Player Dramas in the NRL

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NRL to speak to players flashing gang signs during during games, post-match interviews
By WWOS staff
5 hours ago

The NRL will speak to players and clubs about their links to gang culture after it was revealed rap gangs may be using unauthorised footage of footballers making symbols or gestures after scoring tries or during post-match interviews.

A number of high-profile stars including Josh Addo-Carr, Jack Wighton and Brian To'o have made public gestures or have been photographed with rap groups with the images then often posted on social media without their knowledge.

When Addo-Carr made a symbol during a post-match interview last year, a social media account for "drill" rapper Hooligan Hefs re-posted it with the caption "LETS FKN TROT !! congrats brother".

Addo-Carr denied he was making gang signs, saying it held a deeper meaning to him.
The Storm star during a game last year. (Nine)

"I was born in Doonside and that is just to remind myself where I came from and has nothing to do with being gangs,'' Addo-Carr said.

"I'm proud of where I come from but want to make it clear that no one should get involved in gangs."

Over the past two seasons police have noticed high-profile players have seemingly innocently been making hand symbols used by Sydney's feuding street gangs.

"The players have no idea that they are used by these (gang) members on their social media accounts,'' a NSW police officer said.

There is nothing in this world more embarrassing and cringeworthy than grown adults making hand gestures or doing those pitiful funky handshakes.

Its more about brain capacity than being an adult

Kids can get away with it. People with adult bodies doing it is just very very wrong.

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

NRL to speak to players flashing gang signs during during games, post-match interviews
By WWOS staff
5 hours ago

The NRL will speak to players and clubs about their links to gang culture after it was revealed rap gangs may be using unauthorised footage of footballers making symbols or gestures after scoring tries or during post-match interviews.

A number of high-profile stars including Josh Addo-Carr, Jack Wighton and Brian To'o have made public gestures or have been photographed with rap groups with the images then often posted on social media without their knowledge.

When Addo-Carr made a symbol during a post-match interview last year, a social media account for "drill" rapper Hooligan Hefs re-posted it with the caption "LETS FKN TROT !! congrats brother".

Addo-Carr denied he was making gang signs, saying it held a deeper meaning to him.
The Storm star during a game last year. (Nine)

"I was born in Doonside and that is just to remind myself where I came from and has nothing to do with being gangs,'' Addo-Carr said.

"I'm proud of where I come from but want to make it clear that no one should get involved in gangs."

Over the past two seasons police have noticed high-profile players have seemingly innocently been making hand symbols used by Sydney's feuding street gangs.

"The players have no idea that they are used by these (gang) members on their social media accounts,'' a NSW police officer said.

There is nothing in this world more embarrassing and cringeworthy than grown adults making hand gestures or doing those pitiful funky handshakes.

Its more about brain capacity than being an adult

Kids can get away with it. People with adult bodies doing it is just very very wrong.

Kids get away with it because their just mimicking their idols

 

[Elderslie_Tiger]

Ex-Bronco to face court for breaching restraining order and bail conditions
It relates to an alleged drunken assault in December.

Brisbane Broncos Training Session

Ex-Brisbane Broncos player Jamil Hopoate has been charged for breaching his restraining order and bail conditions, as reported by The Courier Mail’s Georgia Clark.

It relates to a drunken incident in December where he was charged with common assault, stalking or intimidation and mid-range drink driving – believed to involve a woman close to him.


The 26-year old handed himself into Manly Police Station at around 9am this morning and is set to face Manly Local Court today.

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The off-contract Bronco made his NRL debut in 2020 and made 12 first-grade appearances.

He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

 

[hank37w]

What is it with that family.

 

[bathursttiger1]

What is it with that family.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

 

[Geo]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

 

[hank37w]

I think there may have been a bit more to that one.

 

[Cairnstigers]

Season derailed again?

The Broncos have been rocked by a pre-season scandal after NSW Origin star Payne Haas was locked up by police following an alleged brawl on the Gold Coast.

Haas was detained by police at Tweed Heads in northern NSW following the incident on Saturday night in the border area.

NSW Police confirmed a 21-year-old man was arrested and will appear in court next month.

“About 10pm Saturday 16th January, officers from Tweed-Byron Police District arrested a 21-year-old man on Coral Street at Tweed Heads after the man allegedly became abusive towards police,” the statement read.

“He was taken to Tweed Heads Police Station and charged with offensive language and intimidate police.

“He is due to appear at Tweed Heads Local Court on Tuesday the 2nd of February.”

The Broncos and NRL have been contacted for comment.

It is not the first time Haas has been involved in controversy.

He was fined $20,000 and suspended for the opening four games of the 2019 NRL season for failing to comply with an NRL Integrity Unit investigation.

Haas refused to properly answer questions from investigators about off-field incidents involving violence and his family following complaints from the public.

Later that year, Haas became unwittingly involved in teammate David Fifita’s Bali arrest.

Haas and Fifita were holidaying together on the Indonesian island when the latter was detained for three days.

Haas was interviewed by the NRL again over the incident, but was cleared of any wrongdoing. Fifita was not suspended due to a lack of information being available.

