This business of Yarpies complaining about Strayans is all getting a bit tedious. But Mark Boucher? Surely not. That tough little fucker must be having a lend of us, right? How else would you explain him taking his bat and ball and goi ... being home. Name names or shut up.
"Nasty things have been said," Boucher said in an interview with The Wisden Cricketer magazine.
"We did share a few beers after the Test series. But a lot of guys' eyes, maybe on both sides, have been opened. I think the beers that are drunk may be just for the sake of it because that's the right thing to do.
"I'm not going to mention names but I have lost respect for one or two of their players. If they want to say the same thing about us, no problem.
"But we live in South Africa and they live in Australia (so) we don't have to put up with them and they don't have to put up with us. It's do-or-die on the field and hopefully we can keep the rest to a minimum."
Boucher said there would be no sympathy from the Proteas players if South African crowds stirred the Australians.
"I hope our public give them a bit of stick because we've taken a serious amount," Boucher said.
"In the past our crowds haven't been too great with them but trust me, we're not going to sit back and say, shame, poor things."
Since when did the Strayans want any sympathy from the South Africans? What - did the Yarpies need a shoulder to cry on out here? Milquetoasts. And anyway, it's not as if the Strayans don't already know Sorth Efrican fans are animals.
Touch wood.
Sounds like he's been hanging around his captain for too long.
Posted by: Adsy | 20 February 2006 at 11:02
Precisely.
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 11:12
Australians are racists you know - just look at that dreadlocked fellow and the chap with the mullet - just hated over here.
I have a little plastic 'Batsman Smith' which I'm hoping will unleash some gems during the Foxtel coverage.
Posted by: nick | 20 February 2006 at 15:02
"Brings a tear to me eye."
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 15:10
"Aussies are nasty. Sob."
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 15:17
Milquetoasts? I had to look it up but I like it.
Posted by: DJ | 20 February 2006 at 15:33
I prefer it with jam.
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 16:08
Hello again Tony T ! Whassup, etc !
Gotta ask you - Steve Waugh is gone, Yer team team is crashing & burning & is basically like shit ? Does that explain your bad behaviour ?
Posted by: SM | 20 February 2006 at 17:55
Sorry, SM, I'm not up with New South Wales.
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 18:06
I see England did so well in Pakistan. And they are favourites to win in India too, huh?
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 20 February 2006 at 18:09
Naturally, it's the England spinners will prove to be the strength.
Posted by: Tony.T | 20 February 2006 at 20:02
Yep. Dravid and Tendulkar are shitting themselves.
Posted by: Scott Wickstein | 20 February 2006 at 22:45
I can't speak for what the players say on the field, but what bites me about all the South Efricen accusations of racist abuse, is that we only hosted the West Indians a month earlier and there was nary a hint of any racial abuse from the crowd or players then.
Then you hear news-snippets of afrikaan taunts directed at the yarpies, and you begin to wonder who's abusing who for what.
I went to a one-dayer at Toilet Dome and the closest thing to abuse that I heard, was the "Ruuuu-pert, Ruuuu-pert" directed at Rupert Bailey(?). His parents asked for it really.
Posted by: Craig Mc | 20 February 2006 at 23:02
Ugh. That should be Jaques Rudolph, not Rupert Bailey. As in "Ruuuu-dolph, Ruuuu-dolph".
Posted by: Craig Mc | 21 February 2006 at 01:15
That's some mistake, Craig. I bet you're red-nosed with embarrassment.
Posted by: Tony.T | 21 February 2006 at 10:42
It's actually spelt jaapies- it's Afrikaans, don't you know?
Posted by: PB | 21 February 2006 at 18:00
Thanks, Pall.
Posted by: Tony.T | 21 February 2006 at 18:46
Speaking with a yarpie at a wedding last night, he explained that the abuse directed towards the South Africans was "reverse racism". Imagine Basil's "Don't mention the war" routine with the Germans, but now it's deliberate and it's all about the "kaffirs". Hey, I've had my fun reciting the epithets from Lethal Weapon 2, but I've never thought to do it at a cricket match.
I can understand how this would bring any enlightened South African down, but things like this can take forever to fade. Fact of life chum. The old confederate states are still percieved by blue states as hotbeds of redneck racism and the KKK became a joke long before apartheid collapsed. Stereotypes take a long time to die.
So I expect we'll cop amateur aussie historians smearing us with accusations of aboriginal genocide, and, well, I dunno. It'll be interesting to hear what they come up with.
Posted by: Craig Mc | 26 February 2006 at 11:01