There’s been some unfortunate sporting endorsements on the airwaves here in Australia during our big summer of sport. Inevitably England’s domination of the Ashes was never going to be entirely compatible with all those ads featuring Aussie cricketers that popped up in between overs.
Just how many multivitamins does Ricky Ponting need to take, one wonders, to feel better after once more leaving the field with just a handful of runs to his name. And I can only assume that when VB filmed the ad for their “If They Get The Score, You Get The Cash” promotion, in which an off-screen interviewer asks Shane Watson how he feels about picking up a big score of 3, that they didn’t expect it would be quite so close to the truth.
And don’t get me started on Mitchell Johnson being loudly berated by the Barmy Army for his erratic bowling one minute (“he bowls to the leeeeeft… he bowls to the riiiiiiight… that Mitchell Johnson, his bowling is ….”) and then popping up to sell us Gatorade the next.
But by far the worst sporting endorsement on the Australian airwaves at the moment is the following rather disturbing insight into the rather sad life of Aussie tennis hope Sam Stosur.
Really, is this supposed to be aspirational? If being one of your country’s best female tennis players means going home alone to your sterile, depressing, lonely apartment with only a fridge packed with microwave ready meals to look forward to and a phonecall from your dad while you eat your meal-for-one out of its plastic container, then frankly it’s no wonder Australia is struggling to find their next tennis great.
One reply on “Is This Supposed To Be Aspirational?”
But because we were relying on him to carry a young and even more inexperience attack he has been a failure.But by taking the axe to Johnson not only do you have to replace him with a bowler you ve already acknowledged is unlikely to be able to do the job you actually deny Johnson any opportunity to learn to adjust against Test quality opposition.Effectively you are doing everything possible to ensure he never becomes a first choice strike bowler.Now if Cricket Australia s view is that fundamentally Mitchell Johnson is not good enough to play Test cricket then yes they should cast him aside. A player who it should be noted averaged a paltry 28 with the bat and gave up 44 per wicket with the ball during his first Ashes series on foreign soil Has enough changed in two Tests for Cricket Australia to believe Johnson can no longer be a fixture in the Australian team?The answer to that should be the same answer to the question should we drop Mitchell Johnson.