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    The evil beach balls at the Gabba

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of November Leave a comment on this post

    They must be stopped, punctured and brought in for questioning. The Fun Police at the Gabba have been having a ball; harmless fun is now considered dangerous, or rude, or provocative. It has been the one blight on this Test, so much so that the Barmy Army have boycotted out of protest; their bugler was ejected and they’ve been segregated to nullify their “effect”.

    It’s pathetic.

    Beach ball

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    10 Responses to “The evil beach balls at the Gabba”

  • Scott wrote:
    November 25th, 2006 at 11.49 pm

    The SS Death Squads at the MCG have been notorious beach-ball persecutors for years. I myself was evicted from that stadium once for the henious crime of sitting next to a girl who started the wave.

    In comparison, Adelaide Oval is a haven of freedom, but to be honest, I fear what oppression awaits spectators there as well.

  • slips wrote:
    November 25th, 2006 at 11.51 pm

    Like I said earlier, the trupet was banned to comply with a long-standing council by-law.
    And the game isn’t being held purely for the amusement of English yobs.

  • Scott wrote:
    November 25th, 2006 at 11.58 pm

    So what’s so henious about beachballs, slips? Cricket Australia authorities have been getting worse for years, not just when England visit these shores.

  • slips wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 3.44 am

    Nothing in particular, but they can be a distraction when they make it onto the field. I think as part of a general crackdown - on all spectators, a few ocer-reactions have occurred - but they are nothing as compared to the over-reactions from some sections of the crowd.
    I see the Barmy Army are crying now over the ‘offensive’ song parody during the tea break, because it implied poor health and hygiene, etc. Apparently we are expected to accept the whole convict stereotype, and take all similar jibes on the chin, but the Poms are too sensitive to reciprocate. What a mob of whinging wankers. They’ve failed to realise that the whole series isn’t just for them. The moaning about not sitting together is another example of how precious they all are - it’s not like they are arranged 1 Pom - One Aussie - one Pom throughout the crowd. There are plenty of big clusters of each group all over the place, and everyone seems fairly friendly and happy. So they can’t take over entire bays - big deal. I attended the two Rugby WC games here in Adelaide, and even as members my mates and I couldn’t all sit together because of the seating arrangements Ticketing via Sydney!?). Sure, it wasn’t ideal, but it wasn’t catastrophic either. Tourism Oz loves them because of the cash injection, but that doesn’t mean we have to cater to their every need - Australians never get treated terribly well in the UK, and certainly not at the cricket there.
    Frankly, I’m looking forward to running into them in the pubs of Adelaide next weekend.

  • Heather wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 3.48 am

    I was at the Old Trafford Ashes test, and sat next to two inflatable kangaroos in Brisbane AFL shirts. The England fans kept attacking them with beach balls and there was a huge cheer when one hit.

    It didn’t lead to a general breakdown in law and order.

  • Scott wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 4.55 am

    Gosh! You’d better let Cricket Australia know- they seem to think beachballs herald the End of Civillisation As We Know It.

  • cracker the cricket dog wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 6.15 am

    Come on down to NZ next summer. The BA enlivened the series in 2002 no end. $15 (5 quid) a day (beer $5.00 a bottle (2 quid) and as many Mexican waves as you can poke a stick at. Trumpet encouraged- my mate used the play the bagpipes and we used to have a siren at the Basin Reserve in Wtn. No whining aussies in white coats.Ask your mates who came down with the Lions last year. Great stuff and we even won!!See you all next summer-the Aussies don’t appreciate you but we do.

  • Kathy wrote:
    November 26th, 2006 at 6.50 am

    The Basin Reserve is a great cricket ground, cracker. Years ago I watched Ken Rutherford score a very slow century against England there. God, I am showing my age.

  • Matt Thornton (Six and Out) wrote:
    November 27th, 2006 at 11.24 am

    Couldn’t agree more.

  • sart wrote:
    January 18th, 2007 at 10.23 pm

    watching the beachballs getting popped is a lot of fun
    my girl friend comes along with me to the cricket
    just to watch this–she gets a real thrill watching the
    beachballs getting stabbed, punctured with a pen and she goes crazy when the security guard rips it open-
    So I am in support of popping all those beachballs
    anyway you come to watch the cricket not the beachballs (with the exceptipon of my girlfriend)

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