The whole Joel Monaghan incident has made me, and no doubt countless of other parents of young footy players really, really angry.
I have a young son who loves his league. He and his ilk hold their sports stars up as people they admire. But as moral guardians? Ha. Never a chance.
If Monaghan and his posse are the types of brainless, morally bankrupt fools who continue to infiltrate the game and think their antics can be forgiven and forgotten, then it ain't no place for rugby league's junior players.
Sure, we'll get everyone saying 'but they're not all like that'.
Of course. We know that. But the stats aren't looking good.
Drug use, alcohol-fuelled benders, the appalling treatment of women and gambling addictions have been well documented in the wide world of rugby league (yes, and in many other spheres of public life I might add) but the incidence of each seem remarkably high when compared to the amount of professional league players in the country.
Adding to the above list of appalling behaviour is a superb new low - bestiality - and admitted to by the Canberra Raiders player.
'Let's get pissed and get a dog to suck my dick'.
Sounds pretty hideous on paper, doesn't it? But that is what looks to have happened, seemingly not long before he and and the dog were photographed and posted on Twitter, for all the world to see.
The fact is, men behaving like this seem to have absolutely no idea about what constitutes common decency. Or respect. For themselves. Or for anyone else.
Because they earn big bucks and get showered with praise by adorning fans and sycophantic managers they reckon their moral compasses can spin out of control.
So forget any "social media expert" coming out saying footy players need to hone their social media skills so something like this won't happen again.
The fact is the player stuffed up. Big time.
The dog-act is no laughing matter at all.
The only joke is the pathetic guy and his rabble who thought it as a great idea to it.
Now, if only the dog had used his fangs . . . .
4 comments:
Well Said Mel....
Hope your boy continues to enjoy his Footy and admire the players that do it for the 'love of the game' and not for the fame, fortune let alone idiotic acts of foolishness it has been known for over the last few years....
Well Said Mel....
KAGE
Agree...just when you think league players cannot sink any lower...
I really think you're looking in the wrong places for role models. I'd say a lot of those players need role models more than the kids that aspire to play like them.
Seriously, looking to adolescents and 20-somethings whose best career option is to play rugby league as role models?!
Rugby league presents this amazing opportunity to young men from poorer backgrounds to change their fortune. Has anyone done an analysis of the socio-economic demographic from which 99% of all rugby league players are drawn? Has anyone looked at the opportunities they have as alternatives to a career in rugby league? Add in the educational profile of rugby league players and it's not a demographic you would normally turn to when seeking out heroes and saints.
Besides the fact (and more importantly) that heroes and saints should be discovered because of their heroism and saintliness, not because they can pass a ball (or act in a soap, or race cars, or have been on the cover of a magazine).
This situation seems to me like the perfect opportunity for parents to teach their children the difference between people whose actions that communicate true character and people whose notable quality is celebrity.
And don't you think that calling this juvenile photo-prank bestiality is stretching the definition somewhat?
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