James O'Connor off to Europe

 Agree with you Wardad. Oh well, time for him to earn some serious money.
I guess the sight of him laughing and joking with the opposition after losing Tests against the Boks and ABs did it in for him.

 true Hakwa ,but after the last Bledisloe heaps of wobs were getting all chummy with the ABS ,when your the victor you can do that but l osers should just be pissed off !

 
Massif loss to Oz rugby.

Easily their best player

Had it coming though. He's indiscretions weren't acceptable.

Spoilt brat needed a good hiding.

Earning large sums of money will ensure he never returns to test rugby. Especially now that their test players have accepted enormous pay cuts.

Whoever buys him should know that they're taking on a self-serving and disrespectful little narcissist who will more than likely breach disciplinary protocol on a regular basis and disrupt team unity.

Yes he's a great talent but you have to wonder if it's worth all the baggage he brings with him.

 Yea we are not privy to what goes on behind closed doors but I can guarantee that a lot of the old geezers who gave him the boot ,including Mackenzie have regaled each other with tales of touring shenannigans and had a jolly old larf about it ! If they had a decent coach and captain this would have been sorted one way or the other ages ago .As for Nonu my understanding is that it was more an issue of under performing .And belting kids just gives you bruised kids ,that sort of thing is best reserved for adults in jobs like Shearing or Soldiering where a boot up the arse can work wonders .

big loss to the wallabies, as he was one of their best players.

unlike giteau, i dont think weve seen the last of bieber in aussies yellow jersey, and im thinking he will be back playing super rugby in 2015.
its true that signing him up comes with a lot of risk, but theres plenty of cashed up clubs abroad who would be willing to risk it for his services, and im sure that bieber is about to get a handsome payday.

i would really love to know some of his indiscretions, i remember when he and beale were out at about 4am in maccas or some fast food joint, it was on a test week, but not a test night and they had nothing to attend the next day. they werent drinking (confirmed by the rebels)and were out with their rebels teammates who had just played against the lions.
yet they were crucified for this and i never understood why it was such a big deal.

were the other indiscretions of a similar nature???
i doubt it, but i hope it wasnt, but i cant help but wonder,

another thing to consider is that bieber is one of australias top paid players, and ARU are going through financial hardships, the timing of biebers airport meltdown plus other so called issues could have been the perfect reason for the ARU to save costs by offing one of its top paid players.
any reason why we havent heard more of this from biebers camp??? would u want to burn any bridges u might need to play in the RWC???
hmmmm thats enough red bull and elementary episodes for this shinobi,

@mikey,
big difference bewtten not preforming on the field and constantly causing or being the center of disruptions which have a neagtive impact on the team.
comparisons between nonu and bieber is like comparing goosen to ben johnson, both are known drug cheats who have been disciplined in the past, but the circumstances behind the two differ, at least in the sane world it does,

@warhammer,
i knew a shearer back in southland who from the neck down looked like batista. i dont think anyone would have been to keen on giving him the boot, not even bizzy, lolz,