Serious question. Have you played sports at a decent level? In my experience, it's full of toxic masculinity regardless of the culture. I mean sure they pick up some skills they wouldn't otherwise (arguable) but 'become better people'? Eh...
Yeah pretty decent. In trials and teams etc there's a lot of selfishness and arrogance etc, but that's in the workplace too. Look the All Blacks 2009-2017 were the most dominant professional sports team of the modern era and one of their frequently stated mantras actually was "better people make better All Blacks".
Which is why they continued to select seal killer Andrew Hore, drink driver Jerome Kaino, domestic assaulter Sitiveni Sivivatu....
Definitely -they but they tried to reform them. Of course it is PR too. I'm sure PR was a factor in the Maradona jersey presentation too, but it is good to aspire to overall excellence.
haha yeah, I mean fmd this is a strange take indeed. McCaw quite rightly took every advantage he could on the field and pushed the rules and gamesmanship as hard as he could ffs.
Significant over exaggeration there my learned friend. I said they were a bunch of *****, it’s far from the greatest scandal in sports.
Not just a cricket field. Bump into kiwis now and then around the tracks and they'll take one look at me with my Wallabies cap walking through the nightclub, walk away from whichever female they happen to be currently engaged with and ask if he can get us both a drink on his way out
Yes, but he did it politely and with humility. Plus, he didn't feel the need to call his rivals "dickheads" and brag about the size of his Facebook friends list.
I think they call this a sting operation for underage drinking.
This is fair enough. He stood perennially offside, entered 90% of rucks from the side and stomped on a series of heads in a career lasting about 15 years. But he never called anyone a dickhead. I'll have you know he was a gentleman.
Offside maybe, hands in the ruck definitely...but stomping on heads? You've made that part up.
Is this in regards to the average in India thing? I thought that was quite funny. Although I also find it quite funny that he was sledging a bowler that has 4 more Test centuries than Paine's zero.
Haha, this is red hot. Alpha behaviour. In that situation I'd actually buy you two drinks and ask if you wanted me to push your backside up and down later as assistance later on if you so chose.
Also Julian Savea in the latter category too.
lol at thinking McCaw and Carter are squeaky clean good blokes