Rugby League in crisis

[Terry]

The definition of obsessive: A fumbleball zealot trawling through Rugby League media minutiae to find anything mildly negative to post on this simple little site. Get a life pal.

[leagueiscrap]

well this thread has been given a wide birth by the league loonies

[leagueiscrap]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/n ... bba3f13662

The NRL’s highest-profile player, Gold Coast’s Jarryd Hayne, has been caught on video appearing to hand a $5000 wad of cash to a man understood to be an “enforcer” with the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang.

Just 24 hours after the Titans were bundled out of the finals series by Brisbane, Hayne was caught on camera apparently joy-riding around the Gold Coast’s nightclub precinct with alleged bikie and former Titans junior Chris Bloomfield.

Bloomfield’s name shot to prominence during the Titans’ horror start to the 2015 season, having been arrested the previous May on extortion charges police believe related directly to a series of unpaid drug debts.

His continued association with contracted players at the club was flagged as a concern by chief executive Graham Annesley at the time, but it became lost amid the various dramas that emerged as part of the cocaine scandal that engulfed the three main football codes in southeast Queensland early last year.

In the video, obtained by The Daily Telegraph, Bloomfield appears to receive a huge pile of cash from Hayne before turning and looking directly at the camera and saying: “Haynsey just gave me five grand.”

Hayne, who signed a 2½-year contract worth $2.4m with the Titans in August, is then heard to respond in a somewhat cryptic manner. “Cash money fam,” Hayne says with a shrug of his shoulder. “Cash money … Give me a f- ­cigarette.”

It is believed the video was sent from Bloomfield’s Snapchat account to friends.

Hayne’s manager and friend Wayne Beavis said today that the star didn’t realise Bloomfield was a Hells Angels bikie and simply bumped into the alleged standover man at a party.

“I’ve spoken to Jarryd and he said ‘it was just beers with the boys’,” he told the Daily Telegraph today. “The money’s not his, he would ever be walking around with five grand in his pocket.

“He says he doesn’t even know the bloke.They aren’t even mates.He just happened to be there.”

Jarryd Hayne on Snapchat with Chris Bloomfield. Picture: Snapchat
Jarryd Hayne on Snapchat with Chris Bloomfield. Picture: Snapchat
News Corp publications reported last night that Hayne, 28, had been issued with a warning by the NRL Integrity Unit about associating with alleged criminals.

NRL sources reportedly confirmed Hayne has been previously warned by the Integrity Unit about associating with known and accused criminals. Bloomfield is facing extortion charges at Southport Magistrate Court and said to be a Hells Angels bikie according to detectives from Queensland’s Taskforce Maxima.

The images come after the NRL has repeatedly warned players this year not to consort with bikies and known and accused criminals.

The Titans said in a statement last night they had been made aware of the existence of the video. “We are liaising with the (NRL) Integrity Unit and the players over the matter and have no further comment until those discussions are complete,” the statement said

[leagueiscrap]

not quite as embarrassing the NRLOL as the other player tried to rot a dog and was caught on film! but good old hayne & the titans hanging out & exchanging bags of cash with the bikes

[AFLcrap1]

Lol same shit different thread .
Remember last time you posted about RL players hanging out with crims

You ignored when I posted when aflplayers did the same
What a hypocritical tool

[Fred]

Whethee AFL has or has not done the same is irrelevant. It in no way distracts what has been reported in the media today and is a major concern. The talk on the papers, tv, and radio is ... here we go again... and discussing how many scandals can rl handle. No where do they say "well the AFL have similar things happen ".

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
Fuck off
If you're going to point the finger at Rl for whatever
Then expect to have the same shit in AFL highlighted

[leagueiscrap]

Lol same shit different thread .
Remember last time you posted about RL players hanging out with crims

You ignored when I posted when aflplayers did the same
What a hypocritical tool

lol your a fucken hypocrite spazza!
yeah i do you plost like one incident to the NRLOLs 5 and its the AFL still has the problem in your eyes
swan is at a dinner that has a bikie there & you accuse the AFL has a problem with its players associating with criminals and bikes

hayne is at party with bikes and exchanging bags of cash

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
Do you ever get anything right .

Swan was with Mick Gatto & other gangland figures .

What about Didak .

Out with people shooting

[AFLcrap1]

Just for you dingbat
Not bikies


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Collingwood footballer Dane Swan was the star attraction at a $200-a-head dinner promoted and attended by underworld boss Mick Gatto and other gangland figures and held this week at a pizza restaurant owned by Gatto's brother.

The event on Tuesday earned Gatto's associates and Swan several thousand dollars and was attended by several other members of Gatto's ''Carlton Crew'', including fellow convicted criminal Angelo "Fat Ange" Venditti.

[Fred]

Lol
Fuck off
If you're going to point the finger at Rl for whatever
Then expect to have the same shit in AFL highlighted

Why? I follow both but am clearly more of an AFL fan. But many nrl commentators are talking about the apparent ongoing issues that just seem to keep happening. And no reference to AFL whatsoever for the most part.

[docker24]

let me just sum up this thread "Rugby league in crisis" by saying the following:

Nothing new.

[leagueiscrap]

Lol
Do you ever get anything right .

Swan was with Mick Gatto & other gangland figures .

What about Didak .

Out with people shooting

Was Didak charged with anything spazza?
Plenty of ex and current nrlol players up on chargers do we need to go through them like you?

Swan was at a charity dinner, hayne was at a party exchanging a bag of cash. Big difference loon!

[AFLcrap1]

Lol
Do you ever get anything right .

Swan was with Mick Gatto & other gangland figures .

What about Didak .

Out with people shooting

Was Didak charged with anything spazza?
Plenty of ex and current nrlol players up on chargers do we need to go through them like you?

Swan was at a charity dinner, hayne was at a party exchanging a bag of cash. Big difference loon!

Bhaaa
You just shot yourself n the foot again


You brought Hayne into this thread

What was he charged with?

I'll wait

[Fred]

I think it is common commentary by many nrl people that the nrl has had a lot of issues this year. Seems to be one after another with me hearing others say on radio and other media... how much more can the nrl take and how the head honchos must be pulling their hair out. Bot once have i heard "well the AFL had issues too" or "the AFL had an issue several years ago with didak and a couple of years ago with swan". So i think it is a reasonable point to put up. By the way, a more recent example may be dustin fletcher or was it jake king? Not sure anyway but I am sure you will research this on google lol.

So out of interest, how many instances this year has there been in the AFL that would be seen as possibly a scandal? Lauchlin Whitfeild ? Inmediately comes to mind but can't think of much else (which may be more a comment on my memory). Whereas in nrl there appears to be a few. Match fixing allegations, the hayne stuff of course, that foran? guy.