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We all know players are paid to play football. However they are also paid to represent their club, the game, sponsors, members, fans and themselves in a responsible manner.
Whether it’s in the community, in the public eye, at a local pub, or on social media you are required to act in a way that is morally accepted.
Unfortunately, there lurks a minute number that wrecks it for everyone else.
For me, the latest incident involving Todd Carney is hard to fathom. I cannot understand that a player with his past and profile would put himself in that situation in the current climate.
With the pressure footballers are put under to perform at a consistent level week in, week out and with such high demand on clubs and players to succeed, it just makes you wonder why players expose themselves to situations where huge ramifications can follow.
There is so much at stake and unfortunately incidents like this just damage the player’s brand, the club’s brand and the game itself.
Rugby league does so much to provide the players with the best education and welfare possible, but in the end you, the player, are solely responsible for your own actions.
I’m not one to say you can’t have a beer or use social media, but you must realise the role you as a rugby league player have in society.
Whether it was a set-up or a joke between mates, you have to ask yourself how do you, as a human being, accept the action in the picture as socially responsible?
Social media has been the downfall for many players and the quicker they learn to understand its power and what damage it can do, the better. Social media can be a powerful tool, in either a positive or negative manner.
We should be reporting and talking about the greatest comeback in the Sharks’ history last Friday night, but once again it is overshadowed by an off-field incident that has cost a player his career at the Sharks and possibly in the NRL.
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