Sam Burgess Convicted

[ASMO]

https://www.skysports.com/rugby-league/ ... 3GyQY3TUKY

[Green light echo]

A grub both on and off the field. Disgraceful how the Sydney media have fawned over this piece of shit.

Rugby league hey......

[Jimmy Smallsteps]

Yet another mungo dirtbag.

[Green light echo]

Now been arrested for unlicensed driving, and driving under the influence of cocaine. This while being under a 2 year community correction order.
Hopefully Mr Dutton is sharpening his pencil in regards to deportation orders. Could be time to head back to your beloved North England Sammy.

And good fuckin riddance.

[Slick]

Sounds like he needs a bit of help

[Torquemada 1420]

Okay, he's a mungo so I want to laugh. However, I do hope there was a bit more to it than

had yelled a threat in Mitchell Hooke's face at Hooke's property in Sydney

or we'd all end up with similar convictions.

[Slick]

I see he was on his way to pick up his 2 & 4 year old kids from his ex wife when he was done with cocaine in his system. It seems his ex had been worried about this for some time and had asked for him to be tested.

Sounds like a proper addiction, the bloke needs help.

[sockwithaticket]

From some of the tales he told on the Payne/Tindall/Haskell podcast it sounds like he's always been a bit of a party boy and that aspect of his life might have somewhat taken over compounded by his career ending prematurely. Divorce won't have helped but I suspect that's a consequence of the former. Definitely needs some help and it's a damned good thing that he was stopped before picking up his kids.

[JM2K6]

Okay, he's a mungo so I want to laugh. However, I do hope there was a bit more to it than

had yelled a threat in Mitchell Hooke's face at Hooke's property in Sydney

or we'd all end up with similar convictions.

Plenty more to it, yeah. Threatened him, was barely in control, etc. All verbal but he only has to make the guy fear for his safety to be guilty, and, well...

[Torquemada 1420]

Okay, he's a mungo so I want to laugh. However, I do hope there was a bit more to it than

had yelled a threat in Mitchell Hooke's face at Hooke's property in Sydney

or we'd all end up with similar convictions.

Plenty more to it, yeah. Threatened him, was barely in control, etc. All verbal but he only has to make the guy fear for his safety to be guilty, and, well...

There must be a dozen such incidents in every High St on a Saturday night in normal, none lockdown conditions. This reads as there being much more to it but that he could only be pinned on a relatively minor misdemeanour for which he's received the maximum possible punishment for to compensate. Not a fan of that kind of application of the law.

[JM2K6]

Okay, he's a mungo so I want to laugh. However, I do hope there was a bit more to it than


or we'd all end up with similar convictions.

Plenty more to it, yeah. Threatened him, was barely in control, etc. All verbal but he only has to make the guy fear for his safety to be guilty, and, well...

There must be a dozen such incidents in every High St on a Saturday night in normal, none lockdown conditions. This reads as there being much more to it but that he could only be pinned on a relatively minor misdemeanour for which he's received the maximum possible punishment for to compensate. Not a fan of that kind of application of the law.

There's quite a difference between two drunk blokes yelling at each other on the high street, and a gigantic professional rugby player threatening the life of his estranged wife's elderly father. The personal connection, the absurd physical disparity, the understanding that Burgess is a psycho who hurts people for a living, the repeated incidents of 'out of control' behaviour, and the difference in UK and Aussie law makes this one a no-brainer.

[Torquemada 1420]

There's quite a difference between two drunk blokes yelling at each other on the high street, and a gigantic professional rugby player threatening the life of his estranged wife's elderly father. The personal connection, the absurd physical disparity, the understanding that Burgess is a psycho who hurts people for a living, the repeated incidents of 'out of control' behaviour, and the difference in UK and Aussie law makes this one a no-brainer.

That's probably the explanation.

There is no distinction in UK law between "a gigantic professional rugby player threatening the life of his estranged wife's elderly father" and an 8 stone woman physically or mentally abusing her 20 stone husband. Such portrayals make for florid tabloid headlines but all they do is reinforce perceived tiers of victim meritocracy that should not exist.