Kurtley Beale in MORE Trouble
Troubled Wallaby Kurtley Beale faces new allegations of having breached the players’ code of conduct.
It is almost certain the latest revelations will result in Beale not being offered a new contract by the Australian Rugby Union.
It was revealed by ARU the that a new disciplinary allegation involving the utility back, Beale, will be referred to a tribunal.
Beale was dropped for the last Rugby Championship Test against Argentina last Saturday, after an ugly in-flight public spat with members of the team management.
ARU Chief Executive Bill Pulver said Thursday that while investigating the incident, during the flight from Johannesburg to Sao Paulo, officials were made aware of another matter involving Beale and text messages he sent in June.
The ARU said Beale will not be considered for Australian selection until the tribunal concludes.
The Wallabies will name a team on Friday for next Saturday’s Test against New Zealand in Brisbane.
The additional matter was raised for the first time with ARU management earlier this week, during a separate investigation into an in-flight incident between Beale and three members of the Wallaby management team on Sunday, September 28.
Pulver said it is appropriate for the allegations to be assessed independently due to their serious nature.
“This matter relates to Kurtley Beale allegedly distributing what we consider highly inappropriate and deeply offensive text messages and images to a number of people in June, referencing an ARU staff member,” Pulver said.
“We became aware of this incident this week and believe an independent Tribunal is the appropriate forum for these allegations to be considered.
“This also provides Kurtley with an opportunity to present his response to the matter through an impartial process.
“The investigation into the argument on the plane has become a secondary matter in recent days, with our focus diverted to these new allegations.
“We will finalise the investigation into the in-flight argument in due course.”
The code of conduct tribunal will be chaired by district court judge Mark Williams and will include representatives nominated by the ARU and the Rugby Union Players’ Association.
The date for the code of conduct tribunal hearing will be set in coming days, but it is expected to proceed early next week.
Not looking good for Kurtley Beale but this part of the article surprises me: ““This matter relates to Kurtley Beale allegedly distributing what we consider highly inappropriate and deeply offensive text messages and images to a number of people in June, referencing an ARU staff member,” Pulver said.
“We became aware of this incident this week and believe an independent Tribunal is the appropriate forum for these allegations to be considered.” – I see a possible contradiction here, on one hand they are saying the Tribunal is the appropriate forum yet on the other hand they are providing some detail of the allegations surrounding one of their employees . Not at all taking sides as know just what is in this article and one we had here last week but surely regardless of what you think of Kurtley Beale it is not right for the ARU to be putting out any information until they have gone through the tribunal, does this not already prejudice the man, if they felt pressed to give any answers they could have just said “no comment at this stage” and if pressed again said “no comment at this stage” or am I missing the boat here? What are you thoughts on it from this point of view?
@ Bullscot:
Fair point made
@ Bullscot:
Hey Bully, good point, it is all a political game and they are setting him up.
“A text message sent in June”
Why is this coming out now? It suits the agenda?
3 @ MacroBlouBul:
Yeah does seem odd but maybe with what happened on the flight they felt that enough was enough and in combination with what ever happened in June that things would be looked at, maybe they were hoping that he would behave better and they wouldn’t need to persue what happened in June, who knows. Don’t know the labour law there but does feel wrong to me that they are saying what they are looking into before the tribunal.
Was also quite odd that the ‘leaking’ of the supposed ECB dossier on Kevin Pietersen came out around same time as he released his book. Must all be the illuminati’s fault
@ Bullscot:
Imagine the “dirt” ARU has on all the other players 😯
5 @ MacroBlouBul:
be real scary stuff, not like some of what is apparently in the ‘KP dossier’ like he was staring out the window in team meetings or something like that, I mean that is really a terrible offense 
Gosh Macro could that
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