If we banned rugby players for having a bit of a brawl off the pitch there would be no players left



Regards



King James

Quite. ...back in the day players like Bobbie Goulding were allowed a bit of community service after a street brawl and a GBH charge.



The games gone soft. ..



Regards. ...

The only reason he was charged is because of his high profile.

This is how cousins say hello in Cherbourg.

He has always said he has to stay out of Cherbourg because everyone wants to take him down a peg or two for being successful - which is a sad indictment on a community that has always had a massive chip on it's shoulder, since the days it was a mission station.

I think you are spot on. For such a mixed up fellow the injury and being out of the game for so long, miles from home, wasn't good for Sandow. I've seen a few waste talent over the years but this one really takes some beating.

Someone will no doubt take offence and call racism on this, but, Sandow is following the same path as many young, uber talented aboriginal kids have done in the past) - there's something culturally and socially that seems to impact their ability to focus on their career and professionalism - there are deep routed ties to their local communities, which are usually not the best environment for a professional athlete to thrive, whether that be as a result of behavioural issues or other vices like drink, drugs, gambling.... All something Sandow has struggled with quite publically.



My understanding is that this video is not the result of a dispute, but is actually a pre-arranged 'prize fight' that the locals then gamble on - he's been involved in a few over the last couple of weeks. Pretty common place in the community. Madness.....

Not a great career choice but that fight doesn't look that bad, he has not randomly attacked someone or stamped on his head. It all looks in good sport just two blokes throwing punches

Well, I think he is just a poor boy and his story's seldom told,

He has squandered his resistance

For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises

All lies and jests

Still a man hears what he wants to hear

And disregards the rest.

You missed this out....

Asking only workman's wages

I come looking for a job

But I get no offers

Just a come-on from the whores on Poplars Avenue

Well done. I did actually consider it, but decided that £210,000 py was stretching the credibility of 'workman's wages'.



Then I'm throwing out my winter clothes

And wishing I was gone

Going home

Where the British winters

Aren't bleeding me

Leading me

Going home

There is a Fight Club in Cherbourg. In recent years the fights of that club have been regularly videod. This is another of those with one of the fighters being Chris Sandow.



Maybe this is what he was missing while he was living up here?

It's not racism mate. It's the results of a generation of children stolen from their hunter gatherer Aboriginal communities and forced to live in these little Westernised towns and forced to speak English and forced to work for flour and water. A few generations later, these communities have done surprisingly well for themselves considering what they had to go through and the fact their are no jobs and no prospects for many people living in them. But there are still deep lying problems, as you'd expect with a lack of things to do and no money leading to fight clubs, gambling, alcoholism, drug taking and dealing etc.

We both know it's not racism, but unfortunately nowadays it seems you're not allowed to discuss other cultures without someone taking offence on their behalf.



You raise some great points too - one thing I find particularly ridiculous is that there are many of these indigenous communities out in the bush who still don't even have access to electricity. For a country like Australia who claim to be such a forward thinking and advanced nation, its unforgivable that their government have allowed that to continue being the case. There are literally whole communities living without power, like what you'd expect to see in a third world country.



People who look to Australia all misty eyed and who think things are bad in England would do well to think about that! They might have immigration policies that many people would prefer, but their infrastructure in general is terrible.