Ian ConstantinePull your head in
August 18th 2006 10:44
The reason these guys get up to so much mischief off the field is because they can. They are treated like royalty when they hit the town and literally have women, drugs and alcohol at their disposal. No one can honestly say they wouldn't love this lifestyle. If you were to earn such a massive disposable income, have so much spare time on your hands and hold celebrity status everyone would behave like our stars and who blames them? What they do off the field is their business, not the public's. Why wouldn't you go out and sleep with beautiful women and consume all the unlimited alcohol that's available to you? The problem is that the minority are just plain stupid.
Shane Warne - good on him for living the high life. If I were the poster boy for our national sport I'd probably be 10 times worse than him given the opportunity, but he's just plain dumb. Scandal after scandal, there has to be a point where he understands this. Just stop with the text messages and booty calls Warnie! It's probably cost you the captaincy.
Tim Smith - Parramatta Eels half turns up to training drunk. Stupid, this is just bad PR.
Wendell Sailor - Another case of just too many drunken fights. The odd fight is forgiveable but come on, once you're sent home from a Wallabies tour you have to make some big lifestyle changes.
Michael Gardiner - West Coast ruckman who, after being dropped by the Eagles for off field incidents including drug abuse, finally worked his way back in to the top side only to crash his car into a roundabout while drunk. Will now spend the rest of the season in the WAFL because he's just stupid. Was also connected to an underground murder in a Perth nightclub.
Chris Judd wrote a great article on the West Coast website on this issue last year, and while I agree that professional sportsmen should be juded only on their on field activities, it is their stupidity that continues to land them in hot water week after week after week. You can't blame them for some of their behaviour, it happens to the best and the worst of us often enough but all I'm saying is that there needs to be a point where they pull their heads in line.
Cheers
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Comment by Perth Boy
Just because a player is at a bar doesn't mean they're drunk. Unless they do something really stupid, like run from a booze bus or crash a car while drunk, I really think players should be left alone.
Comment by NickL
GO WEST COAST!