Nah, this is horse ****. No other international cricket side is carrying on like that. Others (India) might yap a bit but not with the puerile, personal, immature, piss weak stuff that Wade, Paine and co came out with. Didn't cross a line? Telling someone no one likes them, and refusing to shut the **** up when he's trying to take strike isn't crossing a line? It is, because Paine had to face up and apologise for it.
Yeah, I thought I remembered something similar. That strikes me as a real douche thing to say - 'ner ner ner your team mates don't like you'.
Yeah, he apologized for his performance as a keeper yesterday and for his sledging and stuff today. To be honest, it is more than what most others would have done in his shoes.
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Indeed. In that case, we should just move on.
Wish they'd for once embrace it and said yeah we're assholes deal with it
Yeah well true, if you're going to carry on like that with some level of regularity, you might as well. Beats the 'let's pretend we're sorry about it when it's actually who we are as a cricketing nation, barring Pat Cummins'.
I'm trying not to condone this, but frankly the nature of professional sport means that players will at times let a few verbals go. I don't have the time for a long response, but does Jos Buttler (a normally mild-mannered guy) giving Philander a volley of abuse last year mean that he's an awful human? It was completely out of character for him, and pretty sure he hasn't behaved anything like that on a cricket field since
No, and nor is Paine an awful human. I actually gained a tremendous amount of respect for him watching The Test, but that's waning now (before anyone says it, I am aware he will lose no sleep). But it's not out of character for him and his side, far from it. I think it was actually admired somewhat in the Steve Waugh sides that they were world beaters and kinda poor humans, but that was potentially what made them great. Now, it's just sooky rubbish and it's not helping them as cricketers. Truly, it isn't.
This was the Lehmann era.
Hmm, was it? It was "Hard but fair" not "deal with it we're unpleasant" according to them, they never really owned. Regardless I agree that'd be terrible if they did too.
Yeah it's a blurry question. Lehman personally leaned into it a lot more than he tried to get away from it, but clearly he never had the backing of CA as an institution. Which is kind of the problem with being a dick now. Too much corporate money is involved for upper management to allow a cricket team to deliberately turn heel.
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He really doesn't. And most sportspeople are dicks by virtue of having come up in a hyper-competitive environment where hate, envy and all those other wonderful feelings thrive.