Despite his age, Haas is one of the Broncos’ best players and has been crowned the club’s player-of-the-year for the past two seasons.

He has already played four State of Origin games for the Blues and two Test matches for Australia in 2019.

Haas will become a father for the first time in the coming months and last week spoke about wanting to help the Broncos fight back from last year’s wooden spoon season.

He has also been dealing with the death of his older brother Chace last year, who Haas idolised.

 

[jirskyr]

than grown adults

Many of them are borderline adults.

 

[jirskyr]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

 

[Tigerlily]

Season derailed again?

The Broncos have been rocked by a pre-season scandal after NSW Origin star Payne Haas was locked up by police following an alleged brawl on the Gold Coast.

This guy’s name is so appropriate. He really is a Payne in the Haas.

 

[Geo]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

This is what the article said tho...quote..He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

 

[happy_tiger]

Season derailed again?

The Broncos have been rocked by a pre-season scandal after NSW Origin star Payne Haas was locked up by police following an alleged brawl on the Gold Coast.


This guy’s name is so appropriate. He really is a Payne in the Haas.

What a Haashole

 

[mike]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

This is what the article said tho...quote..He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

Yeah, 12 year olds wrote the article.....

 

[hank37w]

Imagine what he would have got if it was actually proved that he did it!

 

[jirskyr]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

This is what the article said tho...quote..He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

Yeah I get it, the paper is wrong.

 

[diedpretty]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

This is what the article said tho...quote..He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

Yeah I get it, the paper is wrong.

Here is the full article :

Jamil Hopoate: Former Brisbane Bronco NRL star accused of punching partner in club car park

The career of former Brisbane Broncos player Jamil Hopoate hangs by a thread after full details emerged of the night he allegedly assaulted his partner outside a Port Macquarie club.

Dan Mills
and Jim O’Rourke
3 min read
January 20, 2021 - 5:47PM
The Mid-North Coast News

Details have emerged of the night NRL star Jamil Hopoate allegedly punched his partner outside a NSW Mid-North Coast club.

Hopoate, 26, was due to face Port Macquarie Local Court on Wednesday charged with six offences relating to the alleged incident at club Panthers Port Macquarie.

He is facing one common assault charge and two counts of common assault, domestic violence related. He is also charged with driving with middle range PCA, and two counts of stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm.

The matter has been adjourned for two weeks to allow the off-contract NRL player’s new legal representatives to consider the charges against him. No plea has been entered.

Court documents exclusively obtained by The Mid-North Coast News detail damning allegations against the former Brisbane Broncos player, including that he allegedly punched his De facto partner in the car park of the club before allegedly speeding off in his vehicle.

An apprehended violence order (AVO) application filed by police on behalf of the alleged victim against Hopoate, allege the pair had been having dinner at Panthers Port Macquarie on the night of December 27 last year.

It alleges that at the conclusion of the meal, Hopoate entered the gaming area before his partner began messaging him via text to request that the pair leave.

When Hopoate ignored the messages, she entered the room and an argument ensued after he allegedly refused to comply with her request.

When a security guard intervened, both the guard and the victim were allegedly spat on by Hopoate. The victim was then escorted out by security.

When all parties left the club and spilled into the club‘s car park, Hopoate allegedly threatened two guards.

According to the AVO application, moments later after another argument, Hopoate allegedly punched his partner with a “right clenched fist, causing her to stumble backwards and caused her to fall to the ground some distance from where she had been hit".

Following the incident, allegedly captured on CCTV, Hopoate was allegedly seen to speed off in his car before later being arrested by police on the Oxley Highway, Port Macquarie, where he allegedly returned a blood alcohol analysis of 0.095.

Police will allege in court that Hopoate assaulted his de facto partner of six years and two other security guards on the night.

Police describe the incident in their reasons for bail as “callous and horrific in nature, given the size, strength and fitness of the accused to that of the victim”.

“Further, the accused has spat on the victim and a security guard was also spat on,” the document states.

The off-contract 26-year-old had recently returned from QLD to Sydney’s northern beaches to pursue an extension to his NRL career with another club.

Hopoate had been on the Mid-North Coast, staying with his de facto partner’s family.

Just two weeks following his arrest, on January 14, he handed himself in at Manly Police Station where he was charged with breaching his AVO and bail conditions.

Hopoate appeared in Manly Local Court on a charge of breaching an AVO (domestic) linked to the alleged December assault at Port Macquarie.

He pleaded guilty to one count of contravene restriction/prohibition in AVO.

As part of that AVO, Hopoate is not allowed to be in the company of his partner for at least 12 hours after drinking alcohol.

Court documents tendered to Manly Local Court showed that Hopoate and his patner went for a night out at the Harbord Diggers Club at Freshwater on Sunday, January 10.

They arrived at the popular club about 6pm and left about 8pm. The court heard that in that time, Hopoate drank six schooners of beer while he played the poker machines or in the club‘s Banksia Lounge.

Magistrate Bruce Williams fined Hopoate $700.

If convicted of the Port Macquarie charges, Hopoate faces being permanently rubbed out of rugby league.

The 26-year-old, who is the son of renowned rugby league star John Hopoate, had previously served a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man at a Sydney pub.

