Trout, Trout, Let It All Out...

Call us old fashioned here at the Back Foot Punch, but sports stars are going all soft on us these days. Only our very own Freddie has made a half decent attempt at getting himself dropped from the team with his infamous 'Freddalo' incident.

I talk of course about the decision to drop Andrew Symonds from Australia's forthcoming tour of India after he missed a 'compulsory' team meeting to go fishing. I know he has courted controversy in the past, even once turning up for training after having a few cheeky beers, but if he is going to get himself dropped I would at least expect some outrageous antics to really warrant a dismissal!

Here's how the conversation should really have gone...

Man at Cricket Australia - 'So Andrew, why did you miss the meeting
mate?'

Andrew Symonds - 'Ah mate I went fishing'

MaCA - 'Fishing! What the bloody Henry do you think you are doing mate? At
least tell me it was something like shark or barracuda you were going
for'

AS - 'Actually mate it was Rainbow Trout...'

MaCA - 'Rainbow bloody Trout mate! Ah mate that won't do, were there any
strippers there? had you had a real skinful...anything?'

AS - 'Ah come on mate, I've been there and done that, you know I
turned up for training drunk once'

MaCA - 'Mate, you had eaten a box of chocolate liqueurs you found at your
nans house'

AS - 'Yeah mate but even so...'

MaCA - 'No mate, this won't do, your an Aussie for Christ sake, not a
bloody wussie pom, right I want you to go out and get as drunk as you possibly
can, here's $500, and make sure there is either a hooker or a horse present when
you get caught'

Oh well, I guess in this modern world there isn't much you can get away with these days, Toodle pip...