london blue wrote:
No doubt just a storm in a teacup
Interesting though, you would never read such articles about.......Murphy, Gibbs, Kruezer, carrots, duigan, jamo, etc etc etc
This is why I feel sorry for bogan AFL players*.
A guy like Judd, his idea of a big day out is breakfast at Dukes (maybe smashed avocado and tomato on wholemeal no butter, a skim latte) with the Financial Review, Bec and Oscar. Then maybe going to the opening of a friend's new business venture, or a mate of Bec's gallery opening... followed by some quiet time at home, then off to dinner followed by a few hours in the VIP section of a club he part-owns.
A young bogan AFL player's idea of a big day out is the Big Day Out.
Say to a guy like Judd - avoid places like this and he's "hey no problem it's not my kinda thing anyway, no great loss". Say that to a Mitch Robinson, and you're telling him to avoid doing pretty much the only recreational activities he's probably into.
Trouble is, a guy like Mitch can go with the very best of intentions to have a good time at a place like BDO, and he'll get hassled and possibly drawn into an altercation precisely because of the huge numbers of idiots there. Judd won't get that doing HIS favoured recreations.
I guess guys like Mitch have to sacrifice more, and be far more circumspect, than guys like Judd. It's hard to get into trouble when your tastes don't run to places populated by hordes of bogans.
This is not an excuse... we all have to make sacrifices. Mitch earns excellent money as a professional, and most likely needs to accept that for a while at least, he has to give up this element of his life. Otherwise, this will happen again and again.
*Dane Swann and the Cabbie-Basher excluded.