Comments on: just another head in the sand? http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/just-another-head-in-the-sand/ "cricket without boundaries" Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ©hinaman http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/just-another-head-in-the-sand/#comment-3251 ©hinaman Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:07:22 +0000 http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/?p=609#comment-3251 True, there are individuals who are on a short fuse to self destruct. Symmonds may be one of them - it will be a loss for cricket. I was speculating from an individual's psychological perspectives. Any individual - not necessary Symmonds, or cricketers or anyone famous. I wondered if any part of Symmond's behaviour ia a result of racial discrimination by his own management/dressing room. It is a possibility - that being incapable of countering it - he manifests it on others. Didn't he say - he didn't mind any racial slur if it was from his 'mates'? To me it sounded like a weak excuse for similar abuse within his dressing room. If I am right and it is true - then the whole Australian dressing room uproar regarding the Harbhajan episodes - is just hypocrisy. Neither will it ever solve Symmond's problems. True,
there are individuals who are on a short fuse to self destruct.
Symmonds may be one of them – it will be a loss for cricket.

I was speculating from an individual’s psychological perspectives.
Any individual – not necessary Symmonds, or cricketers or anyone famous.

I wondered if any part of Symmond’s behaviour ia a result of racial discrimination by his own management/dressing room. It is a possibility – that being incapable of countering it – he manifests it on others.

Didn’t he say – he didn’t mind any racial slur if it was from his ‘mates’? To me it sounded like a weak excuse for similar abuse within his dressing room.

If I am right and it is true – then the whole Australian dressing room uproar regarding the Harbhajan episodes – is just hypocrisy.

Neither will it ever solve Symmond’s problems.

]]> By: Aravindan http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/just-another-head-in-the-sand/#comment-3250 Aravindan Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:45:48 +0000 http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/?p=609#comment-3250 Yes i agree to some extent that Symonds has been made the scapegoat by CA. They were the people who backed him when the issues of racial abuse came up and now even those cases are considered as a whole in questioning his psychological stability. Symonds himself is responsible for his own misery more than anybody. Its a matter of fact that the game of Cricket doesn't let personalities like him, who don't know to curb/fake their instincts on/off the field, to survive long !! Yes i agree to some extent that Symonds has been made the scapegoat by CA. They were the people who backed him when the issues of racial abuse came up and now even those cases are considered as a whole in questioning his psychological stability. Symonds himself is responsible for his own misery more than anybody. Its a matter of fact that the game of Cricket doesn’t let personalities like him, who don’t know to curb/fake their instincts on/off the field, to survive long !!

]]> By: ©hinaman http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/just-another-head-in-the-sand/#comment-3249 ©hinaman Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:09:25 +0000 http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/?p=609#comment-3249 Thanks for stopping by, Aravindan. I accept every individual who breaks the team disciple has to be cautioned. What I am speculating is there may have been events behind scenes that resulted in this deliberate missing of team briefing. If that be so, then CA needs to go back a review it from the start - and perhaps more individuals may need to be cautioned for negative, if not discriminative, behaviour. Unless that is done, Andrew Symmonds, the player he is capable of being, will be finished. Thanks for stopping by, Aravindan.

I accept every individual who breaks the team disciple has to be cautioned.

What I am speculating is there may have been events behind scenes that resulted in this deliberate missing of team briefing.

If that be so, then CA needs to go back a review it from the start – and perhaps more individuals may need to be cautioned for negative, if not discriminative, behaviour.

Unless that is done, Andrew Symmonds, the player he is capable of being, will be finished.

]]> By: Aravindan http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/2008/09/12/just-another-head-in-the-sand/#comment-3248 Aravindan Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:43:25 +0000 http://www.thesillypoint.com/blogs/?p=609#comment-3248 Cricket Australia sacked him not just to get him some psychological evaluation, but also to prove a point that indiscipline will not be tolerated...He even had some problems in cooperating with his captain "Clarke"... He services will be missed badly in the forthcoming series !! Cricket Australia sacked him not just to get him some psychological evaluation, but also to prove a point that indiscipline will not be tolerated…He even had some problems in cooperating with his captain “Clarke”…
He services will be missed badly in the forthcoming series !!

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