Which would your cricket club tolerate more?

[Mister Wright]

A member of your team who misses a training session, and hasn't always turned up sober to games...or a player choking your team's vice captain?

I know which one our club would crack down on harder. Our team isn't exaclty professional, and players regularly turn up to games hungover. However, our club would not tolerate any physical abuse towards other players, in particular the vice captain. They certainly wouldn't put the matter 'to bed', the offending player would get a serious suspension and possible expulsion from the club.

A player missing a training session would most likely not even miss a game.

It's pretty much comparing apples and oranges (sub districts to international cricke)t, but an interesting comparison none-the-less.

 

[Uppercut]

How serious was the "choking" though? Was it a mild scuffle or a Homer-on-Bart style assault? Or maybe it was Boston-strangler-style attempted murder?

I'm pretty sure we need to know the answer to this before we can say which is more serious.

 

[Athlai]

Chocking

definition:

The act of preventing forward movement (of a wheel/vehicle) with a chock.

 

[Mister Wright]

Chocking

definition:

The act of preventing forward movement (of a wheel/vehicle) with a chock.

Lol. Thanx for proofreading.

 

[Goughy]

Guys get into scuffles all the time. It’s the combustible combination of testosterone, ego, constant companionship and adrenaline.

It’s one of those things that you forget very quickly. A quick flash and then gone. You move on. These things work themselves out.

Unprofessionalism is a far greater sin and far more disrespectful to your teammates.

 

[Evermind]

Choking another player is a lot worse than turning up drunk, unless said player is Michael Clarke, in which case I'd be willing to overlook it.

 

[pup11]

No doubt choking incident is more serious, but i think it really depends on how both players involved in the incident deal with it, i think if the blokes involved are ready to move on leaving the incident behind and not take it too seriously, then really there shouldn't be a problem,

Though if any of the one blokes, or both, further blow the whole incident out of proportion, then at most levels, the incident would be reviewed and the needful would be done.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Guys get into scuffles all the time. It’s the combustible combination of testosterone, ego, constant companionship and adrenaline.

It’s one of those things that you forget very quickly. A quick flash and then gone. You move on. These things work themselves out.

Unprofessionalism is a far greater sin and far more disrespectful to your teammates.

Yeah, agree. Making more of an issue of it probably sets the wheels in motion for it to hang over the club longer than it should. Just get on with it, forget it ever happened. Those two can sort out their issues.

Whereas Symonds has let down the whole club.

 

[R_D]

Guys get into scuffles all the time. It’s the combustible combination of testosterone, ego, constant companionship and adrenaline.

It’s one of those things that you forget very quickly. A quick flash and then gone. You move on. These things work themselves out.

Unprofessionalism is a far greater sin and far more disrespectful to your teammates.

agree with this as well.

 

[Precambrian]

Depends on who is choked tbh.

But if was to impartial, I'd go for it if the choke indeed was grave.

 

[duffer]

Don't think I've been in a sports team where there hasn't been a bit of physical agro once in a while. 90% of the time it gets sorted over beers later that night or during the week.

No-one would tolerate a bloke like Symonds though who if reports are anything close to being true is just a disrespectful selfish ****.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Choking isn't that big an issue. South Africa have been tolerating it for ages.

 

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[Matt79]

Choking isn't that big an issue. South Africa have been tolerating it for ages.

Someone was going to say it. Just glad for our respectability that it wasn't an Australian this time.

 

[pup11]

Someone was going to say it. Just glad for our respectability that it wasn't an Australian this time.

Aussie fans not in the best of the situations to that atm mate, otherwise someone might have given it a try.

 

[pup11]

Depends on who is choked tbh.

But if was to impartial, I'd go for it if the choke indeed was grave.

Seriously disagree with this, i don't think their is any real excuse for a physically assaulting anybody, nobody how big a tool that bloke might be.

 

[Langeveldt]

Being a South African club, we'd probably enourage choking.. We'd probably also encourage racism, and losing to anything Australian...


Oh..

 

[Precambrian]

Seriously disagree with this, i don't think their is any real excuse for a physically assaulting anybody, nobody how big a tool that bloke might be.

It was a tongue in cheek comment mate. But if Katman was doing it on Clarke, then I'd play alongwith it. Noone messes with Katmatmadman,

 

[BoyBrumby]

I think it depends on the level one plays at. Mine, for instance, is pratically subterranean so there's no doubt that attempting to throttle the VC would be more frowned upon. A lot of the time we struggle to raise a quorum in the holiday season, so any body we can get onto the paddock is welcome, whatever the blood alcohol level of said body is.

In the higher ranks tho I'd image turning up bladdered is the greater sin.

 

[howardj]

Hungover or drunk?

I'd tolerate hungover in subdistricts cricket, but being actually drunk is a pretty low act to inflict on your teammates. As for the choking, you'd need to know the circumstances - bearing in my mind that blow ups do happen in team sport.