Richie Benaud, should we get him off our screens?

the product is ****ed???:rofl:rofl how many hours of free to air boxing do you see per year?:-( whose product is ****ed.

i'll tell you why and when boxing ****ed its product in australia. i will, and explain why. but first, i'll give you all the opportunity to GUESS!!!!

so go on. guess why cricket is bigger in oz than boxing. guess why it has the respect of the majority of aussies. go on, guess why andwhen boxing ****ed itself in oz.

 

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Whose talking about boxing ya ****en dimwit.
Cricket is a **** of a game. It bores me sensless.
I'm just worried about my fellow Australians being dragged into a torpor of mediocrity.
Cricket rates a close second to domino's & 1990 computer games as the most arse-widening threat to our youth.

Thank heavens Kerry got that limited overs **** off the ground & put some colour into it to keep people awake.

Crickets success is based on one simple fact.
The fare in is cheaper than crack-cocaine.

 

i knew for a fact you would not offer a reason why boxing ****ed itself, and why cricket took over.......you rely on too much book learnin, and not enough independent thought!!

and yes, dip****, we are talking about cricket...on a boxing forum. and you cockheads are slandering our national sport and one of its greatest ambassadores.

now rodent...tell me when and how boxing ****ed itself in oz.......or cant you think for yourself????? go find a book, ****head. but you wont find the answer...till you THINK!!!!!!!!:-(

 

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ah **** it. you are all sheep....let me enlighten you....i cant wait for feeble attempts at free thought that you all will never make....:-(

to understand which sport australians have chosen as their favourite sport, one must first look at what gave us our identity..

before aussies had a national identity, before we had confidence in our selves, we lived in an era before the great war. aussies were sons of convicts. we couldnt live it down. we cringed in the face of other wesrtern cultures because of our past. we never had an example of an aussie that would prove that we were as good as anyone else in the world.....until LES DARCY.

les darcy was but a boy. yet he was a world beater. he began to prove that australians could concour the world, and were as good as anyone else. he captured the immagination of mothers, whom realised their sons, fathers and husbands could be as good as anyone else in the world! a great leap for the poor daughters of convicts.

darcy captured the nations immagination. australia was a hub of boxing in the world, and darcy made it bigger. the simple, honest, much loved boy, became a peoples champion.

however, a war was brewing, and the establishment needed aussie corpses to stink up the murder fields of europe. darcy was a poster boy. but he didnt want to go to some **** hole to fight for some cause that didnt involve us.

the establishment needed him for recruitment.....they needed live flesh to slaughter. the boxing and political establishments colluded to preasure darcy into going to war. he relented and tried to sign up, even though he was too young. his mother refused to sign for him.

darcy fled to the usa, as he wanted to make money for his family. darcy died in suspicious circumstances in the us....it was said he died of a broken heart. when in reality, the boxing establishment, headed by the gealous snowy baker (my he rot forever in hell) together with the political establishment made sure darcy was slandered (if not murdered) to the last.

darcys funeral was the biggest australia has ever seen. so loved was he, so much faith did people put in his ability to prove aussies were as good as anyone else......and the boxing and political establishments were seen as the murderers.

darcy could have given us our national identity. he could have been whe icon that gave us the confidence to say "im ausralian", and be proud. he could have established boxing as our national sport. or at least a much loved sport. however boxing had failed to look after its own, due to politics and weak, gutless, jealous ****s!

people turned away from boxing. seeing it as corrup, morraly and politically (not much has changed) . the whole nation mourned les darcy. the whole nation blamed the boxing establishment for his death, and rightly so.

those same mothers were turned off boxing. no longer did they see it as redemption for their men. they saw our soldiers getting slaughtered in europe, and their sons murdered or crippled.

boxing lost, it never recovered. its had small resurgences, but never has it been as popular as when darcy was alive.

a few years later, another sport gave australians what they yearned for. we were given proof that we are as good as anyone. this man was never belittled by his sport. he was never treated like **** by his peers. he proved what mothers always knew, but needed proof of.......that aussie men, their sons, husbands and dads, are as good as anyone!!!

