NZRU to get Guildford help
16 Nov 2011
All Blacks winger Zac Guidlford will get help for his drinking problem but could still be punished by the NZRU for misconduct following the recent events on the Cook Islands.
Guildford returned to New Zealand on Wednesday after being released by the Cook Islands police. The 22-year-old was reported to have assaulted elderly patrons at a Rarotonga bar while naked late last week. He also verbally abused a Cook Islands triathlete while she was on a training run on the island. Both incidents occurred while Guildford was heavily intoxicated.
The New Zealand Rugby Union has said that they will not tolerate this kind of behaviour, but at the same time are determined to get the young man the help he needs.
‘From an employer’s perspective, the events in Rarotonga have been incredibly disappointing and Zac needs to be accountable for his actions,’ NZRU general manager of professional rugby Neil Sorensen said in a statement. ‘This will involve Zac going through our misconduct process over the coming weeks.
‘However, it is fairly clear that there are some very big issues involved here, and rugby cannot provide all the solutions on our own. We are working with a professional counselling organisation which will provide guidance and input as to the next steps for the coming days, weeks and months.’
The latest drunken blowout is not the first for Guildford. He admitted on Wednesday that he needs to make a change to his destructive lifestyle.
‘The last few months I have had a bit of a problem with drinking and I need to address that, and all I can do now is move forward and put some positive steps in place with a good support group I have,’ Guildford said. ‘My actions were not that of a professional sportsman, which I’m disappointed with. I just want to get home and sort myself out.’
30 Comments
16 Nov 2011, 09:22 am
dont drink….ever again…you simply cant kid
16 Nov 2011, 09:47 am
@grant10(grant10)-1: he is a step ahead of you grantie..
“I accept that myself and alcohol at the moment don’t mix too well, obviously it switches something inside me and that’s disappointing but at the moment I’m giving it up and just looking to better myself and sort out issues that obviously go on when I do drink.
“I have to. I mean I’ve got a lot of fans out there and my family and as I said my support crew and I can’t keep messing up, I think I owe them and myself a long time off the booze and a better and healthy future.
“I guess it’ll be a bit different from what I’m used to. It’s always good to go out and have a few drinks with mates but obviously at times you go overboard so for me giving it up it’s only a small sacrifice, my job is to play rugby and to be a role model and I want to start doing that.”
16 Nov 2011, 09:50 am
honestly this is no joke…
seen a few people who had this problem…
it’s horrbile & people get hurt for life.. specially kids..
HELP him – he needs it… he can’t cope…
16 Nov 2011, 09:54 am
@grant10(grant10)-1:
I take it you are referring to Cane, Gloater, Chokerman or whatever he calls himself nowadays
16 Nov 2011, 10:00 am
@Staal(Staal)-3:
Not too sure Staal. There is a difference between alcoholism and binge drinking and I think ol Zackie suffers from the latter.
Alcoholism is a disease, binge drinking is a social plague.
Now binge drinking and acting like a moron, like ol Zackie did, deserves no sympathy… just a good old snot klap to sort out.
Life skill courses and all that garbage dont work on binge drinkers… just ask Hershelle
16 Nov 2011, 10:02 am
Good on him. I’ll back him all the way. Anyone who’s seen the effects of alcoholism first hand will testify to how destructive it can be.
16 Nov 2011, 10:06 am
@Bod(bod)-5: bod to be honest… i am not a specialty on alcoholism..
but please keep in mind that there are more than 1 form of alcoholism…
certain people will go weeks without taking any but it builds up to a point and then they go overboard…
clinically that’s alcoholism and they can’t help themselves…
pity…
16 Nov 2011, 10:14 am
@Staal(Staal)-7:
Boederick is more your maintenance style of alkie.
He just keeps his levels topped up.
16 Nov 2011, 10:16 am
@Staal(Staal)-7:
De acuerdo (agreed), thats why I am sure Zackie aint no alcoholic, just an idiot who binge drinks regularly and just cant handle his booze.
I am certainly no expert here but it must be very difficult… if not impossible to be both an alcoholic and a top level international sportsman, at the peak of your fitness, at the same time.
Its too much on the body..
Maybe I am wrong
16 Nov 2011, 10:20 am
@Gunther(gunther)-8: Aaaah guntertjie.
