Ezra Mam

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

Lots of worthwhile comments on this post. It's clear from being a multiple offender he hasn't learnt his lessons and is more than likely going to re offend. My best friend lost his 27 year old son to a driver, who had lost his license, was speeding, had drugs in his system and T boned my friends sons car killing him instantly. Another case where the offender should have Been doing time to learn from his prior offences. After the death of my friends son, the driver got 6 years with 4 years non parole. That was also grossly inadequate. Mam absolutely should be doing time...12 months minimum as a re offender. And the NRL should have as a minimum doubled Pearces and Lenuis over the top suspensions and given Mam 16 weeks.

Well said. If you asked 100 people in the street whether 4 years prison was appropriate given the circumstances you described, I reckon more than 95 would say "absolutely not". The courts are completely out of touch with the expectations of society.

[Chook2]

Crazy in todays day and age a person saying a name after being provoked and tried to apologise cops the same sentence as an unlicensed - drug and alcohol multiple offender who almost killed innocent people

all this will do as it’s been mentioned it make Mam be public enemy number 1 and turn everyone off him
should be stood down for 1 year min

the sentence he got is discusting for the act he did

[gragra]

Lots of worthwhile comments on this post. It's clear from being a multiple offender he hasn't learnt his lessons and is more than likely going to re offend. My best friend lost his 27 year old son to a driver, who had lost his license, was speeding, had drugs in his system and T boned my friends sons car killing him instantly. Another case where the offender should have Been doing time to learn from his prior offences. After the death of my friends son, the driver got 6 years with 4 years non parole. That was also grossly inadequate. Mam absolutely should be doing time...12 months minimum as a re offender. And the NRL should have as a minimum doubled Pearces and Lenuis over the top suspensions and given Mam 16 weeks.

[dice]

9 weeks. What a joke

NRL making it clear that being stoned on multiple substances, unlicensed, and injuring a four-year old and mother, is a more serious offence than Leniu insulting someone who was antagonising him

[ism22]

The law should have handled this with a harsher penalty.

If for nothing else, let’s hope this means he will never put other people’s lives at risk by getting behind the wheel under the influence. Should be enough to scare most people from doing it and getting their life in order.

if he does that, I’ll call it a good result.

It's one reason why I think that a Singapore style approach to drug possession/usage is more effective than hippies would like us to think.

Though I appreciate that 30 years in prison for having a joint on you is stupid, I reckon a hard line should be drawn. Something along the lines of... the cops/courts don't give a shyte if an old f@rt enjoys a midnight toke in his backyard (with no kids around...etc). However if you get busted with a 'cocktail' of hard drugs in your system, while driving around recklessly and being a farking d!ckhead then I reckon the law should be along the lines of 'we ignored your private usage but as soon as you got behind that wheel, your protection was gaaaawnski!!! You're doing time brother and doing a rehab plan isn't you being a good dude... it's COMPULSORY as part of your punishment!!!'

If I belonged to the Drongos' management then one of my questions would be... 'how did you get this shyte? You must be connected with dealers... who else was using with you?!? We can ignore the odd party by when we're failing to make the 8 and you guys don't even give a shyte then gimme one good reason not to sack you all!!!! No like dead set mate, YOU went and said that Leniu's behaviour was shyte and we backed you... why should we accept your apology for making us look like absolute shyte both on and off the field?!?'

[milanja]

The law should have handled this with a harsher penalty.

If for nothing else, let’s hope this means he will never put other people’s lives at risk by getting behind the wheel under the influence. Should be enough to scare most people from doing it and getting their life in order.

if he does that, I’ll call it a good result.

[HunchoRooster]

9 weeks, such a random number. Almost like they wanted to give him more than Spencer did for monkeygate to avoid mass criticism and hypocrisy (which they've failed to do). End of the day it's still the News Corp Broncos we are talking about here so no more than that extra week... lol.

NRL doing him no favors. He will be targeted by fans going forward and will have the court of public opinion offside with him for many years to come. As opposed to both the player and NRL accepting criticism for the laughable way this has been handled, a certain card will be played instead I have no doubt.

[Swamptrout]

9 weeks is a joke but I would be more p1ssed if he got less than spencer.

[Batemans Bay Rooster]

9 weeks. What a joke

[QWERTY]

Read somewhere that the NRL will be suspending him for 9 weeks (one more week then Leniu what a joke). Will try to find source again.

[mightyrooster]

They were saying on radio today that the little Broncos crybaby has a fairly abhorrent driving record for a 21 year, been done multiple times for a raft of offences. Yet (the obvious broncos/thoroughbred loving) judge say fit to overlook that and hit him with a feather. Hopefully karma bites him right on the butt, because regardless of whatever empty words or action he spews he is such an arrogant FIGJAM that it's only a matter of if not when he stuffs up again.

An absolute joke. I just read he’s already had 3 prior suspensions for speeding, using a mobile phone and driving through a red light. I wonder how many more chances he’s going to get to drive safely and appropriately before a harsher sentence is delivered?

[Bondicigar]

Ezra has had plenty of chances but wouldn't except an apology off spencer .
He takes second chances but don't give them.
poor form

his ptsd won't heal until he admits it's from the 2023 grand final not the racial slur...

[John Corey]

Obviously roosters related because of the persecution of Spencer Leniu.

Secondary drug test positive.

Interestingly the police charges are driving while on drugs, driving while unlicensed and "failure to maintain control of a vehicle", which I understand is a traffic violation and not a criminal offence.

Even though he caused a serious head on and broke a 4 year old girl's hip and injured her mother and the uber driver.

This sounds like a stitch up - AGAIN.

Why not charge with dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm?

What a lucky and dare I say PRIVILEGED young man.

I suggest there were some serious and inappropriate behind the scenes negotiations going on here - the whole thing was strange how he wasn't charged with anything until now.

Drink driving and drug driving are criminal offences.

[Funky Chicken]

They were saying on radio today that the little Broncos crybaby has a fairly abhorrent driving record for a 21 year, been done multiple times for a raft of offences. Yet (the obvious broncos/thoroughbred loving) judge say fit to overlook that and hit him with a feather. Hopefully karma bites him right on the butt, because regardless of whatever empty words or action he spews he is such an arrogant FIGJAM that it's only a matter of if not when he stuffs up again.

[player 1]

IMO it'll be minimal. The sooner we accept that he's simply not gonna be punished is probably the better as there's no use letting some random grub get inside our heads.

His brigading last year was misplaced IMO. Also he got off VERY lightly for what he did to that little girl (with zero sympathy, all after taking the whole high ground over a far less serious matter with his whole 'no apology will undo the damage of calling me a monkey... do better son... blah blah blah' bullcr@p).

Doesn't matter to me if he can push a mate's wheelbarrow for a couple of days while banking $1.2m a year for it. The bloke's a massive hypocrite and coulda killed people with his actions. For him the bar's set pretty low in terms of how he could 'do better'...

That said, I almost liken it to the drama around May being released. It's all white noise that no longer matters to us. It's done... a decision has been made... we just need to accept it and move on as there's nothing else that can be done now.

Yes if I had my way Mam woulda done time and been banned from the NRL. However you've gotta remember that V'landys is more likely to ban kick-offs and dominant tackles than he is to ban a grub for driving recklessly with no license, 'a cocktail of drugs' in his system and by sheer luck not facing multiple homicides. He's a racing industry grub who only pretends to care shyte when it gives him bad media publicity. In this case the QLD media are happy to ignore all of this as they always protect their local footy team. If he lived in Sydney then he'd be faaaarked...

Sums it up perfectly.

One of your better posts.