What does this allude to? West Coast Eagles fans were largely forgiving of their heroes. Daniel Chick almost died of an OD in most-season partying in the US, Ben Cousins and Michael Gardiner both made on-field gestures of solidarity with underworld figures. Cousins also ran away from the police in a random breath test, as well as having his life fall apart from a drug addiction. He came back with no sanction from the AFL, promised to stay clean, and was only suspended indefinitely when he was caught again.
But you can see why we forgive them. Without Cousins, and with Judd and Kerr injured, we didn't even make the last four in 2007.
So do I but any guesses on why it took so long to draw the conclusion he did? I have no idea.
Different sports have different levels of acceptable behaviour. Sure, but I allowed for that. Brijnath was saying that there's no sporting team in Australia as bad as the national cricket team. I strongly disagree. I have no problem with deliberately hitting injured players in Aussie Rules football, and I have no problem with sledging in cricket. But ramming into the injured shoulder of a footballer is definitely closer to the line of acceptability than what our cricketers do.
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Date: 2008-01-16 06:25 pm (UTC)West Coast Eagles fans were largely forgiving of their heroes. Daniel Chick almost died of an OD in most-season partying in the US, Ben Cousins and Michael Gardiner both made on-field gestures of solidarity with underworld figures. Cousins also ran away from the police in a random breath test, as well as having his life fall apart from a drug addiction. He came back with no sanction from the AFL, promised to stay clean, and was only suspended indefinitely when he was caught again.
But you can see why we forgive them. Without Cousins, and with Judd and Kerr injured, we didn't even make the last four in 2007.
So do I but any guesses on why it took so long to draw the conclusion he did?
I have no idea.
Different sports have different levels of acceptable behaviour.
Sure, but I allowed for that. Brijnath was saying that there's no sporting team in Australia as bad as the national cricket team. I strongly disagree. I have no problem with deliberately hitting injured players in Aussie Rules football, and I have no problem with sledging in cricket. But ramming into the injured shoulder of a footballer is definitely closer to the line of acceptability than what our cricketers do.