headbuttgate

[Starfighter]

I love the matter-of-factness of Bancroft's recollection.

 

[Gnske]

I love the matter-of-factness of Bancroft's recollection.

I'd be confused too with that line of genius questioning.

Not the questions you want on debut.

 

[Spark]

Because it's ****ing weird to greet some guy you don't know with a friendly headbutt

It's actually perfect sledging material IMO. It's not horrible or anything like that but it definitely is embarrassing and potentially distracting for Bairstow.

 

[TNT]

Might have to wear a helmet when meeting the english team.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This is excellent media games by the Aussies. Far better than straightforward lies. It's a real storm in a teacup but it puts the English on the back for entirely for the next test.

None of this was deliberate media games from anyone. It's just the media picking up and running with a nothing story that no one cares about.

 

[Spark]

None of this was deliberate media games from anyone. It's just the media picking up and running with a nothing story that no one cares about.

Nah, this has only come up because the Australians started sledging Bairstow on-field within earshot of the stump mics. They're not dumb, they knew exactly what they were doing IMO.

 

[Cow]

They're not dumb

 

[TheJediBrah]

Nah, this has only come up because the Australians started sledging Bairstow on-field within earshot of the stump mics. They're not dumb, they knew exactly what they were doing IMO.

I disagree. You guys are looking for sneakiness and game-playing where there isn't any.

 

[OverratedSanity]

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He's an acclaimed author you dumbo.

 

[stephen]

Lyon's comments in the press a week ago suggest otherwise.

 

[Compton]

TPC allowing himself to display a little public emotion. Thus re-establishing himself as TPC.

 

[Cow]

Aren't New South Welshman despised by the rest of Australia?

 

[Starfighter]

Nah.

 

[fredfertang]

Sounds like what we used to call a Glasgow kiss

 

[Cow]

Oh ok. Even people from Newcastle?

 

[mr_mister]

There's a Sydney Melbourne rivalry but I don't think it's that serious

The rest of the country is cool with each other

 

[Woodster]

A story hugely blown out of proportion by the media, albeit a very bizarre thing to do from Bairstow!

Move on to Adelaide.

 

[Debris]

Aren't New South Welshman despised by the rest of Australia?

Priorities. The Ashes are a time when Australians come together to celebrate how our ancestors fooled the villainous scum into transporting us to a paradise on earth by grinding their lackeys into the dirt and making them question all their life decisions.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

It is still not as stupid as Mitchell Johnson's head butt though. It is not like Bairstow butted someone wearing a helmet!

https://youtu.be/FHSqUzvqU2E

 

[Spark]

It is still not as stupid as Mitchell Johnson's head butt though. It is not like Bairstow butted someone wearing a helmet!

https://youtu.be/FHSqUzvqU2E

Probably would have been worse to headbutt Styris if he wasn't wearing one