Nikksixx6 wrote: ↑August 8, 2022, 12:33 pm
Firstly congrats ricky haters you all have a new bullet for your chamber
My question to everyone is how many of you are parents? If your kid got coward punched would you all be sunshine and roses to the person who did that to your kid?
Didn’t think so…
He probably shouldn’t have said it in the presser, but he didn’t just decide to start talking about it, a journalist specifically asked him about the incident.
Every week journalists try to get coaches to say something stupid, maybe we should limit who can ask stupid questions?
And does ricky having said that have an impact on the practically 0 consequences for the Penrith prick? Or is that just the nrl looking out for Penrith like always?
OK, I’ll bite. Yes, I’m a parent.
Both my kids are very keen rugby players, and have played through from the under 6s all the way through to various levels of senior rep. We live in a part of the world which is pretty much as white Anglo as Australia gets. Just for context.
I’ve written about this here before. A couple of times, around the 10s and 11s, both of my kids have received some fairly horrendous racist abuse on the field. These days, I imagine it would be sorted out fairly promptly with a little judicious stomping in the next ruck. As 11 year olds, they lack the social skills to know how to cope. It can be incredibly difficult for them to cope with and, as a Dad, wounds me pretty deeply.
But here’s the thing. Rather than ‘confronting the player’ and then ‘having to be physically separated’ from the parent, as per our Coach Ricky, each time I waited until after the game and the various team songs and man of the match presentations etc until the parents and player in question were alone and walking back to the car. I stopped them then and politely discussed the issue. In each and every case (some taking a little longer than others, to be fair), it ended in handshakes and apologies and the situation resolved.
What I DIDN’T do was get into a punch up with the father, nurse a grudge for a decade then spray the offending now adult in the media.
This is because I am a normal, appropriately functioning member of society.