Dragons James Graham shoves and swears at cameraman.

[Mr Invisible]

Video at the link.

http://www.sportingnews.com/au/leag...s-jason-nightingale/z11fnt661inn127yyljihl6b7

James Graham will stick by his teammates at all times. Even if it means getting physical with the camerman.

The Dragons enforcer took offence to a sideline operator after teammate Jason Nightingale came off the field with what looked to be a potentially career-ending elbow injury with retirement looming.

Nightingale's arm copped some friendly fire from Jeremy Latimore while attempting a tackle on Canterbury centre Josh Morris, immediately running to the sideline for help.

Scanning his every move, the cameraman zoomed in on the Dragons winger as he received medical attention, much to the dislike of his bodyguard Graham.

It was unclear what words came out of Graham's mouth but it was certainly less than friendly as he shoved the camera away with his hand and blocked any vision of Nightingale.

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He clearly says "fuck off". and whilst the cameraman trying to get footage of Nightingales elbow might seem a little ethically questionable, it is not up for Graham to decide, police, nor assault a cameraman on live TV and tell him to "Fuck Off".

Surely that brings the game into disrepute and should be even more closely looked at than the Dugan/Fifita incident.

Every single person watching the game saw Graham do it, and that's not something the NRL should be happy about.

 

[Straight18]

Oh well its just james. Least this time he never bit anyones ear off lol.

 

[Howard Moon]

Good on him I say.. grubs

 

[Shanked]

yeah, i don't care

 

[Horse]

Yeah I have absolutely no issue with what Graham did.

Who even wants to see that sorta shit anyway? Stick to filming the footy you muppet.

 

[c-b-b]

Graham has issues controlling his temper if things don't go his way, nothing to do with Nightingale and trying to shield him, the cameraman was just a way of taking out frustration.

 

[Papa Emeritus]

Not the right thing to do, but we all know he is an emotional guy.

 

[Chrisaaar]

Did nothing wrong IMO - Nightingale was obviously distressed, cameraman shouldn't be getting in his face to get an extreme close up of the injury (doesn't give the game a good look either).

 

[Cook]

What, this must have been after one of his pointless effort plays where he chases a runaway break, where the player still scores near the posts and the try is converted..Lol..

 

[Wolfmother]

He just needed to vent

 

[BELMORE]

Did nothing wrong IMO - Nightingale was obviously distressed, cameraman shouldn't be getting in his face to get an extreme close up of the injury (doesn't give the game a good look either).

Wasn’t in his face

 

[Novdoggie]

If Graham was still at the dog's and did that it would be plastered all over the media.

 

[Kaz]

Stick to filming the footy you muppet.

It is part of the footy.

The camerman was just doing his job.

 

[Emdog85]

How is it wrong of anyone but Graham?? Cameraman did nothing wrong. Lol people saying Graham did nothing wrong and calling the cameraman a grub. If anyone is the grub in that situation its Graham

 

[Dingo]

Graham just shooed away the invasive cameraman who was getting too close to the bench and the injured player who was in distress.

Good on James he had every right to tell him to fook off, it wasn't like he gave him the 'knuckle-finger'.

 

[Bad Billy]

It wasn’t that bad IMO.
he wasn’t aggressive, he was basically asking for a little compassion, in a jammer sort of way.

 

[Mr Invisible]

Cameraman should have just wheeled straight past him on his segway.

Funny... Graham cracks the shits at a cameraman just doing his job.

Maybe the weak **** should have put the same passion into his pissweak performance on Sunday.

50 minutes
5 runs for 42m (10 post contact metres)

 

[Malla]

No issue with Graham doing that but at the same time I am so glad he doesnt play for us - that type of behaviour with a doggies jersey on, can you imagine the media back lash??

 

[KiwiDog7]

Only wrong if his jersey has a bulldogs emblem otherwise fine

 

[GoTheDoggies]

Cameraman should have just wheeled straight past him on his segway.

Funny... Graham cracks the shits at a cameraman just doing his job.

Maybe the weak **** should have put the same passion into his pissweak performance on Sunday.

50 minutes
5 runs for 42m (10 post contact metres)

He wasted all of his energy sprinting back to block the try scorer from improving the position. As a forward you need to conserve energy where you can but he is chased so many lost causes out there. He was never catching Smith.