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I think you're splitting hairs with the literal meaning of comparable really - any two things are comparable. You can compare an brain surgeon to an foreskin, should you feel the urge.
Is this a one off? Or is ranger known as a bit of a drinker?
If it's the former I'd sign him up. He's got wheels and size.
True, facetious, but true.
The fact is we are dealing with violent attacks, it is perfectly reasonable to compare them.
Even taking all emotion out of them, one was premeditated, involved roping in others to assist and was done for personal gain whereas the other was more of a knee jerk reaction to an immediate event. That's why people say you can't compare them. Add all of the details in, and they're even harder to see as similar acts because the only similarity is that both involved violence. To no take the reasons behind a violent act into account is ridiculous.
I do feel that the Metcalf assault is more distateful, absolutely. This is due to it's callousness and rarity as an act of a father against his partner/child and the Ranger case is a far more common type of assault, but this is not an acceptable reason in my mind to lessen it's severity or to go 'easy' on him at all, certainly not when considering him for a signing.
Yeah fair enough.
I'd still sign him up though, fuggit.
Imagine Konrad and Ranger causing havoc down the right flank.... Jeepers.
Just saw that- he'd definately be worth signing IMOHas been found not guilty.
Former All Black Rene Ranger has been cleared of knocking a man unconscious outside a Northland tavern.
Ranger, 25, a current member of the Blues rugby team, was tried in the Whangarei District Court this week for allegedly punching a man unconscious and stomping on his head outside the Mangawhai tavern in 2009.
The jury returned its verdict of not guilty after deliberating for about 90 minutes today.
Ranger was charged with injuring former Northland man Jason Dick on August 1, 2009.
Crown prosecutor Grant Anscon told the court Dick suffered broken teeth and injuries to his eyebrow, nose and limbs after Ranger punched him then stomped on his head.
Dick, testifying via videolink from Australia, said he had been at a concert at the Mangawhai Tavern and he was play-wrestling with a friend while they waited for a ride home.
The next thing he knew he was "spitting out teeth" and picking himself up off the ground, he said.
He denied he had tried to tackle Ranger saying at "five foot four" he was hardly likely to pick on the biggest guy in the bar.
He later conceded that he had been drinking and he did not know how he came to be injured.
Defence lawyer Arthur Fairley said Ranger did not punch or stomp on the man as alleged.
He said Dick ran over to Ranger as he waited outside the tavern and crashed into him, attempting a rugby tackle.
He said Ranger did not assault Dick but fended him off and pushed him to the ground, which Dick hit face-first.
Is there any more recent rumbling of him actually signing?
The person who started this thread is hardly credible.
Is there any more recent rumbling of him actually signing?
The person who started this thread is hardly credible.