Roos pull 'sick' video off the Net

[SweetLeftFoot]

This isn't good. From The Age ...

A VIDEO depicting degrading sex acts filmed in the rooms of the North Melbourne Football Club and posted online by one of the side's young footballers is being investigated by the club.

North Melbourne chief executive Eugene Arocca said last night he was "embarrassed" about the four-minute movie that depicts sex acts by a toy rubber chicken — being manoeuvred by an unidentifiable human hand — in a supermarket, a pub toilet and in the club's locker rooms and offices.

Throughout the video, which was posted on YouTube, the toy chicken has a condom on its head and is manipulated to look as if it is penetrating the carcass of a real chicken that also features throughout the film.

The real chicken seemingly plays the role of a woman. The storyline becomes increasingly menacing as the two characters go to the pub — he has beer, she has white wine — and end up having sex in the toilet.

The final scenes show the real chicken carcass being hurled against a wall, then run over by a van before the rubber chicken returns and simulates fornication again.

A sign of North Melbourne's major sponsor, Mazda, is featured at the start of the video. The backing track is Move Bitch by American rapper Ludacris.

No North Melbourne players, coaches or staff are seen, however simulated sex acts take place in the locker belonging to senior player Brady Rawlings, and on a desk of a North Melbourne staff member.

Arocca ordered that the video, The Adventures of Little Boris, be removed from YouTube after being alerted to it by The Age and having its content described to him by the AFL.

Arocca, who was returning from a speaking engagement in country Victoria last night, said: "Foolishly, one of the younger members of our group placed it on his Facebook (page).

"It then found its way onto YouTube. It's now been removed. I'm furious to say the least that it's gotten out, though I haven't had the advantage of seeing it."

AFL corporate affairs manager Brian Walsh saw the video and last night described it as "infantile and inappropriate". He said the AFL would monitor North Melbourne's handling of the matter.

Arocca said he would investigate the matter today to "get to the bottom of one, why it was done, two, why it was disseminated, and three, what appropriate counselling and or action I need to take as the CEO … We're embarrassed that it's gotten out, we have taken steps to remove it from the source and hopefully it won't go any further."

Arocca said he would come up with a response "internally and if necessary externally".

The handing out of a plastic toy, known as Little Boris, is a weekly routine at North. Assistant coach Darren Bewick, a former Essendon player nicknamed Boris, awards it to the person judged to have committed the biggest gaffe of the week. The Age is not suggesting Bewick had anything to do with the video or its dissemination.

The film was posted on YouTube about a month ago and was viewed nearly 200 times before it was removed.

Phil Cleary, a former footballer and long-time campaigner on violence against women, said: "It just bristles with degradation of women. Don't they get it?" he said.

"Here we have the North Melbourne Football Club allowing someone access to their clubrooms, to their offices, to produce a video that's just plain misogynistic. It's just full of women hatred — women are to be belittled, to be r*ped and to be degraded. It's sick."

Invoking earlier incidents involving former Kangaroos skipper Wayne Carey, Cleary said the video came from a club "that has already had one of its most prominent players paraded in public and condemned by a range of people, and recently bared his soul about the very question of his attitude to women".

The North Melbourne video incident has come to light just days after Adelaide Crows champion Nathan Bock was charged by police for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend.

WITH PETER HANLON

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Yes, its a bit of a beat up, yes, far worse happens in every footy club, yes it was only bloody chickens but after all the good work we've done, especially in painting ourselves as good guys re: Carey, this is the thing we need.

Can only hope Dids is currently making a new friend in a King St strip bar as we speak and all this blows over very soon.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Interesting.

 

[seanoff]

probably not the smartest thing to do.

esp since it was made in the club. not too terrible. tasteless and ill considered none the less

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Its frigging Facebook.

Seriously, no-one who is any way a public figure, and anyone on an AFL list is, sad to say, should have a Facebook/bebo etc in their real name.

I have a got a few stories of politicains Facebooks in my time.

And there's plenty of pics I've saved in case I ever need them.

People forget that so many people can access this shit.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

I wonder who the desk of the club official was?

I have to say I have my suspicions and if it turns out they were involved, then a good excuse to give them the arse.

Though it is a beat up: there are no 'sex acts' taking place. There's two puppets effectively.

When I read the standfirst, I thought there was actual real life sex between humans filmed in the clubrooms.

