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Sydney Roosters coach Brad Fittler is enforcing the NRL’s toughest rules on alcohol consumption: if players are caught drinking so much as one beer during the week, they’ll be dropped from the team.
The rules are stricter than for Sydney’s reportedly drug-addled railway workers, who are merely responsible for the safe passage of trains weighing hundreds of tonnes and carrying hundreds of people. By contrast, Roosters players carry with them the premiership hopes of the narrow sliver of territory between the CBD and the Pacific Ocean.
CityRail’s anti-drug regimen leaves workers confident to front for work drunk or under the influence of marijuana, cocaine and/or methamphetamines. Roosters players, accepting their greater level of responsibility, won’t risk a single standard drink.
Fittler has also banned his players from entering Kings Cross, a seedy Sydney nightspot. CityRail has no such ban provided that staff then proceed to Edgecliff, then Bondi Junction.
