CHIMP ON HIS SHOULDER?

Ricky Ponting still has the shits about Wild Dogs. Good!

On Cricket Australia's response to 'Monkeygate'

It was impossible for me not to conclude that they considered Australian cricket's relationship with India more important than how they looked after us and communicated with us. They let me down and let the team down. I'm still struggling to forget that.

Comments

[David]

Can't help but agree with him. As far as I'm concerned it was the most craven piece of cowardice I've ever seen by a sports administration. They would have made great World War 1 generals using their charges merely as canon fodder.
ASADA be buggered. That was the blackest day in Australian sport.

[Nick]

Maintain the rage. If Australia ever get near the top of the pecking order again, just wait for the cries of 'unsportsmanlike behaviour' from the peanut galleries. (In fact, you can see it in the comments section on CricIndiainfo after last nights ODI win)

[gillysgone]

How do you struggle to forget something? You either remember it or you forget it. Anyway, agree with above sentiments. this cow towing to the Indian dollar exemplifies the current state of our cricket administration. Show me the money verses show me a quality team that has a winning culture.

[Carrot]

We would have all loved to have seen Cricket Australia rally around their players, give the BCCI the finger and for the tour to have been cancelled. It would have been brilliant. It would have been completely impractical however - kow-towing to the Indian dollar is one thing, but calling off an entire multi-million tour and reneging on about a thousand contracts is another. I doubt their could even have been a Cricket Australia at the end of it had they have publicly told them where to get off.

What surprises me is the apparent lack of solidarity behind closed doors, however. There are ways to say things publicly and ensure that wounded parties are kept onside by saying completely different things in private. I know this because I've done it. The more I read about the various goings-on in Cricket Australia in recent years the more I think that they have almost criminally bad communication skills with their players and staff, which will always have the effect of poor results in every industry. People need to feel like they're listened to, or perhaps better, people need to be listened to!

[Big Ramifications]

David, and have a look at the little creep's form since.... Whacks an Indian team mate after an IPL game.... Takes a farking p!ss some bouncers at a night club....
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/story/659867.html They all look the same don't give me no crap about it being a different bloke.

ps: "Struggle to forget"??? Came here to say that, Gilly. Good luck, Ricky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)

[Big Ramifications]

Takes a p!ss ON some bouncers, sorry.

[Tony Tea]

I no follow.

[Tony Tea]

No effigies up in flames yet, and Kumble sounds a little tongue in cheek. "If you really want to know what happened, you have to wait for my book." Surely India's burgeoning middle classes will fire up.

[M. Patard]

Guderian, von Manstein and Rommel would have these fires thoroughly whipped by now.

Bring back National Socialism!

[Mohammet Jugdish]

Even though I have seen enough mallus to tell you how dirty they are and that they are biggest suck-ups - they can't stand up for themselves or any one else (yes sir mentality), they bring a shame to Indians in terms of their personal hygiene, shitty personality and hairy women I'm not going to do that, cause that is falling down to your level.

North Indians are no better since they are pompous and show off's and are the most pretentious people ever.

That's the problem with us, we try to attack our own people instead of work together.

We see a Muslim we want to shove them to Pakistan, we see someone from he east we don't even treat them like Indians. We see a south Indian we shit talk about them, we see a north Indian we shit talk about them. None of us are perfect. Hell we're not even good enough, but if we don't believe in our own people, we can NEVER move forwards.

[Carl Spackler]

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