One-Eyed Richmond Forum
Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on June 06, 2006, 05:50:02 PM
-
Tigers player fined over driving
Herald-Sun
06jun06
THE Richmond player whose drink driving and speeding last year cost his AFL club a key sponsor has been fined for driving without his P-plates.
Probationary driver Jay Schulz, 21, received a fine of $50 plus $37 in costs after pleading guilty to the charge today.
Last year, Schulz lost his driving licence for six months and was fined by the police and the club after recording a blood-alcohol reading of .065 and driving 80km/h in a 40km/h zone while on a probationary licence.
Schulz did not appear for the P-plates display matter in Melbourne Magistrates' Court today.
Police said Schulz was pulled over on Bridge Road, Richmond, after officers spotted him driving on Lennox St on January 9.
He showed police his back P-plate, which was ripped and unable to be displayed, the court heard.
Schulz's lawyer Paul Horvath said the front P-plate was from South Australia and was obscured by the registration sticker.
Magistrate Phillip Goldberg asked why Schulz was not in court.
Mr Horvath said it was because the charge was a summary matter.
"He ordinarily has employment engagements during the day," Mr Horvath said.
Outside, Mr Horvath said the matter had come to court because Schulz had initially wanted to challenge the penalty notice.
In April last year, the Transport Accident Commission ended its 16-year association with Richmond after Schulz became the second Richmond player in four years, after former player Royce Vardy, to be arrested for drink-driving.
It cost the Tigers $500,000 last year, but the Australian Finance Group (AFG) stepped in with a two-year deal worth $800,000 a year, leaving the club $300,000 better off.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19382801%255E1702,00.html
-
Imagine the ruckus if we still had the TAC as sponsor.
-
maybe we can do a sponsorship deal with a signage exposure company lol...
-
hahahah I think he needs a speeding fine next and he has got them all!!!!!
-
Is this guy thick or what?
-
maybe nobody cares at Port Lincoln :lol
-
Poor Jay, having your name plastered all over the papers again for such a hienous crime - NOT!
Haven't they got anything to write about.
As a guy on SEN said tonight, why is Jay's name tarnished in every paper when there are three blokes who've taken recreational drugs having their names suppressed. Not that i care if they take them, but i see an imbalance here.
Must be tough being a footballer sometimes to be scrutinised on every single thing you do wrong.
He's silly, but he didn't commit murder.
-
Poor Jay, having your name plastered all over the papers again for such a hienous crime - NOT!
Haven't they got anything to write about.
As a guy on SEN said tonight, why is Jay's name tarnished in every paper when there are three blokes who've taken recreational drugs having their names suppressed. Not that i care if they take them, but i see an imbalance here.
Must be tough being a footballer sometimes to be scrutinised on every single thing you do wrong.
He's silly, but he didn't commit murder.
Far too much logic there Moi - shame on you and the guy on SEN :rollin
-
Far too much logic there Moi - shame on you and the guy on SEN :rollin
Promise i'll lift my game, Willie lol
I know he's a role model and all that crap, but I don't think the papers motives in publishing this story is to create some moral example for kids of what not to do - they just like driving people into the ground and take advantage of every opportunity they get to do it.
The courts are there to keep him on the straight and narrow, and the amount he was fined gives you a rough idea how little they thought of this huge crime ::)
-
If it was Jay's only ever driving misdemeanour it wouldn't have even got a mention. But because of what happened before the press saw it as a great chance to bleet "Tiger in trouble driving again" :sleep. He'll be frontpage news again if he overstays a 2-hour parking zone by 5 minutes ::).
-
Or parks in a disabled carpark.
-
Or parks in a disabled carpark.
Tell Jay to stay away from Southland as they are red hot on that sort of thing :yep.