Talking Footy

And our brave men and women fought in these wars so that NRL thugs can do this? Disgusting!

FORMER Wests Tigers prop Todd Payten is "highly embarrassed" after pleading guilty this morning to urinating on a war memorial hours after his club were booted out of the NRL finals.

The retired front-rower this morning pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to a public act of indecency.

The court heard Payten urinated on the Hyde Park war memorial on September 18.

Wests Tigers had suffered a narrow 22-20 loss to the New Zealand Warriors at the Sydney Football Stadium just hours earlier, which resulted in them being eliminated from NRL premiership contention.

Payten announced last season that he would be unlikely to ever play again due to ongoing knee and ankle problems and said "this isn't the way I wanted it to finish. If I'm really honest with myself, I'd be hard-pressed to continue on the way it's going at the moment. I can't."

Magistrate Graeme Curran was told that Payten was so "highly embarrassed" by the circumstances of his actions that he didn't seek character references.

Magistrate Curran requested that those references be obtained, with the matter to be finalised later today.

"The incident took place on September 18, but was not revealed to the public by the National Rugby League"

This is a massive cover up. The NRL is a disgrace.

What an awful game. What awful people play this game.

hmmmm

not a good look

but if it had been an AFL player in Melbourne
it would never have even got to court

as a result of the .. ah " arrangment " the Victorian Police force have with the AFL , as has been the case in the past
the arresting officer would have been threatend with the sack if he gone on with the charge

wheres that rug ?

Sweep Sweep

Nice how you try and distract this and say the AFL would cover it up! Sounds like the NRL covered this disgusting act up prior to the NRL Grand Final. It shows the NRL has contempt for our Diggers by being quiet about this until now! When is Gallop going to apologise to our veterans and families of the war dead? It's time NRL players were taught how to use the toilets!

AFL Warrior wrote:

Nice how you try and distract this and say the AFL would cover it up! Sounds like the NRL covered this disgusting act up prior to the NRL Grand Final. It shows the NRL has contempt for our Diggers by being quiet about this until now! When is Gallop going to apologise to our veterans and families of the war dead? It's time NRL players were taught how to use the toilets!

oh , no I'm sure the NRL wouldn't have covered anything up

they aren't the AFL after all

No the NRL is not the AFL as the AFL has mega bucks and huge crowds! Huge I tell ya!

AFL Warrior wrote:

No the NRL is not the AFL as the AFL has mega bucks and huge crowds! Huge I tell ya!

& international rules
don't forget the international rules





AFL.... a joke everywhere outside of a few ***** states at the @rse end of Australia

borgidiom wrote:

"The incident took place on September 18, but was not revealed to the public by the National Rugby League"

This is a massive cover up. The NRL is a disgrace.

What an awful game. What awful people play this game.

Disgraceful code, rotten from the top down. Disgusting how the NRL clearly tried to cover this up too.

Notice how Raider always tries to deflect any negative press about the NRL back onto the AFL. Like his codes administration, pathetic.

Ship the NRL off to Iraq or Afghanistan and see how far they will get when they urinate on a mosque!

AFL Warrior wrote:

Ship the NRL off to Iraq or Afghanistan and see how far they will get when they urinate on a mosque!

oh they'd hold up just fine
for you see unlike giggleball players who think they're tough ..... NRL players actually are

Iraqi women would beat up those shielas who play singletball

Iraqi women would not lower themselves to play a swine sport like rugby league.

AFL Warrior wrote:

Iraqi women would not lower themselves to play a swine sport like rugby league.

but they'd be lining up to be suicide bombers if they were forced to watch giggleball
& who'd blame em :_<>