, not the AFL footballer who had 2 beers.

I don't mind your argument Alex but when people start to fall back on the chestnut of footballers being role models, I see it as a chance for society to absolve themselves of that job.

I had heroes as a kid but I never enacted their behaviours. For example I was a big Paul McCartney fan as a kid, yet I haven't embraced vegatarian diets, smoked copius amounts of pot or banged a crazy one legged chick.

On the flip side I will have a beer after a hard weekends work ( like my dad), I appreciate a good red wine ( like my dad ), I have a leadfoot ( like my dad) and I married someone good with money, like my dad.

The role models we imitate aren't on the TV screen but next to us on the couch.

Look I agree with you that parents are the rightful role model and number 1 influence in a young persons life but the term latch key kid wasn't created because of good parenting.

Some people should not have kids and their undetstanding, interest and influence they have on their kids doesn't exist. Therefore these same kids are influenced in other areas. Sadly, TV and sports people are role models.

 

[Yorkes_87]

This seems like an over reaction. Which makes me think there's more to it than we know about. For one thing, I'm confused by why the public reporting has been that Bernie was in Stansbury on Sunday afternoon, while yorkes_87 is saying he was there on Saturday night...

I don't think I said I was there. (sorry if I did) I said I was at the cricket then I was at another nearby pub with the other team. People I know were there I believe.

 

[macca23]

Look I agree with you that parents are the rightful role model and number 1 influence in a young persons life but the term latch key kid wasn't created because of good parenting.

Some people should not have kids and their undetstanding, interest and influence they have on their kids doesn't exist. Therefore these same kids are influenced in other areas. Sadly, TV and sports people are role models.

Let's be honest though, Alex.

Bernie celebrating a premiership with the cricket team he played for all year but the GF, and in a private section of the hotel followed the team ritual of stripping down to his boxers while drinking one of the 2 beers he had between 11 30 1m and 1 30 pm when he left to return to Adelaide - this affected the youth of today (who never saw it) just how??

 

[spenze]

Some people should not have kids

Indeed they shouldn't...Mr and Mrs Rucci

 

[macca23]

Indeed they shouldn't...Mr and Mrs Rucci

There's no Mrs Rucci and one wouldn't think there ever will be ....................

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Let's be honest though, Alex.

Bernie celebrating a premiership with the cricket team he played for all year but the GF, and in a private section of the hotel followed the team ritual of stripping down to his boxers while drinking one of the 2 beers he had between 11 30 1m and 1 30 pm when he left to return to Adelaide - this affected the youth of today (who never saw it) just how??

But they know about it, it's now public knowledge.

Kids want to 'be like mike' or in this case, Bernie.

 

[spenze]

There's no Mrs Rucci and one wouldn't think there ever will be ....................

I see the edit

A Mrs Mikey Rucci????

Me thinks she'd be of the inflatable variety

 

[kulak]

a deferred suspension basically means no suspension unless he messes up again. The tickets no doubt will be paid for by an additional services agreement.

It's a suspended suspension?

 

[Paladin]

There's no Mrs Rucci and one wouldn't think there ever will be ....................

Common knowledge Rucci likes men yeah?

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Common knowledge Rucci likes men yeah?

So?

Something wrong with that?

 

[Paladin]

So?

Something wrong with that?

Not at all my best mate is gay.

Just pointing out a Mrs rucci is very unlikely

 

[Crows #1]

Saw this on the Advertiser web site:

The Crows have set up an email address, berniestix@afc.com.au, where the first 30 members to email with their name, address and membership number will receive a double pass to the clash against West Coast.

Link:
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...rows-unimpressed/story-e6frecoc-1226298280539

So if anyone is a member and wants a chance at a couple of free tickets. Guessing they are gone now though.

 

[swanfan]

I see the edit

A Mrs Mikey Rucci????

Me thinks she'd be of the inflatable variety

Would have to hang around Gouger Street.

 

[spenze]

Kids want to 'be like mike' or in this case, Bernie.

So are you suggesting that all men who grew up idolising Michael Jordan and have subsequently cheated on their wives were only trying to be like Mike?

I guess it makes sense, I used to like Wesley Snipes films and I've avoided doing a tax return for a decade (sarcasm)

 

[Wilburwild]

So?

Something wrong with that?

Pretty sure the statement was in regard to a MRS Rucci, not that being gay was wrong.
I think you knew that though...

 

[alex_is_on_fire]

Just pointing out a Mrs rucci is very unlikely

More chance for a mrs rucci than a mr rucci.

He's not gay. He's an ugly SOB with a chip On his shoulder but he isn't gay. I know one of his very short ex's.

 

[Paladin]

More chance for a mrs rucci than a mr rucci.

He's not gay. He's an ugly SOB with a chip On his shoulder but he isn't gay. I know one of his very short ex's.

my grandma swears she has seen him with a man. honest truth. cant imagine anyone wanting to spend any time with him. Did you date Rucci's ex?

 

[swanfan]

More chance for a mrs rucci than a mr rucci.

He's not gay. He's an ugly SOB with a chip On his shoulder but he isn't gay. I know one of his very short ex's.

Did she ever take him to see a specialist ?