Yorkshire ccc

They are a bunch of late teen early twenties lads. Okay the banter isnt up to the woke agenda but surely they are only joking and love him as one of the team?

Did any of you see the sky documentary with Sid Lawrence, Phil Defreitas, Roland Butcher, Devon Malcolm, Rikki Clarke with Mark Butcher?

Workplace banter?

So sad seeing a grown man brought to tears by his reminisces. The way some of those men were treated was truly disgusting and almost unforgivable.

That’s balance with 1 ‘l’.

what is it?

As a Lancashire fan, it's not that hard a watch. Fair play to Ballance for owning up, can't have been easy, knowing he is about to be public enemy number one

After all the hysteria has got boring and died off you will still be left with the basic common denominator at the bottom of all this; that some people just don’t like certain other people.

As a middle aged man I can’t speak for what it’s like growing up today, but when I grew up there was plenty of name calling both ways and like people mostly sticking with their own communities.

Delusional people think it only goes one way….well why does the state have to spend so much money following and attempting to ‘reform’ such a high % of Islam followers who want to kill people in this country?

'Delusional people think it only goes one way….well why does the state have to spend so much money following and attempting to ‘reform’ such a high % of Islam followers who want to kill people in this country?'

How high is this percentage you speak of exactly, and what's your source for this percentage figure you're presenting as fact?

I dont recall where I'd have read it, but I did a quick to find similar search which essentially makes the point.


https://www.gov.uk

3. Charges following terrorism-related arrest by religion (September 2001 to August 2012)

Between September 2001 and the end of August 2012, 2,297 people were subject to terrorism-related arrest in Great Britain. Of these, 838 were charged with either a terrorism-related or a non-terrorism-related offence.

Table 3.1 shows that 41% of Muslims arrested were charged with an offence, in comparison with 37% of those arrested with other or no religion. These proportions (41% compared to 37%) are not statistically significantly different. A statistical difference was found between the proportion of Muslims charged (41%) and the proportion of those with unknown religion that were charged (32%) following terrorism-related arrest.




While......


Key points are: Despite falling numbers, Christianity remained the largest religion in England and Wales, with 59.3% of the population (33.2 million people) identifying as Christian. The second largest religious group were Muslims with 4.8% of the population (2.7 million people).9 Dec 2020

Ofc they are relevant.

My overall point is that people of differing socio/ethnic/cultural backgrounds still harbour their own opinions of other people irrespective of whatever notion thought up by passing governments to try and make people agreeable.
And that that opinion goes both ways.
I dont buy the argument it was banter personally, for theres truth in jest.

How are they relevant in justifying workplace bullying or however this situation can be interpreted? In terms of professional cricketers you are talking about people who are paid to represent an organisation, and of all the professional situations where a group of people ideally needs to get on and be agreeable, professional team sports is probably high up the list.

I agree that some people are bound by, more like crippled, by those 'opinions', but the vast majority of people get on with each other. For most of us it isn't government interventions that enable people to get on ffs. Good people in an assigned group will have more in common with good people in another group, than with bad people in their own group, however you divide it up. There very much seems to be an agenda all over the Betfair forum trying to propagate the converse view.

Just a case of interest, I recall Personal Social Education lessons at school that were taken by left leaning eco warrior type teachers. They used to drill it into us that every single person is racist to some extend.
Well they cant have it both ways we either are or we arn't and not one of us chose to be racsist, we are the product of whatever the household you grew up in was, mainly parental opinion I believe.

Brexit was fundamentally a working class movement resisting centralised government in the guise of the establishment for the most part. I say establishment because the ruling hand is majority Etonian, themselves who reside nowhere near ghettos.
People just saw an ever increasing gesture politics where minorities are given any and all protection, just as I see this case now.
Business after business jumping on the bandwagon not wanting to damage sales under this progressive movement where every story is made out to sound like the plight of the Israelites.
Add it to the gender issue and the future looks remarkably 1984.

I’m saying we have entered into an age where the squeaky wheel gets the oil.
It’s amazing how many are mentally ill nowadays, or found to be born in the wrong gender….it’s almost as though there’s something in the water all of a sudden.
I saw a piece the other week where an MP pointed out the statistics of obesity (think it’s 30% of adults from 15% inthe 1990s) and suggested that it needs highlighting.
The government were asked for a response and the statement essentially said we can’t bring it up because people might be too fragile mentally.

I’d have loved my steel worker grandfather to have been around today he would have been in disarray.

I know about cricket
I just don’t watch the county game
Cos it’s 5hit

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know

You know nothing dusty so why don’t you just get it off your chest. Spout your poisonous bile and stop the pretence.

Golly gosh

I’m being savaged

Right for a kick off you have taken the comment out of context.
I was making a point that society is made up of a collective of people each of whom fall into their own communities, and some if not many of each dislike some of the others, irrespective of what implements the state uses to attempt to pretend they dont.
And that for any derogative term one way at the very least it goes back the other, as the contempt is felt by all sides.
I obviously pointed out further that calling names is far surpassed by the community that this Raffiq is part of by showing the statistics of how those (not necessarily him) dislike the indiginous of this country so much they far out number any other terrorist segment by ratio. (showing intent on a level that far out does name calling)
The vast majority of Pakistanis are muslim, and the state doesnt collect terrorist figures on which country a person's parents came from, but they do on religion.
So theres your answer.


Ive just seen now no Tests at Headingley.
Did Yorkshire CCC not employ an independent law firm to assess Raffiq's allegations...that were apparently so bad like a trooper he worked there over a ten year period?
And did that independent law firm not conclude that out of 43 allegations, just 7 were upheld?
Now I know theres a lot of band wagon jumping here and more than a little fawning and bread dipping at Yorkshire's expense...but does that not mean Raffiq was found more wrong than right?
By a factor of 7 no less.

Still, until the whole of the county of Yorkshire are sacrificed and made to wear hair shirts for what nodoubt happened in every school club and workplace over the last 50 years then the thumbscrews will keep on.

Id love to know what all the harrumphing is about.
Surely somebody found by an independent inquiry to claimed they felt sufficiently bad that they wished to die only to be found wrong 36 times to 7 they agreed with has made a mountain out of a mole hill regarding the severity of how bad it was?
No?

Michael Vaughan implicated now. This just gets better. Hopefully he’ll lose his job being one of the worst pundits of the modern era.