chris.hinton
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Wasn't there some rumours about him
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Peter Roebuck dies
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You genuinely didn't know?
I had thought he'd gone quiet as hadn't seen his thoughtful writings on the game for some time. Assumed he was just busy with his charitable efforts mentoring disadvantaged young men in South Africa and Zimbabwe...
flibbertyjibber
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Mentoring is one word for it I guess.
Think you might be going about your mentoring the wrong way if babies are the result
jcas0167
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Reading through this resurrected thread it seems there was some support for Roebuck's position in that dispute. Crowe and then Steve Waugh (who replaced Crowe when he got injured in 1988) were hugely successful.
Chubb
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Roebuck was very paranoid about Botham for the rest of his life. Thought he was behind the Devon court case and probably saw him behind the SA police investigation that led to his death.
A very troubled man. Again it is extraordinary the SMH and ABC were willing to employ someone who had his acknowledged record even before the SA case.
The hate he projected onto the English was really just his self loathing.
social
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The most obvious explanation seems to be that very few people actually really knew him
Ed Cowan, Jim Maxwell and others spoke highly of him after his death while the SMH donated to his “orphanage” after his passing
Even the UK case could be fobbed off as being antiquated punishment as there weren’t any accusations of ***ual misconduct (afaik)
Chubb
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Even a lot of English journos, who Roebuck despised (again, projection and paranoia - to him, they were all in Botham’s pocket) spoke highly of his intellect while acknowledging nobody ever really knew him. Vic Marks was a teammate for years and I think at some point Roebuck stopped speaking to him too.
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Adam Shand is a criminal investigative journalist with a solid reputation
Guy obviously had many secrets
The Roebuck tragedy: a tale of love, beatings and blackmail
The 'sons' of the late cricket identity claim he had a dark side, writes Adam Shand in South Africa.
Line and Length
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I recall reading that Roebuck, after his team lost in Sussex, tossed his car keys to Nigel Poppelwell telling him to take the car back to Taunton as he was walking home (over 130 miles). He was rescued on Salisbury Plain the next day.
Ian Botham also relates how one night he went to Roebuck's house to talk to him about a team matter. Getting no reply after banging on the door he went round the back. He saw a light on and, finding the back door unlocked, entered the house. He found Roebuck sitting cross legged in the middle of the living room floor with a rug over his head. "I'm meditating," said Roebuck when asked if he was OK.
Ian Botham also relates how one night he went to Roebuck's house to talk to him about a team matter. Getting no reply after banging on the door he went round the back. He saw a light on and, finding the back door unlocked, entered the house. He found Roebuck sitting cross legged in the middle of the living room floor with a rug over his head. "I'm meditating," said Roebuck when asked if he was OK.
Shri
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flibbertyjibber
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Probably my funniest post on here even if I say so myself.remembered this post randomly today and laughed in public
**** you
nightprowler10
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I had no idea that 1) he was dead, just like AliTT I think I just forgot he existed and 2) apparently there was some controversy around the guy. Almost fretting going back through and reading why he was a terrible person.
