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Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling is free to train and play round one

Tom Starling had six of seven charges dropped by NSW police at Gosford Local Court on Thursday, following his arrest at a Central Coast restaurant last December. The 22-year-old entered a not guilty plea to the remaining charge of resisting arrest which will be next heard on March 11, the same day the 2021 season kicks off.

He will be permitted to continue training with Canberra and be available for round one selection according to the NRL. He is not subject to the no fault stand down policy.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/01/22/sta ... round-one/
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Yesterday I read an article about this in the SMH and wrote a comment in the comment box. Within a short time the comment box was removed,and remains removed.

I was born and raised in rural NSW, at a time and place where Aussie "Jim Crow"laws were routinely enforced. No drinking with whites in pub bars, no swimming in public pools, restricted areas in picture theatres, etc. Seeing aboriginal kids and older people treated the way Curtis Scott and, seemingly, Tom Starling have been treated was a commonplace. Except charges were NEVER dropped.

Seems that NSW Police have improved in one small way. They are no longer racist in who they decide to fit up.
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Cranky Old Man wrote: January 22, 2021, 11:57 am Yesterday I read an article about this in the SMH and wrote a comment in the comment box. Within a short time the comment box was removed,and remains removed.

I was born and raised in rural NSW, at a time and place where Aussie "Jim Crow"laws were routinely enforced. No drinking with whites in pub bars, no swimming in public pools, restricted areas in picture theatres, etc. Seeing aboriginal kids and older people treated the way Curtis Scott and, seemingly, Tom Starling have been treated was a commonplace. Except charges were NEVER dropped.

Seems that NSW Police have improved in one small way. They are no longer racist in who they decide to fit up.
Used to happen in country Queensland only 20 years ago too, Cranky. My best mate used to get the absolute piss flogged out of him by cops when we'd go out drinking, whereas I'd only ever get escorted to a nice cell and sent home the next day with a warning.

Only difference between the two of us was colour of our skin.
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Cranky Old Man wrote: January 22, 2021, 11:57 am Yesterday I read an article about this in the SMH and wrote a comment in the comment box. Within a short time the comment box was removed,and remains removed.

I was born and raised in rural NSW, at a time and place where Aussie "Jim Crow"laws were routinely enforced. No drinking with whites in pub bars, no swimming in public pools, restricted areas in picture theatres, etc. Seeing aboriginal kids and older people treated the way Curtis Scott and, seemingly, Tom Starling have been treated was a commonplace. Except charges were NEVER dropped.

Seems that NSW Police have improved in one small way. They are no longer racist in who they decide to fit up.
Used to happen in country Queensland only 20 years ago too, Cranky. My best mate used to get the absolute piss flogged out of him by cops when we'd go out drinking, whereas I'd only ever get escorted to a nice cell and sent home the next day with a warning.

Only difference between the two of us was colour of our skin.
my brother inlaw is indigenous, probably lucky his best mate was a Detective some of the garbage that went on

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Actually I’d forgotten about my good mate who’s very dark skinned due to his distanced Greek ancestry and his summer work as a pool lifeguard. He was arrested for quietly urinating behind a tree one afternoon, but when starting the paperwork and he answered that he wasn’t Aboriginal, the police quickly apologised, laughed the incident off and let him go immediately. They even gave him a food voucher for dinner and a coffee at a nearby cafe.
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Another one I had myself at 17 was being stopped by the police for underage drinking outside Cooleman Court and they were going to seriously pursue it. They then realised that I’d played men’s grade cricket against them and had actually cleaned them up in a recent grand final we’d won.

They then talked cricket, told me not to do it again and let me go. Didn’t even mention it when we next crossed paths on the cricket field.
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These police officers are having a bubble bath.
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Seiffert82 wrote: January 22, 2021, 5:11 pm These police officers are having a bubble bath.
Absolute bubble bath
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BadnMean wrote: January 22, 2021, 8:30 am
Lui_Bon wrote: January 21, 2021, 11:24 pm
BJ wrote: January 21, 2021, 9:21 pm Even in Canberra I’ve seen Police deal with the identical situation completely different depending on whether the kids were public school Kambah students or private school inner north kids.

Only because they’re concerned how a wealthier and connected Dad would react.
I don't at all doubt your reflection on the cops, but I will point out that their are precisely no Inner North private schools. apart from the Boys Grammar kinder thing in Campbell. They are all in south canberra, or radford in bruce, or burgmann in gunghalin.
The ladies of Merici College will be outraged they were not included in your round of of potential police beating miscreants.
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It is absolutely important to remeber that a good portion of the "thin blue line" are absolutely decent people who go into the job with a thirst and passion to service the community, to serve and protect.

There is also a good portion of the "thin blue line" who are the bullies from HS who needed to find an outlet to feed their need for power and dominion over others.
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Botman wrote:It is absolutely important to remeber that a good portion of the "thin blue line" are absolutely decent people who go into the job with a thirst and passion to service the community, to serve and protect.

There is also a good portion of the "thin blue line" who are the bullies from HS who needed to find an outlet to feed their need for power and dominion over others.
in life 1 in 4 people are jerks

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Botman wrote: January 22, 2021, 9:12 pm It is absolutely important to remeber that a good portion of the "thin blue line" are absolutely decent people who go into the job with a thirst and passion to service the community, to serve and protect.

