Compare the deaths, one by a freak accident and the other unfortunately due to the **** that is called cancer. Completely different, how many people do you think knew who Dylan Tombides was? Do you actually think before you post cum for brains?
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Compare the deaths, one by a freak accident and the other unfortunately due to the **** that is called cancer. Completely different, how many people do you think knew who Dylan Tombides was? Do you actually think before you post cum for brains?
We really do have to make mountains out of mole hills on this forum don't we.
Isnt that why we are here?Quote:
Originally Posted by weston
Firstly disagree with me all you like but leave the garbage insults out. The standards we have on the foz don't need to be lowered by poor remarks like you ended your post with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buddha
Secondly if you take into account Tombidies situation before he had cancer he was a star of the future for Australian Football. Was on the fringes of making the grade in the EPL. Lets just say he never got cancer he most likely at this time has played EPL and made a bit of a name for himself doing so. He has most likely played for the Socceroos. Being how bad they are going at the moment he most likely would have went to Brazil for the WC.
Just remember this bloke was actually rated higher than Taggz was as a kid
As the Asian Cup is on soon he is most likely posied to be the bloke to make a name for himself and score a goal or two or three and earn himself nationwide fame like the Kewells/ Alosi's / Cahills etc have done before him and be the pinup boy of Australian Football for the next decade. From there who knows what the future would have held and what he would have achieved in his career
All of this was taken away from him and us as Football fans due to his illness and death.
Now contrast that to Hughes who although his death was sudden also lost the opportunity to play 100 odd tests for his country and earn nationwide and worldwide fame as a cricketer and be a large part o the backbone of the Australian side in the next decade
Really what is the difference??
You have two blokes cut down prematurely in the prime of their lives with the opportunities that were about to be there of achieving their dreams going in an instant in a twist of fate where they were taken from the earth much to young.
Now lets compare the media coverage of this. Chalk and cheese
Hughes will go down in the annals of history as some type of modern day hero thanks to the level of press coverage his story has received where as Tombides will be forgotten in no time whatsoever.
Now as far as this level of press coverage goes it is ridiculously over the top as the media scramble to use this story and suck every bit of life they can from it. The bloke was after all a cricketer on the periphery of the Australian side not an incumbent star but a potential future star. He hasn't cured cancer or walked on water
Now the media have hammered this story and driven the public interest in it to ridiculously high levels. The public thanks to the voyeuristic nature of modern society keep lapping it up. Can you give me one good reason as to why the funeral of Hughes needed to be broadcast on TV considering funerals really are a private personal matter for the friends/family of the deceased to reflect on the life and say their final goodbyes to the deceased.
Don't give me the bullshit excuse it is the public's interest because it isn't. The public would have got by quite fine without TV coverage of the event
The public may be interested in the death of Hughes but that is down solely to the level of media coverage they have lapped up thanks to the press shoving it at them from all angles and does not entitle the press to traipse all over the final act in the life of Phillip Hughes for ratings.
This story says a hell of a lot about us as human beings and our voyeuristic rubbernecking stickybeaking into the affairs of others that are quite frankly none of their business and the scandalous efforts of the press to impose themselves and the rest of the world on the privacy of others to provide "NEWS" particularly in matters they should actually have the moral decency to stay away from
i have to agree that televising the guy's funeral was a bit tacky, i watched the first half hour or so and just felt awkward about it.
I don't get why people get worked up over other people dying.
I am a bit weird like that though.
Both terrible terrible deaths and don't deserve the disrespect of being compared to whose was worse.
The televised funeral was absolute bullshit. That's a private moment for people close to him to say their farewells and celebrate his life, not for it to be turned into a circus. I could've handled and tolerated footage from a sole camera focussed on the front. But panning and cutting to players crying and their reactions to things was poor and very poor form.
I was debating why this tragedy has affected so many and has the whole media swirling around. And while I do not agree with the following, I think the media corporations would see it this way.
1. Cricket is considered one of the typically Aussie sports, (soccer is not)
2. The Incident had multiple witnesses, video footage or the exact moment the injury occurred.
3. I don't think media really knew the full story. I was at the gym and the headline was that he suffered a heart attack, and as new news kept breaking the story was getting worse, then there was the element of hope media could use, then the eventual tragedy caught most people off guard.
4. Cricketers tour all the states and major cities, so their profile is rather large.
All contributing factors.
But really, who cares. A top bloke lost his life doing what he loved. Don't let the animals in the media tarnish his memory.
oh FFS. no DRS AGAIN! unbelievable.
Anyone know where you can listen online?
Anyone had any luck getting radio stream working? No app for me today, just via the CA website and it's a ****ing shambles. Neither ABC nor Fairfax do a ****ing thing.
I haven't gone for a listening page yet, but I'm just getting the live updates from http://www.espncricinfo.com/australi...ch/754737.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by leftrightout
http://live.cricket.com.au/#/5008/1Quote:
Originally Posted by leftrightout
But it doesn't work.
Succumbed and went back to the android app, listening via headphones instead of thru computer speakers. FFS.
Warner on a billion from 15 balls already.
http://www.dicksmith.com.au/radios/s...Hu8aAqz28P8HAQ
absolutely bloody invaluable for this time of year
Yeah he looks to be going beserk out there..Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
$13?????Quote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Man, I'm heading up to Greenhills now to pick one up with lunch..
How is the AM Component reception as I was thinking about picking one up to listen to Kearney/Dando on game day at Stade De Newy?? As all the other shit I have only has FM and by the time I reach the car the boys are usually finished/finishing upQuote:
Originally Posted by q-money
Will I need to bring my own coathanger ??
it's absolutely mint, don't worry about a coathanger
got to be the end of things for clarke.
Shame because he's one of the better captains we have had in ages