***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2018

[Redbacks]

Not a good look for the game. CA need to pull him into line.

 

[Second Spitter]

Full marks to Rabada at the end of the vid, for offering to "show" Davey Joburg, right there,

 

[Burgey]

This shows Australian Cricketers are better at preventing violence than their English counterparts. Looking at you, Alex Hales.

 

[Burgey]

Maybe de Kock mention Dunny Bill Williams

 

[Daemon]

Hmm. Australia why do you sledge? Grrrr.

Australian gets sledged. Yeah well that’s fine coz excuses.

Why have you assumed I'm against Australians sledging? I think sledging is fine. If you can pull it off like previous Australian teams, good on you, if not, continue to embarrass yourself like Starc yesterday, doesn't matter to me.

Warner lost his temper and was trying to get physical (I doubt he would have but it sure looks like it) outside the field. Are you defending that just because de Kock may have said a few naughty words and hurt his feelings?

 

[harsh.ag]

QdK obviously crossed the "hard but fair" line. Who better than the Aussies to know.

 

[R!TTER]

Why have you assumed I'm against Australians sledging? I think sledging is fine. If you can pull it off like previous Australian teams, good on you, if not, continue to embarrass yourself like Starc yesterday, doesn't matter to me.

Warner lost his temper and was trying to get physical (I doubt he would have but it sure looks like it) outside the field. Are you defending that just because de Kock may have said a few naughty words and hurt his feelings?

No sledging is definitely not fine, especially when you draw an arbitrary line that the other team shouldn't cross. This is why Aus get tons of flak, for getting personal (like that Sarwan incident) & then not being able to take it on the chin, like against India in the last decade or two!

You can't assume what upsets others on their behalf, so if/when they do get personal, which I'm sure many Aussie cricketers still do - then be ready for whatever comes your way & by whatever I mean "everything is fair in love & war" type!

 

[Burgey]

Warner should have handled it like an adult. Told de Kock he’d see him after the game when everyone had gone home and then punched the **** out of him.

That or just laughed it off. I dunno.

 

[Daemon]

No sledging is definitely not fine, especially when you draw an arbitrary line that the other team shouldn't cross. This is why Aus get tons of flak, for getting personal (like that Sarwan incident) & then not being able to take it on the chin, like against India in the last decade or two!

You can't assume what upsets others on their behalf, so if/when they do get personal, which I'm sure many Aussie cricketers still do - then be ready for whatever comes your way & by whatever I mean "everything is fair in love & war" type!

I honestly think sledging is fine and there's no need to police it. Players actions speak for themselves and if you get riled up from words people string together for the specific purpose of riling you up, then too bad. Learn to control your emotions better.

If you try to act all alpha but can't pull it off (Clarke) or regularly send batsman off then you just look like an idiot and it reflects poorly on you, that's good enough punishment, no need for fines and demerit points etc.

 

[R!TTER]

I honestly think sledging is fine and there's no need to police it. Players actions speak for themselves and if you get riled up from words people string together for the specific purpose of riling you up, then too bad. Learn to control your emotions better.

If you try to act all alpha but can't pull it off (Clarke) or regularly send batsman off then you just look like an idiot and it reflects poorly on you, that's good enough punishment, no need for fines and demerit points etc.

Not today, not in this age of Trump & fake news & certainly not when there are impressionable children watching & hearing everything that's out there. Sure there's stuff that you can't block on the internet but sports on TV isn't the place to show another your **** is bigger than mine contest. There is no good reason why people should act like *icks when they're on the field of play & being paid millions each year, does your workplace tolerate such stuff? So why do sportspeople act a certain way just to get themselves fired up, isn't there enough vile & vitriol in the print & news media (besides reality TV) that you'd want to pay to see the same on sports channels? Sportsmen are role models & should act as such, if we'd want to see another jackass on reality TV we'd watch Trump instead.

Just to be clear this applies not only to Warner but also Kohli & his minions.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Oh yeah, almost a certainty we're going to hear that QDK "crossed a line" in the noble art of sledging.

Now the talk is QDK apparently referenced David's wife with the likes of Peter Lalor (who comes across on Twitter as a good bloke but a PR man for the Oz side) saying "Keep families out of it".

So apparently QDK broke the rules of sledging that seem to have totally been documented and defined by Australia and must be adhered to by all other countries.

 

[Boris_Dog]

If the rumors in the Saffa cricketing circles are to be believed QDK asked Warner what it was like to get sloppy seconds from Sonny Bill Williams. After these words sank in a faint hiss and a popping sound were heard.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Now the talk is QDK apparently referenced David's wife with the likes of Peter Lalor (who comes across on Twitter as a good bloke but a PR man for the Oz side) saying "Keep families out of it".

So apparently QDK broke the rules of sledging that seem to have totally been documented and defined by Australia and must be adhered to by all other countries.

This **** is so predictable

 

[Boris_Dog]

Warner was also primed to pop after he saw the Saffers team imitating him run after the ball on the big screen. They say he looks and runs like a pregnant hamster.

This is an unfair and ridiculous comparison and they should all apologize immediately.

 

[harsh.ag]

Regardless of Warner being a short-tempered shorty, seriously keep families out of it. **** thing to do, regardless of cultural differences.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Wow, Lyon has been fined and lost a demerit point for dropping the ball near ABDV after the run out.

Tbh, I didn’t think that was that serious of an incident; perhaps a warning from the referee at most.

But if Lyon got that punishment will be interesting what will happen between Warner & QDC

 

[Victor Ian]

did the sydney morning herald really publish that

lol. For a while I thought the new trend was to tag your comments as if they were written by the Sydney Morning Herald. Then someone posted it mid sentence so I went and looked up what it really meant. I'm not a big fan of acronym speak.

 

[GotSpin]

Surely old QDK was talking about Warner's wife getting pumped in the dunny

Kinda hard to control your emotions perfectly then isn't it

 

[Prince EWS]

Now the talk is QDK apparently referenced David's wife with the likes of Peter Lalor (who comes across on Twitter as a good bloke but a PR man for the Oz side) saying "Keep families out of it".

Couldn't make it up.

 

[Prince EWS]

I honestly think sledging is fine and there's no need to police it. Players actions speak for themselves and if you get riled up from words people string together for the specific purpose of riling you up, then too bad. Learn to control your emotions better.

If you try to act all alpha but can't pull it off (Clarke) or regularly send batsman off then you just look like an idiot and it reflects poorly on you, that's good enough punishment, no need for fines and demerit points etc.

"Too bad" is such an under-rated turn of phrase. The word needs more "too bad".