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While the greatest game of all is getting great raps and exposure over in the UK throughout the Rugby League World Cup, some of our young talents, thinking their behaviour will be swept under the rug, are getting themselves unnecessary exposure at home.
The NRL, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Canterbury Bulldogs and the NRL’s integrity unit are investigating and incident that happened last weekend which involved Rabbitohs rookie of the year Dylan Walker and Bulldogs-bound Tyrone Phillips.
After both were allegedly involved in a violent brawl that left three men battered in hospital. A South Sydney spokesman confirmed that the club had forwarded details to the NRL.
“We’re aware of an incident at a venue that (Walker) was at,” the spokesman said. “He’s told us he wasn’t involved.
We’ve reported it to the NRL Integrity Unit.”
Bulldogs chief executive Raelene Castle confirmed she had spoken with Phillips, and that she had been in contact with the Integrity Unit.
“We are aware that there’s been an incident, and we’re in communication with the Integrity Unit,” Castle said. “We’re awaiting the outcome from the police investigation.”
Two of the three men suffered serious head and abdominal injuries.
Even if the police investigation and the NRL’s investigation comes back in favour of these two boys, why do they feel the need to out themselves in a situation like this anyway?
This season was one filled with continue off field controversy, from Blake Ferguson, to Ben Te’o, to George Burgess, to Josh Dugan, and now these two.
The formula seems consistent with all of them – Alcohol + Stupidity + Big Ego + other surrounding idiots = problems.
As a rugby league supporter, there comes a time where you just get sick and tired of this.
There is something that the NRL must do, inject more education, place a security team at each club to escort players out, get a check off system that enables all clubs to know when and where there players are.
It may sound like an extreme measure, but surely the NRL and the 16 of its clubs are partly responsible in looking after their own.
Especially so for the younger boys. Men take forever to hit maturity anyways, so to be have a big ego, be immature and drunk is an absolute recipe for disaster.
As a Rabbitohs supporter, I hope both boys have nothing to answer for, but its disappointing to see more negative violent, and anti social behaviour be connected to our RL boys.
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