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I am posting this here, because it talks about AFL and cricket.
I find inquiries and investigations in sport, at times, a waste of time and money. Nothing is achieved in the long run.
Here are three current examples:-
-Essendon appealing the CAS decision.
What did it really achieve:- Essendon lost their 2013 finals series, and their 2016 season. What would overturning the WADA decision have done? There isn't time travel, so even if Essendon won, and the WADA case was overturned, it doesn't get Essendon back its 2016 season.
What should happen now:- Essendon should just move on. They have a lot to look forward to. 11 of their 12 suspended players are coming back, they have exciting youngsters like Parrish, they discovered some gems in McDonald-Tipinudi and Dea. They have a former premiership coach who can work with a better team than last year. Essendon have pick 1 and they no longer have distractions anymore. Essendon should put this behind them, start a new era, and make things up to their fans.
-The Bulldogs/Talia case- Who cares? Firstly, the Bulldogs wouldn't have cared about this as much if they had won that final. They lost it, so they needed an excuse, rather than Beveridge was simply outcoached by Camporeale that night.
What did it achieve?- Is it going to overturn the finals result in 2015? No. Michael Talia is gone from the Bulldogs, so there is nothing to be gained by dredging this up again?
What should happen now:- The Bulldogs won their first flag in 62 years. Celebrate it. Don't dwell on what may have been in another final the previous year. You won this year, that's all that counts.
-The Phillip Hughes inquiry- This is the stupidest one of the lot. How is anything gained by going over this? It was two years ago.
Would a better helmet have mattered, when it got in under his helmet? Would anything have prevented him from dying?
How the hell does Doug Bollinger's words matter? Did Hughes die because Bollinger said that he was going to kill him on the field? Did Bollinger put out a contract on him, and hire Abbott as the hitman? Of course not, but you'd think otherwise, according to the family.
What does it achieve? Phillip Hughes is dead. Nothing will change that. This finger-pointing witchhunts isn't going to bring him back. It was just a sad accident.
What should happen now?- The family need to move on. Get grief counselling. Realize that this wasn't a deliberate and careless act. Relationships between Hughes' family and the cricketers have been destroyed. The only ones who win out of this are the lawyers, and the coroner, who needs to justify his existence. I would rather these resources be put into solving murder cases instead.
I find inquiries and investigations in sport, at times, a waste of time and money. Nothing is achieved in the long run.
Here are three current examples:-
-Essendon appealing the CAS decision.
What did it really achieve:- Essendon lost their 2013 finals series, and their 2016 season. What would overturning the WADA decision have done? There isn't time travel, so even if Essendon won, and the WADA case was overturned, it doesn't get Essendon back its 2016 season.
What should happen now:- Essendon should just move on. They have a lot to look forward to. 11 of their 12 suspended players are coming back, they have exciting youngsters like Parrish, they discovered some gems in McDonald-Tipinudi and Dea. They have a former premiership coach who can work with a better team than last year. Essendon have pick 1 and they no longer have distractions anymore. Essendon should put this behind them, start a new era, and make things up to their fans.
-The Bulldogs/Talia case- Who cares? Firstly, the Bulldogs wouldn't have cared about this as much if they had won that final. They lost it, so they needed an excuse, rather than Beveridge was simply outcoached by Camporeale that night.
What did it achieve?- Is it going to overturn the finals result in 2015? No. Michael Talia is gone from the Bulldogs, so there is nothing to be gained by dredging this up again?
What should happen now:- The Bulldogs won their first flag in 62 years. Celebrate it. Don't dwell on what may have been in another final the previous year. You won this year, that's all that counts.
-The Phillip Hughes inquiry- This is the stupidest one of the lot. How is anything gained by going over this? It was two years ago.
Would a better helmet have mattered, when it got in under his helmet? Would anything have prevented him from dying?
How the hell does Doug Bollinger's words matter? Did Hughes die because Bollinger said that he was going to kill him on the field? Did Bollinger put out a contract on him, and hire Abbott as the hitman? Of course not, but you'd think otherwise, according to the family.
What does it achieve? Phillip Hughes is dead. Nothing will change that. This finger-pointing witchhunts isn't going to bring him back. It was just a sad accident.
What should happen now?- The family need to move on. Get grief counselling. Realize that this wasn't a deliberate and careless act. Relationships between Hughes' family and the cricketers have been destroyed. The only ones who win out of this are the lawyers, and the coroner, who needs to justify his existence. I would rather these resources be put into solving murder cases instead.
