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| I haven't seen or read anyone trying to defend Symo... correct me if I'm wrong here... Symonds likes a drink and sometimes gets carried away but what's the worst he has done??? it's nothing compared to what players from other codes have gotten upto... I feel everyone has forced him to carry the burden for all sporting identities misbehaving while intoxicated and to end a career is very, very harsh... BTW if you are trying to give up alcohol, going on tour with the Aussie cricket team is hardly the answer and so Cricket Australia are very naive in holding Symonds to this almost impossible high standard.... |
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| A couple stuff ups on the field?????? More like hundreds of stuff ups on the field. BTW Symmo's off field antics have only ever cost Aus the match by him being sent home and not being allowed to play not like haddens on field stuff ups. |
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| Err I dont think a couple of stuffups on the feild is the same as Symmonds off feild indiscresions.he was given more chances than probly any other Australian player in history. He blew it , and now he is gone. For good I hope | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I ask this as he is actually farkin up on the field during a game. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| So next time hadden drops a catch or lets byes go to the boundary he should be sent home also? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nev, they said he has made 2 'relatively minor' indescretions on tour. They have been away, what, a week? He has a long, long history of fking up - and was therefore required to follow a strict, yet simple to obey, set of rules if he was to return to the Aussie team. He failed, immediately, TWICE! The guy doesn't deserve to be in the side and has only himself to blame. |
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| It is not as if he was out with the Sharks players and Matty Johns now is it? never thought of that one , Could have been lol |
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| Something as simple as leaving the team hotel may have cost Andrew Symonds his Cricket Australia contract, his spot in Australia's ICC World Twenty20 campaign and his international career. Cricket Australia has admitted that Symonds' indiscretion, which saw him sent home from England for breaching team rules, was a relatively minor infraction, but given his long record, there was little option but to take the course of action it did. CA spokesman Peter Young told Melbourne radio station _3AW_ that Symonds' actions were in breach of his CA contract and he has put his pending 12-month deal with the governing body for cricket in Australia under serious threat. "He's in breach of contract and the disciplinary action is that we've stood him down and brought him home," Young said. "The indiscretion of itself was not major and if it had been any other player it would have been a disciplinary issue that would have happened and the world would have moved on without a hiccup," he said. "Broadly speaking, he broke team rules. He broke team rules by going out when he wasn't suppose to, by ... leaving the hotel without advising where he had gone, all of that is in breach of team rules." Give the guy a break. Some of you guys should step back and listen to yourselves. You bag me out for not giving hadden a fair go yet you all want Symmo's scalp and rectum on a trophy board as soon as he makes a simple mistake. It is not as if he was out with the Sharks players and Matty Johns now is it? |
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| Tie a boa constrictor around the old oak tree sir! If I don't see a boa constrictor round the old oak tree I'll stay on the bus Until you apologize to everyone sir! Put the blame on Teri Maki If I don't see a boa constrictor round the old oak treeeeee |
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| "well if the English want to claim him as being born there , we should send him back now" What a very Australian thing to say. Well Done. I have read MANY postings from English ppl claiming him as one of their own, so there is no double standards from here.If you cant take a "tongue in cheek comment" get off if it upsets u. As for Allen Bond, you obviously didnt lose money over him, I did . They should have locked the bstd up for life. |
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| Indians are the last people that should throw stones re. racism. Mind you, their words and deeds on and off the cricket field in recent years certainly shows them to be hypocrites. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| talking about Singh .. good to see the indians are out burning the effigies of Rudd and co. and claiming australians are racists all cos some indians got bashed in Australia . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hate to say 'i told you so' but then, soooo many people did say it. About time we've seen the last of this arrogant so and so in any Australian team. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The pair could go fishing off Broome. Roy checks out the local drinking spots, Haydos cooks up a feast with their catch - great tele! Throw in a few gratuitous shots of bikini clad ladies and we're on a winner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes on todays fishing show, 'Roy and Haydos' , they go fishing for barra in the croc infested lagoons of Kakadu with their special guest, Harbajahn Singh. Oops, Singh has fallen overboard just as the boat approached that 15 foot croc |
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| Hayden was kept on too long, he was shot mentally and was stuggling with the international game. His form in the IPL was as a result of the pressure valve being released. He could just go out there and play like he always could - free of the rubbish he had built up in his head. Symonds could just make a living from IPL. I can also see Hayden and Symonds linking for a fishing and lifestyle show too. That'd work really well I think. As far as what Ponting is saying to the media goes, what has he really said? Let's see: Symonds has been given plenty of chances - true. Symonds has let the side down - true. Symonds need help with his drinking problem - true. Ponting, as captain, was required to front the media and explain why the leadership group made the decision they did - I don't envy him, it must be damn tough talking about that when Symonds is a close friend of his. |
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| King I can't see Symmo playing county cricket as the fishing over there is just not the same as here. But he would be a fool not to take up any offer to do so and to play in the IPL next year and so on. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I think that Symmo was a marked man from the beginning as hilditch doesn't like him and I personnally believe that it was hilditch that was preasuring Haydos to retire and just look how good he went in the IPL and guess what state they're both from? That is my opinion and I am entitled to it. I am sure that most of you cricket buffs will all agree that hilditch needs to be rep[laced and some new selectors brought in and may be even the coach needs a wake up call. Bring back Buchanan |
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| Why play SS? Go get big $$$ in county cricket or T20... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| That is a big call chucker. I think you maybe on to something there, do you have inside information or is it just a preminition. |
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| Well gents if that is the case then why is ponting pointing the finger and saying what he is in the media? Because Ponting probably jumped up and down to the selectors to get Symonds back in the squad , and Symonds has let him down in a huge way. Ponting would feel betrayed by the actions of Symonds |
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| At age 34, Symonds wont be back in the national team. Question is will he return to Shield cricket, or will he just disappear from the Bulls as well. I would say he will next reappear in the beach cricket in January. |
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| Well gents if that is the case then why is ponting pointing the finger and saying what he is in the media? Is it because he is a two faced little twerp and is in need of another broken nose like what happened to him at the Bourbon & Beafsteak back in 1998/99 summer series. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exactly MON. Ponting had similar problems with the booze when he was 21 or 22, admitted it, and had the guts to turn his life around to the point where he is captain of his country. He recognised Symonds needed help and support and has been his #1 supporter throughout these dramas. Finally Ponting has realised that the man is too much of a strain on the side. He is 34(?) it is about time he grew up. The rules were put in place to help him get back his life - he blew it. The move was really taken out of Ponting's hands, Symonds made his own bed! Andrew Symonds will go down as a wasted talent in more ways than one. He could've been anything, one of our finest allrounders, instead he is a bloke who had a couple of decent knocks who killed his own career. |
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