I can't believe the charity commissioned a poll on the cricketers love life. They said it has been taken out of context, but I can't think of a context where it would have been OK. It's none of our beeswax and certainly none of theirs.

but if it affects their charity's income? it may not be the the donating public's business, but that doesn't mean they won't change their behaviour in donating if they don't like it.

perhaps they are thinking of changing the name in order to make it alittle less dated considering there is another Ms McGrath?

Are you talking about sportspeople? I dont understand any of that stuff as Im a gayer.

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I can't believe the charity commissioned a poll on the cricketers love life. They said it has been taken out of context, but I can't think of a context where it would have been OK. It's none of our beeswax and certainly none of theirs.

Yes this is a bullshit marketing exercise. Says a lot about ozmedia does'nt it? Sport, sex, gossip.

I don't think it would damage the charity. Surely they can't have expected him to stay single forever? Set up and named in honour of the wife who died. His remarrying won't effect the charity one way or the other will it? I' sure most people would either want or expect him to move on wouldn't they?

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Yes this is a bullshit marketing exercise. Says a lot about ozmedia does'nt it? Sport, sex, gossip.

Yes it does, but that's life. I doubt it would be reported if we, the readers, weren't going to find it interesting or note worthy.

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Are you talking about sportspeople? I dont understand any of that stuff as Im a gayer.

LOL, but not the only gay in the village

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I don't think it would damage the charity. Surely they can't have expected him to stay single forever? Set up and named in honour of the wife who died. His remarrying won't effect the charity one way or the other will it? I' sure most people would either want or expect him to move on wouldn't they?

perhaps. perhaps not. that's why they were asking.


personally i think that 2 years isn't a very long time to move on, but this isn't my life.

i also think that alot of these celebrity new idea/woman's day stories are treated like abit of a soap opera. lot's of viewers don't like it when their favourite couple has "split up" because of death (and an actor has quit the series). they often don't like the new pairing because they preferred the old one.

i suspect this is what is happening in this case.

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I don't think it would damage the charity. …

I do. Why should peeps contribute money to someone's memory if the widower is forgetting them already?

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I do. Why should peeps contribute money to someone's memory if the widower is forgetting them already?

if this really was a soap opera, then she'd turn out not to have really been dead.

who would he choose then? the old or the new?

that's what always runs through my head in these situations.

Please explain this charity and its origins?

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I do. Why should peeps contribute money to someone's memory if the widower is forgetting them already?

Because it is to Jane McGraths memory. I don't think he is forgetting her by remarrying, and I very much doubt if she would want him to be alone (if she were to be able to speak to us). If he shouldn't marry again now, then when? I would have thought the poor man had suffered enough and deserves some happiness. Quite apart from the fact that over whelmingly the poll showed that the "peeps" wanted him to remarry if that's what makes him happy, the fact is that the married status of the chairman doesn't, and should't, have the slightest bearing on whether "peeps" will give that charity.

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Please explain this charity and its origins?

Glenn McGrath is a cricketer and his wife died of cancer. A charity was set up (to remember her name and help those with cancer) and now the widower has found love and wants to remarry. The charity thought it would be a good idea to conduct a phone poll outbound to get opinion from the public. And the public thought that he should marry whomever he wishes and it wouldn't stop them from giving donations.

i look forward to the next 5 years of balance sheets to see if you are right!

Oh really? I f'ing hate him! Dumb Aussie jock royalty! Jealous. Piad a fortune to play cricket? Get a proper job bastard!
I remember all the pink ribbons etc.
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Oh really? I f'ing hate him! Dumb Aussie jock royalty! Jealous. Piad a fortune to play cricket? Get a proper job bastard!
I remember all the pink ribbons etc.
Thanks

Well it is a proper job. It's no different to actors and writers and flim makers etc etc. I always admire those who have a talent of some kind. In fact I'd go so far as to say that he is doing something he loves, and getting paid for it. I'd call that pretty smart. Not that I like sport of any kind, but I have no objection to anyone being paid for what they do. Why would you hate him just because he is a sports star? Good on them all I say!

sports stars are over rated.

back in the day an elite athlete was a sign that a people's village/tribe/city had good healthy stock and therefore good fighters, not be messed with.

but none of these sports stars are soldiers anymore. and the ability to hit or kick a ball does not correlate with any form of fighting any more.

Hmmm. fair enough. I guess I have issues coz sports is innately homophobic. Sports, especially cricket, didn't interest me. I was made to feel unmanly etc and so forth.

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Hmmm. fair enough. I guess I have issues coz sports is innately homophobic. Sports, especially cricket, didn't interest me. I was made to feel unmanly etc and so forth.

I hear ya! Same here. School days for non-sporty fags was awful. Luckily my BF and I skipped those periods to go shopping and play chess. Happy days. I know plenty of elite athletes (well my bf does so I know them through him and no he isn';t the same BF from School:0 LOL) and they all seem pretty relaxed about the whole thing. In fact he trains with a couple of internetional rugby teams when they are here and the french team especially are fabulous about poofs. There are 3 on the team but they won't tell us which they are. Damn it all! I don't know about the cricket teams but the rugby teams (who would outbutch any cricketer) are pretty fabulous. I don't care if they can play, or how much they are paid, I could sit there all day looking at them

God bless you for such and such. Yes, i may have been traumatised by such and such.
Pray tell me me, are you a sporty-fag? Perhaps you could join our trivia team to answer all the obscure sports questions? The ones that hetros should know?

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God bless you for such and such. Yes, i may have been traumatised by such and such.
Pray tell me me, are you a sporty-fag? Perhaps you could join our trivia team to answer all the obscure sports questions? The ones that hetros should know?

me? Sporty? Oh god no. Couch potato nearer the mark. I was only traumetised by the cricket coach at school. He wouldn't get away with that kind of treatment these days. Admittedly he was homophobic, which was odd in a class that was chock full of gay boys. The girls were all straight, I think. There was one of 5 boys who always got singled out by him for embarrassment. We just stuck together and did our own thing. Funnily enough, we were all together at our reunion too, and that sad tragic man was doing the same thing in the same place. I doubt his attitudes changed much either....... And I doubt I'd I'd be much help with quiz questions. Why on earth would you think I'd know the hetro ones?

I forgot to add that his team captain was also gay

I reckon this charity donation campaign is marketed to the ditzy anyway

I dont know. I was being silly again, I guess I will be quiet now. I thank you

I thought their love lives were text based?