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leicsmac

Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

By leicsmac, in General Football and Sport

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StanSP

StanSP

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4 minutes ago, when_you're_smiling said:

The World Test Championship is at Southampton.

I did not know this. Why did I think it was at Lords?!

Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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28 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I did not know this. Why did I think it was at Lords?!

Was originally meant to be. Easier with Covid due to hotel on site etc.

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Vacamion

Vacamion

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If being a bit of a dick aged 18 is a bar to progress, there will be no one left in any walk of life.

 

People can change and I disagree with calls on social media for him to be dropped for this.

 

A good lesson to kids that this stuff follows you around.

 

Still, I can't believe no-one looked through his socials before it was raised by the media.

 

 

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Bert

Bert

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9 minutes ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

Clearly not great. I'd still reiterate my original point though.

Yeah it’s not great and at the age of 18 you should know better, I’d not expect to see that tweeted from a 14 year old. Our media are so weird breaking scandals etc. Normally it’s before a big tournament. The lad has apologised but only because he’s in the limelight now. Academies across the board need to educate future stats of the importance of drug like this.  

Super_horns

Super_horns

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15 minutes ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

Clearly not great. I'd still reiterate my original point though.

Yes - more than just having a joke with friends .

 

But he has been with England for a while so why is this picked up now ?

Guest Lcfc82

Guest Lcfc82

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4 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Yes - more than just having a joke with friends .

 

But he has been with England for a while so why is this picked up now ?

They will have been holding onto the story until he made his debut, becomes a bigger story then doesn’t it ?

 

The tweets obviously aren’t good but the media in this country really are scum.

Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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1 hour ago, Duquesne Whistle said:

I see our wonderful media don't even bother the 'building up' part with sportsmen these days before 'knocking them down'.

I don't know what Ollie Robinson tweeted when he was 17/18 years old, but why wait until the first day of his successful test debut to release it.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/57335528

I'm not really sure you can pin this one on "the media" if it's just some random sadcase who's spent his day trawling tweets from nine years ago and it's ended up all over the internet.

 

They can't exactly ignore it at that stage and, more importantly, it also gives Robinson a right of reply. Hope it's a lesson to the current generation of upcoming sportspeople to be careful what they put online and that Robinson himself is genuine in his contrition, because it's pretty awful stuff to read.

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Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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8 minutes ago, Lcfc82 said:

They will have been holding onto the story until he made his debut, becomes a bigger story then doesn’t it ?

 

The tweets obviously aren’t good but the media in this country really are scum.

Except they didn't, did they? The tweets surfaced *today* from some basement-dweller searching for them and that's how the media became aware of them.

Guest Lcfc82

Guest Lcfc82

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I don’t know. Do you know for a fact that the media have only become aware of them today ?

Knowing what the media in this country are like, I would suspect they have been aware of them for longer.

Bert

Bert

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6 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Except they didn't, did they? The tweets surfaced *today* from some basement-dweller searching for them and that's how the media became aware of them.

“Basement Dweller” lollollol 

 

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Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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10 minutes ago, Lcfc82 said:

I don’t know. Do you know for a fact that the media have only become aware of them today ?

Knowing what the media in this country are like, I would suspect they have been aware of them for longer.

Erm, yes I do. Because no journalist would be dumb enough to let such an alleged exclusive end up all over Twitter before they could actually break the story by publishing it on their own website or in their newspaper. Random Twitter users were sharing it, journalists saw it, journalists reacted and wrote about it. End of.

 

If you think the lesson here is "the media shouldn't report incidents of racism when it's pointed out to them", rather than "people shouldn't post racist stuff online" then you're wide of the mark.

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UniFox21

UniFox21

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2 hours ago, Vacamion said:

A good lesson to kids that this stuff follows you around.

 

Still, I can't believe no-one looked through his socials before it was raised by the media.

This is the big one for me. With all the money in the game now, how is it difficult for countries to have people to check stuff like this 

Leicester_Loyal

Leicester_Loyal

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16 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

If being a bit of a dick aged 18 is a bar to progress, there will be no one left in any walk of life.

 

People can change and I disagree with calls on social media for him to be dropped for this.

 

A good lesson to kids that this stuff follows you around.

 

Still, I can't believe no-one looked through his socials before it was raised by the media.

 

 

 

14 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

This is the big one for me. With all the money in the game now, how is it difficult for countries to have people to check stuff like this 

There's apps and stuff that delete all your previous tweets from years ago, much needed going forward for any sportsperson IMO. This sort of thing will happen all the time as new 'celebrities' had social media accounts as teens unlike every generation before them.

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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I just find it astonishing that people find those tweets amusing, of course everyone will behave stupidly at some point in their lives but to me posting sexist and racist posts for the world to see goes beyond that.

Osavo

Osavo

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5 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

That looked in to me?:dunno:

 

Fantastic 200 for Conway, unbelievable.

Very tight. I thought a tiny bit of the bat was behind the line as well.

 

Either way, fantastic debut innings - barely gave any chances and played some glorious strokes. New Zealand have a serious player there. 

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