AFL commentator Brian Taylor has beaten up the Richmond players involved in a serious COVID-19 injury, but Channel 7 colleague and footy legend Wayne Carey sympathizes with the couple.
Tiger duo Sydney Stack and Callum Coleman-Jones are sent to Victoria and beaten 10 times after engaging in a fight outside a strip club on the Gold Coast in the early hours of Friday morning.
However, Hollywood showgirls on Orchid Ave in Surfers Paradise did not reveal any details about what happened.
“To our valued customers. What happens in Hollywood stays in Hollywood, ”the venue’s licensee Craig Duffy wrote on his Instagram page.
“We value the privacy of our customers, whether they are an unknown customer or a well-known celebrity or athlete.
“We cannot confirm or deny any fight or eviction.”
Police fined both men $ 800 each, and the AFL has fined Richmond $ 100,000 as a result of the club’s spending on the soft cap of its football division.
Brendon Gale, CEO of Tigers, accused the players of being “disrespectful” and suggested that they would be forced to spit $ 75,000 of the $ 100,000 fine for the worst quarantine violation yet.
The football world was furious with Stack and Coleman-Jones for obviously disobeying the rules that govern what players can and cannot do in their Queensland hubs. However, North Melbourne legend Wayne Carey was unwilling to sink the shoe in too far.
“I know you made a big mistake, but I can’t help but feel sorry for you,” Carey said on Seven of Brisbane’s win against Collingwood on Friday night. “Big mistake, but I feel bad for her.
“You are under all sorts of pressures and will deal with any kind of criticism. Rightly so, but I feel for her. “
Ex-Richmond and Collingwood champion Taylor wasn’t so forgiving. Earlier this month, he slammed “eligible” Footy Stars for asking too much of the AFL in quarantine and told them to just be “grateful” that they still had a job.
Last night, commentator tore Coleman-Jones and Stack to pieces.
“No fine is big enough for what the players did. And what they did is put all the competition at risk, ”he said during the pre-game broadcast of Seven.
“I feel like I say this every two or three weeks, but the players just don’t learn.
“What could you do in front of a souvlaki shop after visiting a stripper? I mean come on. “
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AFL seven reporter Tom Browne praised the AFL for quickly putting pressure on Richmond and the abusive stars, but wondered if lowering the salary cap for Tigers players would have been wiser rather than the football department’s soft cap , which also includes expenses for material and personnel such as physios and trainers.
Browne suggested that someone at the club would lose their job for the violation through no fault of their own, and asked if harsher penalties were required.
“The draft picks and even Premiership points were available there. I think that would have really hurt Richmond, ”said Browne. “Because under the soft cap – that’s the amount you can spend on Footy – this is reduced and you either get less equipment or less staff.
“A boot student or a junior graduate is unlikely to be employed by Richmond this year because those two players … it’s a shocking injury, (they) dated the Gold Coast in pretty dire circumstances.
“Why not get off the players’ salary cap, not the football department cap, because if you’re spending $ 100,000 less in a football department, you have to find it somewhere.
“Whether it’s boot straps, whether it’s boots, whether it’s balls, I’ll tell you what it will be, there will be someone less this year – a yoga teacher or something.
“What would have hurt Richmond are draft sanctions or Premiership points.”
Taylor clapped back at Browne, however, as he was less convinced that the $ 100,000 slap would automatically lead to someone being hired.
“The conversation you and I had was that someone at the Footy Club is going to lose his job because of the sanction and he’ll be taken out of the soft cap,” said Taylor.
“It doesn’t have to be a person’s position, it could be materialistic. It could be the number of soccer balls, the number of Guernseys, the amount of tape they buy each year.
“Why does the media just make it aware of someone’s job? It could be any component outside of the soccer component. “
Stack and Coleman-Jones visited a nearby kebab shop prior to their argument, and shop owner Mick Akca said the two weren’t doing anything wrong.
“They got the kebabs, sat down, started eating, then the drunk came over and got into them,” Akca told News Corp.
“They only ate their kebabs – why would you bother them?”
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