This story has been in the headlines over here the last few days and its really getting up my nose.
The whole thing is actually getting right up my nose.
I mean, it happened 7 years ago and the girl's work mates have said she was a *rugby hussy* (she liked going out and hitting on rugby/footy players) and that she bragged about the incident back then, giving them plenty of details.
Now, she's on TV saying that she wants to "kill those guys for what they did to her, and take a gun and shoot them".
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The allegations were made on the Monday night episode of ABC’s Four Corners. The woman, whose identity has been kept closed, was 19 years old when the hideous act was committed.
She gave a very graphic description of the incident on TV, saying that she worked as a waitress at the hotel where the players were staying. At least two players were named, Matthew Johns and Brett Firman, both played for the Cronulla Sharks at the time. The woman alleged that she had sex with at least six men while another six watched.
“They were massive, like big rugby players. I felt that I just had no idea what to do. There was always hands on me,” she said. “I thought I was worthless, and I thought I was nothing. I think I was in shock. I didn’t scream. They used a lot of mental power over me and belittled me.”
“If I had a gun, I’d shoot them right now,” she said. “I hate them. They’re disgusting.”
After the incident, she did complain to the local authorities but the players and the staff were not charged as they alleged that it was consensual. She has now come out of the shell because ’she wants the wives and girlfriends of the players to know what they did.’
Matthew Johns, who was one of the most popular rugby players in the league at that time, gave a press conference a week ago in response to the allegations made by the woman.
“Any trauma and embarrassment she has gone through as the result of this incident I am extremely sorry for,” Johns told the Nine Network. “At no point did she object to what was going on, at no stage was she under any distress.”
Johns was immediately fired from his current job as a sports newscaster and an assistant rugby coach.
Although the men involved, have still maintained their ‘not guilty, but sorry’ stance, the NRL on it’s behalf, did apologize for the inappropriate behavior of their players.
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I feel bad for Matty Johns because he has lost both his jobs and his reputation has been smeared, but his wife is standing by him.
I found this little gem...
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Meanwhile former rugby league coach and noted sports writer Roy Masters says group sex has been used as a "vehicle of team bonding".
In his 2006 book Bad Boys, Masters wrote frankly about how group sex was a way to create closer bonds between team-mates.
"I don't think it plays any role at all now, but in the past there could be little doubt that a girl that might've accommodated three or four players," he told Four Corners.
"It was all part of players becoming a closer-knit unit, for want of a better word."
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