Hair booted from ICC panel

[El Diablo]

so you've hidden it on one word of the post which can only be seen if you happen to hover your mouse over it :roll:

just post the bloody links. im not going through every word looking for hyperlinks. i have better things to do.

 

[JJ]

nothing was hidden

thanks for the apology and admission of error keep up the good work

 

[Twizzle]

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The sourced hyperlinks were provided, as El D said but it makes our job very hard with hyperlinks instead of just proving a URL link, like everyone else does.

We have to browse literally 100s of posts per day. This makes our job more time consuming than it needs to be.

 

[JJ]

fair enough, but El Diablo was launching into abuse and name calling (yes, I do that too sometimes) when he was WRONG

He then suggests that I have "hidden" the links, presumably in his paranoid little mind in some attempt to deceive him, or make him look stupid. When clearly I made no attempt to hide anything, and he needs no help in looking stupid.

 

[El Diablo]

fair enough, but El Diablo was launching into abuse and name calling (yes, I do that too sometimes) when he was WRONG

errr my first post said "no you didn't" and it was you who then started the abuse.

He then suggests that I have "hidden" the links, presumably in his paranoid little mind in some attempt to deceive him, or make him look stupid. When clearly I made no attempt to hide anything, and he needs no help in looking stupid.

are you saying when it's hyperlinked in one word it isn't hidden?

the only way you can tell it's there is if you happen to hover over the word. that's hidden in my book.

 

[JJ]

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are you saying when it's hyperlinked in one word it isn't hidden?

yep - you're right, it was all part of my great plan to make you look dim:iwstupid:

 

[El Diablo]

you are not capable of planning any such thing. that would require thought.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20723736-5003413,00.html

Umpire's pro-Hair protest

Robert Craddock

November 08, 2006 11:00pm

FORMER English Test player Peter Loader has urged umpires around Australia to join him in wearing a black armband on Saturday to protest the sacking of Darrell Hair.

Loader said he was disgusted at the International Cricket Council's decision to sack Hair after the fallout of the fourth Test between Pakistan and England at The Oval, where Pakistan was reported for ball-tampering and forfeited the match.

He will wear a black armband to protest against "the death of the spirit of cricket" when he umpires Perth district cricket on Saturday.

"I really hope other umpires join me," Loader said from Perth.

"They introduced the spirit of cricket into the laws and then when an umpire applies it, they destroy it by sacking him," Loader said.

"You know what ICC stands for? – I Can't Cope.

"This now means that players can do whatever they like on the field and there is nothing the umpire can do about it."

Loader, 77, who toured Australia with England's Ashes squad in 1958-59 and also claimed a Test hat-trick, has been based in Perth for almost 50 years.

 

[JJ]

Peter Who?

 

[waltzing Meninga]

We should have a national black arm band day IMO. and a pulic Holliday every year to remember the best umpire of all time.

 

[JJ]

what's Dickie Bird got to do with any of this...

I just checked - and Hair's still been sacked... not sure the redneck black arm band day will change that, but I'm sure it'll make for good You Tube footage, or something for David Letterman to laugh at

 

[Twizzle]

"You know what ICC stands for? – I Can't Cope.

oh, how true

boy have they made a mess of this

how come Inzy, who was find guilty of bringing the game into disripute was banned for a few games, yet Hair who was not found guilty of anything, gets sacked

abit of double standards here imo

they certainly cant cope

 

[HevyDevy]

Hey everyone, did you know that if you disagree with Darrell's sacking you're a redneck?

Apparently we're all racist because of it. Interesting. I'm glad JJ pointed it out to me so I'm aware of my racist tendencies.

 

[JJ]

Hey everyone, did you know that if you disagree with Darrell's sacking you're a redneck?

Apparently we're all racist because of it. Interesting. I'm glad JJ pointed it out to me so I'm aware of my racist tendencies.

you draw a long bow... :?

but anyway, if that's true I'm glad you've developed some insight ;-)

 

[JJ]

We should have a national black arm band day IMO. and a pulic Holliday every year to remember the best umpire of all time.

have you not already got one for Steve Randell?

 

[Rastus_in_Melbourne]

Great win that Champion's Trophy final.

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,20735215-23212,00.html

Hair was ranked No.2

By Robert Craddock
November 11, 2006
DARRELL Hair was officially rated the second-best umpire in the world by the International Cricket Council before it sacked him for allegedly being incompetent, documents have revealed.

In a major embarrassment for cricket's ruling body, a copy of Hair's last annual personal performance appraisal before being sacked by the ICC board of directors on a 7-3 vote last weekend reveals he was ranked equal-second on the elite panel - with his fellow Australian Simon Taufel believed to be No.1.

The board acted after Hair penalised Pakistan for ball-tampering in the final Test at The Oval in August. Pakistan then forfeited the match after refusing to come out to play after tea on the fourth day.

In pure decision-making, Hair was the top-ranked umpire on the panel, making 253 of 263 correct decisions last year - a success rate of 95.5 per cent compared with 94.8 per cent for all umpires.

Each decision a member of the panel makes throughout the year is assessed on video.

The results of this document prompted ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed to appeal to the board not to sack Hair.

Speed and other senior ICC officials felt - no matter what the merits of The Oval findings, in which Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was found not guilty of ball tampering - no fair-minded assessment could possibly justify sacking Hair based on his overall performance.

In an ironic twist, given the accusations made against Hair by Pakistan, the document lauds Hair for his "strong sense of fairness which underlines all that you do ... you are constantly striving for consistency".

The report also praises Hair for his confidence, his concentration levels, consistent body language and first-class knowledge of the laws of the game.

well done subbies in getting rid of the second best

dickheads

 

[Angry_eel]

i agree well done :thumb

 

[El Diablo]

you would. you're in favour of cricket going down the sh*tter.

 

[Angry_eel]

you would. you're in favour of cricket going down the sh*tter.

i fail to see how im in favour of that. I also fail to see how cricket is gonna go there . Sky is falling El D, you better run.