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There were never any rules against Gregan taking caffeine pills and he was never penalised for it.
'He'd been flogged to death': Rebels GM's scathing Tupou claim as Wallaby battles to reignite his fire
2016 isn’t exactly relevant to anything though is it? It was 8 years ago and he was 19.
If he was playing 58 minutes as a tight head prop back then, that’s an amazing testimony to his physicality cal ability.
'He'd been flogged to death': Rebels GM's scathing Tupou claim as Wallaby battles to reignite his fire
Untrue.
If he says it in parliament, he can’t be sued.
If he says it outside parliament, he gets sued, wins but still has to waste time and money in court.
Albanese asked to intervene as former Dees doctor drops bombshell over players dodging drug tests
When a playmaker gets taken down by a ‘hit’, how often do they actually get taken down with the ball as opposed to taken after they have passed or kicked?
Probably a 30-70 split.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
Players from the 70s, 80s and 90s:
1. are personally experiencing the effects of CTE; or
2. have seen the effects on their friends; and/or
3. are far enough removed from their own glory days that they are now thinking about the welfare of their own kids and grandkids.
Game’s gone soft, huh? League's tough enough without dangerous incidents getting feather touch from judiciary
He did include them – they are listed right in amongst every other statistic.
The Dean Jones example that Australian selectors must avoid in regenerating ageing Test squad
The point is that the selectors don’t look at a player’s average. They consider what runs a player is likely to contribute each innings. No middle order batsman gets selected because there is a 1/15 chance he might score a century. He has to be making solid reliable contributions. And Jones wasn’t.
The Dean Jones example that Australian selectors must avoid in regenerating ageing Test squad
Because they were both very big and obvious outliers. But even if they are included, he still averaged only 19.
The Dean Jones example that Australian selectors must avoid in regenerating ageing Test squad
He had also gotten lucky a lot of times that previous season by knocking/hitting catches that were dropped. His figures were misleading.
The Dean Jones example that Australian selectors must avoid in regenerating ageing Test squad
It’s weird how some people are pretending that the Adam Goodes saga hasn’t been a regular part of the news cycle every year since it happened.
No excuse for Leniu being ignorant of the impact of his words - eight-week ban sends strong message against racism
You quoted the first sentence.
The second sentence: Using quantitative data and statistical me- thods, political scientists are not so sure.
And it concludes: – whether public opinion “influences” the Court, as the subtitle of Professor Friedman’s book asserts – we cannot say.
In any case, that article relates to the United States Supreme Court, which is notorious for being politicised and is part of a national judicial culture heavily influenced judges and other legal officers being elected and therefor required to court public opinion to keep their jobs. It doesn’t apply to Australia.
Secondly, the article is about broad long term trends in public sentiment and judicial careers. Not individual decisions based on events of a week.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam
A Supreme Court justice is pretty unlikely to trash their own professional legacy by being seen to be influenced by the public commentary in a matter like this.
Former judges want to get arbitration gigs worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions in fees. Caving to public pressure on a football tribunal matter would put that in jeopardy.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam
Slurs are punished because they are offensive and discriminatory to the individual they are directed at and generally to the demographic they refer to.
Montoya’s slur wasn’t particularly offensive to Feldt because Feldt is heterosexual and would have brushed it off. It was still offensive to the LGBTIQ community though.
Leniu’s slur to Mam was worse because it was directly offensive to Mam because he is a member of the demographic to whom the slur applies. Mam could naturally be expected to suffer more from the slur than Feldt.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam
Montoya also apologised very soon after the incident, and the apology was unreserved and clearly genuine.
Leniu by contrast continued to abuse opposition players in the hotel after the incident, took a week to admit his guilt and offered a mealy mouthed non-apology. And then told bald faced lies to the judiciary pretending not to know that ‘monkey’ was a racial slur and not knowing who Adam Goodes was.
'I am really sorry': Leniu cops HUGE ban as NRL judiciary hands down verdict for ‘monkey’ racial abuse at Mam
Montoya would have got 6 weeks but it was reduced to 4 because he immediately admitted to making the slur and provided a fulsome and comprehensive apology to Kyle Feldt and for using the word at all.
Leniu’s post slur conduct has been terrible.
Fittler wants players who've criticised Leniu to face sanctions for influencing judiciary, Gallen slams 'hysteria'
Quintupling down.
Could we just also focus for a second on the vague allegation about an unidentified bronco saying some sort of unspecified offensive comment to Leniu that caused him to slur Mam. Apparently Leniu hasn’t made a complaint because he refuses to be a snitch.
What B-S.
He’s trying to claim some sort of moral high ground, but doesn’t have the courage to make the complaint formally, or even for it to be directly attributed to him. He’s an utter coward.
And the fact that the Roosters are going along with this (Robinson’s gaslighting, the leaking to Rothfield of what turned out to be a false account of the hotel incident and Fittler’s commentary) is a terrible reflection on the culture of the club.
Fittler wants players who've criticised Leniu to face sanctions for influencing judiciary, Gallen slams 'hysteria'
Not hard to see why indigenous players didn’t want to play for the blues with Fittler as coach.
Fittler wants players who've criticised Leniu to face sanctions for influencing judiciary, Gallen slams 'hysteria'
Monkey is a pretty common general insult to people who don’t have coloured skin. It’s certainly plausible that Leniu didn’t mean it as a racial slur. But he should have realised that it would be interpreted that way by Mam (and everyone else) and it is still worth a ban for that reason.
NRL News: Leniu pleads guilty to monkey racial slur, apologises to Mam - 'I said the word but I didn't mean it in a racist way'
I’ve acted as a lawyer in similar cases.
This case is different than most cases because the accused party, the complainant and the witnesses were in basically the opposite timezone to the judiciary, their employers and any legal representation Leniu could reasonably expect to want to have representing him. The delay is totally fair and reasonable for all parties.
NRL News: Vegas TV ratings barely a blip on US radar, Leniu tightlipped over racism row, Brimson not stoked about switch
Think of it as a workplace dispute where an employee potentially loses $50-$100k of their salary (not sure what Leniu getting paid but missing a third of the season is going to cost a lot).
Any reasonable employer is going to take a week to make sure the case against him is reasonable. And any fair employer is going to allow him a week to get his defence together.
NRL News: Vegas TV ratings barely a blip on US radar, Leniu tightlipped over racism row, Brimson not stoked about switch
but this one put together the squad that was 25 minutes away from a premiership in 2023.
4 minutes away from a premiership. Panthers evened the score to n the 76th minute and pulled ahead by making the conversion in the 78th minute.
You have to lose a GF to win one but salary cap squeeze means Broncos simply don't have the cattle to go all the way
Meh.
If Reynolds isn’t limping or hobbling, is he even playing?
Reynolds limps out of pre-season training as Warriors deliver prognosis on Johnson's Round 1 prospects
That’s instantly disprovable by the fact that they remained a complete basket case when he wasn’t there. I’m not any fan of his, but there is absolutely nothing linking him to anything untoward at the club in recent times, and this is the first time I’ve heard any suggestion of such.
Tigers fire Fulton as Richo strengthens Benji's position with major recruitment move
I can’t see Farrah leaking against Sheens and Marshall.
Tigers fire Fulton as Richo strengthens Benji's position with major recruitment move
In rugby they often used to lift to accept kick offs too. Don’t see it as much in recent years.
Rugby is a lot more strict on interfering with a player who is off the ground than league is though, and lifting another player is a core skill for nearly half the team, so it’s more viable in that code.
NRL News: Bellamy fires back at nasty NAS rumours, Slater slams Dragons' double standards, Brooks' advice for Galvin