Anyone else watching the cricket?

**BTJ** · 18-01-2013, 09:24 PM

Ok guys I just got this sent to me and is doing the rounds in some media circles:

pretty interesting info sorry about the formatting:

ok, there has been alot of talk around the attitude of michael clarke

for years, he is a selfish wnker.

Mike apparantly was promised at a minimum two one dayers in the ODI

series, in Perth, he was promised this on the back of "best available"

talk. It is probably worth mentioning that alot of the players are a

bit scared of clarke in terms of the fact that he is a selector now,

so they avoid trying to pss him off. Anyways at some point clarke

called mike over (after the end of play) and asked if he could have a

word. In this discussion he told mike that he wouldnt be playing

because they were "looking to the future" mike asked about best

available side and all that sht and clarke said "you can have a lap

of honor before we play the ODI in Perth" to whihc mike told him to

shove his lap up his

as. Cricket Australia didnt want to announce the

axing but certain members of the hussey camp "accidentally" dropped

the hint to journos around the country

clarkey wasnt happy about this and i guess it set the tone for the

following couple of days (this was after play day 3 from memory).

So then the day before the game finished mike was asked by clarke what

he wanted to do for his last game, and he said that he wanted to just

sit in the changerooms and get pssed with the team and the entire

support staff. Michael Clarke then proceeded the following day to

organise to go on James Packers massive boat (which they could do any

time for the next 3 days) but he wanted to go that evening the test

ended.

as a side note they all get pretty expensive retirement gifts from the

team, and mike (being in charge of the song) will change the ipod to

John Williamsons "true blue" this is when the team knows to get in a

huddle to sing the team song. anyways someone turns the music off, and

mike started complaining that someone had fcked the ipod up... nek

minut John Williamson walks in singing "true blue"... thought that was

pretty cool.

So anyways, clarke tried to turn it and say "I did this for you mike"

(the boat) when he already knew what mike wanted to do, didnt want to

go to the boat he wanted to get pssed int he changerooms. So at the

end of the day everyone is in the changeroom drinking, clarke had left

early because he wanted to go on the boat, some players (including

warner) left as well. When it was time to leave for the boat a couple

of players asked mike if he was coming, and mike was like "nah go have

fun, i will stay and celebrate with my family and the support staff".

Nathon Lyon (Mikes best friend in the team) said "fck that if huss

isnt going im not going" then watto said the same. As Vice captain

that meant that alot because the players came back to the room and

were gonna bail on the boat, because they weren't worried as much

about clarke losing it.

So the next minute they get word that Clarke has made the boat an

"official Cricket Australia function" which means the players get in

trouble for not attending. This forced alot of the players to leave,

Siddle and Lyon and the support staff were the only ones left from

what I understand, absolutely petty and sht form from clarke

considering that they could have gone on the boat the following night.

So in the end Mike, his family and the support staff stayed in the

rooms.

Mike then woke up with a voicemail from clarke which abused the sht

out of him for leaking to the media and about how he didnt go on the

boat with the players. Then clarke put david warner on the phone, who

abused the sht out of him as well. Mike just took it in his stride

and didnt respond, and the next morning in the lobby of the hotel

clarke wouldnt even look at him. Mike apparantly said "hey clarkey,

one day you'll know" and that was the last words they had exchanged.

Mike was refferring to the fact that clarke is a selfish ct, and

cant understand why mike is retiring (young family etc).

**Smeeeb** · 18-01-2013, 09:51 PM

Tis a shame.

**tigger73** · 18-01-2013, 11:07 PM

Yes a massive shame that players such as Symonds have also been dumped when what they really needed was support from the team. And the last couple of matches have just shown how disfunctional the team is. Certainly not all on the same page working together for the greater good. Far from it.