Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, 2nd test, Lahore, March 1-5

DJ_Smerk wrote:Are you seriously telling me the Snoozers and the Aussies are to nervous about playing in Pakistan. The Ground is literally empty. FFS. I think security would spot anything suspicious.

DJ_Smerk wrote:I just think certain countries should man up and play in Pakistan.

What a difference a couple of days makes.

Indeed, zatty, a lot of qunts were very quick to pay out Oz for not touring . . .

... and there's a whole bunch of hindsight experts now. It is what it is - not really a subject for point-scoring.

I wouldn't have thought there was anywhere that could be considered categorically, 100% safe to tour.

Extremists appear to have infiltrated many if not all Test playing nations. And it only takes a handful of them to make a big mess.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the Ashes are targeted by our homegrown jihadists. We know they exist.

But what can you do, postpone everything out of the fear that something bad might happen? You could get run over by a bus, too. It happens.

Which isn't to be glib about a terrible incident, but rather to highlight that there's no such thing as a sure thing as far as security and player-safety is concerned. If the Sri Lanka tour had ended after the ODIs, everyone would have hailed it a success.

all power to you Dello - ya sage young person

I wasn't point scoring, more highlighting how quickly things can change.

I have long said I understand Australia's reluctance to tour Pakistan, but in my heart believed nothing would happen if they did. That's changed now.

It's hardly hindsight. Bombs were going off all over the place for months in advance of the proposed tour . . . . didn't take a farkin nostradamus to see the immediate threat of something unfortunate happening.

I can't help but feel that the SL team were victims of subi "bloc-manship", we'll go just to show that it can be done. Unfortunately the players, and more sadly a number of police, paid the price . . . .

"bloc-manship"

Sounds like something ordered in a gay brothel.

Zat wrote:"bloc-manship"

Sounds like something ordered in a gay brothel.

Is that an admission?

tac wrote:

Zat wrote:"bloc-manship"

Sounds like something tac ordered off Mudge ordered in a gay brothel.

Is that an admission?

Sorry, fixed it now.

Zat wrote:

tac wrote:

Zat wrote:"bloc-manship"

Sounds like something tac ordered off Mudge ordered in a gay brothel.

Is that an admission?

Sorry, fixed it now.

A bit too, late, zatty . . .

You asked. I answered.

But it's a qunt of a sentence.