 

[Carnthe]

Of all the things that I thought season 2009 could hold in store, this was not one of them.

 

[Rippednew1]

Cleary is a flog.

 

[numchuks]

Shit opening sentence.

Thought it was about real people.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

In every other facet of his life, he is indeed a flog.

But on this one, we've got to wear it. What happened to his sister was awful and its good to have people out there making it clear violence against women isn't on.

Though I'd argue there wasn't any violence against women in this video.

Its just, as always, the perceptions, and the perception is going to be - 'Oh look, Carey's club doing this'

 

[DarwinRoo]

You and me both numchuks. Thank **** it isn't.

 

[Roos4eva]

Its just, as always, the perceptions, and the perception is going to be - 'Oh look, Carey's club doing this'

Exactly, the media are going to have a field day with this angle, and it's something the club does not need, no matter how minor the incident may be.

 

[Roos4eva]

re the intro, yep, I got the same reaction.

But hey, humans... rubber chickens... close enough.

 

[numchuks]

btw top response from Eugene.

Said all the right things etc. etc.

 

[Rippednew1]

In every other facet of his life, he is indeed a flog.

But on this one, we've got to wear it. What happened to his sister was awful and its good to have people out there making it clear violence against women isn't on.

Though I'd argue there wasn't any violence against women in this video.

Its just, as always, the perceptions, and the perception is going to be - 'Oh look, Carey's club doing this'

He has a point, but the way he words it, sounds like these kids should be jailed for 20 years. Its a joke, a fairly sick one, but a joke. Its nothing even close to the Bock, Carey stuff. The intro is a disgrace too.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Exactly, the media are going to have a field day with this angle, and it's something the club does not need, no matter how minor the incident may be.

Yep, hence the frankly misleading and unprofessional lead paragraph and tease on the site which makes you think actual humans were involved.

If it was say Footscray, the line would just be: 'Hijinks get out of hand' and we'd all have a laugh and agree idiot 18 year boys are idiot 18 year old boys.

Wonder whose Facebook it was on?

(Please don't be Ziebell, please don't be Ziebell)

 

[Mordecai]

Play on, nothing in it.

How does Cleary know what the boys were thinking when they filmed it? Mychickenistic maybe, but I don't think it degrades women. A condom on a fake chicken's head, having sex with a real chicken... hehehe. Kids

Should have been kept as a private joke. Tighten up these facebook pages or better still don't have them at all... too many people for it not to be taken the wrong way or sent on to the wrong person.

Edit: Thinking about it again... if I made the film and Cleary came at me what he's said I'd be pretty angry for his insinuations. It's a sad, horrible story of what happend to his sister and good on him for taking the stance in the media he does for women... but this is an unfair stretch.

 

[DarwinRoo]

I don't think its Ziebell.

So let me get this straight the part at the end where the chicken and Little Boris are fighting and the chook gets thrown against the wall is the only offensive part or are the 'sex' scenes offensive aswell?

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Geez, you've got to wonder how Sam Lane would react if The Age moved her over to the news desk and she had to do some court reporting on rape trials.

FFS. Her head might actually fall off.

 

[wombles]

As someone else noted, why oh why given the public nature of their profession do footballers carry on like this and post it on the internet. Yes the article is sensationalist and rubbish of this kind happens at all clubs and sports but it does not make the issue at hand any better.

I recall when facebook was in its early stages in Australia I saw lots of rather 'dodgy' things being posted to their sites.

And be careful what you post in here, you can bet your bottom dollar that the media will be clawing all over public comment on this issue.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

Good point wombles.

 

[CrazyQ]

Haha shit, you guys serious?

I'm buying the **** who made this video a beer

 

[CrazyQ]

I wonder who the desk of the club official was?

I have to say I have my suspicions and if it turns out they were involved, then a good excuse to give them the arse.

Though it is a beat up: there are no 'sex acts' taking place. There's two puppets effectively.

When I read the standfirst, I thought there was actual real life sex between humans filmed in the clubrooms.

Give them the arse for this shit?

Jesus ****ing Christ.

 

[Twinkletoes]

And be careful what you post in here, you can bet your bottom dollar that the media will be clawing all over public comment on this issue.

That point cannot be stressed enough. No names, guessed or otherwise. They have enough fodder as it is.

 

[__aria__]

FFS i feel sorry for the poor bloke who is going to cop it for that