Which state did markson play for again?'He [Smith] will lose it all, everything. And I doubt whether he will ever play cricket for Australia again. It is dreadful,' celebrity agent Max Markson told the Today show.
love to see his bowling figures.
His agency reps Damien Martyn, Nathan Bracken and a bunch of reality tv winners. I'm sure he knows exactly what he's talking about.Which state did markson play for again?
Unwashed indeed
You would not like how much chatter is out there in the Aus public atm on these lines. I wouldn't call it the majority view yet, but far from fringe either.
It is and it isn't.
Their stories were easier to accept because of who they were and the circumstances of those stories.
Sure. Not my point.
So what was your point?
That much of the media overreaction was based on the popular myth that Australian cricket in its successful period was particularly exemplary in anything other than winning a lot. A lot of the shock/anger in the wider public is based on the idea that this team has betrayed the principles upheld by the noble forebears, but that really isn't true. People have simply found ways to rationalise away those dubious episodes because they wanted to, and they haven't hear because they don't, which is why manifestly worse offences - doping violations and exposing the game to potential match fixing influence and corruption - are excused. You unwittingly said it yourself: part of the reason people cared about less was because of who they were, i.e. members of an extremely successful side, whereas this side has been patchy at best for a decade now.
gonna shock you here but growing up in England in the 90s that wasn’t exactly a “popular myth.”
Well, obviously. I meant in Australia.
i too think ***ual assault and ball tampering are peas of a pod
I mean, yeah ball tampering would constitute as ***ual assault if it wasn't consensual, but I think we're straying a bit from the topic.
IIRC it was that the diuretics contained a banned substance that is used as a masking agent by athletes to hide proper performance enhancing drugs.
They wouldn't, they would just let him take other substances that would improve his performance without being detected. So since the very act of taking them makes it impossible to determine whether you're taking true PEDs, legally and morally they should be treated equivalently.
