Vale Phillip Hughes - 1988 - 2014

[Nostradumbass]

Terrible news. R.I.P.

 

[Gough]

Just opened up my ABC cricket book and seen his pen pic. Eyes leaking again.

 

[FreoGirl]

They shouldn't have made clarke do that. Not sure if he volunteered or not. He is clearly not in a good state

he was very brave and has show great leadership - can't begin to imagine how tough it was for him

 

[the 5th wiggle]

Rip Philip,a good person gone too early.lets hope the media leave the family and friends alone now to grieve.

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

Just found out... terrible, terrible news... R.I.P. Phil.

 

[Dave]

Vale Phillip.

Condolences to the Hughes family.

Gutted by the news.

 

[radiojake]

some old guy at the bus stop was slurring and stammering about Phillip Hughes passing on but I just assumed he was confused about him being knocked out.... or maybe I was hoping that he was wrong...

It's pretty devastating

 

[Doss]

You know, until someone reminded me a few minutes ago that the draft is about to start, I'd completely forgotten about it even being on tonight.

This has just overshadowed everything completely.

Feel like everything is just going through the motions.

 

[djrossie16]

RIP Phillip Hughes.
Memories of that South African back to back hundreds will stay with me forever. You brought excitement to us all. I thank you for that.
Condolences to the family.
Haven't felt shocked by news like this for a while.

 

[drummond2fevola]

You know, until someone reminded me a few minutes ago that the draft is about to start, I'd completely forgotten about it even being on tonight.

This has just overshadowed everything completely.

Feel like everything is just going through the motions.

I had planned to do all this work this afternoon, but I haven't been able to get my mind off of Hughes.

 

[southernswannies]

RIP Phil Hughes.

I thank you for the hope you gave me for Australian cricket when it was needed more than anything. Humble, spoke with the bat and a team player. Gave it your all.

 

[Doss]

I had planned to do all this work this afternoon, but I haven't been able to get my mind off of Hughes.

Fair to say it's been my least productive day in...a long time.

 

[dashing_man]

Can you stop with that "this post will get you banned" stuff, please?

Yes, he's still in ICU as far as we know. They said on Tuesday there wouldn't be any meaningful indication on how he's fairing until 48 hours in, and we're not at 48 hours yet.

sorry that is my tapatalk signature

opened cricinfo today to check the score of Pak V Nz only to find this sad News

You will be missed Philly

may God give his family patience to bear all this

 

[Smoooothy]

Fair to say it's been my least productive day in...a long time.

Since Tuesday..

 

[frankrizzo]

I suspect Jones was given the blessing to say what he did - he's a friend of the family.

Until he made that statement, most of us were hoping/expecting that Philip would be alright, I think they knew that wasn't the case, and wanted to prevent that false hope from getting even worse.

Agreed i think it was likely what you would call an authorized leak as the majority of people just felt that surely he has to pull through and we needed to be prepared for the horrible reality that was coming for us a few hours later.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Matthew Hayden was on MMM before.

Said he was comforted by the idea that Hughes' very last thought on this earth was probably "Beauty, this one's going into the grandstand!"

 

[Doss]

Since Tuesday..

Nah, much worse today. Just been in a sort of trance since this news broke.

 

[Jobe]

Devastated is the feeling right now.
Cannot even comprehend how the family and friends are feeling.

one of the darkest days in sporting history

RIP.

 

[Off The Couch]

Terrible, terrible news - I shed a tear when I heard. People aren't supposed to die playing sport
Condolences to his family and friends
RIP Phillip Hughes

 

[alfy!]

Just the worst thing that can happen on a cricket field. Terrible, tragic news.

Any one have a link to the full press conference?

 

[Andrew Mc]

I was ok until I read this one:

 

[ManWithNoName]

 

[Costanza_]

Nothing to add that hasn't been said. No pain to express that hasn't been felt by everyone in the thread and around the country.

Farewell to a wonderful young man.

 

[mcuzzy]

I'm one of the first to criticise the media, but in this case, I think that they presented it the best that they could. Maybe they didn't want to give the full extent of his condition until they were absolutely sure.

The thing is, I think that maybe they were told early on it wouldn't be good news, and they didn't want to be too gloomy, but couldn't give false hope either.

What channel are you watching? I saw a couple of cringe worthy things on 7 so switched to SBS.

 

[The Passenger]

This whole tragedy is going to take a while to process.

This is the darkest day I can remember in the 20 years I've been following Australian sport.

Most of us have played the game at some level, some have been hit, some have done the hitting, some have done both. You know there is always a chance of injury - sometimes severe injury - but you never in your wildest dreams think something like this will happen.

Phillip isn't the first cricketer to die on a cricket field, but it's such a rare occurrence that you can distance yourself from it. It's no less of a tragedy for the family and friends when a professional or an amateur dies on the sporting field, or indeed when any young person dies in any circumstance. But the shockwaves from a situation like this reverberate right through the wider community, as we all stop to think how easy it could happen to someone close to us and/or whilst we are on the field of the play.

We've lost someone we respect and admire, and in some cases idolise, and were looking forward to him entering his prime as a cricketer and see if he could fulfill his talent. But those close to him have lost more than a cricketer. They've lost a friend and a family member who should have had more than half a century of memories and good times left.

Cricket will be poorer without Phillip, and it will be a long time before it's ever the same again. For some of us, that day may never come.

RIP Phillip Hughes.