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Death of a sportsman: gladiatorial guilt : Comments

By David Rowe, published 2/12/2014

Even the Google landing page, the online world's most militantly uncluttered site, displayed his commemorative image of a bat leaning against a wall, casting its melancholy shadow.

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the media luvvies danced over the grave of Thatcher. Says it all.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 1:21:05 PM
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As american football teaches us - protective gear makes a game more violent, not less.

Get rid of the Sir Lancelot outfits, and prosecute bowlers that kill batsmen. The game will return to its gentlemanly roots in quick order.
Posted by PaulMurrayCbr, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 6:36:33 PM
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I did wonder whether or not charges would be laid against the bowler, and the rationale for not doing so.
Posted by Thomasina, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 10:44:32 PM
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Come on you idiots, the bowler did not set out to kill the batsman. The helmet is protective gear... an evolution of the game necessary because people were accidentally getting hit in the head. This death was a tragic accident that admittedly has become over sensationalised and it ends there, quit trying to turn this into something it isn't.

It seems almost everyone on OLO completely over thinks every event that happens. Rarely do these same people simply let something happen without a critical or negative interpretation.

Going by the way other threads morph, it's only a matter of time before a Greenie suggests this death is the result of gender bias; a Lefty blames Tony Abbott, and one the staunch right points the finger at multiculturalism.
Posted by ConservativeHippie, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 8:40:22 AM
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The negatives are the people who think and are not sucked in by the lies daily told by the media circus and Governments.
Phillip Hughes death by the media, enough is enough, get over it. Death is always of interest because we know nothing about it after we go, morbid curiously sets in by the public.
Tony Abbott should be in Parliament looking after the electorate, not at a funeral of a cricketer, after all he is only another human being who has died young.
Posted by Ojnab, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 9:03:34 AM
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/63759297/Reason-Phillip-Hughes-death-highlights-crickets-hypocrisy
Posted by Thomasina, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:09:31 AM
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