So...they've put a Fox in charge of the henhouse...

God help our sport....

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/28031972

I have been following this for a couple of days. Have been too sickened by the total hypocrisy of all concerned to comment on it.

Perhaps this article is better off on this thread . . . rather than on the "Hate" thread!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/10925478/England-India-and-Australias-power-grab-at-the-ICC-is-the-worst-thing-that-has-ever-happened-to-our-sport.html

It's getting to the the stage where I feel like walking away from the game at times.

On top of this we also have to contend with the bullshit black African quota requirements.

Yeah and just don't get me started on the pass-out arrangements at the SCG....

Fred Nerk wrote:Yeah and just don't get me started on the pass-out arrangements at the SCG....

Beer too weak?

No but that is another thing!

Could be worse all the same - at the Oz Open tennis it's bloody Heineken ( Dutch for 'hangover') or nothing.

At the last WC here you could drink anything you liked as long as it was Budweiser.

Isn't there a local brewery that is/was up to its neck in every sport they play in SA?

SABMiller, but that meant nothing to FIFA

Srinivasan has co-opted some chap called Srallenstanfordsoban on to the committee, as his deputy. Anyone heard of him?

Taips,
That's not the one I was thinking of. Pretty sure it started with a C - Connells or Caldwells or something.  Unless that was Millers brand/label name.

Peter, no I've never heard of that particular bloke and I'm not entirely convinced you haven't just made him up.

Castle? It's an SAB Miller brand

Fred Nerk wrote:Taips,
That's not the one I was thinking of. Pretty sure it started with a C - Connells or Caldwells or something.  Unless that was Millers brand/label name.

Peter, no I've never heard of that particular bloke and I'm not entirely convinced you haven't just made him up.

Castle? That is a SAB product.

Yep that all adds up.

Maybe it would be better all round if they threw the Fox out of the henhouse again tomorrow and replaced him with Lawrence O'Toole.

Yeah, I commented on the hate thread. It's completely oligarchic and makes me feel sick to the pit of my stomach. I hate Giles Clarke as much as I hate Srinivasan. The worst thing is the helpless feeling that we can only sit back and watch this sport becoming more elitist than ever, from a administrative perspective. Awful, awful times.

Fred Nerk wrote:Yeah and just don't get me started on the pass-out arrangements at the SCG....

I was sitting on the concourse under the new Bradman Stand and was able to secure a "smoking pass-out". I don't smoke, but I took one all the same. So there is some hope. But I still don't get why we can't have a proper pass-out system like the MCG.

And yes, the latest developments at the ICC show once again that turds float to the top.

This could be the first time that this forum has a 100% consensus on an issue.

taipan wrote:This could be the first time that this forum has a 100% consensus on an issue.

Dello will surely have summat to say . . . and as for horrie ....?!
Surely you overlook the Black helio-copter buckboy himself?!

taipan wrote:It's getting to the the stage where I feel like walking away from the game at times.

On top of this we also have to contend with the bullshit black African quota requirements.

always thought it worked the other way...how else to explain the repeated selections of the snorkels and before them Cullinan et al...every SA has had over rated white chaps from good private schools

Only if you think Hoerskool Vereeniging is a good private school that is.

and by the way I think there is 100% consensus here that the axis now running world cricket is the biggest threat any of us can remember to cricket..

the well named 'Wally' Edwards, Giles Clark and most hideaous of all Srinivasan are rogues of the worst kind - white collar crooks...

it is incomprehensible that a guy forced to stand down from his own association (by the courts in a country that is too familiar with the stench of corruption and privelege) is to head the axis...

if our own govt here had a scintilla of decency they would launch an Inquiry into Cricket Australia...but there is no chance of that and even if they did it would be for the wrong reasons...they are still bitter that little johnny howard got knocked off from his ICC bid a few years ago.....tho even the ghastly little gnome ljh would be an improvement on Srinivasan

I cannot recall anyone putting a good word in for Srinivasan....I cannot recall reading a defence of the bloke even in Bannie papers

Agree 100% with the opinions here on the scoundrel Srinivasan ... I note Venkat has changed his name by deed poll lest any confusion arise ...

But what specifically has Wally done to increase the scorn and bile already apparently due after his short and inglorious Test career? Is it just guilt by association?