Ponting - no ordinary Taswegian

[Lightning McQueen]

THROW AWAY THE KEY HYSTERIA HYSTERIA

regards,

REB

Yelling at me isn't going to change my mind, he got mad, he threw a tantrum, he smashed a tv. I find it childish and setting a poor example. Oh, I got out, where's something to smash so people can see I'm angry, he should buy himself a stress-ball.

regards,

LIGHTNING McQUEEN

[Rik E Boy]

THROW AWAY THE KEY HYSTERIA HYSTERIA

regards,

REB

Yelling at me isn't going to change my mind, he got mad, he threw a tantrum, he smashed a tv. I find it childish and setting a poor example. Oh, I got out, where's something to smash so people can see I'm angry, he should buy himself a stress-ball.

regards,

LIGHTNING McQUEEN

I'm not yelling at you Steve, I'm taking the piss out of you. What, you reckon he should be arrested? That's hysteria my friend. The whole thing is storm in a tea cup just like with Ben Cousins. You get a zillion media outlets and there all out there looking for the 'angle' and like the drones we are we lap it up and cry foul just because a batsman cracked the shits because he got out or a cheeky footballer flipped the bird. My point is if you don't want to be upset about such actions stay the **** out of the changerooms I reckon.

regards,

REB

[Lightning McQueen]

THROW AWAY THE KEY HYSTERIA HYSTERIA

regards,

REB

Yelling at me isn't going to change my mind, he got mad, he threw a tantrum, he smashed a tv. I find it childish and setting a poor example. Oh, I got out, where's something to smash so people can see I'm angry, he should buy himself a stress-ball.

regards,

LIGHTNING McQUEEN

I'm not yelling at you Steve, I'm taking the piss out of you. What, you reckon he should be arrested? That's hysteria my friend. The whole thing is storm in a tea cup just like with Ben Cousins. You get a zillion media outlets and there all out there looking for the 'angle' and like the drones we are we lap it up and cry foul just because a batsman cracked the shits because he got out or a cheeky footballer flipped the bird. My point is if you don't want to be upset about such actions stay the **** out of the changerooms I reckon.

regards,

REB

You can extract as much urine as you like out of me, I've had the odd dummy spit in my day after getting out stupidly, got bagged by mates later on, realized I looked stupid, he was being childish and if he acts like that when he is leading our national side he deserves to be made look like a sook. You can ask officer Dibble to arrest him if you want when you see him, no big deal, it's a point of discussion at work as it was at training last night.
Just because we don't agree doesn't mean that I'm wrong, shall they buy 10 tv's each match and line them up in the changerooms so everyone has one to smash when they get out.

[Rik E Boy]

I'd be more worried if he wasn't pissed off. Not saying he should be going around smashing televisions but I just reckon the reaction to a moment of pique is totally over the top.

regards,

REB

ps - might need a few TVs in the Kiwi dressing room about now. r

[Lightning McQueen]

I'd be more worried if he wasn't pissed off. Not saying he should be going around smashing televisions but I just reckon the reaction to a moment of pique is totally over the top.

regards,

REB

ps - might need a few TVs in the Kiwi dressing room about now. r

You can't smash a tv with a velvet sledgehammer. I think Ricky tries to copy AB a fair bit with his demeanour.

[RustyCage]

AB didnt have to put up with as much gossip journalism as what Ponting has to put up with. Just look at how the Aussies were made to look like the bad guys after the Sydney Test against India.

[spell_check]

Chappelli says "if you can't vent some of your frustration in the dressing room, where can you?"

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/co ... 03125.html

[cripple]

He made a mistake, someone heard about, we all read about and are now commenting on it. It was an event that some media outlets saw to be in the public interest to report and going by the reaction we have had. rightly so.

as for all the nonense about not hearing about it if it was Sachin etc... IMO that is absolute nonsense. There have been plenty of occasions over the years that biased reporting in australia has picked up little incidents by visiting teams and blown it completely out of proportion. As a rule, we aussies seem to be happy to punish and judge others rather quickly but don't seem to take to well to something similar happening to one of our own.

no one criticises an Australian sportsman on my watch. So what if they break some rule somewhere? They are our guys/gals and I'm with them.

Your one of the few then. Pretty sure most people have taken a shot at least one of hewitt, mundine, dokic, phillipousis, thorpey etc... at one stage of another. Being an australian doesn't give you the right to act like a knob and get away with it on any sporting field.

[Sky Pilot]

Mundine is a knob I agree, so I amend my wild statement accordingly

[smithy]

I'd be more worried if he wasn't pissed off. Not saying he should be going around smashing televisions but I just reckon the reaction to a moment of pique is totally over the top.

regards,

REB

ps - might need a few TVs in the Kiwi dressing room about now. r

The Indian media jumped on it big time with the old "Ugly Australians" headline, and have by all reports made a massive issue of this over there.

In the 1987 World Cup final, they loved our team over in India and all things in Australian cricket and it's history.
How things have changed.

[Media Park]

From what I have seen, Ponting seems to reserve his uglier moments for run outs...

Perhaps he should look at why he's getting run out, rather than venting in his current format.

[Rik E Boy]

From what I have seen, Ponting seems to reserve his uglier moments for run outs...

Perhaps he should look at why he's getting run out, rather than venting in his current format.

Spot on. He was loafing.

regards,

REB

[Rik E Boy]

Chappelli says "if you can't vent some of your frustration in the dressing room, where can you?"

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/co ... 03125.html

EXACTAMONDO.

regards,

REB

[spell_check]

Chappelli says "if you can't vent some of your frustration in the dressing room, where can you?"

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/co ... 03125.html

EXACTAMONDO.

regards,

REB

And of course, he wouldn't have hit the TV on purpose - a couple of feet either way and you wouldn't have known he had thrown the bat. He pays for the damage caused, he and we move on. That's all it should be.

[Dogmatic]

Bats are made to be used in the middle.

[RustyCage]

Bats are made to be used in the middle.

The middle of the TV screen?