Stupid is as stupid does
Think that's what Forrest Gump said.
Wholly appropriate comment for the latest Aussie gaff.
The players had dinner at Tank in Cape Town (awesome restaurant with a R500 000+ marine fish tank). Management asked the players to imagine themselves stranded in the mountains a la the Uruguayan club rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. Several players ate dead teammates' bodies to survive, inspiring the 1993 film Alive. Aussie players were asked to pick a team mate to sacrifice and to detail how they would prepare him.
Now in the first place, I'm sure the Uruguayians would find this exercise insensitive in the extreme.
Second of all, for a bonding exercise, picking a player to sacrifice seems at odds with the idea. Especially since the team roundly (excuse the pun) turned on Matt Dunning - clearly thinking of the pound-for-pound value he offered.
Thirdly, the players seemed to take the exercise to the extremes, with Stephen Larkham writing he would like Drew Mitchell's testicles for dessert. Chris Whitaker's starter was Rocky Elsom's foreskin "fried in butter, garlic, chilli and parsley". Counselling man, counselling. There is a lot of ammunition for Loftus fans who didn't require much anyway. The Keo.co.za Muppits have already described the entire Aussie squad as tail gunners, etc.
But bizarrely, the players left the written exercise on their seats from where it has made its way to the front page of the Cape Times, a component of an entire Argus backpage review of Aussie behavioural gaffs over the last few years, the Keo.co.za site and the Sydney Morning Herald. The latter headlined the Greg Growden article "Now they wany to eat each other".
Given the particularly parochial nature of the Aussie press, good on them for the following graphic they produced (although they appear to have softened the details of exactly what the players said they would have eaten).
Loving it!
Wholly appropriate comment for the latest Aussie gaff.
The players had dinner at Tank in Cape Town (awesome restaurant with a R500 000+ marine fish tank). Management asked the players to imagine themselves stranded in the mountains a la the Uruguayan club rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. Several players ate dead teammates' bodies to survive, inspiring the 1993 film Alive. Aussie players were asked to pick a team mate to sacrifice and to detail how they would prepare him.
Now in the first place, I'm sure the Uruguayians would find this exercise insensitive in the extreme.
Second of all, for a bonding exercise, picking a player to sacrifice seems at odds with the idea. Especially since the team roundly (excuse the pun) turned on Matt Dunning - clearly thinking of the pound-for-pound value he offered.
Thirdly, the players seemed to take the exercise to the extremes, with Stephen Larkham writing he would like Drew Mitchell's testicles for dessert. Chris Whitaker's starter was Rocky Elsom's foreskin "fried in butter, garlic, chilli and parsley". Counselling man, counselling. There is a lot of ammunition for Loftus fans who didn't require much anyway. The Keo.co.za Muppits have already described the entire Aussie squad as tail gunners, etc.
But bizarrely, the players left the written exercise on their seats from where it has made its way to the front page of the Cape Times, a component of an entire Argus backpage review of Aussie behavioural gaffs over the last few years, the Keo.co.za site and the Sydney Morning Herald. The latter headlined the Greg Growden article "Now they wany to eat each other".
Given the particularly parochial nature of the Aussie press, good on them for the following graphic they produced (although they appear to have softened the details of exactly what the players said they would have eaten).
Loving it!
posted at 12:04 AM
1 Comments:
Hardly anything compared to that fruitloop coach Rudolph Straeuli. At least this exercise was in good humour (sure a little wacky) but most people could find the funny side of it. At least they weren't stripped naked and forced to crawl through bush, pump up balls under freezing cold water and forced into foxholes, while being barraged with opposing teams national anthems and buckets full of ice. If they refused to do so, they were forced at gunpoint. What kinda team bonding exercise is that...well obviously a useless and degrading one as they got smashed in the world cup.
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