Another football season has arrived and for some reason all that was talked about on last nights footy show was player behaviour off the field. I am not sure why this is a big deal but it appears to be one. It is such a big deal that certain people are calling for a complete players ban on alcohol. I don’t understand how anyone thinks that this is a viable solution.

How would this be enforced? What are they going to do? Pop random breath tests on a Saturday night while a player is sitting at home watching other teams play having played himself the night before. Are they serious? You play Friday night and train Saturday morning and you do not have the right to sit in your own home and have a beer while watching the game?

I know this is not the sort of behaviour they are trying to stop but it is the majority of behaviour that occurs. There are 272 individuals who will play every weekend and this year there has been 2 incidents over a four week trial period so far. That is an occurrence a staggering 0.18% of the time! Yep lets ban players from alcohol for that…. even better lets just ban rugby league totally.

What are we banning next? Perhaps some of these media people should put there own hands up for an alcohol ban, they are also role models, in a sick and twisted sort of way. Come on Ray Hadless, Come on Phil Gould, Come on (it hurts me to say) Fatty, if you are going to talk the talk its time you walked the walk. I am absolutely sure there are people out there who can come up with some pretty bad and shocking true stories about you blokes in your youth. Oh wait a minute, oh hang on, that’s right, you blokes are hipster-hypocrites who don’t seem to remember the smell of your own turds. It sure seems the current smell is so bad that it has well and truly cancelled out your own.