Sailor Lets Fly A Technicolour Yawn

Another suspension for the 2006 season, and this time for what happened off the field!  Yet again we see misbehaviour in the Republic getting stars into trouble.  You have got to wonder why this happens in South Africa most of the time, and why team management haven’t put a stop to it?  Click here for the latest on the Sailor story.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that the public relations team have been working overtime fine tuning Sailor’s apologies and statements of remorse.  My reading of it is that they must have a QC on the payroll, or perhaps Sailor has had previous experiences that he has learned from….  

However, you’ve got to wonder what these guys think that they are doing going out in hostile territory getting caned.  The Republic has a history of firey receptions for overseas players and you’d think these guys would learn a thing or two, like discretion and safety in numbers.  I wonder if there are some attractions to going out that don’t get published quite as frequently as other altercations?  Doubtless there are.

Be that as it may, team management is culpable in these cases as well.  These players are traveling the road in the course of their employment.  It is important that the players aren’t left to their own vices just because they may not be taking the field the next day, or are out celebrating a win.  Get your act together Warratahs, you can’t just leave these guys on their own.  Get some handlers or minders for the players instead of just leaving them at the mercy of whatever clown wants to have a crack.

I’d have to say that in the scheme of things it doesn’t sound too bad.  Where I live that sort of carry on happens every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night outside the taverns in town – and when it is just a push to the ground and a bit of a spew it usually means that the people are mates having a laugh.  Anyways, he’s suspended, fined, and now looking at having his past used against him (surely unfair having been punished for that event previously).