Whingers,
Can some one please tell me just what-the-fuck is going on? Nothing else.
Cricket Australia chairman David Peever was quietly 're-elected' for another three years on the cocktail circuit as Chairman of the Board last week, just before he's savaged [by implication] as an "arrogant" sponger and "dictatorial" bully by his own 'Ethics Review'.
Yesterday, I got a thoughtful e-mail from the card-carrying-cunts at CA entitled "An Open Letter to you, our Australian Cricket Family", claiming that Good Ol' Peevsy had come up with an "honest and heartfelt response to the current state of play", and what a heartfelt bit of spun-up total poppycock it is. You can read the whole miserable, sniveling thing here.
Take this line just as a for instance..."While at times difficult to read and in some instances, difficult to agree with what has been implied – CA respects the findings of the review and what needs to be done to restore faith and prompt change."
Code for, righto, we'll sweep this one under the carpet while we continue to get on with the very serious business of dudding the Australian Cricket Family, not to mention the actual players - who are now expected to conduct themselves as complete and utter gentlemen without reproach on and off the field who cannot under any circumstances whatsoever 'win at all costs'. Here's an idea. Why not have a send off rule for the foul of mouth and the doers of evil? Brilliant! That'll solve everything. Great thinking 99.
The poor, poor umpires.
Boof took the teary fall and promptly disappeared off the face of the planet, Smiffy dropped a lazy 5-10 mill, Burbs Warner remain a bit touchy, can't take a sledge in a grade game and storms off the ground, Sutherland outlived his usefulness and was put out to a very lush pasture, while that crook Peever is fully immune to anything approaching "prompt change", along with his long-standing partners in crime such as Roberts, Howard, Hohns etc etc etc et al...
You have to love the fact that the public exhibition of the 'Ethics Review' report is actually a heavily redacted document, and everybody knows the only reason documents are redacted with a crude black texta is to protect the guilty.
There would be journo's out there as we speak busily working with their alchemists to remove the blank outs, and NAME NAMES in the papers. You can bet the house on that. Until that happens, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change.
Here's one of my favourites from the 'Ethics Review's 147 pages of mumbo-jumbo...
For the long-suffering Strayan cricket fan, what a time to be alive.
