<div dir="ltr">I beg to disagree Tony. Cricket is the greatest game IMHO. The embarrassing carry-on of recent years has bordered on cheating and isn't really typical of how the game used to be played. Gamemanship tinged with humour used to be the go whereas our blokes have been cheating with their ludicrous "mental disintegration" bullshit they've carried on with since Waugh S took over. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 18:13, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3265447299391296967WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Northerly – thanks. I made the point that cricketers, in their creams, are not nice, and jingoistic, in the endeavor to put off the opposition, a batsman in this case. Whereas, a much more manly sport, thugby, especially at school boy level, where this was when referred to, is, or was, not subjected to the nasty words, sledging, so much. This is my opinion and I was out there for a few years and have the ears as evidence. In football there is the heavy hitting and most are conditioned for it. In cricket you have angry persons throwing hard balls at your head, and bouncing them for the purpose of accelerating them to achieve this. Both games originated in England, rugby just doesn’t pretend to be anything other than exercise, and cricket looks nice from the boundary but there are better things to do on a hot Australian summer afternoon, and the whole thing seems predicated on disliking your opponent, the proof of which is throwing things at them!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Cheers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tony<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Consider snipping when replying.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> Racing [mailto:<a href="mailto:racing-bounces@ausrace.com" target="_blank">racing-bounces@ausrace.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:norsaintpublishing@gmail.com" target="_blank">norsaintpublishing@gmail.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> AusRace Racing Discussion List <<a href="mailto:racing@ausrace.com" target="_blank">racing@ausrace.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusRace] After prawns - Darts and the Jesuit<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Know what you're saying about youngsters, cricket and swearing Tony.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I blame attending cricket matches as a youngster to watch my father play and hanging around while they had a drink after the game, for my appalling language nowadays. Reckon I heard every swear word ever invented from the mouth of one particular individual, who it must be said was a very good fella, nonetheless. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Much to their credit, the previous generation seemed to be much more self disciplined when it came to bad language. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 14:29, Tony Moffat <<a href="mailto:tonymoffat@bigpond.com" target="_blank">tonymoffat@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">There are 10 pages of typewriting here and not a horse, horserace or betting<br>anecdote in any of it.<br>It was good typing it while it rained today and now the woodshed beckons<br>Cheers<br><br>Tony<br><br>When I was 11 Dad got promoted and moved to a new town, a territory to him,<br>and I went to the catholic primary school. It was small, and packed with<br>children,<br><br><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">snipped<u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div></div><div id="gmail-m_-3265447299391296967DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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