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http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24124318-5006301,00.html


here we go again........

Not again . Gee if I was on $150, 000 a year I would be getting a taxi, infact the clubs supply cabcharge vouchers. Wait and see what CFC have to say about this one, much more disturbing when it is a senior(albeit 22) player.

Clubs are going to have to put paid minders on staff soon

They'll go out with the lads, stay sober and get them home

He's very lucky he didn't hurt himself more or hurt anyone else.

What is with footballers getting pi55ed and driving.

Hope the Adelaide media go as softly as they did on Scotty Thompson

Makes Fev look look like a saint....

Idiot.

You would think they would have learnt from it since "Darren Milane".

Collingwood football club

Just makes a joke they are/were sponsered by the VIC governments drink driving campaign.....

Must have been celebrating cos he finally got some touches on Friday night.
What better way to celebrate than to plough into some parked cars.
Wanker.

This is not a Collingwood issue, it's a football issue. When are players going to realise they are high profile people and expected to behave themselves in public, more so than your average citizen? To some it may be unfair, but that's the way it is. There's no excaping that fact.

If I were President of an AFL club, I'd be co-opting a chauffer service for free sponsorship of the club to look after these brain dead footballers who insist upon breaking club rules.

The lack of discipline from some footballers in a so-called professional sport never ceases to amaze me.

If I do have a complaint against Collingwood, it's their announcement that it was a "minor car accident", sending the message to the public that it was just bad luck it happened. Not good enough Collingwood.

Adelaide Hawk wrote:This is not a Collingwood issue, it's a football issue. When are players going to realise they are high profile people and expected to behave themselves in public, more so than your average citizen? To some it may be unfair, but that's the way it is. There's no excaping that fact.

If I were President of an AFL club, I'd be co-opting a chauffer service for free sponsorship of the club to look after these brain dead footballers who insist upon breaking club rules.

The lack of discipline from some footballers in a so-called professional sport never ceases to amaze me.

Well said AH.

The government has been speculating about re-introducing "drunk tanks" and using the existing public drunkenness laws to take the disorderly off the streets. About time!

Is this a cultural thing?

It seems it happens more at some clubs than others...

Dutchy wrote:Is this a cultural thing?

It seems it happens more at some clubs than others...

I think so. You get enough drunks together they gang up on those who don't conform to their norm and call them wowsers etc.

The other issue here is Heath Shaw's sister was nearly killed in a car accident some time ago, so how stupid is the guy? If anyone should realise how dangerous and irresponsible it is, it should be him.

hondo71 wrote:Clubs are going to have to put paid minders on staff soon
They'll go out with the lads, stay sober and get them home
He's very lucky he didn't hurt himself more or hurt anyone else.

It may be simpler and cheaper, and better for the community at large, to just keep them in their cages between matches.

sack the tosser I say...

Any ideas on the pending punishment???

silicone skyline wrote:Any ideas on the pending punishment???

Isn't playing for Collingwood punishment enough

Not if you're getting $150,000 to go it.

Now I understand why Eddie was so upset at the press conference. It wasn't Heath Shaw he was having a go at, it was the "passenger" in the car. Heath Shaw claimed he had rung Alan Didak to come and help him, but eye-witnesses claim that Didak was in fact in the car.

In view of earlier misdemeanours. and statements made by the Collingwood Football Club about that player. Eddie may have no choice but to sack him or attempt to trade him, but his trade value would be diminished markedly now people know what happened.

Will it really AH? Baggage don't matter when you're a star.