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Lawson Sacked
...as Pakistan coach. Very unsurprising news.
Lawson sacked as Pakistan coach
Cricinfo staff
October 24, 2008
Geoff Lawson has been removed as coach of Pakistan with immediate effect. He will be given three months advance salary.
Lawson had a meeting with the PCB chairman, Ijaz Butt, earlier this afternoon, at which it was decided that a decision would be given to him tomorrow
"Geoff Lawson has been removed as coach of Pakistan," PCB spokesman Raza Rashid told Cricinfo. "As per his clause he has been given three months' salary."
On October 12, Lawson said he had no plans of stepping down from his post before his two-year term finishes next year. Butt, in the two weeks since he was appointed chairman, had no contact with Lawson until today. On October 18, he had met with Shoaib Malik and the temporary chief selector Saleem Jaffar, but not Lawson.
Two days later, Butt publicly announced that Lawson's contract would not be renewed after April 2009.
Lawson was appointed by Butt's predecessor Nasim Ashraf in 2007 on a two-year contract but his impact since then has been sketchy: though Pakistan reached the final of the World Twenty20 in 2007 and won the Kitply Cup this year, they also lost major series at home to South Africa and away to India. They also failed to qualify for the final of the Asia Cup earlier this year.
Lawson had also been the target of intense media criticism almost from the day he arrived in Pakistan.
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Chivalry Augustus- Number of posts : 4864
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Surprised it wasn't sooner tbh.
JKLever- Number of posts : 27236
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JKLever wrote:Surprised it wasn't sooner tbh.
Well as they are paying him for nothing....
taipan- Number of posts : 48416
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JKLever wrote:Surprised it wasn't sooner tbh.
A contender for Nielson's job?
jim rich- Number of posts : 829
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Dunno.
Just felt like one of those marriages that is never destined to work.
Just felt like one of those marriages that is never destined to work.
JKLever- Number of posts : 27236
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Shoot the messenger. Ignore the root cause. It works in the sub-continenet a lot.
On the funny side, I did find Lawson's comment on how Pak had become a good one day side under him really hilarious. He cited the stats of 21 wins and 9 defeats as testimony. But then Pak lost to SA and India at home in ODIs, couldn't make the final of Asia Cup hosted in Pak and had all of 6 wins against proper test sides in ODIs the rest coming off Zimboks, Bangars and the remaining associates that made up the numbers in Asia Cup [UAE, Hong Kong etc.]
On the funny side, I did find Lawson's comment on how Pak had become a good one day side under him really hilarious. He cited the stats of 21 wins and 9 defeats as testimony. But then Pak lost to SA and India at home in ODIs, couldn't make the final of Asia Cup hosted in Pak and had all of 6 wins against proper test sides in ODIs the rest coming off Zimboks, Bangars and the remaining associates that made up the numbers in Asia Cup [UAE, Hong Kong etc.]
Batman- Number of posts : 8881
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Poor guy has been humiliated by the PCB. Now the next coach will almost certainly be a local.
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They should be paying him his remaining salary - fark this 3 month rubbish (unles HEnry was so stupid as to have it in his contract).
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I'd say farque Lawson because he's a qunt ....but I also think farque the PCB because its well known that Lawson is a qunt ...What sort of reference check did they do on the qunt?
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Since nobody wants to play Pakistan, I don't see how it's the coach's fault.
Shame really.
Shame really.
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Aussie coach with a big ego+Sub Continental team and board= Guaranteed failure.
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embee wrote:I'd say farque Lawson because he's a qunt ....but I also think farque the PCB because its well known that Lawson is a qunt ...What sort of reference check did they do on the qunt?
that's the nub.
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hopefully ABC radio doesn't hire him back...
Nath- Number of posts : 11980
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I'll be devastated if the nasal tones of the twit reappear on my airwaves.
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Sage - Lawson coaching the Paks was a double victory - Pak remain rubbish and we don't have to listen to him.
JGK- Number of posts : 41790
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Lawson may take legal action over a money dispute with the PCB.
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Yeah . . .as if there is any rule of law in Pakisatan . . .
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And as if any Pakistani court will stand up for a stinkin' whitey. Henry, don't bother.
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The worst part of the glawson sacking is that he will return to Oz and doubtlessly be given heaps of airtime on the ABC. The Pakistan Board are owed bigtime for reducing his airtime for a period.
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