Ashes 2023
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I think Australia are a bit too classy, professional and seasoned to get rattled by Robinsons actions.
Definitely a case of the press making a big deal about nothing.
They should focus on the actual cricket instead of the other bullshit, that is enthralling enough.
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@bayimports said in Ashes 2023:
@barbarian it is funny though that an aussie thinks they should decide where the line is? lol
Custodians of the game
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@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
……and despite my views on him you have to admire his passion.
No, I really don't.
Funny side note to this story: I made a tweet commenting on the Poms carrying on like pork chops and some random starts tut-tutting "Aussie Uzzie" for daring to celebrate his ton.
Go through the random's twitter timeline, and it's all nascent racism. Fun.
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I doubt the Australian cricketers will care much either way, besides a retaliatory barrage of chin music at Robinson and the gun-shy Broad.
I think @barbarian nailed it. Maybe sending off Labuschagne for a golden duck in innings one of the Series, or Warner for being Warner. But not Usman after compiling 141 in over a day against you.
I don't think it's about the big ticket stuff like custodians of the game, whatabout when they did x, or the bigger stuff. It's just about Robinson continuing to be an oaf.
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@NTA said in Ashes 2023:
@MN5 said in Ashes 2023:
……and despite my views on him you have to admire his passion.
No, I really don't.
Funny side note to this story: I made a tweet commenting on the Poms carrying on like pork chops and some random starts tut-tutting "Aussie Uzzie" for daring to celebrate his ton.
Go through the random's twitter timeline, and it's all nascent racism. Fun.
Yeah well……….
At least he’s not Brad Haddin
Anyway, safest thing to do is to be a complete robot by the sounds of things. Apparently this carry on just isn’t cricket.
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Watch: Steve Smith‘s reaction to Harry Brook’s dismissal in the first innings of the first Ashes Test match at Edgbaston has been likened to Ollie Robinson’s send-off of Usman Khawaja. But were the two reactions really similar?You can bet on the 2023 Ashes with our Match Centre partners, bet365.
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@barbarian said in Ashes 2023:
@bayimports said in Ashes 2023:
@barbarian it is funny though that an aussie thinks they should decide where the line is? lol
For the record I do think he was a dick head as well, great post too
I don't think what Robinson did crossed the line. The line is irrelevant.
He just acted like a man who had never known success at the highest level. A man who when push comes to shove doesn't believe he has what it takes.
He shouldn't be fined or sanctioned. He should just be embarrassed.
When you get in the end zone, act like you've been there before.
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@barbarian Out of interest what was your take on Usman celebrating his century like a 4 year old girl on xmas day opening up to see a Barbie doll? As this celebration kind of suggests the same as what you said about Robinson - doesn't believe he has what it takes etc.
I don't know why people let this stuff get under their skin so much.
Passion, heat of the moment, top level sport. Its what you want to see. Give me this over robots anyday.
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@MajorRage said in Ashes 2023:
@barbarian Out of interest what was your take on Usman celebrating his century like a 4 year old girl on xmas day opening up to see a Barbie doll? As this celebration kind of suggests the same as what you said about Robinson - doesn't believe he has what it takes etc.
I don't know why people let this stuff get under their skin so much.
Passion, heat of the moment, top level sport. Its what you want to see. Give me this over robots anyday.
Was interested I a snippet I heard on some sort of radio news over the weekend where Uzzie made some comment about proving his worth after 10 years of playing test cricket.
Not sure what to make of it, but thought it didn't reflect well on his personal inferiority complex.
10 years of test cricket success (would be interested in his stats v what we NZers think are in the convo for greatest ever) and this is his apex?
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Not a huge fan of Uzzie, but that was his maiden test in England and having been in and around the side for over a decade now there was some relief, emotion and a bit of a up yours to all the Bazball talk. One man’s OTT celebration is another man’s “I deserve it” moment. Same could be said for the dismissal.
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Root is and Brook building nicely.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Ashes 2023:
Root is and Brook building nicely.
And then Root did a BAZBALL and got out
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@booboo said in Ashes 2023:
Was interested I a snippet I heard on some sort of radio news over the weekend where Uzzie made some comment about proving his worth after 10 years of playing test cricket.
Not sure what to make of it, but thought it didn't reflect well on his personal inferiority complex.
10 years of test cricket success (would be interested in his stats v what we NZers think are in the convo for greatest ever) and this is his apex?
He's been in and out of the side.
Told he couldn't handle the subcontinent.
Faced the fairly daunting challenge of being one of the few non white guys in the system.First Ashes ton in England while watching others fall around you... Guess he feels like he's always proving himself.
For some guys that might be what keeps them going
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