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Mad Monday: Bulldogs nude romp latest end-of-season controversy
SEPTEMBER 04, 2018
THE Bulldogs have form when it comes to Mad Monday celebrations but their indiscretions are just one thread in tapestry of outrages and atrocities from the NRL and beyond.
The last time Canterbury players hit the headlines was in 2012 when they held their post-season party in what you imagine they believed were the safe and friendly confines of the club spiritual home at Belmore.
Bulldogs players during their 2012 Mad Monday celebrations at Belmore.
But it wasnt to be. Players urinated on the grass at their home ground in full view of the media and later were heard hurling obscene comments at a female journalist.
After an investigation the club ruled the offensive comments were part of “player-on-player sledging and donated $30,000 to charity as a mea culpa for their handling of the celebrations.
Joel Monaghan all dressed up before HIS Mad Monday went so horribly wrong in 2010.
It was also on Mad Monday that former Canberra Raider Joel Monaghan performed a simulated sex act with a teammates dog, the controversy ending his career in the NRL.
Alcohol is always the main villain when Mad Monday drama hits the headlines but in recent years recreational drugs have begun to muscle their way towards centre stage.
Ben Barba infamously ended his first shot at redemption after testing positive to cocaine following the Cronulla Sharks 2016 premiership celebrations while disgraced Wests Tigers centre Tim Simona confessed to taking his first snort of cocaine on a Mad Monday cruise with a number of teammates.
The Grand Final glow faded fast for Ben Barba (left) in 2016. Picture: AAP
Another Mad Monday hazard is when the inevitable drunken horsing around gets seriously physical.
Jason Taylor found that out to his great expense, both on the night and after the incident hit the headlines.
Taylor lost his job at South Sydney after it was revealed that Rabbitohs player David Faalogo punched him in the face after a playful jab in the stomach from his coach.
CCTV image of the incident between coach Jason Taylor and David Fa'alogo in 2009.
Fancy dress is as big a part of Mad Monday as jugs of beer and can also lead to drama if the player doesn’t choose wisely.
A number of Parramatta players capped their 2016 season from hell with a costume controversy.
Triple Ms Matty Johns was critical of the club’s decision to allow players to dress up for their end-of-season drinks after pictures emerged of Tepai Moeroa in a Osama bin Laden costume and Brad Takairangi sporting a Guantanamo Bay jumpsuit.
Parramatta Eels players Tepai Moeroa (tea towel) and Brad Takairangi (balaclava).
The Cronulla Sharks landed in hot water when they wound down after a year of controversy in 2014 at a popular wine bar (appropriately called Sauce) in Coogee.
The players themselves were on their best behaviour but photos of what appeared to be topless waitresses at the party were grist for the outrage mill.
But the NRL doesn’t have a monopoly on bad end-of-season behaviour, the AFL can hang its head with the best of them while the A-League gets a dishonourable mention.
A different sort of nakedness got the Sharks in strife after their 2014 Mad Monday.
Brendan Fevola is the best-known of the AFL’s Mad Monday miscreants due to multiple sex toy-related offences while a couple of Demons came under fire for going to their 2014 party dressed as Rolf Harris and a schoolgirl.
And at least one St Kilda player appeared to have betrayed the club’s nickname when he allegedly set fire to a “dwarf entertainer” in 2013.
Demons Dean Terlich and Alex Georgiou (right) in their controversial costumes.
Then-AFL boss Andrew Demetriou was later forced to apologise after appearing to laugh when asked about the incident on television.
The A-League’s sole representative in the Mad Monday walk of shame was also costume related, former Central Coast Mariners midfielder Andre Gumprecht causing so much controversy dressing up as Hitler in 2008 that he was forced to issue apologies to Jewish groups both in Australia and his home country of Germany.
I can’t believe how many people have just become hypocrites out of this.
If Andrew Johns, Matty Johns, any of the footy show crew or FoxSports Matty Johns crew say anything bad about this, I would lose faith in Rugby League media humanity.
The game belongs to the fans, and majority of fans say this saga is overboard and DT is to blame. But Paul Kent and Greenberg come out and say “I don’t see why they need to do this”.... WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT YOU THINK, YOU WOULDNT KNOW MALE BONDING IF IT GRABBED YOUR BALLS AND TICKLED YOUR ASS!
