Rugby Tri Series

Rice's fellow Queenslander Matthew Mitcham sounds like an intelligent guy... although he does live in Sydney these days.

I see the Wallabies pretty much every week here at Coogee.

Clients are they?

Quade Cooper might be...

Henry wrote:I see the Wallabies pretty much every week here at Coogee.

I once ran into John Eales and another Queensland player in the lifts at the Coogee Holiday Inn (now the Crowne Plaza).

It was at that moment I truly realised how tall John Eales was. I looked up at him and said something like "Go easy on us tonight". Meanwhile, a woman who was also in the lift said, "You guys are so tall. Are you basketballers?"

John Eales, class act that he is, took it in his stride and said "No ma'am, we're not basketballers but can imagine how you thought that. We play Rugby".

I've met Ealsey and his lovely wife a few times through our kids' school.

Absolutely top bloke and seriously one of the best sportsmen the country has ever produced. Apparently he was a gun golfer within a year of taking it up, he was a pretty good goal kicker as well.

If he had played AFL, I reckon he would have been one of the ATG ruckmen.

I've met a heap of S14 players and the Poms when they were out here a couple of months ago ...cant say any of them are dickheads

It amazes me how many people accused of racism, being a homophobe etcetera manage to use the 'I have so many friends who are black, gay" as a defence.

Had Rice uttered it verbally in the heat of the moment, you could almost excuse her on the grounds of euphoric brainfade. The fact though that she chose togo to the effort to locate her twitter account and broadcast it to the world is more indicative of her true colours.

Maybe she was just a bit carried away and got homophobic Tourettes for a minute.

Red wrote:It amazes me how many people accused of racism, being a homophobe etcetera manage to use the 'I have so many friends who are black, gay" as a defence.

Had Rice uttered it verbally in the heat of the moment, you could almost excuse her on the grounds of euphoric brainfade. The fact though that she chose togo to the effort to locate her twitter account and broadcast it to the world is more indicative of her true colours.

I don't think she had to go locate her twitter account. There are plenty of addicts out there who are wedded to the technology and feel naked if they don't tweet something inane on a regular basis (the iPhone has only made things worse).

I think Rice's biggest failing was to not engage her brain before putting finger to keyboard/touchpad. Not that what she tweeted was OK - it wasn't. But she's paid the price and apologised. I'm happy to assume she was just being oafish and insensitive (and a poor sport). I'll need a lot more proof before I lump her in with the homophobes.

I like Matthew Mitcham's take on the matter a whole lot more than Ian Roberts'. You can criticise someone's actions without having to make assumptions about their true colours. But then I'm always giving people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I'm just a sucker.

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think Rice's biggest failing was to not engage her brain before putting finger to keyboard/touchpad. Not that what she tweeted was OK - it wasn't. But she's paid the price and apologised. I'm happy to assume she was just being oafish and insensitive (and a poor sport). I'll need a lot more proof before I lump her in with the homophobes.

aye.

Absolutely top bloke and seriously one of the best sportsmen the country has ever produced. Apparently he was a gun golfer within a year of taking it up, he was a pretty good goal kicker as well.

....... a way above average cricketer as well.

Red wrote:It amazes me how many people accused of racism, being a homophobe etcetera manage to use the 'I have so many friends who are black, gay" as a defence.

Had Rice uttered it verbally in the heat of the moment, you could almost excuse her on the grounds of euphoric brainfade. The fact though that she chose togo to the effort to locate her twitter account and broadcast it to the world is more indicative of her true colours.

Nice tits.

If you call someone a qunt it doesn't mean you hate qunts.

to be fair, for many bogans f#gg#t is just another term of abuse . . .it's been seperated from its gay context . . . these guys are just too farkin dumb to understand . . .

It amazes me how many people accused of racism, being a homophobe etcetera manage to use the 'I have so many friends who are black, gay" as a defence.

Did she say that?

The words 'foggot' and 'gay' are used as insults by many people, to mean much the same as, say, '*sh!t*'. As in an inept, foolish, or contemptible person.

While not saying what Rice did was acceptable, had she called the Jaaps '*sh!t*', would there be as much fuss?

Moral of the story is, temper your words - in any situation - to the audience.

Did she apologise to the Saffie Rugby players?

Stupid f*cking forum. Shen my post above says *sh!t* it should read sh:theads

Zat wrote:Stupid f*cking forum. Shen my post above says *sh!t* it should read sh:theads

That would still be offensive to sh!theads - for all their faults they don't deserve to be compared to South African rugby players.

If she had said Motherfarquers would people who have had sex with women who have had children be offended ...

She may have been constrained by twitter's 140-character limit per 'tweet'. Of course, had she said 'jaapies' that still would have fitted in.

G.Wood wrote:

Mick Sawyer wrote:

Woody is right, he's a Leeegie waiting to happen.

aye, cepting his attitude to tackling. Feck he's awful.

averse to tackle - can't be a spiv then

Never heard of Andrew Johns?

Nope

JGK wrote:I've met Ealsey and his lovely wife a few times through our kids' school.

Absolutely top bloke and seriously one of the best sportsmen the country has ever produced. Apparently he was a gun golfer within a year of taking it up, he was a pretty good goal kicker as well.

If he had played AFL, I reckon he would have been one of the ATG ruckmen.

His nickname says it all. "Nobody". Because 'nobody's' perfect.

G.Wood wrote:Nope

Should read the court lists more.