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Kurtley Beale in Trouble

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Jeez, I wonder whether other teams also struggle with players like this and are just keeping it under wraps or if it's a Australasia thing.. Beale, Cruden (out of character it has to be said), JO'C, Guildford..
 
i think all teams have these issues, England had problems with Danny Care and the lads in World Cup and dealt with it...

I juts think these are the things that happen when young lads get a sense of privilege and the money to back it up. Some adjust well, but the odd few go off the rails, I see it a lot at work with young lads we send overseas to work.
 
heineken said:
I'm starting to wonder how bad does Australian beer taste?? It's clear that other countries' alcohol tastes a lot better because they always get in trouble when they are abroad
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Pretty bad. At least in Queensland that is. There are a few good boutique breweries popping up in South Australia now though....

Anyways back on topic....... Beale. Naughty boy. I wonder how many more chances he will get? One would assume he will be off playing in France before too long.
 
heineken said:
I'm starting to wonder how bad does Australian beer taste?? It's clear that other countries' alcohol tastes a lot better because they always get in trouble when they are abroad
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It is pretty bad tbh.

TRF_Olyy said:
Moves to the Premiership seem to have sorted out JOC and Cipriani.
Maybe Beale fancies linking back up with Danny :D
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Wouldn't hurt him, you wonder what makes him get in this frame of mind, he has seemed unbalanced for a while based on his antics over the years, no doubt there is a lot more we haven't heard about.
 
TRF_nickdnz said:
I know, it's amazing right?

It's like watching a dude stick a fork in a toaster to get a piece of toast, gets killed, and then the next guy does the same thing..
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Reminds me of a true story.

I'd just arrived in France and was stood in our workshop and there was a wire hanging out of a hole in the wall. I thought "that's live" and called in the electrician to terminate it and fit it back into the wall.

My mate and i watched opened mouthed as he stood looked at it then like a monkey reaching for a bannana touched it to see if t was live - not with a tester just his unprotected finger.

He got a whopping great jolt, and snatched his hand away, proceeded to suck his finger a little and then promptly touched the wire again (with his wet finger) to see if it really was the wire that had shocked him.

He was literally whimpering in pain, and to our amazement he then went to touch it a third time at which point my friend stepped between him and the wire and said "you know what just leave it we'll terminate it ourselves".

He doesn't work here anymore.
 
My computer's wonky and I haven't been able to access the site, but just reading up on this. Seems he's been released by the Wallabies for the next match, and the incident does not seem to be alcohol-related at this point. Here's one article, but they have a more recent one about him being released from the team. (They have an auto-play on that site and it froze my computer, so here's the transcript:)

Mendoza: An in-flight slanging match between Kurtley Beale and a team official has thrown into turmoil the Wallabies' preparations for a must-win Test against Argentina this weekend. Beale was allegedly involved in a heated verbal argument with Wallabies business manager Di Patston during the team's 10-hour flight from Johannesburg to Sao Paulo on Sunday morning.
The incident, which has been referred to the Australian Rugby Union's integrity unit for investigation, culminated in Patston's departure from Buenos Aires two days' later, with Ewen McKenzie missing Wallabies training to escort Patston to the airport on Tuesday afternoon.

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Beale remains in camp with the Wallabies, who flew to Mendoza on Wednesday morning.

He is still available for selection on Saturday, with a team expected to be named on Thursday at 2pm AEST (1am local) but the incident has cast yet another shadow over the playmaker's interrupted career.
A Wallabies spokesman confirmed the argument was of a verbal nature only and did not directly involve alcohol, although it is understood the team had consumed some drinks after their 28-10 loss to the Springboks the night before.

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The team caught a 6am flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg on Sunday. They spent two hours in transit in Johannesburg before boarding the South African Airways flight 222 to Sao Paulo, where they spent a further nearly four hours in transit before making the three-hour flight to Buenos Aires.

The alleged incident, which was witnessed by a number of staff and players also seated in the business class section of the Airbus A340, is understood to have occurred early in the flight between Johannesburg and Sao Paulo.
McKenzie spoke to journalists in Mendoza on Wednesday afternoon, calling the situation "complicated", but declining to release further details.

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"A staff member's flown home but I'm not going to comment on the detail of that," he said.

"Matters of integrity, you've actually got to protect the people involved until there is some sort of decision. So there's processes going on and, as I say, it's awkward when you're (on the other side of the world).

"But welfare and these matters are paramount from my perspective, and behaviour, you already know how I've done these things in the past. I don't leave these things unattended to."

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The incident has come at the worst possible time for the team, who were left physically and mentally spent after their 72nd-minute collapse against the Springboks in Cape Town.

They arrived in Buenos Aires with no luggage and with injury concerns hovering over centre Matt Toomua and second row Rob Simmons, an No.8 Ben McCalman ruled out with a shoulder injury.

McKenzie said he was aware of the in-flight incident during the flight but was taking the necessary steps to investigate what happened.

"I can assure you I don't enjoy the distraction of these things because they take massive amounts of time," he said.

"I understand better than anyone else because in the end you have to deal with it and make sure it's dealt with. I'm not going to not deal with it, I've been doing that, there's always lots of moving parts and complications of distance and time and all sorts of time zones and lots of things in play.

"Matters of integrity, welfare and behaviour are all front of mind for me and I deal with them."

Asked whether the incident had put the team's unity in jeopardy, he said: "I'm probably not in the best position to comment, I deal with the incident and the people who are directly involved. There's always peripheral involvement but you can't possibly track 40-something people but you try to keep the relevant people in the loop and you try to do it as thoroughly and as fairly as possible. But ultimately when you have an incident you have to deal with it."

It is the first incident to come to light since six players were suspended, and a further 15 reprimanded, for one Test after a drunken night out in Dublin last November.

McKenzie said he took culture very seriously and had an obligation to "deal with things when and if they crop up".
"We're not unique here, we saw an incident with the All Blacks not long ago," he said, referring to New Zealand coach Steve Hansen's decision to leave Aaron Cruden at home over a drinking incident the night before they left for their two-week tour of South Africa and Argentina.

"It happens to teams, you actually have to deal with matters and in the form that they turn up you have to deal with them. That's what we're doing."

Beale's 47-Test career has been dogged by a succession of off-field problems and last year the 25-year-old was forced to undergo counselling and rehabilitation for his struggles with alcohol.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/u...r-incident-20141001-10ox7l.html#ixzz3EzKDewPp
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I'm very disappointed. He was having what appeared to be a very good and positive season. Obviously some anger issues with this guy.



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