The racee becomes the racerrr.
Tim Paine is such a moron what a way to be fired.
https://7news.com.au/sport/cricket/t...cket-c-4618188
Time to kick out Langer and his mates so we can hire Gillespie and appoint Marnus as captain.
Last edited by Queenslander; 19-11-2021 at 06:18 AM.
Lol, what an era we live in.
Aus hiring Gillespie is nightmare fuel, you'd win everything.
Seems like a fairly low threshold to have to resign over that. Do you really have to be holier than thou to be Australian cricket captain?
I mean, Chris Gayle captained the West Indies for years didn't he? I guess he didn't try for any privacy in the first place.
Paine really is a quite sizeable cretin.
Paine is a proper bullshit artist he would have been torn apart on social media if he stayed on and knowing how much of a dumb cunt he is he would have attempted to battle his detractors on Twitter.
Cricket Australia has done a good job with the women's game down here we can't have sex pest in charge of the men's team.
Edit: Paine also goes on the pile of gutless blokes who hide behind their wife and kids when they get in trouble eg Warner.
Last edited by Queenslander; 19-11-2021 at 08:20 AM.
Wasn't he only in the team because he was captain? As stupid as that sounds.
It's a shame about the Rafiq stuff in terms of someone has obviously sat on it for a fair while and has dug it up now and it will be used by some people to defend Yorkshire in this whole debacle because he has also made racist comments when in reality they should just have the fucking book thrown at them.
I couldn't have been doing with the look on his face after the upcoming 5-0 defeat so it's all for the best really.
Right, so now Alex Hales has blacked up and defended himself saying it was a tribute to Tupac.
I think I'm done.
I saw that. So what was he at the time, 19 or 20 or something?
Maybe I was an especially forward-thinking teen but I'm pretty sure I knew well before my twenties that blacking up wasn't really a thing you ought to be doing.
I haven't followed all the discourse around this so I just hope this stuff around all the individuals (including Hales and Rafiq, though I'm not sure much can be done about whatever antisemitic stuff it was that he did now he doesn't play for anybody anyway) doesn't distract from the Yorkshire / ECB side of all this. I fear it will because what the media wants is the new story even if it's not the bigger story.
I went on a stag do around 10 years ago. We went to the darts at the O2. The stag dressed as a Somali pirate replete with darkened face and inflatable Ak47. We went on the tube. He wasn't even that young (around 30). Seems mad now, probably was at the time as well.
Another one I've recently dug up was in my school yearbook, which was edited by someone who holds a pretty senior role in a major UK public body, and it doesn't half contain some 'inflammatory' material [heavy racism/sexism etc]. That would have been from 20 years ago. These sorts of skeletons are everywhere and I'm not sure digging them up is particularly helpful.
That said, it is quite funny seeing the world burn. Aussie captain gone, apologies rolling in from all and sundry over historic misfeasance, there was a third part to this thought but it has gone from my mind.
Claim it was a cosplay, job done.
Once I had a hen party from Workington on my train dressed up as 'Rastamouse' in full black make up and talking in cod Jamaican accents.
Those Tim Paine texts are pretty cringeworthy but I suppose that's to be expected of reading somebody else's messages of that sort.
Still, coming from such a fucking dweeb as him it's pretty lol.
Always knew Niko was a wrong'un.
The incessant trial by public/twitter gets so tiresome.
These days no one is ever allowed to make a mistake.
Yeah accountability is bad.
Ian, put your pitchforks down and live and let live.
I don't have a "pitchfork." Metaphorical or otherwise. I don't post on social media because I don't hate myself enough for that.
While I'm not really convinced what the merit is in trying to punish people for being a dickhead a decade ago and I definitely don't see the point in hounding people for it online (see above), a) 20 is definitely old enough to not be blacking up, if you're "not a racist" and b) if you just don't be a bigot on social media then people won't harangue you for being a bigot on social media. It's not complicated.
I think there's some truth to what old quince is saying, but not always. Jon Ronsons stuff on it (so you've been publicly shamed) is interesting.
See also: Ollie Robinson v Craig Overton (is the latter in the Ashes squad? Lol if so)
A dickhead from my school went to a halloween party blacked up as Kanye West while his mate went in drag as Taylor swift as a combined "imma let you finish but..." costume, which places it during a very specific time period, and even though we was only in year 12 or 13 and I was a massive edgelord, I was very aware of how dodgy it was and keen to let everyone know, but that's probably just because I didn't like the guy and it was an excuse to give out.
Can someone remind me again what the general concensus is regarding blacked up characters in films, such as Tropic Thunder or White Chicks? Should we be upset or ok to watch?
Appreciate the latter is not blacked up before one of you pendant cunts call me thick.
I'm sure there was a bit of a divide even among non-Caucasian people about Tropic Thunder wasn't there? Because he's clearly... like, playing a white person playing a black fella and that was, in itself, the joke.
There is, my response was a touch flippant, BUT there is definitely a solid contingent of people who say they're arguing for free speech when what they mean is "but why should MY actions have consequences? "
Justin Trudeau walking away unscathed from his own black face episode still makes me laugh.
lol not even satire.
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/brea...w_cl6XtL6oLci8After coming in from the relative cricketing wilderness, Paine was the face of the new ‘good bloke, elite mateship’ rebrand the side underwent, eventually turning things around on and off the field.
That rapid u-turn came after the nation’s cricketers spent the last century trying to be the most aggressive and competitive versions of themselves on and off the paddock.
"Elite mateship."
Fucking hell.
First warm up game [against ourselves] canned due to rain, with just one more to go [also against ourselves] before the first test . . .
Seems a perfect lead into the series.
Is it possible to lose 6-0, somehow?
This whole series sounds like an absolute nightmare, particularly the Perth test which blatantly shouldn't be happening, but will do because Perth are so desperate for cash.
As if to compound the misery Tim Paine now taking a break from cricket and is set to miss the series.
BT Sport's Ashes coverage in turmoil just 12 days before first Test as partners Fox Sports stand by Michael Vaughan. Broadcaster struggling to secure alternative audio feed from Channel Seven or recruit their own commentary team to work from London studio.
Does he really need cancelling to that extent?
He should just move here for our summer season.
Fast bowler captain.
Now, some patriotic bint start sexting him.
I didn't see it coming at all but he clearly is the best choice.
"There'll be times when I throw to Steve. Those times will be from when we step onto the field until when we step off it."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59389486
Fuck's sake man, you don't say it.
Pre-Ashes build up must be one of the biggest loads of shite in any sport.
India v NZ Test has been good. NZ now beginning their chase of 284 to win, which India gave them via declaration with over a day to go in what can only be described as an attacking move.
NZ first wicket down due to taking too long chatting about whether to review another atrocious home decision for Ashwin going a foot down leg. Batsmen are so stupid sometimes.
There's no way we chase this down on an Indian 4th innings wicket right?
You can't beat Test cricket. This is so tense.
BAD LIGHT SAVES THE DAY
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lol, fuck you India. Although with Dravid in charge their likeability factor has gone up again, which is annoying.