Cricket......

[LongDonkey]

Camera operators in SA just plain better than those in Aus for the Ashes series. My opinion is that the Ausies have just finally been caught. They and a LOT of others did it without being caught. I am still bitter about the RSA sides and their numerous cheating fiascos over the years,from the vakansie to Gibbs who "forgot" to cheat. My big problem is the kids who idolize these sports players and then get massive disappointment handed to them by greed. Rant off.

Edited March 26, 2018 by LongDonkey

[Baldrick]

Camera operators in SA just plain better than those in Aus for the Ashes series.

If an Aussie cameraman caught an Aussie cricketer cheating he would have been taken to the control room and beaten to death with a didgeridoo

[Capricorn]

lovign the savagery of social media regarding the aussies atm..

 

 

[Thor Buttox]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/david-warners-ball-tampering-comments-resurface/news-story/656fa0b42f207efebe7d506bfc562ffe

 

I love when a hypocritical douche ets his comeuppance...

[Capricorn]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/david-warners-ball-tampering-comments-resurface/news-story/656fa0b42f207efebe7d506bfc562ffe

 

I love when a hypocritical douche ets his comeuppance...

 

the very definition of poetic justice: eating your own crow...

[scotty]

Cape Town - A moving open letter to Australian captain Steve Smith from an Australian cricket fan and father.

 

https://www.sport24.co.za/Cricket/Proteas/open-letter-to-australian-skipper-steve-smith-20180326

[Patchelicious]

[Kranswurm]

I saw this on FB..hilarious.My Kiwi friends are taking great delight in the whole debacle

[GLuvsMtb]

Cape Town - A moving open letter to Australian captain Steve Smith from an Australian cricket fan and father.

 

https://www.sport24.co.za/Cricket/Proteas/open-letter-to-australian-skipper-steve-smith-20180326

Urgh... ‘Open letters’ are just the pits (never mind that we all want Smith and Co to be dealt with). I never read them, no-one who should ever responds to them and after 2 days we all forget about them. The writer would have been much better served sending a registered letter to CA about his outrage and disappointment.

 

 

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[eddy]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/david-warners-ball-tampering-comments-resurface/news-story/656fa0b42f207efebe7d506bfc562ffe

 

I love when a hypocritical douche ets his comeuppance...

 

 

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/david-warner-at-heart-of-ball-tampering-scandal-20180326-p4z6d3.html

 

Now this headline in the Sydney Morning Herald I find hard to believe.

 

Surely not David Warner......

[Shebeen]

so let's compare #mintgate (shining the ball with sticky saliva) to #sandpapergate

 

who better to ask than Steve Smith himself

 

https://youtu.be/D9u6JaWr6EU?t=133

[Shebeen]

Urgh... ‘Open letters’ are just the pits (never mind that we all want Smith and Co to be dealt with). I never read them, no-one who should ever responds to them and after 2 days we all forget about them. The writer would have been much better served sending a registered letter to CA about his outrage and disappointment.

 

 

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I think you're generalising here big time. It can often be used to bring a serious matter to someone who is ignoring it. It can be written by an absolute nobody or Bono.

 

Now if only JZ could have actually read this in when it was written in 2010

12th October, 2010

Dear Government

OK, I get it, the President isn’t the only one in charge. The ANC believes in “collective responsibility” (So that nobody has to get blamed when things get screwed up), so I address this to everyone in government – the whole lot of you – good, bad and ugly (That’s you, Blade).

We were all so pleased with your renewed promises to deliver services (we’ll forgive the fact that in some places people are worse off than in 1994); to root out corruption (so far your record is worse than under Mbeki, Mandela or the Apartheid regime – what with family members becoming overnight millionaires); and build infrastructure (State tenders going disgustingly awry and pretty stadia standing empty notwithstanding) – and with the good job you did when FIFA were telling you what to do for a few months this year. Give yourselves half a pat on the back. Since President Sepp went off with his billions I’m afraid we have less to be proud of – Public Servants Strikes, more Presidential bastard children, increasing unemployment and a lack of leadership that allowed the Unions to make the elected government it’s bitch. You should be more than a little worried – but you’re not. Hence my letter. Here are some things that might have passed you by:

1. You have to stop corruption. Don’t stop it because rich people moan about it and because it makes poor people feel that you are self-enriching parasites of state resources, but because it is a disease that will kill us all. It’s simple – there is only so much money left to be plundered. When that money runs out, the plunderers will raise taxes, chase and drain all the remaining cash out of the country and be left with nothing but the rotting remains of what could have been the greatest success story of post-colonial Africa. It’s called corruption because it decomposes the fabric of society. When someone is found guilty of corruption, don’t go near them – it’s catchy. Making yourself rich at the country’s expense is what colonialists do.

