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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Apparently Robinson could be in trouble due to something racist he tweeted back in 2012 which has just emerged...
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    edited June 2021
    Totally inexcusable. 

    How bored do you have to be, though, to scroll back 9 years on someone’s Twitter feed to find something to discredit them instead of just ... watching their England debut?
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    killerandflash said:
    Apparently Robinson could be in trouble due to something racist he tweeted back in 2012 which has just emerged...
    Seen the tweets in question. Obviously not on, but it’s the exact kind of juvenile stupid shit I was tweeting/posting on Facebook when I was 18. They’re also not that explicit, just bad jokes, that are racist. 

    Just sounds like classic gutter journalism. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    killerandflash said:
    Apparently Robinson could be in trouble due to something racist he tweeted back in 2012 which has just emerged...
    Remember Andre Gray getting a ban for something similar.

    I think it's crazy people getting a ban for stuff they tweeted years ago whilst a teenager.  Are people not allowed to change, grow up and hopefully apologise? 

    Also looking at the tweets - stupid and ill-informed rather than malicious.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622


    View from my seat today - Upper Mound is an excellent stand - not a toss to lose today, sadly we did - I reckon this will go the full 5 days
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622


    A slight negative to the day - look who was sat near me - utter tool
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    I’d have found that incredibly difficult to reign myself in.
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622
    edited June 2021
    Addickted2TheReds said:
    I’d have found that incredibly difficult to reign myself in.
    He had his two young sons with him + I was with a client

    BUT I am very pleased to advise you that I was at a Test at Lords in 2019, pissed up, and gave BOTH Mogg and Farage dogs abuse behind the Tavern Stand towards the end of play when me and my mates saw them chatting whilst Farage had a cigarette 

    Mogg said to us that it was not the sort of behaviour he expected to see at Lords - my mate’s response of ‘why don’t you F off you toffee nosed C’ did the trick
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    Lordflashheart said:
    Addickted2TheReds said:
    I’d have found that incredibly difficult to reign myself in.
    He had his two young sons with him + I was with a client

    BUT I am very pleased to advise you that I was at a Test at Lords in 2019, pissed up, and gave BOTH Mogg and Farage dogs abuse behind the Tavern Stand towards the end of play when me and my mates saw them chatting whilst Farage had a cigarette 

    Mogg said to us that it was not the sort of behaviour he expected to see at Lords - my mate’s response of ‘why don’t you F off you toffee nosed C’ did the trick
    Was he/and you thrown out? 
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622
    Covered End said:
    Lordflashheart said:
    Addickted2TheReds said:
    I’d have found that incredibly difficult to reign myself in.
    He had his two young sons with him + I was with a client

    BUT I am very pleased to advise you that I was at a Test at Lords in 2019, pissed up, and gave BOTH Mogg and Farage dogs abuse behind the Tavern Stand towards the end of play when me and my mates saw them chatting whilst Farage had a cigarette 

    Mogg said to us that it was not the sort of behaviour he expected to see at Lords - my mate’s response of ‘why don’t you F off you toffee nosed C’ did the trick
    Was he/and you thrown out? 
    Nope - he and Farage went back up to hospitality, and we walked to Nursery End for a couple more pints

    Ok - not something you like to see at Cricket, but both loathsome people and the beer mist came down 
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    North Lower Neil said:
    killerandflash said:
    Apparently Robinson could be in trouble due to something racist he tweeted back in 2012 which has just emerged...
    Remember Andre Gray getting a ban for something similar.

    I think it's crazy people getting a ban for stuff they tweeted years ago whilst a teenager.  Are people not allowed to change, grow up and hopefully apologise? 

    Also looking at the tweets - stupid and ill-informed rather than malicious.
    I'm thankful that all the dodgy opinions I had when I was young were spoken, and hence completely forgotten about
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    Brexit is causing untold problems for me and my family - I'm not sure I'd be fussed if I ruined his family day out to the cricket.

    Anyway, apologies, not the thread.

    A good days cricket although not in our favour - Conway was fabulous.

    Said this on here a few times but I wish we played New Zealand more in Test Cricket. We always have good games and they always play the game in the right way. Yet another 2 Test series against them... :(
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    Is the Byron Gould in those tweets one of the Gould’s who crop up on the club cricket thread ? 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,789
    MrOneLung said:
    Is the Byron Gould in those tweets one of the Gould’s who crop up on the club cricket thread ? 
    Yes it is - he is the talented big hitter who was in the Kent Academy at that time with Robinson and also Adam Ball
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    McBobbin said:
    I was trying to find stats of bowlers who had taken the wickets of the most different batsmen. Only found batsman dismissed the most by the same bowler. Three of the top four were Mike Atherton, out to McGrath (19 times!) Ambrose and Walsh. Did he just play against Australia and West Indies? Fair enough we are talking about three of the most prolific ever fast bowlers
    Alec Bedser dismissed Arthur Morris 18 times in Tests.  Morris was no bunny either.   He outscored Bradman in the 1948 test series.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    He was the odd one out amongst the athertons
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    McBobbin said:
    I was trying to find stats of bowlers who had taken the wickets of the most different batsmen. Only found batsman dismissed the most by the same bowler. Three of the top four were Mike Atherton, out to McGrath (19 times!) Ambrose and Walsh. Did he just play against Australia and West Indies? Fair enough we are talking about three of the most prolific ever fast bowlers
    I guess staying in against most & struggling against 3 of the very best isn't that much of a criticism.


