Warner

[PhatBoy]

Class has always been an issue in sport & you need to learn history if you think otherwise. Modern cricket rose out of gentleman amateurs & working class professionals.
Sport is part of society & it's silly to think it would be excluded from the same problems. How are race barriers in afl?! Seem to be still in place.

Warner's background is pretty different among our test cricketers with exception of a certain Tasmanian who I remember was unpopular in his day & even as captain there were calls for him to resign

Modern cricket in England.

one of its forefathers in Australia was a rugby league administrator. For every elite educated syd Gregory or Warwick Armstrong there was a public school Monty Noble or Victor Trumper - hell, Trumper doesn’t even have a birthdate.

how different is Warner or Ponting for that matter from Doug Walters who came from dungog and cared as much about darts and beers and punting as he did about his reputation?



racism is far less of an issue in AFL than it is in society.

racism will be an issue everywhere as long as there are dickheads to carry the torch. But those of colour get a lot more equality than they might elsewhere in life.
No sphere of society is completely immune from classism or racism but there are many where those issues are a lot bigger.

if you asked 100 people what shaped Their perception of David Warner, I doubt you’d get many say his background has anything at all to do with it.

 

[11kgm]

Can we just never pick him again, he isn't that good anymore and is a complete campaigner