don bradman, cricket. they captured the immagination of the australian people. and the cricket establishment has never failed its duty to look after the sport. it never killed the golden child. bradman captured the aussie immagination, he becameour pride, he flogged our former jailers, the poms. we became better than the *******s!!!

however, boxing never recovered from its treatment of darcy......in australia, boxing had killed itself. it is still seen as corrupt. it is still seen as vicious. boxing is not trusted. and boxing did it to itself.

les darcy was bigger than far lap. darcy was our biggest sporting hero. in the context of the time, darcy was our greatest. only bradman comes close. boxing killed its poster boy. it also killed itself.

cricket provided us our identity, our hero....

now **** you all......im going to watch the ashes...

 

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Don Bradman was a right **** and would not have deigned to shake Les Darcy's hand were they have to met as he hated the Irish and Catholics

 

Very true, there was a divided dressing room back in the day. Bradman was a non drinker and a real ****...... Just asked the Chappell brothers when he was head of cricket Australia in the 60's and 70's, he didn't want cricketer's to benefit in a monetary sense the old senile ****.

Not only that, but the **** thought he's **** didn't stink and refused all interviews and benefits nights for the last 40yrs of his life..... People wanted to honour and worship him but he was too up himself to partake.........****.

It's funny how the real story never came out when i was growing up, I had to research it to find the truth...... Just goes to show you that this is a common thread in all walks of society.

Don Bradman and Bill O'Reilly (Australia)
Great teams often thrive despite rather than because of their team spirit. That was certainly the case with the brilliant Australian side of the 1930s, in which Bradman and O'Reilly, Protestant and Catholic, headed two distinct factions. Though they had total respect for each other's ability, their differences were irreconcilable from the start. Bradman eventually purged O'Reilly from the side and later attributed the success of the 1948 Invincibles partly to the loyalty he was shown in the absence of O'Reilly and Jack Fingleton - both of whom became journalists, with Fingleton, in particular, not at all reluctant to exercise his right of reply. When Bradman was dismissed for a duck in his final Test innings, the press box reverberated to the sound of both men collapsing in hysterical laughter.

 

Sally, that's an interesting view on Darcy. Utter dribble, but interesting.

When it comes to it, Dacry ****ed up. T'was a very foolish move to head off to the USA. He should have gone in late 1915 with Doc Kearns. A decision he regretted until the end. His teeth would not have been knocked out by Harold Harwick and his hectic 1916 schedule would have been diminished to perhaps 15 bouts of 10 rounds in the USA. Few yanks would have lasted the 10 rounds anyway.

Boxing did not die with Les Darcy.

 

Mate, I was geeing you up about the Cricket,,,both times,, & you come back with this arduously long narration that is totally devoid of rational substance.

Never had a hero?? Ever heard of the miners of Ballarat? where they told the pommy overlords to get ****ed?

Cricket was born 20 years later & we commenced to tear our masters a new arsehole.
That's why cricket is our National sport.

Sticking it up the Poms is our greatest pastime, but I still think its as boring as listening to the reading of a Will that's left you **** all.

"now **** you all......im going to watch the ashes" ...Whatever that means,,, it's gotta be better than watching the ****en cricket,, so good onya.



,,,,He's got him....he's gone.... **** him!

 

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On a more serious note, this Bradman business has just got so far out of hand, it's mind boggling.

Most people wouldn't have heard about this but Bowral hospital is in an arm wrestle with the Area health over funding, & restrictions on orthopedic operations, limited to one a week.

Meanwhile, state & federal governments have provided a total of $14 million building the Bradman museum around the corner.

I suppose we can be thankfull that Don never went into politics.
He would have been cannonised & they'd have spent $30 million on a naked sculpture of him where his half witted doters could give him a polish.sic. :roll: (for a fee of course) :|:tired:tired

 

Well i'm a Pom but I love the man he's a true legend and a Gentleman.However most important of all he has a great knowledge of the game.