Friend and Earl in court

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FORMER rugby league star Jake Friend allegedly started a brawl in a city nightclub which ended with a young woman being punched in the face by his Sydney Roosters teammate Sandor Earl, a court has heard.

Friend and Earl, both 20, are facing a hearing in Downing Centre Local Court in relation to the alleged assault at Tank nightclub on June 28 last year.

The players were at the club with other teammates celebrating a win over Cronulla when the scuffle broke out at about 3.25am.

Nearby, Kristy Bradley, niece of ABC commentator David Morrow, was having her 21st birthday party with her brother, former Manly and West Tigers centre Nick Bradley-Qalilawa, and friends.

Police Prosecutor Daniel McMahon told the court Friend started the scuffle between the groups by approaching and then punching Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

He said CCTV footage from the club shows Ms Bradley falling to the ground shortly after, when a blow connects with her face.

Although the person who dealt the blow was not captured on film, Mr McMahon said the punch was thrown by Earl, who then allegedly "surged" across the field of the camera to strike Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

Both Friend and Earl have pleaded not guilty to the allegations.

The hearing continues

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Cheers Buzz.

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To infinity and beyond.................................best thing to ever come out of your mouth................

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FORMER rugby league star Jake Friend allegedly started a brawl in a city nightclub which ended with a young woman being punched in the face by his Sydney Roosters teammate Sandor Earl, a court has heard.

Friend and Earl, both 20, are facing a hearing in Downing Centre Local Court in relation to the alleged assault at Tank nightclub on June 28 last year.

The players were at the club with other teammates celebrating a win over Cronulla when the scuffle broke out at about 3.25am.

Nearby, Kristy Bradley, niece of ABC commentator David Morrow, was having her 21st birthday party with her brother, former Manly and West Tigers centre Nick Bradley-Qalilawa, and friends.

Police Prosecutor Daniel McMahon told the court Friend started the scuffle between the groups by approaching and then punching Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

He said CCTV footage from the club shows Ms Bradley falling to the ground shortly after, when a blow connects with her face.

Although the person who dealt the blow was not captured on film, Mr McMahon said the punch was thrown by Earl, who then allegedly "surged" across the field of the camera to strike Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

Both Friend and Earl have pleaded not guilty to the allegations.

The hearing continues

wheres that ****en harbour bridge you sold me shitfabrains

[Guest]

FORMER rugby league star Jake Friend allegedly started a brawl in a city nightclub which ended with a young woman being punched in the face by his Sydney Roosters teammate Sandor Earl, a court has heard.

Friend and Earl, both 20, are facing a hearing in Downing Centre Local Court in relation to the alleged assault at Tank nightclub on June 28 last year.

The players were at the club with other teammates celebrating a win over Cronulla when the scuffle broke out at about 3.25am.

Nearby, Kristy Bradley, niece of ABC commentator David Morrow, was having her 21st birthday party with her brother, former Manly and West Tigers centre Nick Bradley-Qalilawa, and friends.

Police Prosecutor Daniel McMahon told the court Friend started the scuffle between the groups by approaching and then punching Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

He said CCTV footage from the club shows Ms Bradley falling to the ground shortly after, when a blow connects with her face.

Although the person who dealt the blow was not captured on film, Mr McMahon said the punch was thrown by Earl, who then allegedly "surged" across the field of the camera to strike Mr Bradley-Qalilawa.

Both Friend and Earl have pleaded not guilty to the allegations.

The hearing continues

I see no mention of the fact these morons were drinking with the players at Easts Leagues after the win and proceeded to either follow them to Tank or go with them to Tank.

I do not condone what happened one bit, but there is a bigger picture that should be looked at here.

[supermario]

yeah it was quiet funny seeing Ms morrows party being kicked out of easts on the night of the event.

[Guest]

yeah it was quiet funny seeing Ms morrows party being kicked out of easts on the night of the event.

exactly muzza, whats to say the trouble didnt start there, surely it wasnt a co-incidence all these fools ended up at Tank together at 3.45 am.

