Stokes Arrested

[Adders]

I don't think I'll have New Zealand as my ''second team'' any longer after that person wanted me banned! I'm livid.

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Yep, That'll **** him.

 

[NZTailender]

Yeah your (or the ECBs) 'opinion' wasn't the problem.

 

[S.Kennedy]

Yeah your (or the ECBs) 'opinion' wasn't the problem.

I didn't express any opinion though except I find it inconceivable how somebody homosexual could support a franchise involving Stokes or Hales in light of, to put it most transparently,

(And I think this is how the ECB will see things).

You are perfectly entitled to refute this point but I hardly think it is grounds to be banned!!

 

[sledger]

S. Kennedy: the spokesperson for all homosexual people.

 

[wpdavid]

And yet the two gay lads are all over the news now saying how grateful they are for Stokes' and Hales' intervention

 

[Smudge]

Celebrity's get away with everything as usual

Finally, the hot take we'd all been waiting for.

I don't think I'll have New Zealand as my ''second team'' any longer after that person wanted me banned! I'm livid.

 

[S.Kennedy]

And yet the two gay lads are all over the news now saying how grateful they are for Stokes' and Hales' intervention

True.

The cctv footage looks far from benign - there is a moment Hales goes up to Stokes and stops him saying stuff, and this is corroborated by the bouncer who says a torrent of homophobic abuse took place.

The homosexuals say differently, and said different even before the trial. They say it was just ''banter''.

So you basically have two accounts there.

 

[ImpatientLime]

Remember when Jesse Ryder punched a glass window and NZ cricket dropped him forever?

remember when pietersen didn't listen to matt prior in a team meeting and the ecb dropped him forever?

 

[Zinzan]

S. Kennedy: the spokesperson for all homosexual people.

Yup, a bit like he's the spokesman for special needs children like Katie Price's son.

 

[Burgey]

I noticed George Dobell unsurprisingly tweeting that Stokes is a great role model for kids, both on and off the field.

 

[social]

I noticed George Dobell unsurprisingly tweeting that Stokes is a great role model for kids, both on and off the field.

Yeah, he's been going all in on his behalf since the beginning for whatever reason

 

[S.Kennedy]

Yup, a bit like he's the spokesman for special needs children like Katie Price's son.

If you had a child with disabilities would you see Stokes as a benevolent and attractive character to advertise cricket?

It is a fair point.

 

[Starfighter]

I think you're making too much of this.

 

[vic_orthdox]

 

[S.Kennedy]

I think you're making too much of this.

I'm simply trying to perceive how the ECB will see things in their overall (re)branding of English cricket. Stokes is the antithesis to where they see cricket heading.

 

[Starfighter]

<big-arse pic>

There's no joke mate.

 

[fredfertang]

I'm simply trying to perceive how the ECB will see things in their overall (re)branding of English cricket. Stokes is the antithesis to where they see cricket heading.

I can see SK's point on this - I think Stokes needs to come out with a public statement that involves consuming a very large slice of humble pie

 

[wpdavid]

I can see SK's point on this - I think Stokes needs to come out with a public statement that involves consuming a very large slice of humble pie

Yup. Including an acknowledgement that there need to be some fairly substantial life-style choices.

 

[Engle]

Or else what ?

The public have had their pound of flesh.

He went thru the wringer and kept silent all this time, whilst social media went berserk with their own self-proclaimed pre and post-judgements.

The case is over. Time to move on.

 

[Moonsorrow999]

So Stokes has just spent a week trying to explain how is actions are just. I can just see him coming out with a fake apology while reading from a script not written by himself.