Grow up Kiwis, ffs!

Posted on November 17, 2015 by KG

Arrogant Aussies? is the headline.
Good sportsmanship matters, but so – at this level – does a single-minded determination to win.. The recent tendency of Kiwi cricketers to rush in and shake the hand of opposition batsmen when they score a century smacks more of pc schoolyard “niceness” than genuine sportsmanship.
What next, re-jigging the rules so there are no winners and losers?
To be fair, this may have more to do with the media’s tendency to talk up trans-Tasman rivalry than any sentiment on the part of Kiwi fans, but there are enough deadheads and clowns on social media who are ready to run with it and abuse Australians as a result.

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10 Responses to Grow up Kiwis, ffs!

  1. Ronbo says:
    November 17, 2015 at 08:38

    Good sportsmanship is okay, but P-L-E-A-S-E!

    Talk about taking things beyond the absurd! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

  2. Cadwallader says:
    November 17, 2015 at 08:41

    I doubt that the players were at all perturbed. This looks like an under-employed “journalist” filling his/her day. If there’s no news they manufacture it!

  3. andy5759 says:
    November 17, 2015 at 09:10

    This place is becoming more like a ‘gentleman’s club’ every day. It’s just like the old duffers with brandy balloon and fine Havana discussing the Test Series. While outside the bombs are falling. Only joshing, that’s what I like about this place, it’s comfy enough for us to say what is on our minds. I cannot comment on the cricket, being English I know little about it. The same goes for rugby too.

  4. carol-christian soldier says:
    November 17, 2015 at 09:34

    when it starts happening on the HOCKEY rink – then- we know we are really in deep s —-!
    Carol-CS

  5. Wombat says:
    November 17, 2015 at 10:08

    I would have figured that shaking the hand of the bowler at 100 is a form of psychological intimidation designed to convey that they’re clearly not a threat.

    But that’s just me…

  6. andy5759 says:
    November 17, 2015 at 10:31

    Bowls. Lawn bowls. Here we shake hands when we arrive in the club house, with our opponents upon introduction, and again after the game, and again again after a pint or two when you leave. But. Not when your opponent turns the head around. We scowl. Make faces. Fart. Move away. It’s a bloody game, not sport. Mind games are part of games like cricket and bowls. You’ve got to climb inside their mind so that your actions or words directly influence your opponents next action. That’s how to defeat your enemy in games. If they are mindless you’re fuck*d.

  7. Michael in Nelson says:
    November 17, 2015 at 11:48

    Well KG, at least it was a retired Aussie batsman that complained.

  8. Darin says:
    November 17, 2015 at 16:29

    They’d never make in in MLB http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_cool.gif
    https://youtu.be/eYTQE8wUuvw