D'Arcy not on Rome swim team - Update

Good.

Update:

Bleating on the radio "Hasn't he been punished enough?"

Well, let me see... what D'Arcy did was a serious criminal act. He has a bit of a record for assault.

What if his victim had died, or suffered permanent brain damage?

D'Arcy is a thug. The big, bad world treats thugs differently to law abiding citizens, or people who make a little mistake. Getting drunk and smashing someone in the face with your elbow is not a little mistake.

He's not being punished, he's a convicted criminal and that criminal record will close many doors before him.

ABC Offsiders 5/4/09

D'Arcy's case revisited on Offsiders.

I agreed with what the panel said about the Judge taking into mitigation that D'Arcy had been punished by not going to Beijng and being harassed by reporters.

One of the panelists said that D'Arcy wouldn't have been hassled by the press had ne not assaulted someone in a nightclub.

You can see it here now.

Sonny Bill's a bit of a dill, and his advisors are even more stupid

Surely if you want to get out of a contract you negotiate, you don't just up and leave?

Nah, it seems that you get some good advice from your very intelligent ex-footballer cum boxer mate and take off.

It's all got to do with white-man suppression and racism I think, that seems to be the angle of the ex-footballer cum boxer mate.

It appears that any contract signed by Sonny Bill isn't worth the paper it's written on as he doesn't understand the concept.

More about Williams in the Canberra Times, A timely reminder that not all values are expressed in dollars.

And in the same article:

Collingwood players Heath Shaw and Alan Didak were involved in a car accident early Monday after drinking at a suburban hotel in Melbourne.

Didak, the player who was a passenger last year in a car driven by Melbourne CBD gunman Christopher Hudson, lied to the club by saying he was not in the car driven by Shaw, claiming he was merely a mate who arrived at the scene in answer to a mobile phone call.

Shaw also told club chairman Eddie Macguire and coach Mick Malthouse that Didak wasn't in his car when he crashed into two parked vehicles. Shaw, fined $5000 for driving while drunk, and Didak were yesterday suspended for the rest of the season. It had been speculated that Didak might be sacked.

They've been suspended for lying about the accident and drink driving. As a child I was taught it was very wrong to lie. I was punished more if I lied because lying was the worse crime. If they behave like children it's reasonable to treat them like children.

Update: Oh. My. God! I'm clairvoyant!

Foolish actions = "unfortunate circumstances"

Why is it that when some celebrity/sportsperson misbehaves enough to draw the attention of the police (or the general public via the media) and their employer/team management/committee, it's always the "unfortunate circumstances" and/or their "ordeal" that they mention?

It was not unfortunate circumstances which got you into this trouble. It's not like you sprained an ankle before a game, got the flu before a try-out, contracted some disease which has put your career in sport on the line.

You assaulted someone. It was your fault. Time to cop it sweet and take your lumps. I would prefer not to hear you bleating about how traumatic it is for you.

The latest whiner is the almost-Olympic swimmer, Nick D'Arcy, who clocked one of his teammates hours after qualifying for the Australian Olympic swimming team to compete in Beijing. He was sacked from the Olympic team by John Coates, Australian Olympic Committee President, for bringing himself and the sport into disrepute.