fredfertang
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Then why did Australia bother?
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Baggy Green ball tampering: Bancroft, Smith and the Aussie "Leadership Group"
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Son Of Coco
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I'm not sure how true this is, but it was explained as being a piece of chewing gum and that the Australians had been asked to use a spoon to get whatever they needed out of the various bowls present (nuts, gum etc) as a precaution due to the fact a virus was getting around. Makes no sense to me that he'd take sugar in his pocket when he could just chew the gum, or use a mint.
Son Of Coco
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I think you'll find even we'd consider using 2c worth of yellow tape on you guys a massive waste of money.
Adders
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Even in the face of such an embarrasing humiliation, only an Aussie fan would feel it ok to go LOLing at another cricket team.
Burgey
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Our Cadel was never a part of that
fredfertang
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**** me a pocketful of Charlie must be cheap down your way
Son Of Coco
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Son Of Coco
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It is if you know where to go. It'll be even cheaper now the Australian leadership group are looking to offload several dozen boxes of it.**** me a pocketful of Charlie must be cheap down your way
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The second I saw this thread on Cricket web I thought to myself "at least Adders will come back and post again". Been a long time since I've seen you post with this kind of frequency, welcome back.
Son Of Coco
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There's never a bad time to laugh at the English cricket team. It's not my fault our guys took a tiny percentage of joy out of the situation over there in In Zud.
fredfertang
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Adders mate, do you like living in Oz?
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Nah. Ridiculous. Whatever it takes. Works for India. Just threaten to cancel the tour and they’ll drop it.
cnerd123
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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
It's been known for a long long time now that the Australians are dirty, cheating, nasty, unpleasant, hypocritical characters. That culture runs deep not just in their dressing room, but in the very fabric of their cricketing culture. It's almost like they were descendents of men and women who had criminal tendencies in their genes.
Yet, despite multiple offences, we continue to let them be a part of world cricket. We slap them on the wrist, go 'boys will be boys', accept their crocodile tears, draw a line and tell them they can play hard but can't cross that, and we move on, as though this will never happen again.
Frankly, this entire incident isn't a failure of Australian cricket leadership, but a failure of the international cricket community.
Strip Australia of Test Status and evict them from the ICC. It's the only way they'll learn.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
It's been known for a long long time now that the Australians are dirty, cheating, nasty, unpleasant, hypocritical characters. That culture runs deep not just in their dressing room, but in the very fabric of their cricketing culture. It's almost like they were descendents of men and women who had criminal tendencies in their genes.
Yet, despite multiple offences, we continue to let them be a part of world cricket. We slap them on the wrist, go 'boys will be boys', accept their crocodile tears, draw a line and tell them they can play hard but can't cross that, and we move on, as though this will never happen again.
Frankly, this entire incident isn't a failure of Australian cricket leadership, but a failure of the international cricket community.
Strip Australia of Test Status and evict them from the ICC. It's the only way they'll learn.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Perfectly sums it all up IMO.
Adders
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Yes. Love it and wouldn't choose to live anywhere else........love everything about it except for 1 small thing. Australians and the way they do sport.
Case in point.....this just popped up on my FB feed. This is how Aussies think you follow sport............
It's all about the abuse.
TheJediBrah
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And replace them with Hong Kong IMO
dontcloseyoureyes
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I know you're trolling but if this genuinely happened it would be the end of test cricket.
At least Smith has done us a favour by implicating the senior players and by extension the coaching staff in this.
If he had some sense of leadership he would have said it was his responsibility, it was all his idea, that he made made Bancroft do it and he would accept the consequences.
At least that way he would have been loyal to the other rats involved and people might say he made a bad decision under stress.
What must be the culture of the team that the senior players would think this was acceptable behaviour.
In the places where I have worked the culture of the workplace is set from the top, by senior management and senior staff.
What has happened in the past that the players would think their superiors, ( the team management and coaching staff), would accept what they planned to do ?
They must not have been in fear of losing their place if their superiors found out , criminals don't commit crimes thinking they will be caught. Wouldn't Bancroft have been taken off the ground and made to explain himself if the team management didn't know what was going on ?
The Cricket Australia board and executive should conduct an investigation into why there is a culture in the team that has led to the players making this decision.
Someone is responsible for this and they must found and got out of the game.
All the Board's governance, ethics, Spirit of Cricket, fair play,codes of conduct,and use of these players as role models for the community and junior players have been shown to be not worth the paper they were written.
Or was Gideon Haigh being prescient in his article yesterday when he wrote about hero's tolerance, that the governing will not enforce their own rules.
If he had some sense of leadership he would have said it was his responsibility, it was all his idea, that he made made Bancroft do it and he would accept the consequences.
At least that way he would have been loyal to the other rats involved and people might say he made a bad decision under stress.
What must be the culture of the team that the senior players would think this was acceptable behaviour.
In the places where I have worked the culture of the workplace is set from the top, by senior management and senior staff.
What has happened in the past that the players would think their superiors, ( the team management and coaching staff), would accept what they planned to do ?
They must not have been in fear of losing their place if their superiors found out , criminals don't commit crimes thinking they will be caught. Wouldn't Bancroft have been taken off the ground and made to explain himself if the team management didn't know what was going on ?
The Cricket Australia board and executive should conduct an investigation into why there is a culture in the team that has led to the players making this decision.
Someone is responsible for this and they must found and got out of the game.
All the Board's governance, ethics, Spirit of Cricket, fair play,codes of conduct,and use of these players as role models for the community and junior players have been shown to be not worth the paper they were written.
Or was Gideon Haigh being prescient in his article yesterday when he wrote about hero's tolerance, that the governing will not enforce their own rules.
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