Why no crowd barricades?

[zaremba]

Community service is great for minor crimes. Criminal assault isnt a minor crime. The 'community' benefits are negligible and it is hardly a punishment.

All assaults are crimes. And some are very minor indeed.

I don't think that locking someone up is a particularly helpful approach. What the Aussie justice system does is up to them, but for my part I'd rather not have a US style society in which 1% of the entire population is behind bars at any given time.

 

[Craig]

All assaults are crimes. And some are very minor indeed.

I don't think that locking someone up is a particularly helpful approach. What the Aussie justice system does is up to them, but for my part I'd rather not have a US style society in which 1% of the entire population is behind bars at any given time.

I don't mean to be pedantic, but I thought the figure was 1 in 5?

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

I just don't see how this is anything more than a 'minor assault'. It wasn't great by any means, but at the end of the day it was a tackle where no one got injured. The fact that the guy assaulted is a cricketer shouldn't make it any more grave.

 

[Jono]

This won't be popular among Western Australians but:

Not so wild about the West

 

[silentstriker]

All assaults are crimes. And some are very minor indeed.

I don't think that locking someone up is a particularly helpful approach. What the Aussie justice system does is up to them, but for my part I'd rather not have a US style society in which 1% of the entire population is behind bars at any given time.

That's because of the US's very ******** war on drugs, not assault or anything like that.

 

[pasag]

Send him on a boat to England. Time to start repaying the favour.

 

[GIMH]

Rolf Harris was enough, thanks

 

[andyc]

Have just read two Rolf Harris references in the last minute. That's two too many.

 

[GIMH]

One triggered the other tbf

 

[Prince EWS]

Roebuck wrote a ****ing awful article about this in cricinfo. I can't even bring myself to link it; it's that bad.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I'll link it though:

Australia needs to start addressing the real issues. Indian students killed in Melbourne, Pakistanis assaulted on the field in Perth, blazing headlines around the world, a nation's reputation dragged into the mud, and never mind that the PM is fluent in Cantonese and that many settlers from Africa and the Punjab and elsewhere are as happy as mankind can be. It cannot continue, in cricket or outside.

Cricket is no better or worse than the world it inhabits. Australia has many fine people and fine things, not least the ability to get on with life come hell or high water and look every man in the eye. However, our country also has a dark side that includes a racism that cannot be denied and a fondness for grog that goes beyond taste. A lot of people drink not for pleasure but for the stories told next day. Indeed, drunkenness is glorified. What else is Schoolies Week?

Read on.

 

[G.I.Joe]

So you say, but in reality only some teams have a history of walking off the field or refusing ot play and Australia is not one of them.

So history points to you being wrong.

Yeah, remind me of the number of tours Australia has canceled.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Nah, money talks. In general India is a huge country with respect to the future prosperity of Australia. Similarly for CA revenues.

I'd question their sanity if they didn't tbh. It shouldn't matter which country you're in, once your physical safety on the ground is compromised, you definitely should walk off until the situation is rectified.

 

[Sir Alex]

Roebuck wrote a ****ing awful article about this in cricinfo. I can't even bring myself to link it; it's that bad.

The linking of attacks on Indians to the tackling incident was gold standard even by Roebuck's standards of self glorifying sensationalist journalism. However the little of what he had to comment on the tackling incident was right in my opinion.

 

[four_or_six]

I'll link it though:

Australia needs to start addressing the real issues. Indian students killed in Melbourne, Pakistanis assaulted on the field in Perth, blazing headlines around the world, a nation's reputation dragged into the mud, and never mind that the PM is fluent in Cantonese and that many settlers from Africa and the Punjab and elsewhere are as happy as mankind can be. It cannot continue, in cricket or outside.

Cricket is no better or worse than the world it inhabits. Australia has many fine people and fine things, not least the ability to get on with life come hell or high water and look every man in the eye. However, our country also has a dark side that includes a racism that cannot be denied and a fondness for grog that goes beyond taste. A lot of people drink not for pleasure but for the stories told next day. Indeed, drunkenness is glorified. What else is Schoolies Week?

Read on.

I don't understand how an article about racism is an appropriate comment on what happened?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Tbf, the joke sentences bear some responsibility for the fact that a good siZed chunk of our society just don't respect the law.

Well, that and the whole "descended from convicts" thing, obv.

Roebuck wrote a ****ing awful article about this in cricinfo.

Might C&P that post, could be recycled for pretty much any Roebuck article.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Well, that and the whole "descended from convicts" thing, obv.

Or descended from Englishmen?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Or descended from Englishmen?

That must be why there's so many Australians in England then, I presume: they say a criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.

 

[andyc]

I'll link it though:

Australia needs to start addressing the real issues. Indian students killed in Melbourne, Pakistanis assaulted on the field in Perth, blazing headlines around the world, a nation's reputation dragged into the mud, and never mind that the PM is fluent in Cantonese and that many settlers from Africa and the Punjab and elsewhere are as happy as mankind can be. It cannot continue, in cricket or outside.

Cricket is no better or worse than the world it inhabits. Australia has many fine people and fine things, not least the ability to get on with life come hell or high water and look every man in the eye. However, our country also has a dark side that includes a racism that cannot be denied and a fondness for grog that goes beyond taste. A lot of people drink not for pleasure but for the stories told next day. Indeed, drunkenness is glorified. What else is Schoolies Week?

Read on.

**** off Roebuck. If you're going to write crap like this at least get it right.

 

[Burgey]

**** off Roebuck. If you're going to write crap like this at least get it right.

Yeah. What's wrong with schoolies ffs?