SEPTEMBER 04, 2018
THE Bulldogs have form when it comes to Mad Monday celebrations but their indiscretions are just one thread in tapestry of outrages and atrocities from the NRL and beyond.
The last time Canterbury players hit the headlines was in 2012 when they held their post-season party in what you imagine they believed were the safe and friendly confines of the club spiritual home at Belmore.
Bulldogs players during their 2012 Mad Monday celebrations at Belmore.
But it wasnt to be. Players urinated on the grass at their home ground in full view of the media and later were heard hurling obscene comments at a female journalist.
After an investigation the club ruled the offensive comments were part of “player-on-player sledging and donated $30,000 to charity as a mea culpa for their handling of the celebrations.
Joel Monaghan all dressed up before HIS Mad Monday went so horribly wrong in 2010.
It was also on Mad Monday that former Canberra Raider Joel Monaghan performed a simulated sex act with a teammates dog, the controversy ending his career in the NRL.
Alcohol is always the main villain when Mad Monday drama hits the headlines but in recent years recreational drugs have begun to muscle their way towards centre stage.
Ben Barba infamously ended his first shot at redemption after testing positive to cocaine following the Cronulla Sharks 2016 premiership celebrations while disgraced Wests Tigers centre Tim Simona confessed to taking his first snort of cocaine on a Mad Monday cruise with a number of teammates.
The Grand Final glow faded fast for Ben Barba (left) in 2016. Picture: AAP
Another Mad Monday hazard is when the inevitable drunken horsing around gets seriously physical.
Jason Taylor found that out to his great expense, both on the night and after the incident hit the headlines.
Taylor lost his job at South Sydney after it was revealed that Rabbitohs player David Faalogo punched him in the face after a playful jab in the stomach from his coach.
CCTV image of the incident between coach Jason Taylor and David Fa'alogo in 2009.
Fancy dress is as big a part of Mad Monday as jugs of beer and can also lead to drama if the player doesn’t choose wisely.
A number of Parramatta players capped their 2016 season from hell with a costume controversy.
Triple Ms Matty Johns was critical of the club’s decision to allow players to dress up for their end-of-season drinks after pictures emerged of Tepai Moeroa in a Osama bin Laden costume and Brad Takairangi sporting a Guantanamo Bay jumpsuit.
Parramatta Eels players Tepai Moeroa (tea towel) and Brad Takairangi (balaclava).
The Cronulla Sharks landed in hot water when they wound down after a year of controversy in 2014 at a popular wine bar (appropriately called Sauce) in Coogee.
The players themselves were on their best behaviour but photos of what appeared to be topless waitresses at the party were grist for the outrage mill.
But the NRL doesn’t have a monopoly on bad end-of-season behaviour, the AFL can hang its head with the best of them while the A-League gets a dishonourable mention.
A different sort of nakedness got the Sharks in strife after their 2014 Mad Monday.
Brendan Fevola is the best-known of the AFL’s Mad Monday miscreants due to multiple sex toy-related offences while a couple of Demons came under fire for going to their 2014 party dressed as Rolf Harris and a schoolgirl.
And at least one St Kilda player appeared to have betrayed the club’s nickname when he allegedly set fire to a “dwarf entertainer” in 2013.
Demons Dean Terlich and Alex Georgiou (right) in their controversial costumes.
Then-AFL boss Andrew Demetriou was later forced to apologise after appearing to laugh when asked about the incident on television.
The A-League’s sole representative in the Mad Monday walk of shame was also costume related, former Central Coast Mariners midfielder Andre Gumprecht causing so much controversy dressing up as Hitler in 2008 that he was forced to issue apologies to Jewish groups both in Australia and his home country of Germany.
I can’t believe how many people have just become hypocrites out of this.
If Andrew Johns, Matty Johns, any of the footy show crew or FoxSports Matty Johns crew say anything bad about this, I would lose faith in Rugby League media humanity.
The game belongs to the fans, and majority of fans say this saga is overboard and DT is to blame. But Paul Kent and Greenberg come out and say “I don’t see why they need to do this”.... WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT YOU THINK, YOU WOULDNT KNOW MALE BONDING IF IT GRABBED YOUR BALLS AND TICKLED YOUR ASS!
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