2. Stop complaining about the media. You’re only complaining about them because they show you up for how little you really do or care. If you were trying really hard, and you didn’t drive the most expensive car in the land, or have a nephew who suddenly went from modesty to ostentatious opulence, we’d have only positive things to report. Think of Jay Naidoo, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Zwelinzima Vavi – they come under a lot of fire, but it’s never embarrassing – always about their ideas, their positions, and is perfectly acceptable criticism for people in power to put up with. When the media go after Blade Nzimande, Siphiwe Nyanda and the President, they say we need a new piece of legislation to “make the media responsible”. That’s because they’re being humiliated by the facts we uncover about them daily, not because there is an agenda in some newsroom. If there had been a free press during the reigns of Henry VIII, Idi Amin or Hitler, their regimes might just have been kept a little less destructive, and certainly would have been less brazen and unchecked.

3. Education is a disaster. We’re the least literate and numerate country in Africa. Zimbabwe produces better school results and turns out smarter kids than we do. Our youth aren’t usemployed, they’re unemployable. Outcomes-based-education, Teachers’ Unions and an attitude of mediocrity that discourages excellence have reduced us to a laughing stock. Our learners can’t spell, read, add or subtract. What are all these people going to do? Become President? There’s only one job like that. We need clever people, not average or stupid ones. the failure of the Education Department happened under your watch. Someone who writes Matric now hadn’t even started school under the Apartheid regime, so you cannot blame anyone but yourselves for this colossal cock-up. Fix it before three-quarters of our matrics end up begging on Oxford Road. Reward schools and teachers who deliver great pass rates and clever students into the system. Fire the teachers who march and neglect their classrooms.

4. Give up on BEE. It isn’t working. Free shares for new black partnerships in old white companies has made everyone poorer except for Tokyo Sexwale. Giving people control of existing business won’t make more jobs either. In fact, big companies aren’t growing, they’re reducing staff and costs. The key is entrepreneurship. People with initiative, creative ideas and small companies must be given tax breaks and assistance. Young black professionals must be encouraged to start their own businesses rather than join a big corporation’s board as their token black shareholder or director. Government must also stop thinking that state employment is a way to decrease unemployment – it isn’t – it’s a tax burden. India and China are churning out new, brilliant, qualified people at a rate that makes us look like losers. South Africa has a proud history of innovation, pioneering and genius. This is the only way we can advance our society and economy beyond merely coping.

5. Stop squabbling over power. Offices are not there for you to occupy (or be deployed to) and aggrandize yourself. Offices in government are there to provide a service. If you think outrageous salaries, big German cars, first-class travel and state housing are the reasons to aspire to leadership, you’re in the wrong business – you should be working for a dysfunctional, tumbledown parastatal (or Glenn Agliotti). We don’t care who the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces is if we don’t have running water, electricity, schools and clean streets. You work for us. Do your job, don’t imagine you ARE your job.

6. Stop renaming things. Build new things to name. If I live in a street down which the sewage runs, I don’t care if it’s called Hans Strijdom or Malibongwe. Calling it something nice and new won’t make it smell nice and new. Re-branding is something Cell C do with Trevor Noah, not something you can whitewash your lack of delivery with.

7. Don’t think you’ll be in power forever. People aren’t as stupid as you think we are. We know you sit around laughing about how much you get away with. We’ll take you down, either at the polls – or if it comes down to the wire – by revolution (Yes, Julius, the real kind, not the one you imagine happened in 2008). Careless, wasteful and wanton government is a thing of the past. The days of thin propaganda and idealized struggle are over. The people put you in power – they will take you out of it. Africa is tired of tin-pot dictators, one-party states and banana republics. We know who we are now, we care about our future – and so should you.

G

[Shebeen]

wow, imagine being Australian selector, match starts on friday

australian test squad

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/squad/1133738.html

 

15 players, now down to 13 with warner and smith gone.

 

4batsmen

bancroft

handscomb 

khawaja

shaun marsh

 

1keeper/batsman

tim paine © +

 

allrounder

mitchell marsh bats @ 6

 

7 bowlers to pick 5 from!!

starc

lyon

hazlewood

cummins

 

holland/richardson/sayers

 

whilst he might be their next test captain, cricinfo should probably update Tim Paine's headshot

http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/128300/128334.icon.jpg

[Kranswurm]

wow, imagine being Australian selector, match starts on friday

australian test squad

 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/squad/1133738.html

 

15 players, now down to 13 with warner and smith gone.

 

4batsmen

bancroft

handscomb 

khawaja

shaun marsh

 

1keeper/batsman

tim paine © +

 

allrounder

mitchell marsh bats @ 6

 

7 bowlers to pick 5 from!!

starc

lyon

hazlewood

cummins

 

holland/richardson/sayers

 

whilst he might be their next test captain, cricinfo should probably update Tim Paine's headshot

http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/128300/128334.icon.jpg

Since when is Warner gone?

[Stretch]

Since when is Warner gone?

Not officially.. But word on the street is that cricket Australia are going do something... We'll find out soon enough

[gogo@]

who can remember when last a test series has been this hyped in the media? Marketers who believe in the mantra that there's no such thing as bad publicity, must be drowning in drool at the escalating media presence this series has had. They must be screaming in rage at any attempt to bring this latest fiasco to a swift end.

Ball Pottinger??

????

(Hat. Coat. Door)