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Storm consider legal action over Brown attack
Jane Aubrey
13:00 AEST Fri Jul 25 2008
Nathan Brown's scathing attack on the defensive tactics being used by Melbourne have earned a heated response from Storm boss Brian Waldron with the reigning Premiers considering taking legal action.
Brown suggested during a bizarre outburst at training yesterday that the NRL was letting the 2007 Premiers get away with controversial spoiling methods in the rucks, while other teams were being unfairly penalised.
The comments followed on from Storm fullback Billy Slater's successful challenge on a two-week suspension at the judiciary on Tuesday night, which was reduced to just one match for contrary conduct.
\"I'll act accordingly,\" Waldron said.
\"We'll be strong on this and as a board and as an administration we've had our image damaged and the people of Melbourne expect us to stand up and support the team… we're not going to have some bloke just decide to throw some off the cuff comments again and sully our reputation – we'll defend that to the hilt.\"
Brown said that Dragons winger Jason Nightingale had done nothing wrong in headbutting Slater which resulted in an all-in brawl.
\"As far as I'm concerned the only thing Jason did wrong is he didn't headbutt him hard enough.\"
Waldron went as far as suggesting that Browns was two-faced and that his comments were nothing more than sour grapes following the Dragons 26-nil loss on Monday night.
\"I think debate's good in the game and we think debate's fair but this isn't an issue of debate – this is ridiculous.
\"We're not going to let Nathan Brown on the back of a loss, stand in our change rooms post game and enjoy a beer with our coach and then turn around and make such damning accusations about our training techniques and about how we go about what we do.\"
Waldron also warned that there could be dire consequences for the Dragons the next time the two clubs meet.
\"We're not going to stand back and let him basically insight a riot for the next time we play them. I think that's incredibly irresponsible and probably something that's very easy for him to do seeing he's not going to be here potentially when we play next – he's going to be over at Huddersfield. So if we do meet in the finals it's going to me a bit of fun,\" he said.
Waldron told reporters he had spoken to NRL Chief Executive David Gallop but the football boss had deemed Brown's comments to be nothing more than \"silly.\"
The Storm boss said that Gallop's dismissal was damning to the refereeing standards the games was attempting to implement.
\"If it was my game, Nathan Brown would be getting a hefty fine… In relation to the governing body and the way the game's adjudicated I think they'd want some defence. As far as I'm concerned, he's brought the game into disrepute,\" said Waldron.
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