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29-09-06, 05:42 PM
Broncos utility cops driving ban
Friday, September 29, 2006 - 5:26 PM
Brotherly love has cost Brisbane Broncos utility Greg Eastwood another $400 and two years of driving.
Eastwood, 19, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court, south of Brisbane, to a charge of driving while disqualified.
Eastwood lost his licence earlier this year over seven driving offences in December-January, which the footballer told the court had been committed by his elder brother, Shane.
"I shouldn't have really taken the blame for him in the start," Eastwood said outside court.
"I'm just going to have to take the punishment."
After his earlier disqualification, police stopped the New Zealander twice while driving, on the Logan Motorway on April 11, and on Chambers Flat Rd in the Brisbane suburb of Marsden on April 23.
He was fined $350 over the April 11 offence.
Following the second offence, Magistrate Joan White told Eastwood: "The sad thing is that you are going to lose your licence for a period of two years because that's the mandatory term".
The Broncos sacked utility Neville Costigan and halfback Brett Seymour for alcohol-related offences this year, but Eastwood said he had the support of coach Wayne Bennett and chief executive Bruno Cullen.
"I told them the story and they're fine with it. They're backing me," said Eastwood, who lives in central Brisbane.
He said it was an humiliating episode that he wanted to put behind him.
"It is a bit embarrassing, especially having your friends come up to you and giving you s**t," he said.
"I feel for the club. Hopefully Queensland Transport will continue their sponsorship (of the Broncos).
"It's lucky I'm not in the same category as (Neville) Costigan. I just have to move on."
He added: "I only live around the corner from training so plenty of the boys can pick me up.
"It won't affect my footy."
Eastwood missed the cut for Brisbane's grand final squad but he will be in Sydney on Sunday night to cheer his team against favourite Melbourne in the NRL decider at Telstra Stadium.
The centre/back-rower said he was confident of making New Zealand's squad for this year's Tri Nations series against Australia and Great Britain.
Source: AAP
Friday, September 29, 2006 - 5:26 PM
Brotherly love has cost Brisbane Broncos utility Greg Eastwood another $400 and two years of driving.
Eastwood, 19, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court, south of Brisbane, to a charge of driving while disqualified.
Eastwood lost his licence earlier this year over seven driving offences in December-January, which the footballer told the court had been committed by his elder brother, Shane.
"I shouldn't have really taken the blame for him in the start," Eastwood said outside court.
"I'm just going to have to take the punishment."
After his earlier disqualification, police stopped the New Zealander twice while driving, on the Logan Motorway on April 11, and on Chambers Flat Rd in the Brisbane suburb of Marsden on April 23.
He was fined $350 over the April 11 offence.
Following the second offence, Magistrate Joan White told Eastwood: "The sad thing is that you are going to lose your licence for a period of two years because that's the mandatory term".
The Broncos sacked utility Neville Costigan and halfback Brett Seymour for alcohol-related offences this year, but Eastwood said he had the support of coach Wayne Bennett and chief executive Bruno Cullen.
"I told them the story and they're fine with it. They're backing me," said Eastwood, who lives in central Brisbane.
He said it was an humiliating episode that he wanted to put behind him.
"It is a bit embarrassing, especially having your friends come up to you and giving you s**t," he said.
"I feel for the club. Hopefully Queensland Transport will continue their sponsorship (of the Broncos).
"It's lucky I'm not in the same category as (Neville) Costigan. I just have to move on."
He added: "I only live around the corner from training so plenty of the boys can pick me up.
"It won't affect my footy."
Eastwood missed the cut for Brisbane's grand final squad but he will be in Sydney on Sunday night to cheer his team against favourite Melbourne in the NRL decider at Telstra Stadium.
The centre/back-rower said he was confident of making New Zealand's squad for this year's Tri Nations series against Australia and Great Britain.
Source: AAP