Posts Tagged "Matthew Johns"

ONE HD’s decision to broadcast a ‘One Week At A Time’-style NRL show is the best indication yet that Channel 10 and ONE are serious contenders for the NRL’s next television rights deal.

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Dual international Mat Rogers was “gripped by terror” as a Gold Coast boat cruise with former rugby league team-mates and friends almost ended in tragedy at the weekend.

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I’ve come to notice over the last year or so that many of the supposed best commentators in our game are, in my opinion, not doing their job. The main culprit I’m referring to is the Channel Nine rugby league commentary team.

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First, some background. I’m probably a fairly unlikely candidate to review such a program. I haven’t watched its rival The Footy Show for years and normally view ‘Family Entertainment’ in the same way I view ‘Family Restaurants’. No thanks.

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After reading David Gyngell’s comments towards NRL CEO David Gallop over the weekend, I was shocked that a representative from Channel 9 would use the loyalty card while talking about Rugby League.

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Rugby league has enjoyed a marvellous year, apart from all the stories of hotel defecating, public urinating, girlfriend glassing, mate blaming, woman bashing, gang banging, sponsor biffing, player slapping, coach punching, street fighting, binge drinking, drink driving, pill popping, sexual assault, racial abuse, stimulant use, party drugs and defections.

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NRL boss David Gallop believes sponsors will stick by the code provided the governing body is seen to be doing its best to clean up the game’s image.

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Matthew Johns’ management team wouldn’t rule out the possibility of the fallen media personality making a run at the vacant Newcastle coaching job.

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NRL chief executive David Gallop says clubs must start taking responsibility for the behaviour of players following a year of alcohol-fuelled indiscretions.

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If there’s a media outlet that’s given the Matthew Johns story a bigger run in the last week than the Daily Telegraph, I must have missed it. Front and back page, and with such prominence on their website that the layout at the top of the page changed to accommodate a much bigger photo, links [...]

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Remove the cheerleaders from sport

By Adrian Musolino, 18 May 2009

 

For all the talk of sporting codes needing to ‘change their culture’ in the wake of numerous sex scandals, there is one easy change they can make, something blatantly obvious, one of the final remnants of the sexist sporting age. The cheerleaders, grid girls, whatever you want to call them have to go.

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Just what was the situation with the Cronulla Sharks in 2002, the year the Matthew Johns group sex scandal actually happened? Well, in the lead-up to the first qualifying final against the Roosters at the SFS, Matthew Johns was not named in the side but was still a chance to play.

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AFL boss Andrew Demetriou admits his code once had a similar culture of disrespect to women to that which has been laid bare in rugby league by the Matthew Johns group sex scandal.

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Players involved in the group sex scandal involving Matthew Johns should not feel obligated to come forward, according to Preston Campbell, a member of the 2002 Cronulla NRL tour squad to New Zealand.

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The turmoil surrounding one of rugby league’s most famous surnames looked to have passed when Andrew Johns was named the halfback in rugby league’s team of the centenary last season following his much publicised Ecstasy problem.

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If you are a professional athlete, if you make a living out of being in the public eye, privacy is a word which you should strike from your vocabulary. Because if you are a professional athlete in 2009, it just doesn’t exist.

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A former work colleague of the woman at the centre of the Cronulla Sharks sex scandal involving Matthew Johns claims her co-worker bragged about the incident.

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Fear not Mums and Dads, your loyal moral protectors of the government and media are here once again to save the day. Forget global warming, financial crisis or even Peter Andre breaking up with Jordan.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for greater respect for women, backing the decision to stand down rugby league commentator Matthew Johns over a group sex scandal.

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Athletes, and in particular those within Australia who play football (whether it be League, Union or AFL), live in a world where they are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to play their chosen sport and where their actions, both on and off the field, are under a large scale microscope.

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