(02-09-2016, 09:57 PM)JonHenry link Wrote:The comment from Warne was that he was selfish!
What other player said he was?
Waugh is certainly not Australia's best ever captain but he did instill a win every test mentality. I am not sure what else he is meant to do?
Warne clearly hates being told what to do, or that he's not up to it, which at that time, recovering from injury, he wasn't.
To label Steve Waugh selfish?
Warne could have been a tennis player with his sense if self worth
Crash Craddock has a commentary on the whole issue in today's, it's been widely reported before so there is no need to debate it. Courier Mail;
Excerpts;
Quote:Steve may have been a teenage glamour boy of cricket but beneath the Boy Wonder headlines lay a steely but nervous blue collar warrior who he had to fight for everything he had.
As a consequence he became protective, insecure, and paranoid as he took his first steps in the wider, fiercely competitive world of professional sport.
Quote:One rival remembers Waugh saying “it’s okay for you, I am trying to make a living out of this’’ during an early game after he took the plunge to play full time.
Unlike, say, Ricky Ponting, Steve was not eased into an Australian team who was trampling the world and simply joined the party.
He was tossed in as a gifted but unworldly teenager in the mid-1980s where the Australian team was like 11 men on a life raft fighting a bitter battle for survival.
Was he selfish? Of course. Most were. In troubled times, who is the first person you look after?
Was he more selfish than most? Perhaps – but he grew.
Waugh never admitted this but it always looked as if he realised how selfish he was and that the way to overcome it was to invest himself in emerging players like Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer.
Hi did once concede “you realise there is so much of the game that you are not involved in so you must learn to appreciate other people’s success.’’
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"