Manly stars in trouble...

[brod]

Manly's NRL title defence lies in ruin a week out from the start of the premiership after stars Brett Stewart and Anthony Watmough came under police investigation following separate incidents.

Stewart, who officially launched the 2009 premiership this week and is the face of the NRL's promotional blitz, has been quizzed by police over an alleged sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl on Friday night.

Watmough allegedly slapped a sponsor following the club's season launch at Manly Wharf on Friday

http://sportal.com.au/League-news-displ ... tars-66253

[The Jack]

I see he's been charged now...

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 14,00.html

Lucky I didn't put him in my fantasy team!

[Deemu]

Just exactly who do rugby players think they are? Disgrace after disgrace..... Meatheads.

[Pup]

The club originally allowed to him to play this weekend but the League has stepped in and fined Manly and also suspended Stuart.

Probably the right call by Gallop, reminds me very much of the pressure on WCE by the AFL regarding the Ben Cousins saga.

[magpie in the 80's]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

[Wedgie]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

Sounds like the Raiders did the right thing in giving him the arse, shame as so much talent but sounds like a complete twat.

[magpie in the 80's]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

Sounds like the Raiders did the right thing in giving him the arse, shame as so much talent but sounds like a complete twat.

wedge he refused to accept a no grog policy for season 2009 so they told him to F.O. since then he has been to court 3 times on 3 different occassions all for being drunk and a nuisence. And to think he's going to work as a barman outside of game time and training. just a matter of time before he f..cks up. might never play NRL again

[heater31]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

Sounds like the Raiders did the right thing in giving him the arse, shame as so much talent but sounds like a complete twat.

wedge he refused to accept a no grog policy for season 2009 so they told him to F.O. since then he has been to court 3 times on 3 different occassions all for being drunk and a nuisence. And to think he's going to work as a barman outside of game time and training. just a matter of time before he f..cks up. might never play NRL again

you never know he just might learn his lesson when he is the one who is sober and sees these drunk idiots in full flight. Think he would pull his head in quick smart

[magpie in the 80's]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

Sounds like the Raiders did the right thing in giving him the arse, shame as so much talent but sounds like a complete twat.

wedge he refused to accept a no grog policy for season 2009 so they told him to F.O. since then he has been to court 3 times on 3 different occassions all for being drunk and a nuisence. And to think he's going to work as a barman outside of game time and training. just a matter of time before he f..cks up. might never play NRL again

you never know he just might learn his lesson when he is the one who is sober and sees these drunk idiots in full flight. Think he would pull his head in quick smart

Nah i'd think he would join in

[The Big Shrek]

Aren't we all good at throwing stones. If I or pretty much any of my mates had behaved the same way we do, but played professional sport we probably would be in court just as much. I daresay many posters on here are the same.

You'd struggle to find any amateur sporting club without such behaviour.

[Jimmy_041]

Manly have accepted the ban on stewart however the players association have now stuck thier noses in and are unhappy. more to come on this.

on other news Todd Carney has been given a 12 month suspended bond for yet another incident in his home town of Goulburn. this time for jumping on car bonnets with a mate in a drunken state. Part of the suspension is he is not to turn up in Goulburn in the next 12 months.

Suppose to be re-starting his career in Atherton in a Nth.Queensland League this week and guess what part of his package involves. he is to be a BARMAN in the towns pub

Sounds like the Raiders did the right thing in giving him the arse, shame as so much talent but sounds like a complete twat.

wedge he refused to accept a no grog policy for season 2009 so they told him to F.O. since then he has been to court 3 times on 3 different occassions all for being drunk and a nuisence. And to think he's going to work as a barman outside of game time and training. just a matter of time before he f..cks up. might never play NRL again

you never know he just might learn his lesson when he is the one who is sober and sees these drunk idiots in full flight. Think he would pull his head in quick smart

I never learnt Heater - always regretted in the morning, but never learnt. Hence, Mrs Jimmy calling me Peter Pan

[Jimmy_041]

Difference is that I'm not getting paid $500,000 pa to be a role model, then again.............maybe another lesson...........

