Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:01 pm  

Lebron James wrote:

If we banned rugby players for having a bit of a brawl off the pitch there would be no players left

Regards

King James

Quite. ...back in the day players like Bobbie Goulding were allowed a bit of community service after a street brawl and a GBH charge.

The games gone soft. ..

Regards. ...

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Tue Jan 03, 2017 2:20 am  

The only reason he was charged is because of his high profile.
This is how cousins say hello in Cherbourg.
He has always said he has to stay out of Cherbourg because everyone wants to take him down a peg or two for being successful - which is a sad indictment on a community that has always had a massive chip on it's shoulder, since the days it was a mission station.

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Tue Jan 03, 2017 7:51 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

What a waste of talent.

That 1st 30 minutes at Wigan last season was the most sublime performance.
If he had stayed at the Wire and concentrated on the RL he could have gone onto have been one of Super Leagues all time greats.
Whilst I'm angry at the way he treated us fans and the Club, it's such a shame at what could have been.

I think you are spot on. For such a mixed up fellow the injury and being out of the game for so long, miles from home, wasn't good for Sandow. I've seen a few waste talent over the years but this one really takes some beating.

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Tue Jan 03, 2017 12:19 pm  

Someone will no doubt take offence and call racism on this, but, Sandow is following the same path as many young, uber talented aboriginal kids have done in the past) - there's something culturally and socially that seems to impact their ability to focus on their career and professionalism - there are deep routed ties to their local communities, which are usually not the best environment for a professional athlete to thrive, whether that be as a result of behavioural issues or other vices like drink, drugs, gambling.... All something Sandow has struggled with quite publically.

My understanding is that this video is not the result of a dispute, but is actually a pre-arranged 'prize fight' that the locals then gamble on - he's been involved in a few over the last couple of weeks. Pretty common place in the community. Madness.....

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:14 pm  

Not a great career choice but that fight doesn't look that bad, he has not randomly attacked someone or stamped on his head. It all looks in good sport just two blokes throwing punches

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Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:20 pm  

Well, I think he is just a poor boy and his story's seldom told,
He has squandered his resistance
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises
All lies and jests
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest.

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Wed Jan 04, 2017 2:55 pm  

You missed this out....
Asking only workman's wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Poplars Avenue

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Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Wed Jan 04, 2017 4:17 pm  

Well done. I did actually consider it, but decided that £210,000 py was stretching the credibility of 'workman's wages'.

Then I'm throwing out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the British winters
Aren't bleeding me
Leading me
Going home

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:40 am  

There is a Fight Club in Cherbourg. In recent years the fights of that club have been regularly videod. This is another of those with one of the fighters being Chris Sandow.

Maybe this is what he was missing while he was living up here?

Re: Sandow - Street Fighting : Thu Jan 05, 2017 11:48 am  

Superted wrote:

Someone will no doubt take offence and call racism on this, but, Sandow is following the same path as many young, uber talented aboriginal kids have done in the past) - there's something culturally and socially that seems to impact their ability to focus on their career and professionalism - there are deep routed ties to their local communities, which are usually not the best environment for a professional athlete to thrive, whether that be as a result of behavioural issues or other vices like drink, drugs, gambling.... All something Sandow has struggled with quite publically.

My understanding is that this video is not the result of a dispute, but is actually a pre-arranged 'prize fight' that the locals then gamble on - he's been involved in a few over the last couple of weeks. Pretty common place in the community. Madness.....

It's not racism mate. It's the results of a generation of children stolen from their hunter gatherer Aboriginal communities and forced to live in these little Westernised towns and forced to speak English and forced to work for flour and water. A few generations later, these communities have done surprisingly well for themselves considering what they had to go through and the fact their are no jobs and no prospects for many people living in them. But there are still deep lying problems, as you'd expect with a lack of things to do and no money leading to fight clubs, gambling, alcoholism, drug taking and dealing etc.