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equatorCricket has a filthy new word.
One that only some slick suited cricket administracrat could have come up with.
I blame James Sutherland, but I blame James Sutherland for most things.
The filthy fucken phrase is Stakeholder (sometimes shareholder).
Just typing it makes me feel like i just fisted a banker.
It refers to you and me, players, administracrats, officials, and anyone who likes cricket from what i can tell.
But it shouldn’t, because it is fucken stupid.
Stakeholder, for those lucky enough to not know, means people with an interest in the game, in general it is a financial term, but thanks to the suits it has seeped its way into sports.
I am not a cricket stakeholder, I am a cricket fan, a cricket writer, a cricket blogger, a cricket sado-masochist.
So when Aaron Redmond, assisted by Neil Broom, was outed for getting drunk before a game then giving money away to Indians living on the street, he apologised to everyone for his actions.
Instead of saying I am sorry to the NZC, the blackcaps, and i don’t know, children who wear his number on their back, he just said stakeholders.
“We also wish to apologise to other stakeholders in the game including the fans for our inappropriate behaviour while on tour,”
And from that moment on it was pretty fucken obvious he hadn’t written the apology, rendering it invalid.
When you are contractually obliged to apologise, it doesn’t mean much, but then using a wanky phrase that has been written by someone else, what is the point.
Bloody James Sutherland.
Everybody assures me cricket is just a business and must be run like one.
Imagine if Jesse was on that tour.
James Sutherland has pasty features and a sunken in face beacuse he is a vampire. That’s why he is terrified of stakeholders. Let’s face it J, if the opportunity presented itself you’d be the first one to grab hold of that stake and drive it into his heart.
Stakeholders Sutherland is almost as famous at the AGB as Spanky Roebuck.
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Can Jrod be this funny in LIVE TV?. if so he should apply for commentator job. Can take over vocabulary challenged L. Sivaramakrishnan job.
Jrod has been on live tv.
As if they indulged in some binge drinking!! What was there to apologize so much?
My opinion is that more finance speak should be used to clearly demarcate the bullshit that goes on stemming from bureuacratic twattery. India v Sri Lanka for example, the pitch “clearly displayed strong quarter on quarter run results for the fiscal period”.
What? He apologised for giveing money to Indian street children? Sounds like decent redistribution of wealth to me.
Nigel, I think they apologised for drinking the night before a game and getting arrested.
Nigel and Jrod,
People gathered around them in huge numbers when they started distributing money and it lead to public nuisance.
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12th, I know, but their apology seems to be more about the fact they were out beyond curfew drinking, the news story is that they gave money away.
I believe it was 3 nights before a tour game. And they got told off for breeching team security protocols, i.e going out after dark.
he was on live TV once during ashes i think. He should be commentator but media may have to sanitize what he speak. Hahaha.
We all know what happen to dean jones. He was best commentator. He showed passion.
Some may not like Dean jones but i think he was better than most. L shiva , rameez raja are clowns in commenting.
Alex, two TV stations and three radio stations. Not that I am counting. I thought Deano got fucked off because he was openly racist, and also, a bit shit.
@12man,
Not just a disturbance but a goddamn mini riot. It was covered up quite well here. It pisses me off to see young men having to apologize in such a fake officious tone. Leave that to the bloody beauraucrats.
Funny how he’s a complete disappointment on and off the field, yet he’ll find his way back into our team.
His father was the exact opposite. He had an outstanding debut for New Zealand, scoring a century and a half-century, then he got dumped and never found his way back into the team..