Angela Harlem
Jesus Online
the rockin edge said:thanks yertle
i never said you weren't interested in the quality of cricket, but are you telling me you enjoyed losing to SA like that?
there you go! winning and losing again. it isn't always about that. seriously. a great cricket game is as exciting as watching a close race or an exciting footy match. it's the sport, not winning or losing.
i dont know how else to explain it. it seems this belief exists only over here, NOT that all australians are brilliant good sports about losing (no one likes it) but we are interested more in how either team get there. and alternatively some of us are competitive and of course couldn't care less about the competition and just want to win. now you can call this stereotyping, but it's become more noticable in this forum for example, how everyone loves to jump on our backs and have a go when we lose. the gloaters come out in force. it doesn't seem entirely friendly to me. it seems as though there's this division in what is important. not saying that the rest of the world doesn't care about the quality or how the game is won, either. it's just i dont see australians on the whole going on and on when we lose by bashing the other team. some do it, yes, but not primarily. i dont see us gloating and down playing everyone else when we win, but some do and the media might.
this isn't specifically addressing anyone on here either.