Roar Guru
It has been a tough weekend for this cricket and rugby tragic. I have been through the pain of watching both the Wallabies and the Australian cricket team being put the sword.
My mind goes back to the Wallabies v All Blacks in Hong Kong last year when referee Alan Lewis had an absolute howler of a game (in favour of the All Blacks).
Then there is Jonathan Kaplan – where any Australian team (S14 or Wallabies) should not bother turning up. Followed by Craig Joubert – though he is more a home town specialist (liking to please the locals).
I have just come away from watching the second Ashes test – Ponting and Hughes in my opinion get bad decisions in the first innings.
Bopara gets the benefit of the doubt. Second innings and Katich is given out off a no ball, and Strauss claims a catch off Hughes which clearly bounced in front of him and Hughes is given out (no referral).
Clearly the rub-of-the-green, or the bounce-of-the-ball or whatever euphemism might apply – it just seems to me that neither the Wallabies nor the cricketers can’t take a trick right now.
Australians can be brash and abrasive and as a demographically small nation we certainly punch above our weight, but is there something about us that subliminally turns officials around the world against us, or is this writer paranoid?