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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 731610" data-attributes="member: 38640"><p>Uhhh. This thread.</p><p></p><p>I think we can agree on something, young men who achieve a lot in a sporting environment often become self-important tossers. Saying it's more prevalent in one nationality is ridiculous, especially when it is not based on first hand experience.</p><p></p><p>Our experiences of many of these athletes are through media - and I agree that both Australian and New Zealand media reports on the bad behavior of Ozzy athletes more proportionately than Kiwi athletes.</p><p></p><p>But before casting the first stone Kiwi, lets look at Sivivatu, Cowan, Moala, Thomson, Savea, Muliaina, Robin Brooke, Bachop. All have faced assault charges - and as a nation we probably don't shine as much attention on it as we should.</p><p></p><p>In England it is no different either - Tyson Fury just spent some time in jail but it seems no one is bothering reporting it. Chisora is a thug. Seems half the Premier League are sexual deviants.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, there may be some ********s in Australian sport. In certain codes there seems to be a bad culture. But typifying it as an Australian problem is just unfair. More over it paints kiwi's as unsporting, self-righteous tossers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 731610, member: 38640"] Uhhh. This thread. I think we can agree on something, young men who achieve a lot in a sporting environment often become self-important tossers. Saying it's more prevalent in one nationality is ridiculous, especially when it is not based on first hand experience. Our experiences of many of these athletes are through media - and I agree that both Australian and New Zealand media reports on the bad behavior of Ozzy athletes more proportionately than Kiwi athletes. But before casting the first stone Kiwi, lets look at Sivivatu, Cowan, Moala, Thomson, Savea, Muliaina, Robin Brooke, Bachop. All have faced assault charges - and as a nation we probably don't shine as much attention on it as we should. In England it is no different either - Tyson Fury just spent some time in jail but it seems no one is bothering reporting it. Chisora is a thug. Seems half the Premier League are sexual deviants. So yeah, there may be some ********s in Australian sport. In certain codes there seems to be a bad culture. But typifying it as an Australian problem is just unfair. More over it paints kiwi's as unsporting, self-righteous tossers. [/QUOTE]
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