Ex Centrals boys playing up

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The thread that keeps on giving. Josh Glenn story.

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Daniel Menzel could be in trouble for an alleged incident involving a female in Sydney.

[Groucho]

Wrong thread. Daniel is a current player.

[Wedgie]

Wrong thread. Daniel is a current player.

He was an ex (and future) Central player when the alleged incident occurred.

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Daniel Menzel could be in trouble for an alleged incident involving a female in Sydney.

This won’t end well.
Has he been charged?

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From what I have seen

Charged on the 29th of April 2020

Allegedly

Touched a woman inappropriately at Bondi between 2.30 am and 3.40 am on November 23rd 2019.

Goes to court in October some time.

Then we might get the full story.

[UK Fan]

Wrong thread. Daniel is a current player.

He was an ex (and future) Central player when the alleged incident occurred.

Geelong scum

[whufc]

Add Seb Guilhaus to this list albeit he’s had many ex clubs at SANFL level.

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Add Seb Guilhaus to this list albeit he’s had many ex clubs at SANFL level.

In BIG trouble

[Mr Beefy]

Is there an "ex norwood boys playing up" thread ?

[gazzamagoo]

Is there an "ex norwood boys playing up" thread ?

What's the goss, cough up.

[Mr Beefy]

A former footballer’s escalating domestic violence culminated with him twice threatening to set his wife on fire, a court has heard – once while splashing litres of petrol and flicking a lighter.

On Tuesday, Julia Hodge confronted her “jealous, controlling and terrifying” ex-husband, former Norwood player Mathew Vidic, in the District Court.

Vidic, 42, has pleaded guilty to aggravated counts of threatening to cause harm, and to kill, over his cruelty toward Ms Hodge in their home on May 26 and June 3 last year.

In her victim impact statement, Ms Hodge – a teacher, mother and champion marathon runner – said those incidents were just parts of a “pattern” of abuse.

She said they were preceded by Vidic threatening to kill the family dog with a knife, and by him stealing her passport to prevent her competing overseas.

The crimes were followed, she said, by him repeatedly calling her from prison after his arrest.

“May 26 and June 3 were the most severe manifestations of a pattern of coercive control, manipulation and threats of violence that Mathew subjected me to over an extended period of time,” she said.
“(On May 26) he threatened to burn down our house with me and our children inside (with) a full 20L jerry can of petrol he had prepared earlier, to teach me a lesson.”

Ms Hodge said she called Triple 0 for help but Vidic kicked in the door, took her phone and hung up on the operator.

She then watched her smart watch signal repeatedly as the operator tried to call back, but she was unable to answer for fear of antagonising Vidic.

The incident only ended, she said, when the couple’s nine-year-old daughter intervened and begged Vidic to leave Ms Hodge alone.

Ms Hodge said she did not report the incident to police at the time because she was fearful of how Vidic would react.

“I felt powerless to protect my children and escape... I was overwhelmed with a horrible sense of helplessness, isolation and dread,” she said.

“At that point, I had never been more afraid in my life, I was consumed by the thought he was going to murder me and potentially our children.

“He had told me ‘if I can’t keep you through love, I’ll keep you by fear’ and ‘if I can’t have you, nobody can’.”

She said her fears were “very nearly realised” on June 3, when their children were at a sleepover.
“Mathew entered the bedroom carrying a 10L jerry can of fuel, flicking a cigarette lighter... for 30 minutes, he threatened repeatedly to set me on fire as I lay in bed,” she said.

“The verbal degradation I endured was not out of character... he accused me of untrue things, and called me appalling things, out of his severe jealousy and paranoia.

“I felt completely helpless, vulnerable and powerless as he splashed petrol on the bedside table and floor, the cigarette lighter near my head with a naked flame.

“I truly believed I would be burned alive that night, particularly if I said the wrong thing.”

Ms Hodge managed to escape and, having recorded the incident on her phone, alerted police – they arrested Vidic, who has been in custody ever since.

In her statement, Ms Hodge acknowledged Vidic had been diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Type 2 Bipolar and Intermittent Explosive Disorder.
She said they in no way detracted from his conscious choice to offend against “those he should have been protecting” in “the place we should have been safest”.

“These were the choices of a man who sought to control and intimidate his family through violence,” she said.

“I’m relieved he has pleaded guilty (but) I fear he will feel wronged and betrayed by my words, and harbour feelings of vengeance, leading to potential consequences for me.”

She and the couple’s children, she said, had and would continue to suffer the effects of Vidic’s abuse for years to come.

Peter Morrison, for Vidic, said his client was “mortified and remorseful”, accepted his relationship with Ms Hodge was over, and would no longer seek to communicate with her.

He said Vidic’s father had abused his mother, and that she had been forced to kill her husband in self-defence.

“He sees echoes of his father in his own behaviour,” he said.

Mr Morrison said there was no excuse for Vidic’s crimes, but their foundation was “explained” by his background.
He said Vidic played for Norwood between 2001 and 2007, but left the game after sustaining injuries that “required 22 surgeries”.

Vidic then worked in the dental industry but had to give that up after suffering a thumb injury, at which time he became a stay-at-home father while Ms Hodge worked and pursued her running.

Mr Morrison said Vidic turned to binge drinking once the children were at school, exacerbating his mental health issues and jealousy over Ms Hodge’s absences from the home.

“His keen fear of abandonment manifested as oversensitivity to the threat of his now ex-wife leaving him,” he said.

“He made frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment due to his hypersensitivity to rejection, combined with heavy alcohol consumption.”

He asked Vidic’s sentence be backdated to his arrest and he be allowed to serve the remainder of it on home detention.

Judge Rauf Soulio agreed to order a home detention inquiry report, but told Vidic not to draw “a false sense of hope” from his decision.

He remanded Vidic in custody for sentencing in October.

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Nasty!!

[Jimmy_041]

I am surprised The Advertiser haven't uncovered that Vidic went to St Peters College
They missed an opportunity there