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Originally Posted by mog
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Originally Posted by Beery
Hmm. I thought sportsmanship and fair play were particularly Australian character traits - or at least it's part of your national myth that they are. I thought you prided yourselves on such things. I guess it just goes to prove that national myths and reality coincide infrequently. But is winning at any cost really winning? I'm not so sure.
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I think perhaps Australian sportsmanship was always predicated upon the notion that we could afford to be good sports because at the very least we could always count on beating England. Since we have lost the union and now the Ashes, our whole national identity is going arse over tit.  |
:hmm: What is Union? we have AFL and 'wogball' sorry fussball, mean football (had to be politically incorrect) here in Adelaide or nothing....Geez all my fellow Aussies pandering to the English, what is going on?
Remember Steve Waugh (my mentor)
what it says
ACCOUNTABILITY
When you make a mistake there are one of three things you should ever do about it.
1. Admit it
2. Learn from it
3. Don't repeat it
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