George burgess gooooone

[bondi-boy]

Robert Lui, Greg Inglis, Albert Kelly, Wes Nquama, Cherro, maybe if it is actually your partner you are accused of assaulting it is ok ????

Greg Inglis...not guilty.

"The lowest blow" the headlines screamed out.
Then when the absolute truth was revealed it wasn't that at all.

[bondi-boy]

hahahahaha

LOL@souffs. With a criminal record he almost qualifies to be a souffs fan. All he needs now are some teeth to be removed.

How did he pull apart a street sign???? He must be stronger than I thought.

Remember when Trev the pocket battleship ripped apart a hills hoist in someone's backyard some years ago?
Burgess...the street sign was lying on the ground.

Some fool tried to mug Trev at an ATM in Bondi Junction...bad move.

[Rooster_6]

That's ridiculous - the NRL is not presuming Ferguson guilty but treating him as the irresponsible goon he was; given his past and the context (big chance to take Origin, Dugan's comeback), his decision to go out hard and down champagne from the bottle is idiotic. The fact that sexual/indecent assault allegations came from it just adds to this idiocy.

Ferguson's punishment is not for assault, but for "repeated behavioural issues involving alcohol."

Any punishment for sexual assault will come from a court of law.

Punishment for being a fuuckwit, not appreciating the situation of his relationship with the game right now and disrespecting his teammates has been handed out by the NRL, and rightly so.

Having a celebratory drink with your best mate who you just made the Origin side with is not a crime.

The NRL can pretend it's not about the charges with their wording of the suspension all drawn up by the legal team but lets face it if it was purely because of his drinking & past then why hasn't Dugan also been stood down?

[Guest]

geez it's reading and comprehension 101 today with you and parkway adz...

"It was appalling behaviour, and the club must also shoulder some responsibility for allowing him to be out at 2.45am or whatever it was."

A mate of mine played for Penrith some years back, and any time we'd go anywhere with them they'd have a couple of sensible older blokes tagging along, essentially to keep an eye on things, keep the women swarming around Girdler in an orderly queue, and get anyone who was starting to struggle in a cab and gone. No way was anyone still out at 2.45am.

If Souths are crazy enough to allow 20yo players to be charging around the streets of Cairns at 2.45am, then they certainly need to take some of the blame for the inevitable consequences

You can lump me with other posters on here all you like. To think a club needs to be hanging around the players 24/7 is bull. There is a difference between minders at the pub, and a club knowing what a player is doing at 2.45 in the morning.

The player needs to take the blame. If I got nicked at 2.45 in the morning when I was 20 years old, i wouldn't have thought my mother was to blame. I am an adult, and adults can do as they please. Enough of blaming others Tony.

Footballers being footballers. Anyone surprised?

Your turn Tony. knock me down with one of your inspiring lines.

[roostersrule2]

**** Burgess is in my dream team.

[Guest]

Having a celebratory drink with your best mate who you just made the Origin side with is not a crime.

The NRL can pretend it's not about the charges with their wording of the suspension all drawn up by the legal team but lets face it if it was purely because of his drinking & past then why hasn't Dugan also been stood down?

Probably because he didn't sneak back in after being ejected by police

[Parkway_Drive]

Having a celebratory drink with your best mate who you just made the Origin side with is not a crime.

The NRL can pretend it's not about the charges with their wording of the suspension all drawn up by the legal team but lets face it if it was purely because of his drinking & past then why hasn't Dugan also been stood down?

6 you are spot on. Its purely a reaction to the indecent assault charges that Blake Ferguson now faces. This could be the "Brett Stewart" fiasco all over again.

If Ferguson has been stood down and has been deregistered by the National Rugby League due to repeated alcoholic indiscretions in the past, then why hasn't Dugan been stood down?

[Rooster_6]

Having a celebratory drink with your best mate who you just made the Origin side with is not a crime.

The NRL can pretend it's not about the charges with their wording of the suspension all drawn up by the legal team but lets face it if it was purely because of his drinking & past then why hasn't Dugan also been stood down?

Probably because he didn't sneak back in after being ejected by police

If that equals de-registration then half the comp would be up for having their contracts de-registered. If there were no charges laid are you seriously suggesting the same action would have been taken.

