Brissie Kid
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How 12 bottles of beer led Jamil Hopoate into legal trouble
Boel Eriksson
The Daily Telegraph
November 17, 2012 12:00AM
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/how-12-bottles-of-beer-led-jamil-hopoate-into-legal-trouble/story-e6frfgff-1226518411489
FORMER Manly Sea Eagles junior Jamil Hopoate has had his provisional driver's licence suspended for six months after pleading guilty to mid-range drink-driving
That was the opening paragraph. All about Manly Sea Eagles.
We have to go all the way to the last three paragraphs of the story where it is finally revealed to the reader HOPOATE IS A PARRAMATTA EELS PLAYER and has been all of 2012.
Hopoate signed with the Parramatta Eels last year and will be joined there from 2014 by his brother Will, who is completing a two-year stint as a Mormon missionary.
Their dad John is also part of the club's coaching staff.
The family exodus to Parramatta ended a 20-year association between Manly and the Hopoate family.
That last paragraph is nonsense given the headline paragraph about Manly not Parramatta the Telecrap opened with.