Andrew Symonds will do anything to get out of playing against Bangladesh.
Even finding a good night out in Cardiff once.
Now he has gone fishing.
“Me don’t need no teem meetings for Bangladesh.
Me Roy.
Me beat anyone with my bare hands.
Hand me a beer boy.”
Just how seriously does Australia take Bangladesh?
Cricket Australia forgot when the Olympics were (supposedly), and cancelled the test tour because the Olympics took us all by surprise.
Ricky has a wrist thing.
Hayden couldn’t get a direct flight to Darwin.
Roy is a drunkard fisherman.
And Brett Lee got rid of the missus.
The test series was quite obviously canned because the main players wanted a break.
Cricket Australia couldn’t find a reason to cancel the one dayers, but the top liners just haven’t turned up.
If this was the IPL though, I wonder if these 4 would be able to overcome there various reasons for missing this series to soldier on…
Must be a Queensland thing. Getting smashed and fishing are more important than a limited overs game against the Bangers.
Talk about a mountain from a molehill.He only went FISHING. No pedalos, no drugs, no handbag-slapping, not even any booze. When it was first announced, pre-match, without saying why, I thought he must have a) glassed his girlfriend and blamed Haydenb) been caught with cocaine in his pocket at the airport or c) kicked a few quokkas around at practice. At the very least. But no, he just went fishing. If only other cricket teams had such mild misdemeanors to worry about!
I’m with rusty. From this distance it all looks like a stupid overreaction to a non-event. Fishing and a few beers on the day before a match – who gives a shit? And anyway, come to that, how seriously should we take Bangladesh? Did they suddenly get good without telling anyone? The hell they did. Why else would they be playing in Darwin?
He wasn’t given the ass cause he was fishing, he got the ass cause he missed a meeting. I don’t think its a big deal, but with his history, he probably got what he deserved. And Kym, we play Sri Lanka in Darwin.
I know we have, and Sri Lanka deserve better. Will we ever play India in Darwin? Or an ashes test? South Africa? Pakistan? It’s a second tier venue for side-events only, until proven otherwise.
And he missed the meeting because he was already fishing when it was called. Ergo, he got the ass because he was fishing.
Kym, teams like Sri Lanka, Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh will get games up north in the future, it’s not about how good you are, it’s about how many dollars you pull in.
seems obvious to me that they’ve been wanting to bollock him for a while but couldn’t find an excuse. equally, they don’t want to have to kick him out of the squad for the tour to india, for the back to backs again the saffers, or for the ashes, so they had to take the opportunity of taking public action during this bangers series.the story on cricinfo has the following interesting sentence: “When a compulsory team meeting was called later that morning, Symonds did not know about it as he was already wetting a line.” so he wasn’t deliberately missing a compulsory meeting at all – just one that he didn’t know was happening, thus supporting my theory that it is a made-up reason to give him a pre-arranged bollocking for a series the management don’t care if he misses./conspiracy theorising
Jrod, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Windies will also get games at the Gabba, SCG, etc, whereas for Bangladesh it’s either Darwin or Cairns. When they get a fixture at Bellerive, they can feel like they’re getting somewhere.
We’d love to see the Bangas or anyone else down at Bellerive but not in August, we are still playing footy. I think it makes alot of sense to play matches off-season up north as it gives the locals a chance to see the national team. As for Roy, who can blame him. Fishing is his passion and the barra are biting in the Top End at this time of year. Storm in a teacup and it allowed all of us the pleasure of seeing the Hussey brothers in partnership. The Bangas bowled very well but their batting imploded under the usual Aussie pressure.Personally I wouldn’t have sent Roy back to Brisbane, he’ll only go fishing again. Should have made him 12th man for the entire series.
Kym, yes KYm you are right, but what i am saying is this has nothing to do with skill level, and everything to do with marketability. India won’t ever get the top end even if they are worse than Sri Lanka by a long way.
Well what I’m saying is that it has a great deal to do with skill level. People are going to be cautious about paying good money to watch an ODI that is just as likely to be finished within 40 overs, so it’s safe enough to shove a game like that away from the bigger venues and put it on where there is some novelty in seeing a game at all. When Bangladesh present a real challenge to Australia, they will play at the more established grounds and, as you suggest, all our players will turn up. Skill level and marketability are not that easily extricated.
In other news apparently Symmo is more popular than goat sex everywhere but Pakistan. Who knew. If only it was England oh well.http://www.google.com/trends?q=goat+sex%2C+evil+dragon+sex%2C+sex+with+gillys+wife%2C+andrew+symonds&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
In other news apparently Symmo is more popular than goat sex everywhere but Pakistan. Who knew. If only it was England oh well.http://www.google.com/trends?q=goat+sex%2C+evil+dragon+sex%2C+sex+with+gillys+wife%2C+andrew+symonds&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
In other news apparently Symmo is more popular than goat sex everywhere but Pakistan. Who knew. If only it was England oh well.http://www.google.com/trends?q=goat+sex%2C+evil+dragon+sex%2C+sex+with+gillys+wife%2C+andrew+symonds&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0