As the champions in Ramsay St (and possibly Summer Bay) like telling us, if you can’t rely on your family, who can you rely on? Blood’s thicker, and all that. That’s why horrible ratboys, in court on charges of happy slapping the elderly, know their mum will be stood outside telling the TV cameras how their Deano couldn’t of done it, he’s such a nice boy and always puts the bins out for her.
That particular role fell to Greg Bird’s sister yesterday, forced into the uncomfortable position of talking a load of absolute barking nonsense in defence of her “troubled” sibling. Is our Greggy to blame for his problems? Course he ain’t, it’s the system, ain’t it?
According to Lacey Bird, the downward spiral was inevitable, once Greg was:
Forced to leave home at 17
Made to play the game he loved once or twice a week
Told to keep fit
Earning loads of money
Getting massages and physio all the time
Living in a nice big house
Given loads of free time to play XBox and pick out golf clubs
Tucked in every night by his new agent
The envy of everyone else his age
“A teenage kid has to go straight to an adult looking after themselves,” boo-hooed Ms Bird, just managing to stifle tales of other relatives sold into the navy or bundled down an opal mine at 14. It’s a nice try, love, but that’s enough, eh?