[Il Duce]

Rugby League is successfully going about destroying it self. Soon all our league players will be in either Super League or Union. Which parent will want the child to be asscoiated with league when the pro's behave the way they do, then again which person wants to be associated with league for the same reasons. It's sad really because the nrl players have showen how to ruin a good thing?

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

I've read that AFL player's 'Code of Conduct towards women' multiple choice questionaire & it's one of the funniest things I've ever read!

[The Big Shrek]

Difference is that I'm not getting paid $500,000 pa to be a role model, then again.............maybe another lesson...........

I thought they were getting paid to play football.

[Jimmy_041]

Difference is that I'm not getting paid $500,000 pa to be a role model, then again.............maybe another lesson...........

I thought they were getting paid to play football.

and attend league, supporters and sponsors functions

and be part of the NRL ads

and play for NSW/Qld and Australia

and be the face of NRL

We get paid to play at our level - bit different up their end of the scale

[Magpiespower]

Carney is a headcase.

He's been banned from his home town, Goulburn.

Local police gave him two options - leave town.

Or go to jail.

Difference is that I'm not getting paid $500,000 pa to be a role model, then again.............maybe another lesson...........

I thought they were getting paid to play football.

Apaprently that absolves them from everything...

[Jimmy_041]

How about this wanker

Player's drunken 'princess' gibe sparked row

March 12, 2009 12:00am

SARAH Durazza reluctantly joined Manly's season launch as a guest of her proud dad - club sponsor and lifelong Sea Eagles fan landscaper Paul Durazza.

The 21-year-old model doesn't even follow football. However she found herself having a pleasant evening last Friday sitting at an outside table at Manly's Wharf Hotel with team captain Matt Orford and Brett Stewart.

Then a drunken Anthony Watmough walked up.

"Is that your daughter?" the Manly forward asked Mr Durazza.

"Well, I feel sorry for you."

Ms Durazza, who combines her swimsuit modelling with being a beautician and spokeswoman for the Parramatta Mission, told friends that the insults got even worse.

"Then he called her a 'typical princess' and started drilling into her. He called her a slut," a friend of Ms Durazza told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

"Sarah was pretty shaken by the whole thing as you can imagine."

However, in the melee that followed Mr Durazza ended up in a physical fight with the burly back-rower, with Watmough alleged to have thrown a punch and the police called in.

It was the start of the pre-season nightmare for the world champion club with Stewart charged with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl after an alleged incident later that night.

Yesterday police announced that their investigation into the alleged assault by Watmough had ended with no charges being laid after Mr Durazza told them he did not wish to pursue the matter.

Mr Durazza and Manly CEO Grant Mayer have resolved any differences.

"I have spoken to the CEO and have had a lengthy conversation with him and he's given me some guarantees about certain things," Mr Durazza said.

The Mona Vale businessman said he was happy to continue as a sponsor and wanted his daughter left out of it. "We have sorted it all out and Sarah's fine," he said.

However the friend said Ms Durazza had not wanted Watmough to get away with his behaviour. "He was a pig," the friend said.

Ms Durazza has become a familiar face on Sydney's social scene with invitations to events including the opening of The Ivy Pool. She was also a finalist in Miss Snow Bunny 2006, Miss NSW 2008 and the winner of Miss Freshwater 2006.

Watmough yesterday refused to comment on the matter, only saying: "Police cleared me of any wrongdoing today."

Didn't clear you of being a dickhead though mate

and the girl - she is a f$%^&&* princess:

[Jimmy_041]

Carney is a headcase.

He's been banned from his home town, Goulburn.

Local police gave him two options - leave town.

Or go to jail.

Difference is that I'm not getting paid $500,000 pa to be a role model, then again.............maybe another lesson...........

I thought they were getting paid to play football.

Apaprently that absolves them from everything...

Graham Cornes would argue that point with you mp

[Il Duce]

Fox sport news have said that Brett Stewart has passed a dna test, Meaning its not his