Chris Gayle labelled a 'creep' with a track record of disrespected female journalists

[ANTiLAG]

It would have stopped if you didn't post in it.

I think you must have meant to be referring to the troll dump thread, but I still post there :lol:

 

[drago brelli]

I'm not surprised.

I was appalled by the AUstralian media's handling of this and another event. I have seen some very poor form by the Australian media of late, and if Gayle sues, this may well be a wake up call to Australian media to be less "populist and emotive" and a bit more appreciative to the legal rights of any accused sportsman or celebrity. Calling for (another incident) or endorsing someone to lose their job before conviction is not in line with innocent until proven guilty. Further, endorsing someone to lose their job when there is not even a charge laid, and the accuser remains unidentified, and then using irrelevant facts of having a mirror and a stripper pole to justify that sacking position is not in line with logic as applied by the law in determining guilt or innocence. He had that stripper pole and mirror on the ceiling before he was playing the BBL this year to boot!

He has a bit more money than a domestic NRL or AFL footballer, so he can more afford a legal stoush. Even then, his pockets are not deep compared to giant like Fairfax.

If he is banned from the BBL next year, and he can demonstrate (quite easily in my view) that is caused by in the 'indecent exposure' allegation being published then he has a good base for his case to be made out in damages. If he loses any other T20 contracts as a result, the quantum grows.

Questions remain to Fairfax's available defences to publishing the possibly defamatory allegations of indecent exposure by the unidentified person who did not lay charges after the facts are established.

I would be surprised if this makes it to court. I think Gayle is merely sending a very strong warning to the press.

ANTiLAG, your grasp of the complex legal issues in this case indicate that you possess a highly trained and seriously sharp legal mind. Surely this isn't Dyson Heydon here is it?

 

[Twizzle]

lol,

you dont have much choice

 

[ANTiLAG]

ANTiLAG, your grasp of the complex legal issues in this case indicate that you possess a highly trained and seriously sharp legal mind. Surely this isn't Dyson Heydon here is it?

That post was a continuation from post 230.

And while I don't always agree with Heydon J's opinion or his style, I'll take that as a flattering compliment.

 

[ANTiLAG]

lol,

you dont have much choice

I could not post.

I could be a populist with the content of my posts.

Those are all choices.

 

[Twizzle]

Just when you thought it was over

Big Bash fans ejected for Gayle support

A number of Big Bash spectators were ejected from the Melbourne Stars’ clash with the Hobart Hurricanes at the MCG on Wednesday night for holding a sign in support of under-fire West Indian batsman Chris Gayle,

http://www.nospam47.com/cricket-new...bbl-big-bash-league-melbourne-stars-renegades

 

[El Diablo]

unless the signs were offensve i can't see why they should be ejected

 

[Pete Cash]

Security at the mcg is insanely over the top. They kick people out for the smallest things. A non offensive sign should be fine

 

[El Diablo]

yet they let AFL fans sodomise each other in the boggers

 

[Lego_Man]

To hell with free speech at the MCG.

This is what it's all about:

If you understand that, i have a semen soaked Jatz cracker from the Windies dressing room as your reward.

 

[Pommy]

Ian Chappell is calling for him to have a worldwide ban. Utter madness.

 

[DiegoNT]

Saw some idiot on facebook say something like
'You may support him, but how would you like it if he said that to your mother or sisters? '
If a successful, rich, good looking athlete told one of my sisters she has beautiful eyes and politely asked her out for a drink i don't think I'd be to angry, in fact his a gentlemen compared to the likes my sisters date

 

[Pommy]

Saw some idiot on facebook say something like
'You may support him, but how would you like it if he said that to your mother or sisters? '
If a successful, rich, good looking athlete told one of my sisters she has beautiful eyes and politely asked her out for a drink i don't think I'd be to angry, in fact his a gentlemen compared to the likes my sisters date

It's a good job your mates sister doesn't work in a pub or club imagine the horror. I don't know how bar workers cope with such shit.

 

[DiegoNT]

It's a good job your mates sister doesn't work in a pub or club imagine the horror. I don't know how bar workers cope with such shit.

It definitely isn't one of my mates that said that, everyone I know both male and female don't know what all the fuss is about. This was a comment on a news post on fb

 

[chigurh]

Ian Chappell is calling for him to have a worldwide ban. Utter madness.

Everything Ian Chappell says is either boring beyond belief or incredibly stupid.

 

[Patorick]

Everything Ian Chappell says is either boring beyond belief or incredibly stupid.

To wit:

?Have you seen him bat before? Why are you bothering? If you?ve seen one Steve Waugh innings, you?ve seen them all.?

http://www.cricketcountry.com/artic...ls-with-greig-waugh-across-a-generation-12381

 

[Twatface Magee]

Ian Chappell says Cricket Australia should pursue worldwide ban on Chris Gayle over TV comments

Emma Kem
January 08, 2016 4:56PM

AUSTRALIAN cricket great Ian Chappell has called on Cricket Australia to propose a worldwide contracting ban on Chris Gayle following his controversial sideline interview with Network Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin.

Gayle was fined $10,000 by his BBL side Melbourne Renegades for his on-air mid-match comments to McLaughlin on Monday night. The big-hitting West Indian batsman’s hopes of returning next season could also be all but over, given Cricket Australia (CA) has the power to essentially veto any BBL player contract.

Some CA officials wanted Gayle to be suspended over the interview, during which he told McLaughlin she had beautiful eyes and asked her out for a drink before saying “don’t blush, baby”.

Ex-Australian skipper Chappell said CA needed to send a zero-tolerance message on what he deemed “totally inappropriate” behaviour in a sport trying to gain traction with women.

“I wouldn’t have a problem if Cricket Australia said to the clubs, `he’s never to be contracted again in this country’,” Chappell told AAP in Sydney, where he participated in an Optus SMB Cricket Legends event alongside Tom Moody.

“And I also wouldn’t have a problem if Cricket Australia said to the ICC, `what we’re doing should be worldwide’.
“You’d have to talk to the individual countries then ... but I wouldn’t have a problem if it was tabled at an ICC meeting that Cricket Australia said, `this is what we’re doing and we would recommend that everybody else do the same’.

“How are you going to stop it otherwise?”

Gayle later apologised for any offence, saying it was a “simple joke”.

But Chappell thought he was “past help probably now”, and said the focus should be on sending a message to up-and-coming male cricketers.

“If it was a one-off thing, yeah, slap him with a $10,000 fine and say `mate, don’t do it again’,” he said.
“But every woman I spoke to (about Gayle) who’s working at the cricket, you got the same answer from.

“They were quite adamant about it.” Gayle is expected to open for the Renegades on Saturday, when they host Melbourne Stars at Etihad Stadium.

http://foxsports.com.au/cricket/ian...over-tv-comments/story-e6frf3g3-1227702028209

 

[El Diablo]

go burn your bra, Ian

 

[Patorick]

If the only place in the cricket broadcast for women is as presenters whose tedious duty it is to perform pointless celebrity interviews, then women will never be equal, empowered participants in the sport.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/959435.html

 

[no name]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/959435.html

From the same article:

The Gayles of cricket will continue be let off by cricket bosses on the premise that boys will be boys.

How did Gayle get 'let off?'