I notice it took the subject of booze to get you out of your hole this morning
16 Nov 2011, 10:33 am
@Bod(bod)-9:
stop showing off with your builders Spanish.
I was up conquering the world whilst you were still dreaming of young Basque men in tights.
16 Nov 2011, 10:40 am
@Gunther(gunther)-11:
I can see that…. showing your age again
No mas “Basque” men, thats so 80′s and 90′s and non Spanish. Ahora este dos mil once and “Pais Vasco’ites” is the buzzword.
Or even simpler… F*cking ETA Terrs
16 Nov 2011, 10:56 am
Bod is a cane and water guy. Doesn’t smell of much, and he can hang around the water cooler sipping it from a paper cup while trying to land an office hottie. Bear in mind, the office is a zozo-hut site office, so the term hottie is pretty relative.
16 Nov 2011, 11:01 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-13:
Indeed.
It’s no coincidence that el bodo’s arrival in spain coincides neatly with a terminal decline in it’s building industry.
still he should keep the lycra manufacturing sector happy.
16 Nov 2011, 11:05 am
@Gunther(gunther)-14: Hard to believe that, until a few months ago, El Budgie Smugolero did not exist in Cataluña.
16 Nov 2011, 11:10 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-15:
Indeed the only small shrivelled sausage they knew was chorico.
poor basterauds.
16 Nov 2011, 11:14 am
Oh, you two are so out of touch.
Bod made his millions in the industry meaning he could retire before his half century and settle in a land begging for his skills to assist reform.
No mas construcion…. thats for boneheads and almost as bad as graphic design.
Nope. Politics and mountain biking it is. Watch out world…
16 Nov 2011, 11:16 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-13: What is he trying to land in the office?? You filthy racist!!!!
16 Nov 2011, 11:16 am
ahem.
chorizo.
16 Nov 2011, 11:18 am
@Gunther(gunther)-16: Ja, Bod was accustomed to boerewors, and then he lands up with chorico.
‘Spain in the arse, man.
16 Nov 2011, 11:31 am
@>^..^< katman(katman)-20:
What can I say.
He is a wors of nature.
16 Nov 2011, 15:28 pm
He needs help but also does not need favourtism.Charges need to pressed and he needs to face the law.If he killed a kid on a scooter would he also not have been charged?
16 Nov 2011, 19:37 pm
Seems from afar his issue is that for him, one drink comes in 12 glasses. That is to say, he cannot practice moderation. In such a case, it’s simply better not to drink, because the first drink of the night is never the only drink.
He needs all the help he can get, but he also needs to realise there’s consequences to his actions (that he’s currently not being exposed to).
16 Nov 2011, 20:33 pm
WoW…I am immensely impressed by my brothers in Bokkeland…you are showing your true humanitarian hearts and giving your support to Zac who obviously is a 22 year still getting over the death of his father and trying to drink it away. Good on the NZRFU for supporting him and getting him help. Thanks guys, I know I trot off at the mouth sometimes – especially when some of you have a dig at little ole NZ but on this occasion, thumbs up people…merry xmas to you all
16 Nov 2011, 20:52 pm
@JohnPaul(JohnPaul)-24:
His father died 3 years ago you plonker, that is a poor excuse for a p isshead. Its the youth culture bud, you see it in SA, Oz and in NZ bigtime
And open your other eye, you keewees are very quick to have a dig at SA, so suck it up and move on………
16 Nov 2011, 23:22 pm
@whatever(whatever)-25: As usual, clueless, idea less, arrogant type trying so hard to sound like man……which has been going on for a long time.
16 Nov 2011, 23:29 pm
@whatever(whatever)-25: Your the sort of tough talking guy who would lose their budgie to the neighbour’s cat and end up blubbering all over your mates shoulder after a couple of drinks.
16 Nov 2011, 23:57 pm
@whatever(whatever)-25: wow lose a parent and thats a sad excuse to turn to alchohol? i wish we could all be perfect like you.
your all heart.
17 Nov 2011, 00:32 am
Hey WHATEVER…as the expression goes….WHATEVER…get over yourself mate, obviously you have never grieved for anything…so that figures. And I only dig at Saffers like yourself who think the world owes you a favour….thankfully not all Saffers are like you…pillock
17 Nov 2011, 07:38 am
A sober man’s thoughts are a drunk man’s actions…
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