Which team in which sport has banned body ink? Rugby League aces the Sydney City Roosters' Chief executive Steve Noyce has confirmed that the in-season banning of players getting tattoos is an initiative that comes from the club's high-performance unit. "We've found it can affect their ability to train at 100 per cent," Noyce said.
One Roosters player, BJ Leilua, has recently experienced a bad reaction to painkillers and created a scene in the Sydney Football Stadium car park. This response had not actually been confirmed to be linked in any way to the presence of recently-acquired body ink, but demonstrates how this issue of a tattoo-ban is being reported in the news-hungry press here in Oz.
Australian papers have generous quantities of newsprint (and now virtual space) dedicated to sports, with soccer struggling to find space, even for the national side (who scraped past Thailand 2-1 in their first World Cup Qualifier on Friday in Brisbane) alongside the onrushing Rugby World Cup, and the latter stages of the rugby league & Australian Rules Football seasons: a far cry from soccer-centric Scotland!
This has been an eye-opener for the Scotland squad (many of whom sport tattoos by the way), although a few of them have enjoyed the last day of the regular season for the NRL (rugby league) competition this weekend at Skilled Park (Titans v Eels) & Suncorp Stadium for Darren Lockyer's final home match for the Brisbane Broncos against Manly Sea-Eagles in front of a record near-51000 spectators. Except it won't be as the post-season begins with a home match for the victorious Broncos against NZ Warriors next weekend anyhow.
For which there will be even more newsprint generated in sports-mad Australia!
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One Roosters player, BJ Leilua, has recently experienced a bad reaction to painkillers and created a scene in the Sydney Football Stadium car park. This response had not actually been confirmed to be linked in any way to the presence of recently-acquired body ink, but demonstrates how this issue of a tattoo-ban is being reported in the news-hungry press here in Oz.
Australian papers have generous quantities of newsprint (and now virtual space) dedicated to sports, with soccer struggling to find space, even for the national side (who scraped past Thailand 2-1 in their first World Cup Qualifier on Friday in Brisbane) alongside the onrushing Rugby World Cup, and the latter stages of the rugby league & Australian Rules Football seasons: a far cry from soccer-centric Scotland!
For which there will be even more newsprint generated in sports-mad Australia!
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