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NRL player Willie Mason caught urinating in public
THE reputation of Australian football was further damaged yesterday with Sydney Roosters and former Australian footballer Willie Mason caught urinating in public amid revelations an amateur Aussie rules club hired a stripper "to gee-up players" before a game.
As the NRL struggled to contain the fallout from last week's group sex scandal involving Matthew Johns and the 2002 Cronulla Sharks, Mason was photographed urinating outside a pub in Sydney's upper-crust eastern suburb of Double Bay on Saturday night.
It is understood Mason had been drinking at the trendy Golden Sheaf Hotel after his side's 38-6 loss to Newcastle at the Sydney Football Stadium.
Last night, Mason confirmed he urinated against a wall. He will today front a meeting with officials at Roosters headquarters to explain his actions.
Washtub "We will sit down and talk to Willie and get all the information," Roosters chief executive Steve Noyce said last night. "We will check our discipline code and then make a decision.
"But it is obviously disappointing. It was a silly thing for him to do. I know Willie is disappointed by his actions."
The Roosters have a rotating, three-man disciplinary committee although Noyce is certain to be a member. Mason is expected to at least be fined.
"This is a reminder to everyone that, rightly or wrongly, players are under focus 24 hours a day," Noyce said. "I think we all have to lift our standards. It's not the crime of the century but the timing's bad."
NRL chief executive David Gallop will monitor the Roosters' decision today.
"I want to speak to the Roosters first," Gallop said in Sydney last night.
In Melbourne, representatives from Victorian Amateur Football Association club Prahran, in the city's inner south, have been summonsed to appear tonight before the league's integrity sub-committee to explain their sordid stunt.
The incident, which occurred before the Prahran Club XVIII night match against St Bernard's on May 1, has outraged women's lobby groups.
Prahran Club XVIII coach Craig Berger admitted a past player organised for the stripper to perform for the players about 30 minutes before the game.
Mr Berger said the unnamed past player had booked the stripper to help fire up the team before the first bounce.
"One of the past players set it up to gee-up some of the blokes who were struggling a bit, to stir them up a bit," he said.
Women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist, from the Women's Forum Australia, said it was another example of women being objectified in sport.
"Yet, we have another example of men thinking it's appropriate to do this sort of thing in the name of male bonding and getting an adrenaline rush," Ms Tankard Reist said.
Her comments were echoed yesterday by the nation's former top lawmaker, Michael Lavarch, who said Australia's sexual assault laws needed to better reflect society's morals.
Now Dean and Professor of Law at QUT, the former federal attorney-general argued there had already been significant law reform, but acknowledged attention should be given to the issue of consent following the exposure of recent group sex cases involving footballers.
NRL player Willie Mason caught urinating in public
THE reputation of Australian football was further damaged yesterday with Sydney Roosters and former Australian footballer Willie Mason caught urinating in public amid revelations an amateur Aussie rules club hired a stripper "to gee-up players" before a game.
As the NRL struggled to contain the fallout from last week's group sex scandal involving Matthew Johns and the 2002 Cronulla Sharks, Mason was photographed urinating outside a pub in Sydney's upper-crust eastern suburb of Double Bay on Saturday night.
It is understood Mason had been drinking at the trendy Golden Sheaf Hotel after his side's 38-6 loss to Newcastle at the Sydney Football Stadium.
Last night, Mason confirmed he urinated against a wall. He will today front a meeting with officials at Roosters headquarters to explain his actions.
Washtub "We will sit down and talk to Willie and get all the information," Roosters chief executive Steve Noyce said last night. "We will check our discipline code and then make a decision.
"But it is obviously disappointing. It was a silly thing for him to do. I know Willie is disappointed by his actions."
The Roosters have a rotating, three-man disciplinary committee although Noyce is certain to be a member. Mason is expected to at least be fined.
"This is a reminder to everyone that, rightly or wrongly, players are under focus 24 hours a day," Noyce said. "I think we all have to lift our standards. It's not the crime of the century but the timing's bad."
NRL chief executive David Gallop will monitor the Roosters' decision today.
"I want to speak to the Roosters first," Gallop said in Sydney last night.
In Melbourne, representatives from Victorian Amateur Football Association club Prahran, in the city's inner south, have been summonsed to appear tonight before the league's integrity sub-committee to explain their sordid stunt.
The incident, which occurred before the Prahran Club XVIII night match against St Bernard's on May 1, has outraged women's lobby groups.
Prahran Club XVIII coach Craig Berger admitted a past player organised for the stripper to perform for the players about 30 minutes before the game.
Mr Berger said the unnamed past player had booked the stripper to help fire up the team before the first bounce.
"One of the past players set it up to gee-up some of the blokes who were struggling a bit, to stir them up a bit," he said.
Women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist, from the Women's Forum Australia, said it was another example of women being objectified in sport.
"Yet, we have another example of men thinking it's appropriate to do this sort of thing in the name of male bonding and getting an adrenaline rush," Ms Tankard Reist said.
Her comments were echoed yesterday by the nation's former top lawmaker, Michael Lavarch, who said Australia's sexual assault laws needed to better reflect society's morals.
Now Dean and Professor of Law at QUT, the former federal attorney-general argued there had already been significant law reform, but acknowledged attention should be given to the issue of consent following the exposure of recent group sex cases involving footballers.
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