Dacked

[Tuesday]

Originally posted by Wardy
It seems that is was a slow news day at the Illawarra Mercury as this made front page news!

The Gong.
Yeah.
Nothing more need be said.

[Wardy]

Originally posted by goswannie14
BTW even I know it is spelt Tadhg [/B]

I know - I always get it wrong - why he couldnt have a normal name would be so much easier!

[Beano]

From Sport Australia
Don?t tie down Tadhg



After a bit of Irish mischief from Swans premiership star Tadgh Kennelly, the knives came out in the media. However, as Darrell Halim suggests, a bit of fun was all it was and should be regarded as.

After dacking teammate Lewis Roberts-Thompson in front of almost 400 students at a Catholic girl?s high school in Wollongong last week, Sydney Swans star Tadhg Kennelly has copped a lot for his so-called ?brain snap?, but does he really deserve to be judged so harshly?

Put simply, probably. But the Irish native has approached his inappropriate slip-up in a professional manner, immediately acknowledging his mistake and rectifying the situation as early as possible.

He should now be given a break.

It was just a matter of his sense of humour getting the better of him.

Swans spokesman Stephen Brassell, who was present at the school to witness the dacking, described Kennelly?s ?brain snap? as ?stupid?.

During a question and answer session, Roberts-Thompson was asked what his most embarrassing moment was.

Apparently there was a 15 second pause as Roberts-Thompson took some time to think up an appropriate answer.

Enter Kennelly to break the awkward silence.

?Lewis took a little while to answer and Tadhg thought ?well, I can make something funny out of this,? so he decided to pull his pants down,? said Brassell.

?It?s probably the dumbest thing I?ve ever done,? said Kennelly.

?We had been swimming previously and I knew Lewie had Speedos on, but all the same it was totally inappropriate and a very stupid thing to do,? a remorseful Kennelly told sydneyswans.com.au.

Kennelly responded by returning to the school with head coach Paul Roos and co-captain Brett Kirk first thing the following morning to apologise for his actions.

?I told the students what I did was extremely silly and disrespectful to the school and all of them individually,? the Irish-born star added.

?This is why Tadhg is here today ? because he knows he did the wrong thing and with that goes the obligation of taking the consequences of his actions,? Kirk told the students.

So not only has Kennelly apologised, he has also turned his wrong-doing into an educational lesson for these students, teaching them that they need to take full responsibility for their actions in a more general context.

Despite Tadhg?s infamous dacking incident, the Swans? 2006 Community Camps has tasted great success in the increased growth in participation and interest of Aussie Rules in the ?Gong.

[Carolyn]

Maybe that's how he deals with post-traumatic stress...pulling people's pants down...

[Eala ?ireann]

what's a 'brain-snap' anyway?

what a load of hot air! did anyone die or get injured? got forbid that some girls should see...well...nothing!

has oz lost its larikinism (or how ever that is spelt) or what?

it was just a bit of craic (and there was no crack on display as a result).

mountian/molehill.

[Eala ?ireann]

mind you, if he was at home he probably would have been arrested for indecency

he probably over-estimated aussies' easygoing rep. it's not altogether true.

i suppose stereotypes never are.

silly boy Tadhg.

[Beano]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
mind you, if he was at home he probably would have been arrested for indecency

he probably over-estimated aussies' easygoing rep. it's not altogether true.

i suppose stereotypes never are.

silly boy Tadhg.

WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL.
Some young girls saw LRT's swimming trunks. Thats what it boils down to, it wasnt an accident that he had them on.

And if he had been at home he probably would have been arrested,





serious breach of peace for exposing budgie smugglers

[katie-scarlett]

meh.
he got some teaching experience out of it.
maybe it was on purpose hehe

i wonder what colour the budgie smugglers were :roll:

[Ruda Wakening]

Originally posted by katie-scarlett

i wonder what colour the budgie smugglers were

Brown.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by giant
If this is the most evil insidious thing a Swans player does this year, it will be a quite news year.

Not his cleverest moment but strewth you'd think the planet had had a complete humour bypass given the response.

Exactly. Man, this country is getting more like the USA each day, I swear. All anal and pious all of a sudden.

I liken the over-reaction to all of this to how everyone stupidly went crazy about Janet Jackson showed her tit by mistake at a Superbowl half time show.

Is professional sport getting denuded of its characters and larrikans all in the name of "brand awareness"? Ok, the Swans have a general positive public image and are probably as media-trained and 'professional' as you'll get in the league (You've done well there Myles!).

But surely all of this is a storm in a tea-cup. It was immature and perhaps not in the best taste to do it when visiting a girls' school. Which is exactly why I like it.

I follow sport to get away from the corporate obsessed fun-challenged existance we lead during the week. Sadly with sportmen being so much of a "commodity" these days, and people refering to our club as a "brand" over all else, I'm sure Tadgh has been wrapped over the knuckles in no uncertain terms by those in high offices at Driver Avenue.

Because remember, the more indiscretions our players mate, the less chance we will have of having people driving a Ford or signing up for QBE or Citbank after seeing their logos on our guernseys.... You get my drift here?

JF

[Tuesday]

Would there have been the degree of uproar if it was performed at a school other than a catholic girls school?

I was over this last Friday. You'd think those in the Gong would have at least developed a sense of 'umour to deal with life down there.

Meh.

[Xie Shan]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
mountian/molehill.

Exactly...except for the dodgy spelling, but I'll forgive you.

To be fair most of us on RWO have already recognised this for what it is - much ado about very little on an oh, so slow news day.

I'm surprised this thread has lasted 4 pages.

[Eala ?ireann]

This is a wee hint as to how to remember the correct spelling of Mr Kennelly's name.

In Irish, the letter h, when it comes after a consonant, changes its sound. In this case it makes it silent. The name is pronounced 'tag' as in what was sticking out of the back of LRTs obscene @@@@stickers.

Therefore, if the h has silenced the d, the g must be at the end. T.A.D.H.G.

Mmm...I've probably just complicated matters there really, eh?

[Beano]

Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
This is a wee hint as to how to remember the correct spelling of Mr Kennelly's name.

In Irish, the letter h, when it comes after a consonant, changes its sound. In this case it makes it silent. The name is pronounced 'tag' as in what was sticking out of the back of LRTs obscene @@@@stickers.

Therefore, if the h has silenced the d, the g must be at the end. T.A.D.H.G.

Mmm...I've probably just complicated matters there really, eh?

gabh mo leithsc?al a Chara.
But it would actually be pronounced, Tige, as in Tiger without the R.
Sorry to be so fastidious.
Sl

[Wardy]

Originally posted by Beano
gabh mo leithsc?al a Chara.
But it would actually be pronounced, Tige, as in Tiger without the R.
Sorry to be so fastidious.
Sl?n

yeah well whatever - I still cant spell it properly - but no one is perfect!