🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:52:52 +1000, "Reverend Zed"
<nospam_revzed@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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>Bron <use.address@in.the.message.com> wrote in message
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>> > Big deal, they give him absolute hell hours on end every single day.
>> > This is damned restrained of him IMO.
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>> So you're saying it's OK to abuse the crowd?  What's next .. kicking them?
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>Sportspersons don't play for the abuse Bron.

No, but they are paid a lot of money and should understand what's
important.

> Unless you've been under a rock
>for a while, there's been an alarming trend developing over the last decade
>or so during which particular sections of sports fans think it's absolutely
>okay to issue the most torrid abuse possible. There are even cases of
>physical attacks, such as spitting, hitting and throwing objects at players
>when they come within range.

Which didn't happen to Warne in England AFAIK.
The balmy army gave him a bit of a serve for being overweight - he is
and I remember Botham and Hemmings being given a porcine present out
here in 83.
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>If the people in the crowd were exhibiting behaviour that even closely
>resembled the hooliganism of other sports, such as soccer, I'd say Shane
>Warne showed absolutely remarkably restrained behaviour in issuing just the
>finger to the crowd.
>Role model or not, there is no way in hell any sportsperson should endure
>that kind of shit from absolutely anyone.

gee, you're building another straw man here.
Warne was not spat at, hit and did not have anything thrown at him. I
doubt that anyone takes the barmy army's comments seriously...
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>> > For weather information, before anything as know currently was known to
>> > him.  You can't judge an innocent 1994 act by 2000 standards.
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>> Was illegal then also, and they KNEW it was wrong (otherwise they wouldn't
>> have denied it would they!)
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>Warne was cleared of the charges. You seem to be forgetting this.

Warne was _not_ cleared of the charges. He admitted providing
information to a bookie was found guilty of bringing the game into
disrepute and was heavily fined.
He has not been found guilty of match fixing but I never accused him
of having thrown a match above.

I can't be bothered to respond to the rest of your drivel. Presumably
you're actually reading canb.general because you sure as hell would
have been noticed in a cricket newsgroup before now.