Superthread LXXI - Honouring Phil Hughes. 63*

[Red Bear]

Felt pretty gutted about Hughes. Was listening to the radio, Rcihard Glover was almost in tears reading out the text messages. It's just such an unlucky incident, poor bastard.

Alot of people seem to be looking after Sean Abbott, which is good, Feel so bad for him.

This puts all the other sporting stuff in perspective a bit though. So sad. RIP Hughes

 

[Apey]

Celebrity death sure does bring out the loonies too. Not that LU is in any short supply. Unsure if grief or just crazy.

 

[Dutchy]

El Diablo just can't help himself. Being a merkin in the Hughes thread.

 

[Red Bear]

El Diablo just can't help himself. Being a merkin in the Hughes thread.

Why be surprised though? He's obviously just a merkin. horrible incident like this isn't going to change that

 

[Twizzle]

TGIG people

 

[Bulldog Force]

TGIG people

That's a new one. What does this one stand for?

 

[soc123_au]

Thank god it's Friday with added typo.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Had a call from my Mum after Phil Hughes died. She wanted to make sure I was wearing one of the new helmets the news reported (only started wearing a helmet again about 6 weeks ago after someone bowled a beamer at my good eye). I have the cheaper version of the helmet Hughes was wearing. Don't think she was 100% happy about that...

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Have been placed on a certain superthread ruining knobjockey's ignore list.

Good times

 

[Bulldog Force]

Had a call from my Mum after Phil Hughes died. She wanted to make sure I was wearing one of the new helmets the news reported (only started wearing a helmet again about 6 weeks ago after someone bowled a beamer at my good eye). I have the cheaper version of the helmet Hughes was wearing. Don't think she was 100% happy about that...

Good eye?

 

[madunit]

Yeah. Things should be ok unless silly people incite something.

like the police?

 

[madunit]

speaking for myself here, but many other fast bowlers have agreed with me on this.

As a fast bowler, everytime you bowl a bouncer, sometimes you just know when it's going to hit the batsmen, and things seem to be in slow motion as you watch the ball career into the batsmen.

This is the one thing I've been thinking of in my mind over and over, all the times this happened when I bowled a bouncer and hit a batsmen and realising that any one of those could have killed the batsmen.

And then hurting for Sean Abbott who will no doubt not only have vivid memories of that ball, but that it will be haunting him, quite literally, by being in slow motion in his mind.

I hope that he is able to overcome this terrible time, but know that it won;'t be swift, nor will it be easy.

 

[Bulldog Force]

like the police?

Negative... in most cases.

In other cases... affirmative.

 

[Twizzle]

Thank god it's Friday with added typo.

this

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

like the police?

Sometimes, yeah.

 

[butchmcdick]

like the police?

i like their early music

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

i like their early music

Don't stand so close to me.

 

[whall15]

From what I've seen from this Ferguson thing, the prosecutor basically didn't even try to prosecute the police officer, I think that's a definite aggravating factor.

 

[Bulldog Force]

564 emails later, I've finished finished a bloody massive project.

Au revoir shit week.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

LOL@Adelaide Utd