Why is tank exempted from any blame here, when i left the club the players were pissed, and ms morrows party if indeed it is the same one i am thinking off looked like they were worse for wear, for the guys at Tank to

A. let them in
B. serve them more alcohol

surely that breaches the liquor act and breachs duty of care

She was hit from a stray pucnh that nobody knows who threw it.

Harden the **** up ms morrow

[Guest]

Gotta love the headline in the TeluCrap today....."ROOSTER PUNCHED WOMAN, COURT TOLD"
Both of the men involved are no longer with the club...why couldnt it have been...EARL PUNCHED WOMAN?
Im sick of the rooster bashing from that mob

[Guest]

Gotta love the headline in the TeluCrap today....."ROOSTER PUNCHED WOMAN, COURT TOLD"
Both of the men involved are no longer with the club...why couldnt it have been...EARL PUNCHED WOMAN?
Im sick of the rooster bashing from that mob

The newspaper has to sell. If they said "Earl punched woman" most people would say who's Earl.

[Pass the Ball]

I think it is still fair to ask who is Earl...???

Then, how the fark did he play first-grade at Easts..??

The guy that replaced him (Iwi Hiaraki???) - Is he still at the club? Was he a Brian Smith Parramatta player???

[Guest]

The newspaper has to sell. If they said "Earl punched woman" most people would say who's Earl.

[Guest]

lol very good.

[Billy Gunn]

I reckon he would be a better winger than Sandor.....

[Guest]

That wouldn't be hard.

[Headless Chook]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...-1225829203144

Jake Friend and Sandor Earl club brawl attack details questioned
Larissa Cummings From: The Daily Telegraph February 11, 2010 2:23PM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share Add to Digg Add to del.icio.us Add to Facebook Add to Kwoff Add to Myspace Add to Newsvine What are these?

Alleged brawl and assault ... Former Sydney Roosters players Jake Friend and Sandor Earl outside Downing Centre court. Picture: Ross Schultz Source: The Daily Telegraph
KRISTY Bradley may have been accidentally kneed in the head by her cousin rather than punched by NRL player Sandor Earl, a court has heard.

A gruelling cross-examination of Ms Bradley's cousin, Nick Bradley-Qalilawa, has also revealed Earl's Roosters teammate, Jake Friend, may not have been anywhere near the nightclub brawl he is alleged to have started.

Earl and Friend have pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mr Bradley-Qalilawa at Tank nightclub in the early hours of June 28 last year.

Earl has also denied throwing a punch at Ms Bradley, the niece of ABC rugby league caller David Morrow, which knocked her off her feet.

In the second day of a hearing in Downing Centre Local Court, CCTV footage played in slow motion showed Ms Bradley appearing to intervene in a confrontation between her cousin and a group of men police allege included Earl and Friend.

Most of the fight is off-camera, however Ms Bradley, who was celebrating her 21st birthday at the club, can be seen collapsing after being hit by an unidentified person who police allege was Earl.

Mr Bradley-Qalilawa is also apparently punched by an unidentified person wearing a light-coloured shirt.

After showing the footage in court, counsel for Earl, Michael Barko, asked Mr Bradley-Qalilawa if he remembered Earl trying to stop the fight before it began by saying: "Give it up. There's six of us, forget it."

He also suggested Earl pushed Mr Bradley-Qalilawa away.

"No, that didn't happen," Mr Bradley Qalilawa said.

Mr Barko then asked if he had accidentally kneed his cousin in the head as she knelt on the ground, which Mr Bradley-Qalilawa denied.

"Your knees collide with the head region of Ms Bradley and send her sprawling," Mr Barko put to him.

"No," he replied.

Friend's lawyer, Clive Steirn, SC, also played the CCTV to Mr Bradley-Qalilawa and suggested Friend was wearing a distinctive black jacket and cannot be seen in the footage until the fight is over.

Mr Bradley-Qalilawa said he couldn't remember what Friend was wearing on the night and he couldn't be sure the person in the dark jacket was Friend because he had his back to the camera.

The hearing continues//////


Interesting......