Tigers player in hot water

[Guest]

Difference is boss, the victim isn't paid a couple of hundred grand a year to play football and is currently the face of league.

The only time players seem to get in shit is when they're allowed out after dark. How about along with getting rid of exotic betting that they stop players going out.

Or at least give them a bloody curfew.

Not a bad idea, but who would enforse that curfew?
Short answer......You can't!

[The Axe]

Fair point. Obviously, I don't know Marshall, but he does seem to be a good bloke. (Though he did punch Pearce in the semi last year.)

However... if I said something insulting to, say, Phil Rothfield, one day and he responded with physical violence, I'm pretty sure that Phil would be charged with assault, not me.

S66,
I'm not even a Tigers' fan, but I'm tired of relatively minor incidents being blown out of proportion.
I stayed quiet on the Todd Carney incident as it was close to home. Now I can comment with being labelled biased. But I see a strong parallel. Small incidents on front pages and leading news stories.

Benji had earlier been raising money for charity. He can't be too bad a bloke to be doing that.

[Spirit of 66]

S66,
I'm not even a Tigers' fan, but I'm tired of relatively minor incidents being blown out of proportion.
I stayed quiet on the Todd Carney incident as it was close to home. Now I can comment with being labelled biased. But I see a strong parallel. Small incidents on front pages and leading news stories.

Benji had earlier been raising money for charity. He can't be too bad a bloke to be doing that.

I agree with you, but I'm also not comfortable with the idea of a professional athlete using physical violence - even against a dickhead (as this bloke may well turn out to be). Anyway, let's wait to see the facts.

[Guest]

Don't really care what a footballer does outside football. I don't see why others would either.

[Guest]

Not a bad idea, but who would enforse that curfew?
Short answer......You can't!

In theory their managers, the ones not rigging games at least, should keep them in line like parents. I've always accepted that the majority of league players are close to teenage levels of intelligence, so they need to be treated like them.

[Guest]

In theory their managers, the ones not rigging games at least, should keep them in line like parents. I've always accepted that the majority of league players are close to teenage levels of intelligence, so they need to be treated like them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqrEp4DAYzA

Gretchen must not have been there.

[Guest]

I agree with you, but I'm also not comfortable with the idea of a professional athlete using physical violence - even against a dickhead (as this bloke may well turn out to be). Anyway, let's wait to see the facts.

Could have been a chooks supporter taking one for the team to take the heat of Toddy!

[Guest]

Could have been a chooks supporter taking one for the team to take the heat of Toddy!

Your a good fella! hows the lip?

[Guest]

Not me my crazy friend......I'd bust Benji anyway...

[Kingbilly]

A split lip lets run to the cops.
Sorry but what sort of pussy's are we breeding now days.

This story is not about RL its about society, I hope this little shit that Marshall hits gets named and shamed, if its as it appears

[Guest]

Not me my crazy friend......I'd bust Benji anyway...

Sounds better! you want a list?marshall cronk sandow etc.....

[bondi-boy]

What's good for Roosters players is good enough for Tigers players and players from any other club.
The cops charged Jake Friend with everything they could...and every sin of Todd Carney's and other Roosters players is plastered all over the media, electronic and print, Willy Mason for example...and the NRL acts in some way watching any punishment the club dished out...
So now ...if Marshall has assaulted anyone...the cops should charge him as well and let him defend himself in court too.

And the NRL should get involved and watch any punishment handed down by his club, and act if it considers the punishment inappropriate.

Let's watch what, if anything, Buzz man writes and Hadley says about this!

[Spirit of 66]

Channel 7 reported that he was "retaliating" after racist remarks.

I ain't no lawyer, but that doesn't sound like a legitimate legal reason to hit someone.

[Guest]

Sounds better! you want a list?marshall cronk sandow etc.....

I'd love a crack at Sandow actually!

[Guest]

Let's not jump to conclusions without knowing the facts.

The guy that was hit may have been a souths fan for all we know....