I don't have any sympathy for the bloke but its a very dangerous and naive precedent to be setting.

[Guest]

If that equals de-registration then half the comp would be up for having their contracts de-registered. If there were no charges laid are you seriously suggesting the same action would have been taken.

I don't have any sympathy for the bloke but its a very dangerous and naive precedent to be setting.

Yes, I think given that it was a repeat offender like him, he may well have been stood down just for being involved with police whilst drunk. But he left himself wide open by not just getting the fark away from the joint, coming back and (allegedly) doing something much worse on top of it.

[John Corey]

Why would u raise this BB? What has that got to do with anything?

I played professional sport thru the 80s and early 90s, and I am sure some of u did as well. I played basketball with and against African Americans.

Racism back then was terrible, but we have come so far forward in that department that I am sick of people always whining about how far our country has to go. What about " how far it has come"? And now u raise this rubbish.

There are a small amount of ignorant fools who u will never change. An AFL player said the other day that if he racially vilified an opposition player, his own team mates would be disgusted in him and support sanctions against him. Rightfully so and it was a spot on comment. That is where I believe our society is at these days and I am proud of it.

Sorry BB, maybe I am dribbling on but your comment is just ridiculous.

Really?

Why was JT arrested and locked up for trying to enter his own home, because he'd forgotten to take his front door key with him?

http://www.silvertails.net/forum/Thr...rston-arrested

2004

NORTH Queensland Cowboys NRL captain Johnathan Thurston has been charged with public drunkenness after reportedly locking himself out of his house.

Thurston, 24, was arrested as he was trying to get back into his Townsville home on Saturday, ABC radio reported.

Cowboys chief executive Peter Parr said the rugby league club would consider disciplinary action against Thurston, but it was unlikely his captaincy was under threat.

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His own house.
On his own property, and the cops arrested and charged him.

Ferguson has already had his contract deregistered by the NRL...hasn't even appeared in court yet.
Burgess has not.

Both have been charged with criminal offences.


Alan Jones, 2GB 8.56am today;

"George Burgess, good family that one, has been charged, has admitted guilt and is working with the police...well done young man".

And what about the Ferguson family, aren't they good too?

The word for you is shallow. You are comparing Malicious damage with Indecent assault, which is in another stratosphere.
He is also a serial offender as well.
You are obviously of low intelligence if you cannot see that.

[Guest]

Having a celebratory drink with your best mate who you just made the Origin side with is not a crime.

The NRL can pretend it's not about the charges with their wording of the suspension all drawn up by the legal team but lets face it if it was purely because of his drinking & past then why hasn't Dugan also been stood down?

Perhaps I'm not doing it right, but when I go for a drink with a mate I don't get thrown out of bars (to be specific, a bar that is notoriously lenient with rugby league players), I don't sneak back in, and I don't put myself in a position to be accused of an indecent assault.

Josh Dugan hasn't been stood down because by the sounds of it, he went out for a celebratory drink with his best mate because they had both been picked for Origin. That's all.

Ferguson has been stood down because he got too drunk, caused trouble and is now facing criminal charges.

Even without an assault charge, if you think reports of Ferguson (in Dugan's company) being drunk and disorderly the week before one of the biggest Origin games in recent history, given his past, would have passed without fuss, you're wrong.

Also, if you think its better for the game, its interests and its image to sit back and effectively say to the public "we aren't going to do anything about player x's misbehaviour and alleged assault until we absolutely have to", you're a goose.

[ism22]

First Teo now him

Geeeez imagin it was us,,,,,,,60minutes would have an exclusive

JWH... 6 weeks for a poorly timed tackle.

Te'o... 1 week for beating his mrs to a pulp. Not only that, but he gets to play Origin.

Yep, fair punishments dished out every time!

[Guest]

I sense a fear of what he might do to us when we play them next hahaha

[Guest]

2 weeks and $10k

[davos]

JWH... 6 weeks for a poorly timed tackle.

Te'o... 1 week for beating his mrs to a pulp. Not only that, but he gets to play Origin.

Yep, fair punishments dished out every time!

He didn't beat his mrs. He doesn't know the chick and nothing has been proven yet. He still has a court case to go to, and for all we know the allegations against him may be false. Most of the evidence shown to the public through comments made by people who were there that night demonstrate this.