North Queensland’s NRL finals preparations have been thrown into disarray after five players were reportedly charged with two counts of wilful damage for egging cars.
The group, which is believed to include two under-20s players, were stopped by police for a random breath test before midnight on Wednesday when an unknown person accused them of throwing eggs.
The group included one international player and another starter, according to News Corp Australia.
It’s claimed that earlier in the evening the men – aged 18, 21, 22, 23 and 25 – threw eggs and damaged five vehicles, before driving off.
“It will further be alleged a number of eggs and egg cartons were located in the vehicle,” Queensland Police said in a statement on Thursday.
The players have been charged with two counts each of wilful damage and are due to appear in court on October 11.
bigJ
Guest
Sorry my bad, It was a long day yesterday
Bugo
Guest
Eggsactly.
Bugo
Guest
Eggcelent.
planko
Guest
Yes they can... If Yoke is left to dry on a car they may need a respray
The Barry
Roar Guru
"They said" I've just read 10 reports and none of them mentioned a smashed windscreen. Social media in overdrive. By tomorrow morning they will have carjacked the vehicle from a little old lady and taken it on a cannonball run cross country joyride...
The Barry
Roar Guru
I'm just in the "who really cares" brigade. I'm amazed at the massive over reaction at blokes pegging a few eggs. Is this how serious the worlds gotten? They have to be sacked, stood down, fined, whatever. And before anyone asks no, I wouldn't like it happening to me but I wouldn't carry on like a good sort if it did either.
The Barry
Roar Guru
Hopefully they write it properly. How do you make an omelette without breaking the eggs b-jay?
Sleiman Azizi
Roar Guru
I agree. They can vote, fight for the country, pay taxes, marry, raise children... so why are they just 'kids being kids'? The justification factory for the 'boys in the village' is working overtime, as usual.
Rob
Guest
WINDSCREEN SMASHED. WTF. This is a setup. Those boys couldn't boil an egg it would flip them out man.
JoM
Guest
Well they already said one car had the windscreen smashed. We had someone come into our street through the night a few months ago and went up and down egging cars that were in the driveways and nobody knew until the next morning. Every single one had clear or paint damage.
The Barry
Roar Guru
I just assumed they were throwing chicken eggs, not fossilised dinosaur eggs...
Bigj
Guest
You can make an omelet without breaking a few eggs ha ha. Nah seriously this idiots deserve the biggest kick in the @rse possible. They want to act like chikdren fine, make them write out " I will not eggs cars" 1000 times.
JoM
Guest
Unless you own one of the cars and had the paint stripped off it or the windscreen smashed.
Benedict Arnold
Roar Rookie
I agree, george did go full retard... the only sympathy I can give is that he was intoxicated. So, as bad as that was, his decision making was clouded. On the other hand, by all reports, these blokes were sober and were dumb enough to act like a bunch of merkins. Makes me wonder sometimes what goes the the head of footballers?
The Barry
Roar Guru
...wouldn't be for long...
jamesb
Guest
I think one of those players nicknames is The Walrus. He normally boasts to his mates with: "I'm the eggman they are the eggmen I am the Walrus goo goo g' joob".
MAX
Guest
Stop it Jason, or you'll be fried for poaching.
The Barry
Roar Guru
Admittedly big George hulked out and ripped a street sign out of the footpath and was smashing car windows with it... ...but after hearing the damage eggs can do to paintjobs, I agree JT3 needs to be rubbed out for a month.
Kingcowboy
Guest
Thank God you are not running an NRL club then
The Barry
Roar Guru
Definitely. Four weeks sounds about right...