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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 5, 2024 8:03:15 GMT
Former England test cricketer and a very good bat. Remember him playing quite a few good innings against Australia including a hundred on debut in the 1993 Ashes and an excellent 123 at Perth. Played exactly 100 tests and scored 6744 runs at over 44. That's not a bad stat lime at all.
No cause as yet.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 5, 2024 11:16:31 GMT
I just heard this too. Tragic.
RIP
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 5, 2024 12:14:51 GMT
I was shocked to hear this on the radio news this morning.
RIP.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 5, 2024 12:16:32 GMT
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Post by politicidal1 on Aug 8, 2024 18:55:29 GMT
R. I. P.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 12, 2024 9:19:48 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 12, 2024 17:52:01 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 13, 2024 11:10:43 GMT
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Post by Nogbad on Aug 13, 2024 16:36:29 GMT
I just read that article, it made me quite sad, even though I had already surmised it was the case. I had a fairly difficult relationship with my dad when I was younger, for a variety of reasons; but it got better as time went by. A love of cricket was one thing we always had in common, so I was disgusted with his attitude when Thorpe pulled out of a tour citing his mental health, to which my dad responded with the old school Scottish "pull your socks up and don't be a big Jessie" essentially. He outlived my mum by more than a decade, and was probably clinically depressed for much of that time, but would never admit it.
So I have the greatest respect for his family talking about his death in the way they have.
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 14, 2024 14:27:36 GMT
As a train driver - this has shook me a bit more than normal…..
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Aug 14, 2024 17:05:20 GMT
As a train driver - this has shook me a bit more than normal….. My dad hit a cow once while driving a train and was shaky for about a week afterwards. Would have been traumatised for life if he hit a person. |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 14, 2024 17:50:15 GMT
As a train driver - this has shook me a bit more than normal….. It’s actually a rotten thing to do to the train driver. Of course he wasn’t thinking straight. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 15, 2024 3:39:12 GMT
As a train driver - this has shook me a bit more than normal….. My dad hit a cow once while driving a train and was shaky for about a week afterwards. Would have been traumatised for life if he hit a person. I’ve hit a dog, and countless birds. Meh. The only time I’ve been ‘shook’ was when I thought I had run over an echidna. As you know, I’m not a religious man - but I have a weird kindred spirit with echidnas…I wasn’t okay for a while. It was at Heathcote, near the end of the line so when I came back towards town - I thought I’d see the aftermath. Luckily he escaped…. And I breathed a massive sigh of relief. |
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 15, 2024 3:41:15 GMT
As a train driver - this has shook me a bit more than normal….. It’s actually a rotten thing to do to the train driver. Of course he wasn’t thinking straight. A normal thinking human being does think of the driver. Someone taking their own life, simply isn’t. It is part of our training that gets talked about - suicides aren’t personal attacks on you as a driver. You’re simply unlucky…. |
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