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Message: [QUOTE="CaptainHook, post: 2921618, member: 8315"] This is a good point but can you blame them? After another day's coverage I'm genuinely puzzled about how indignant cricket fans, the general public and the sporting public are about this situation. Let's put things in perspective: They tampered with a ball in a test match they got smashed in. It wasn't match fixing. No one is guilty of doping. Consider a few examples closer to home: Is it any different to say how Justin Hodges used to drop the ball after strolling out of dummy half to entice the ref to give a penalty? Or how some NRL players deliberately take a dive and fall over after they've been fooled by a decoy? Isn't that cheating or is it 'gamesmanship'? Melbourne making a mockery of the HIA laws? Soccer players taking dives to get free kicks? Some of the biggest players in our game have become legends because they tacitly understand you get away with more in Origin. When it comes to professional sport, whatever is in the 'spirit of the game' is a very distant second to winning. The Australian public are very naïve if they think otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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