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states wrote:

Hagler2002 wrote:The majority of the program was based around Marcus Trescothick, in all honesty cricket has to be one of the least stressful professional sports out there, look at how serious the rest of the England team take it.

Leaving aside the flippancy of how one professional sport is somehow less stressful than another, you're very wrong about Cricket. The suicide rate amongst cricketers is shockingly high when compared to the average person.

How on earth do you know this

A chap by the name of David Frith released a book about it a few years ago.

Hagler2002 wrote:

states wrote:

Hagler2002 wrote:The majority of the program was based around Marcus Trescothick, in all honesty cricket has to be one of the least stressful professional sports out there, look at how serious the rest of the England team take it.

Leaving aside the flippancy of how one professional sport is somehow less stressful than another, you're very wrong about Cricket. The suicide rate amongst cricketers is shockingly high when compared to the average person.

How on earth do you know this :o

David Bairstow was a very sad loss. A hero of mine.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/ ... 575673.ece

An excerpt from the article.

Suicide, as the ultimate expression of mental illness, seems oddly linked to cricket above all other sports. Frith has documented more than a hundred such cases, yet he could not find a single instance of a golfer or tennis player who had taken his life and only a handful of footballers and boxers. I played against three players to my knowledge who did so: David Bairstow, the former Yorkshire wicketkeeper; Mark Saxelby, the former Nottinghamshire batsman; and Danny Kelleher, the former Kent bowler.

Peter Roebuck has suggested one of the reasons for this alarming statistic is that cricket attracts odd, melancholy types prone to black moods, depression and self-harm. This cannot be right, surely. More likely is that cricket, because of its nature, is itself responsible for those that it mangles either for a short period or permanently. It is a game of the long drawn-out wait, which gives the mind ample time to play its tricks. Batsmen face up to failure - a sort of death - every ball, so that they are often a particularly vulnerable breed. Luck, too (the pitch, umpiring decisions), can play a crueller role in cricket than other sports.

I can count more than a handful of boxers who have sadly took their own life, and to say playing cricket is more mentally exhausting and stressful than getting in a boxing ring is ridiculous. With all due respect to depressed cricketers everywhere.

NorthEastBoxingFan wrote:caught the last bloody 8 minutes. Bloody typical. Although to be honest it left me pondering some very serious issues

.........would I do Gabby Logan on top? doggy? standing up....? :bag: What a little beauty she is.

Is it her status as a former International class gymnast?

Heave ho, steady with that ribbon Gabby.....

hurlock wrote:ive got to agree with hagler,how can you lose your nerve at cricket????its not exactly boxing or formula 1,bit like rowing very straight forward :!:.

A truly idiotic comment.

I knew a woman who was good looking, had two young kids, a loving husband, "happy as larry" as they say always up for a joke. One day her husband came home from work, kids were in the lounge playing with toys, but she was nowhere to be seen, he went upstairs walked into the bedroom and found her hanging, shocking to say the least as it seemed beforehand that she was the happiest woman in the world.

Depression is a personal battle which goes on inside you, it can't always be noticed by others and what sort of life you lead doesn't matter, you can be living a completely stressful life and it can hit you or you can be rich with no worries whatsoever and it can hit you.

banjo wrote:I knew a woman who was good looking, had two young kids, a loving husband, "happy as larry" as they say always up for a joke. One day her husband came home from work, kids were in the lounge playing with toys, but she was nowhere to be seen, he went upstairs walked into the bedroom and found her hanging, shocking to say the least as it seemed beforehand that she was the happiest woman in the world.

Depression is a personal battle which goes on inside you, it can't always be noticed by others and what sort of life you lead doesn't matter, you can be living a completely stressful life and it can hit you or you can be rich with no worries whatsoever and it can hit you.

Great post.

sounds like tiger woods could be the latest one with some personal demons.

bizarre car crash last night.

I have NO respect whatsoever for ITV News and the total dross they churn out.

Last night it was (advert)......up next:....The car crash of Tiger Woods that "at one point today" was reported as leaving the star seriously injured.....also, the funeral of the heroic Police Officer killled in the floods.

Total sensationalist fcking pricks.

The man crashed his car, was admitted with facial cuts, not seriously injured, and released in fine health the following day!

They knew all of this yet went with the headline that ealier that day he'd been (incorrectly) described as "seriously injured"...probably several HOURS earlier. Total and utter tossers.

Thankfully, in their actual "news" show, they correctly covered the business of the Copper's funeral who packed out an entire Church, first, before secondly, telling us about Tiger Woods' self inflicted, minor, facial lacerations. (Oh, before helpfully adding - there was no evidence that alcohol was a factor - Woods was probably pissed as a fart but he still wants to get his lawyers on to them over the alcohol comment)

ITV News?? revelling in disaster and tragedy, rubbernecking, shoddy journalism producing cock heads.

In the case of Woods, I think it's far more to do with an angry wife:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abr ... y_id=52492

yes okay I didn't say they could do anything!!