Good luck getting around Townsville without a driver's license. Hope he lives near the practise facility...

Any link?

It's always good to learn from other people's mistakes.

Just google Josh Pace drink driving.

I know it happens everywhere in sports, but I don't see drinking alcohol as acceptable for professional athletes midseason, regardless of what league they're playing in.

They're meant to be keeping their bodies in the best possible condition.

got it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAxU7UqYHJs

Unless you're David Boon, with all the sports science these days professional players tend to lay off that stuff during the season, but boy, come Mad Monday . ..

It is actually common (or more so than you'd think) in major Australian sports leagues.

$20 bucks says he was driving home from the Madcow!

If he was double the limit he must of had a skinful!!!Whats the Madcow?

Madcow! It's only the sickest club in town brooo. Enough uni students to keep you feeling young and anything goes. What a wild time bro!! The place to be of a Saturday night that's for sure!

I don't have a problem with a quiet drink mid-season but as Happy Days said, to blow 0.10 that's really unacceptable!

Have Townsville had any DUI players before? I remember Cairns sacked their import a few seasons ago, and Cattalini also got done a few years before that..?

Galen Young was done for DUI while playing for Townsville.

Arizona Reid in the 2010/11 preseason (they subsequently got Dorsey and made it to the grand final), Cattalini Dwayne Vale in 2008.

Can is visa be revoked because of this?

I know Rashad Tucker got a DUI in NZ as well.
Cant go back there as he will be arrested on entry.

This is a different story but does anyone know..

What we are also forgetting is that he was involved in an accident for which i gather was in a club owned car which probably isnt covered by insurance as the occupant was over the legal limit.Correct me if im wrong???

There's an article written about it now, apparently Ben Allen and Michael Ceader have also been done for DUI in the past. Further details to be released of whats happening to Pace at midday.

Alcohol slows your reaction time. Is that possible for Ben Allen?

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/news/townsville-crocodiles-import-josh-pace-charged-with-drink-driving/story-fnjfzs4b-1226833450024

Could be nothing, but if you read between the lines, it isn't Pace first misdemeanor this season.

Its not like he was just over.

He crashed into a set of goddamn traffic lights.

TV said .107 I heard. Local newspaper online says;Pace has been charged with blowing 0.102 — more than twice the legal blood-alcohol limit — and is due to face Townsville Magistrates Court on March 19.

Was a half decent player to watch too. Such a silly move, had been trying to get an NBL gig for awahile and this is how he utilizes the oppourtunity!?

had been trying to get an NBL gig for awahile and this is how he utilizes the oppourtunity!?

He's very effective in an unorthodox way (post player who plays the 2...very rare), but his inability to stretch the floor leaves the offense without a sense of symmetry, so wouldn't be the end of the world to see him go. When you're starting Mitch Norton (can't shoot), Josh Pace (can't shoot), Peter Crawford (only shooter in starting 5), Jacob Holmes (can't shoot), Brian Conklin (can't shoot), you are gonna find it hard to keep up in this league.

Townsville have shown when they play smart defence they can compete with anyone in the league, I think they have things reasonably well worked out offensively.

Signing Daniel Kickert to replace Hinder next year would put them in great shape, but Im not sure how feasible that is.

Signing the traffic light pole that Pace crashed in to would be better than Hinder.

At least it'd provide some toughness in the paint

Stop! You cannot get into the paint until I turn green.

And it has proven it can take a charge without flopping