There is also a good portion of the "thin blue line" who are the bullies from HS who needed to find an outlet to feed their need for power and dominion over others.
The culture issues are clearly driven from the top.

There's no wonder this stuff happens when you consider that Mick Fuller has previously told the media that limiting police powers would create a “generation of kids that have no respect for authority” and said young people should have “a little bit of fear” of police. He's also the guy that falsely blamed the Melbourne COVID outbreaks on BLM protests.

It's no wonder those officers on the wrong side of the equation feel empowered to behave the way they do.
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Bonehead says “in life 1 in 4 people are jerks” but my three mates aren’t jerks at all.
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BJ wrote:Bonehead says “in life 1 in 4 people are jerks” but my three mates aren’t jerks at all.
I'm happy to be tbe 2 in 8 Beejeh

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bonehead wrote:
BJ wrote:Bonehead says “in life 1 in 4 people are jerks” but my three mates aren’t jerks at all.
I'm happy to be tbe 2 in 8 Beejeh

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ImageBonehead. I reckon a few others on this site are also balancing up the statistics for their non jerk mates and family members.
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greeneyed wrote: January 22, 2021, 10:36 am Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling is free to train and play round one

Tom Starling had six of seven charges dropped by NSW police at Gosford Local Court on Thursday, following his arrest at a Central Coast restaurant last December. The 22-year-old entered a not guilty plea to the remaining charge of resisting arrest which will be next heard on March 11, the same day the 2021 season kicks off.

He will be permitted to continue training with Canberra and be available for round one selection according to the NRL. He is not subject to the no fault stand down policy.

Read more: https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/01/22/sta ... round-one/
I've seen a few posts lately saying Starling had been "cleared", but this was the last update I saw - that 6/7 charges were dropped. Do we know what happened on his court appearance on the 11th March? I still find it odd he pleaded guilty to resist arrest, when all the other alleged "offences" were dropped. What exactly was he being arrested for then? What about the fact he got toweled up? Is he suing them like Curtis Scott did?
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I heard that a dozen cops came across a Raiders player sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons. They got the batons an tasers ready. Realised it was Sia and carefully backed away.
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Northern Raider wrote: April 21, 2021, 5:07 pm I heard that a dozen cops came across a Raiders player sitting on a park bench feeding the pigeons. They got the batons an tasers ready. Realised it was Sia and carefully backed away.
And it wasn’t just a cop..it was Texas Ranger Chuck Norris.
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Josh Hodgson's Wests Tigers transfer in doubt after fresh Tom Starling incident



Josh Hodgson’s mooted move to the Wests Tigers is in jeopardy after his understudy Tom Starling found himself in the crosshairs of police on the NSW Central Coast. Starling was spoken to by police after attending the same site where he was involved in an incident late last year.

The NRL confirmed they were aware of the latest incident involving the Raiders rake, who had been earmarked to take over the job on a full-time basis when Hodgson left. That succession plan is now in danger and fresh concerns over Starling’s future may scupper any hopes Hodgson had of leaving.

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Not much detail there! Could be police harassment for all we know... given what happened last year.
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Big deal if he was "spoken to" by police, by NRL player's standards in 2021 that is barely even newsworthy lol
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How dumb are rugby league players...
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Raiders666 wrote: October 20, 2021, 1:56 pm How dumb are rugby league players...
Lloyd Christmas dumb.
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-PJ- wrote: October 20, 2021, 2:00 pm
Raiders666 wrote: October 20, 2021, 1:56 pm How dumb are rugby league players...
Lloyd Christmas dumb.
I resent that. Lloyd acknowledged we'd landed on the moon (30 years late), half the players in the NRL probably think that's a streetlight set up to sell us on a curved Earth myth.
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I'm going to go the same place I got into trouble last year! What could go wrong! Haha ****
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Maybe they were apologising for last years missteps
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To be fair there’s only so many trendy places to eat on the coast.., it’s not like canberra with a fleet of Vikings clubs to choose from.
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Coastalraider wrote: October 20, 2021, 2:13 pm To be fair there’s only so many trendy places to eat on the coast.., it’s not like canberra with a fleet of Vikings clubs to choose from.
He could have just gone to Peppers
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Canberra Raider Tom Starling charged in alleged intimidation incident

Canberra Raiders hooker Tom Starling has been arrested and charged for an alleged "intimidation incident" on the Central Coast on the weekend. Starling was charged with "threaten/cause injury to potential juror/witness and behave in offensive manner in/near public place/school".

The 23-year-old attended Gosford Police Station on Wednesday, where he was arrested and charged before being released on bail. He's due to appear at Gosford Local Court on January 11.

Read more: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/ ... /?cs=14239

Canberra Raiders young gun Tom Starling arrested again: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pr ... 5ffa65dc92

Latest Starling incident clouds future of Raiders hookers

Police have charged Tom Starling over a pub altercation, with the latest incident clouding his future and that of fellow Canberra hooker Josh Hodgson. Starling was one of four people charged following an alleged intimidation incident over the weekend. Sources with knowledge of the situation said the scene was attended by the same police unit that investigated Starling’s previous incident.

Read more: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/nrl/lat ... 591oc.html
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Arrested, charged and bailed. Court Gosford 11th January 2022. Intimidate witness etc etc.
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