StCicatriz
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have you seen Chris Goulding play ?? i know a few guys who played with and against him at various levels and he is a flog of the highest order ... i love the boomers next to the Saints they are my favorite sporting team but hoenstly we should be better than that .. the blow up was extreem and unforgivable but really had we been more professional then it wouldnt have got to that.. i mean even the removing of the stickers .. totally understandable they needed to be removed but FFS go about it the right way , just doing it themselves does stink of very little respect being paid ... you report it and get the officals to order it be removed (and if not then you simply refuse to field a team)... this whole thing is just little spot fires niggling and niggling under the surface ... the boomers shouldbe above all this
That's one player though. Surely one player does not mean the entire side is like that. What about the opposition do they have a similar player? what about two similar players? What about 3? A whole side?
Should they be above it probably. But they're also very competitive people. It's like AFL. See champions walking back to their position whilst play is stopped. They get bumped by 2-3 players on the way back and almost always return the favor because they don't want to show weakness. At that level to get that far you don't back down to any challenge.
Now I'm not excusing the behaviour. The shoulder charge was wrong albeit I think the same as the one before although ill timed. But I do think the Aussies have less to worry about here. The opposition was 10x worse. Like I said there's 5-7 people from the opposition that should be charged with assault and im not being flippant about that. They broke the law. Held a bloke down and proceeded to assault him when he was defenceless. That's not a sporting act of thuggery it's just straight out illegal.
So the focus here should be on how that can be addressed and to ensure it doesn't happen again. The behaviour of the Australian side comes 2nd to that. If the priority is on the behaviour of the Australian side then people have their priorities mixed up IMO.





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