  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Lordflashheart said:


    View from my seat today - Upper Mound is an excellent stand - not a toss to lose today, sadly we did - I reckon this will go the full 5 days

    Cracking picture!

    Takes me back to my days doing a secondment in the then TCCB Press Office at Lords when I was at university in February 1993.

    My boss Ken Lawrence introduced me to legendary Lords groundsman Mike Hunt (yes, he has heard all the jokes) and I asked him if I could walk out on the hallowed turf.

    "No," he replied curtly, "What's more, if I catch you on my ******* pitch I'll have yer ******* balls."

    He wasn't joking.

    Anyway, this was during England's torrid Test tour of India in Feb-March 1993 and the series was on Sky - which very few people had back then so all the TCCB folks would get to the office really early to watch the Test match on TV, they'd get there about 7.30AM from memory.

    Being a cricket nut I was absolutely desperate to get out into the middle at Lords so on my last day there - which was during the 3rd Test when Hick made his 178 - I decided to get in about 6.30AM and get out into the middle before anyone else was around.

    I got past the security guard at the Grace Gates with my work-pass and then walked around to the Nursery End where, in those days before the new media centre was built, you could walk out from behind the sight-screens onto the sacred turf which was actually covered in snow, making it even more amazing as the white snow illuminated the whole ground.

    It was still pitch dark as I crept out onto the outfield and made my way to the middle where I thoroughly intended to unveil my full range of shots and perhaps have a couple of run-ups to deliver phantom deliveries too.

    Suddenly, out of nowhere, this bloody great flashlight appeared from behind me at the Nursery End - where I later found out that Mr. Hunt lived in a house with his family - and his sharp cockney voice pierced the darkness, "Oi! I told you to stay off my ******* pitch! Get your arse back here now!"

    You didn't argue with Mick so I shamefacedly made my way off muttering my apologies to him as we passed like ships in the night as he went out to make sure that I had not damaged his pride and joy.

    I never did make it out to the middle of Lords.






  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    killerandflash said:
    Apparently Robinson could be in trouble due to something racist he tweeted back in 2012 which has just emerged...
    I gather he was bit of a tool back then but has grown up a lot in his 20s; not exactly alone there is he !

    I suspect the ECB will have to ban him for it; there’s too much precedent.  It’s the kind of thing I’d be sacked for. 
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    Lordflashheart said:
    Addickted2TheReds said:
    I’d have found that incredibly difficult to reign myself in.
    He had his two young sons with him + I was with a client

    BUT I am very pleased to advise you that I was at a Test at Lords in 2019, pissed up, and gave BOTH Mogg and Farage dogs abuse behind the Tavern Stand towards the end of play when me and my mates saw them chatting whilst Farage had a cigarette 

    Mogg said to us that it was not the sort of behaviour he expected to see at Lords - my mate’s response of ‘why don’t you F off you toffee nosed C’ did the trick
    Well played.
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    We wait 40 minutes to bring Wood on, and he's now picked up Nicholls and Watling
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,587
    Great use of the review. 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,335
    We won't see a better review than de Grandhomme's dismissal all Summer. Great work by Root. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,677
    Three now for Wood. 
    Nwe Zealand six down.
    England right back in this. 
  • roseandcrown
    roseandcrown Posts: 7,587
    Santner gone for a duck. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    4 wickets taken for 6 runs since Wood and Robinson came on
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    blackpool72 said:
    Three now for Wood. 
    Nwe Zealand six down.
    England right back in this. 
    Love test cricket, what other sport and what other game could you be battered for a whole day and then still be right back in the game. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    kentaddick said:
    blackpool72 said:
    Three now for Wood. 
    Nwe Zealand six down.
    England right back in this. 
    Love test cricket, what other sport and what other game could you be battered for a whole day and then still be right back in the game. 
    Golf.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Shaping up to be a very good match - we always seem to have them v NZ, don't we?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,789
    edited June 2021
    Neil Wagner has a combined Test, First Class, List A and T20 average of over 27. On that basis, should Bumble and Ward really be that surprised that he can bat? He might be batting at number 11 but he's no Jimmy Anderson!

    Edit - I'm talking absolute rubbish. That's his bowling average! His lifetime batting average in Test matches is actually 14. Still no number 11

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