Opinion

It’s hard to beat a sporting Cinderella story. Leicester winning the English Premier League in 2016, a baby-faced Boris Becker at Wimbledon in 1985 and our own Michael Campbell cradling the US Open golf trophy in 2005. Maybe this year the NRL could write its own, by picking up a battered and bruised Cinderella and putting her back on her feet?

This week the NRL’s name and reputation was dragged over the sideline for yet another incident involving violence towards women. I wonder how many clubs and players are following in the verbal footsteps of the irate section of society, feeling unfairly persecuted? #Notallmen? Not this time guys. This will take all of you.

I feel for the NRL bosses, I really do. Without GPS tracking, minders, mentors, mothers and partners watching their every move, certain players will do dumb things. They are human. Bosses are also human, but it shouldn’t take a dominant tackle by shame and embarrassment

...an unhealthy culture is embedded in NRL clubs.