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Bit of a rant, give me some rope here.
I just find this so incomprehensible i have to ask: is what Ledesma said so far off the mark that it crossed no one's mind? No one thought 'yeahh, this doens't look good, we need to try something else'?
You have a tournament with 4 teams. Not 20, 4. Ewveryone knows each other reasonably well. There's a promotional photoshoot in which only captains are involved. One captain in missing, do you take the pic?
I dont get it. I really don't.
Yeah, i understand there are commitments and sponsors. Other teams couldn't make it then and no picture was taken. The most telling thing, and this is what surprised me, actually worried me the most, was that as Ledesma pointed out everyone was talking about diversity, laughter, the lot, and no one asked 'hey, there's a team missing here, what happened?'. They were talking, actually bragging about diversity while they were simultaneously excluding the newest team in the competition. Define irony.
One of the Australian journos at the press conf saying something along the lines of 'things probably got lost in translation'. Are you bloody kidding me? He didn't know what the reason was, so instead of shutting the **** up, he thought, hey, let's shift the blame to these **** poor third worlders who cant even speak proper english...
Can you imagine an official TRC captains photoshoot without Kolisi or Savea? I seriously cannot. Even if i force myself to consider that possibility, i can already see the backlash coming. Tsunami size and probably including some racism-related conspiracy theory.
Again, no one picked this up (till Ledesma made the point, course)...
And some still cry foul when people call rugby an old boys club.
I know this will be labelled as unimportant, even irrelevant. I can even understand why.
I think to quite a few, it is not.
I just find this so incomprehensible i have to ask: is what Ledesma said so far off the mark that it crossed no one's mind? No one thought 'yeahh, this doens't look good, we need to try something else'?
You have a tournament with 4 teams. Not 20, 4. Ewveryone knows each other reasonably well. There's a promotional photoshoot in which only captains are involved. One captain in missing, do you take the pic?
I dont get it. I really don't.
Yeah, i understand there are commitments and sponsors. Other teams couldn't make it then and no picture was taken. The most telling thing, and this is what surprised me, actually worried me the most, was that as Ledesma pointed out everyone was talking about diversity, laughter, the lot, and no one asked 'hey, there's a team missing here, what happened?'. They were talking, actually bragging about diversity while they were simultaneously excluding the newest team in the competition. Define irony.
One of the Australian journos at the press conf saying something along the lines of 'things probably got lost in translation'. Are you bloody kidding me? He didn't know what the reason was, so instead of shutting the **** up, he thought, hey, let's shift the blame to these **** poor third worlders who cant even speak proper english...
Can you imagine an official TRC captains photoshoot without Kolisi or Savea? I seriously cannot. Even if i force myself to consider that possibility, i can already see the backlash coming. Tsunami size and probably including some racism-related conspiracy theory.
Again, no one picked this up (till Ledesma made the point, course)...
And some still cry foul when people call rugby an old boys club.
I know this will be labelled as unimportant, even irrelevant. I can even understand why.
I think to quite a few, it is not.