***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

[SteveNZ]

CSA needs to have a serious chat with their security guard. He's acting like a complete ****.

Is there a security guard in the world who doesn't act like a ****? I mean, I'm pretty sure it's in the job description.

Regardless, I'm not sure what these media vultures think they're achieving by waving a microphone and hassling du Plessis through an airport. He's the captain, there'll be time to ask questions. Then of course, the rest of these parasites gather around their own and protect 'their right' to hassle the **** out of sportspeople, because they're well paid blah blah ****ing blah.

 

[Burgey]

You're right on both counts. Security blokes generally ****s of the highest order. Reporters too.

 

[Shri]

lol you don't "rest" players for Test matches, especially batsmen. At least not in Australia.

They can rest when the reserve team plays the ODIs and T20Is

Neither is ringing in six changes to the side during a series. You can weed out the obvious failures and the ones who don't look the part(for a while at least) in one game, instead of waiting and dragging out the weeding process over months.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Neither is ringing in six changes to the side during a series. You can weed out the obvious failures and the ones who don't look the part(for a while at least) in one game, instead of waiting and dragging out the weeding process over months.

Nah weeding out 6 players is fine when it's necessary. It should have been 7 but O'Keefe got injured.

 

[SeamUp]

Maybe Sam Robson chose the wrong side..could've potentially got a fair go in this lineup.

Soon it could be going behind enemy lines here...

Renshaw and Whiteman born in Yorkshire while Handscomb was born in OZ to English parents.

Here is Renshaw's parents saying you can't get more ocker than him : Australia Test team: Matt Renshaw?s parent want the world to know their boy is a true blue Aussie

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Soon it could be going behind enemy lines here...

Renshaw and Whiteman born in Yorkshire while Handscomb was born in OZ to English parents.

Here is Renshaw's parents saying you can't get more ocker than him : Australia Test team: Matt Renshaw?s parent want the world to know their boy is a true blue Aussie

Might make the ashes interesting. Be some serious sledging going on.

 

[morgieb]

Soon it could be going behind enemy lines here...

Renshaw and Whiteman born in Yorkshire while Handscomb was born in OZ to English parents.

Here is Renshaw's parents saying you can't get more ocker than him : Australia Test team: Matt Renshaw?s parent want the world to know their boy is a true blue Aussie

And let's not forget James Pattinson still exists. And Lehmann's uncle played for England.....

 

[mackembhoy]

Soon it could be going behind enemy lines here...

Renshaw and Whiteman born in Yorkshire while Handscomb was born in OZ to English parents.

Here is Renshaw's parents saying you can't get more ocker than him : Australia Test team: Matt Renshaw?s parent want the world to know their boy is a true blue Aussie

Well being from Middlesbrough and moving to Aus I can see why he'd claim to be an Aussie. I suppose having extra limbs makes it easier to deny your heritage.

Traitor all the same. I became a Sunderland fan when I was 6 like me just deciding that cos I live close to Newcastle I should support them.

 

[Son Of Coco]

There is a threat we may catch a flight home now but let's see the reaction to this because we are angry put it that way.

Good to have another international player on board. Which SA player are you mate?

 

[Daemon]

Don't be mean, he's just standing behind his team in solidarity because Faf did absolutely nothing wrong. Is it a joke? I mean, he really did nothing wrong.

 

[StephenZA]

So at what point does saliva become non-artificial after eating and what is an acceptable level of glucose in saliva for it not to become ball tampering? And should you avoid garlic the night before in case it effects the movement of the ball....

 

[Rasimione]

CSA needs to have a serious chat with their security guard. He's acting like a complete ****.

That guy shoving the mic in faf's face deserved that treatment. Bloody journalists.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Don't be mean, he's just standing behind his team in solidarity because Faf did absolutely nothing wrong. Is it a joke? I mean, he really did nothing wrong.

Depends on how blatant it was. If he was just doing what every other player does, then I'd assume we'd see every other player cited.

 

[Daemon]

Depends on how blatant it was. If he was just doing what every other player does, then I'd assume we'd see every other player cited.

woosh

tbf it wasn't a very funny reference

 

[Marius]

This article makes it seem that the fellow from Channel Nine was in the wrong:

Reporter lunged towards Faf with unknown object | IOL

 

[Daemon]

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Is this it?

Hardly newsworthy

 

[Marius]

Is this it?

Hardly newsworthy

Yeah, I think so.

The security guard was maybe a bit heavy-handed but journalists shouldn't be allowed to get into someone's face like that, against their wishes.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Trying to manufacture a controversy where there's literally nothing newsworthy. If anything the reporter deserved a proper punch. He's repeatedly running up and shoving a mic in Faf's face. Complete clown.

 

[honestbharani]

Pretty obvious the Aussie media just think it is a better idea to let the non-fanatic cricket followers think that the reason they lost was because of the evil foreigners who cheated. And this incident can be played in a way that will add to that narrative. Another one for my post where I listed the reasons Australian Cricket Community just seems hell bent on turning everything into "we are always great and if we get beat, its coz of cheating or other factors"... Just hope the larger Australian cricket fandom are as reasonable enough as most of the CW aussie community and can see through all this.

 

[Daemon]

The larger australian fan base is preoccupied making brett lee weetbix memes