Latest Review into Australian Cricket

[GoodAreasShane]

Ever since his appointment at CA, every single thing that David Peever touched turned to shite. Good riddance.

 

[jimmy101]

How did Peever end up getting the job in the first place?

 

[Second Spitter]

That was quick! Word on the street is Tubby Taylor is being groomed for the role.

I'd hate to be the person cleaning the underneath side of his desk.

 

[TheJediBrah]

How did Peever end up getting the job in the first place?

I'm guessing:

On a broader level, it’s funny how much the ideology has changed around Australian cricket in less than decade.

Especially after Australia’s home 10/11 Ashes loss, all the media talk seemed to me about how outmoded Australia’s cricket structures of the power based around the state cricketing bodies was, how Australian cricket needed to ‘modernise’ its management style (i.e. become corporate). This seemed to be one of the main drivers behind the Argus review and the changes that did occur in admin to become more ruthless.

Several years on, as the old saying goes be careful what you wish for. In all aspects David Peever seemed totally ill-suited to running Australian cricket and his seeming belief that it should be treated like an accounting firm. I’m surprised he managed to last this long.

But Peever isn’t the real culprit; it’s those who wanted Cricket Australia to become modern and corporate at the start of the decade and are now pretending to be aghast at getting the changes they wanted.

 

[Burgey]

How good is it to see an attempted union-busting Tory corporate bloke publicly get it in the neck? Love it. **** off back to Rio Tinto, ****.

 

[stephen]

By all reports, Rio has a cancerous corporate culture too. There is a huge contrast between the culture of Rio vs BHP.

 

[Second Spitter]

By all reports, Rio has a cancerous corporate culture too. There is a huge contrast between the culture of Rio vs BHP.

In my experiences (having had both as a client) it was the other way round.

 

[GotSpin]

Thank god for that

 

[quincywagstaff]

I know there have been some bad ones over the years but if there’s been a worse Chairman/CEO of a national board than Peever I’d be surprised. In the last 15 months alone the damage he has caused has been staggering.

 

[SteveNZ]

Even if they do lift the bans right now, the damage is done. The players (mostly thinking about Smith here) will never be, or feel, the same again. There will always be a black cloud hanging over them and who knows how that they could affect their performances. It's a situation that other ball-tampering players never faced, eg. Faf, Chandimal, Sachin/Dravid etc.

I doubt every time Chandimal or Tendulkar go/went out to bat people will be thinking "ball tamperer" or "cheater", but that will follow Smith for the rest of his career. Possibly his life. All because of the actions of CA. It's messed up.

You reckon? I don't see that in Smith's future at all. He didn't stop the tampering but nor did he orchestrate it. I don't see it following him around for that long at all if he gets back in and does what he does best in scoring runs. Guys in the NRL go up on domestic violence charges, Wayne Carey ****ed his team mate's wife and glassed his partner and they still fawn all over him as the 'King'. Warney was a spot fixer, a drug taker and cheated on his wife, but took wickets. The best currency. People forgive all very easily when there's performances to paint over the past.

 

[Hicheal Michael]

Any word on whether the O'Keefe ban last year was unjust?

 

[Daemon]

This elite honesty thing is pretty hilarious.

https://twitter.com/ESPNcricinfo/status/1058609405938335746?s=20

Wonder if it means they'll be walking.

 

[ankitj]

Elite honesty. LOL.

 

[Gnske]

It's just embarrassing. It's like they've taken a page from the England team on how to disconnect from reality and the public.

 

[SteveNZ]

Jesus ****ing Christ.

I think in a head-to-head battle between this and England's New Balance campaign, for sheer cringe-worthy, marketing wankery/how-smart-are-we-ery, trying to engage with the public but actually achieving the opposite, 'elite respect' might have pipped 'Dear 677' to the post. And that's a fair ****ing effort.

Elite respect. The sort of phrase that people in professional environments use to distance themselves from Joe Unwashed in the public, because we'd 'never get it' about being elite and what that entails. All it does it further exhibits - as found in the review - how far these people get their heads up their arses and are distanced from the real world that they think anyone for a second would swallow 'elite respect' and the other guff they wheeled out.

 

[Daemon]

All this does is give the media, fans and the opposition more ammo for sledging. I think the stay quiet and brush under carpet approach would have been a better PR option.

 

[Victor Ian]

The irony of elite honesty is that someone lied to themselves that this is what the public wanted to hear.

 

[Victor Ian]

How Elite honesty should have been phrased... 'don't cheat'

 

[Starfighter]

One thing I've found disappointing is the lack of ex-players saying what should be obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense and saying that the bans were vastly ridiculous to start off with and were caused by a totally hysterical reaction. It's like being in the Australian team means you get a sanctimony chip installed.

 

[Spikey]

it's been mentioned in every thread except this one: https://www.cricket.com.au/news/mar...dings-conflict-channel-nine-aca-ca/2018-11-05