The matter will return to Port Macquarie Local Court on February 3, where pleas are expected to be entered.




The guys is all class. Just like his dad.

 

[AdelaideTiger]

Who gets gaoled for allegedly beating a man

No longer alleged once you are convicted?

This is what the article said tho...quote..He previously spent a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man in Manly.

Yeah I get it, the paper is wrong.


Here is the full article :

Jamil Hopoate: Former Brisbane Bronco NRL star accused of punching partner in club car park

The career of former Brisbane Broncos player Jamil Hopoate hangs by a thread after full details emerged of the night he allegedly assaulted his partner outside a Port Macquarie club.

Dan Mills
and Jim O’Rourke
3 min read
January 20, 2021 - 5:47PM
The Mid-North Coast News

Details have emerged of the night NRL star Jamil Hopoate allegedly punched his partner outside a NSW Mid-North Coast club.

Hopoate, 26, was due to face Port Macquarie Local Court on Wednesday charged with six offences relating to the alleged incident at club Panthers Port Macquarie.

He is facing one common assault charge and two counts of common assault, domestic violence related. He is also charged with driving with middle range PCA, and two counts of stalk or intimidate intending to cause fear of physical or mental harm.

The matter has been adjourned for two weeks to allow the off-contract NRL player’s new legal representatives to consider the charges against him. No plea has been entered.

Court documents exclusively obtained by The Mid-North Coast News detail damning allegations against the former Brisbane Broncos player, including that he allegedly punched his De facto partner in the car park of the club before allegedly speeding off in his vehicle.

An apprehended violence order (AVO) application filed by police on behalf of the alleged victim against Hopoate, allege the pair had been having dinner at Panthers Port Macquarie on the night of December 27 last year.

It alleges that at the conclusion of the meal, Hopoate entered the gaming area before his partner began messaging him via text to request that the pair leave.

When Hopoate ignored the messages, she entered the room and an argument ensued after he allegedly refused to comply with her request.

When a security guard intervened, both the guard and the victim were allegedly spat on by Hopoate. The victim was then escorted out by security.

When all parties left the club and spilled into the club‘s car park, Hopoate allegedly threatened two guards.

According to the AVO application, moments later after another argument, Hopoate allegedly punched his partner with a “right clenched fist, causing her to stumble backwards and caused her to fall to the ground some distance from where she had been hit".

Following the incident, allegedly captured on CCTV, Hopoate was allegedly seen to speed off in his car before later being arrested by police on the Oxley Highway, Port Macquarie, where he allegedly returned a blood alcohol analysis of 0.095.

Police will allege in court that Hopoate assaulted his de facto partner of six years and two other security guards on the night.

Police describe the incident in their reasons for bail as “callous and horrific in nature, given the size, strength and fitness of the accused to that of the victim”.

“Further, the accused has spat on the victim and a security guard was also spat on,” the document states.

The off-contract 26-year-old had recently returned from QLD to Sydney’s northern beaches to pursue an extension to his NRL career with another club.

Hopoate had been on the Mid-North Coast, staying with his de facto partner’s family.

Just two weeks following his arrest, on January 14, he handed himself in at Manly Police Station where he was charged with breaching his AVO and bail conditions.

Hopoate appeared in Manly Local Court on a charge of breaching an AVO (domestic) linked to the alleged December assault at Port Macquarie.

He pleaded guilty to one count of contravene restriction/prohibition in AVO.

As part of that AVO, Hopoate is not allowed to be in the company of his partner for at least 12 hours after drinking alcohol.

Court documents tendered to Manly Local Court showed that Hopoate and his patner went for a night out at the Harbord Diggers Club at Freshwater on Sunday, January 10.

They arrived at the popular club about 6pm and left about 8pm. The court heard that in that time, Hopoate drank six schooners of beer while he played the poker machines or in the club‘s Banksia Lounge.

Magistrate Bruce Williams fined Hopoate $700.

If convicted of the Port Macquarie charges, Hopoate faces being permanently rubbed out of rugby league.

The 26-year-old, who is the son of renowned rugby league star John Hopoate, had previously served a year in jail in 2014 for allegedly assaulting a man at a Sydney pub.

The matter will return to Port Macquarie Local Court on February 3, where pleas are expected to be entered.




The guys is all class. Just like his dad.

Not even a good footy player, hands like flippers, I would think this spells the end of his NRL days.

 

[Deleted member 3518]

I saw Dylan Walker had his court date set . Just a question . Is this bloke the worst human being in the NRL ? I know Matt lodge did the worst thing , but pound for pound , I’d say old Dylan would be in the debate in reckon . Blokes doing dumb stuff on the turps is just a rite of passage as a 20 something , but this guy is barely above an animal .

 

[TigerVinnie]

I saw Dylan Walker had his court date set . Just a question . Is this bloke the worst human being in the NRL ? I know Matt lodge did the worst thing , but pound for pound , I’d say old Dylan would be in the debate in reckon . Blokes doing dumb stuff on the turps is just a rite of passage as a 20 something , but this guy is barely above an animal .

Ben Barba would be close.