Life of a cricketer

Hobbit said:
What about all those up and down the country spending far longer in Travel Inn's etc just to put a crust on the table? If he's looking for sympathy...
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Is he? I was once party to a similar conversation with a European Tour winner. Someone in the bar pointed out all of the upsides with being a professional golfer on tour, he pointed out some of the downsides. There was never any attempt to gain sympathy or any denial that he enjoyed a nice lifestyle, just an honesty about what also comes with the territory which was quite eye opening. Made for a interesting discussion amongst those remaining about what we would & wouldn't be happy to put up with as he left for his two hour dental appointment. What was he having done? Potentially just a check up, but as he was travelling so much & didn't know when he might be around for treatment, he booked & paid for a two hour slot so that any work could be done immediately.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Is he? I was once party to a similar conversation with a European Tour winner. Someone in the bar pointed out all of the upsides with being a professional golfer on tour, he pointed out some of the downsides. There was never any attempt to gain sympathy or any denial that he enjoyed a nice lifestyle, just an honesty about what also comes with the territory which was quite eye opening. Made for a interesting discussion amongst those remaining about what we would & wouldn't be happy to put up with as he left for his two hour dental appointment. What was he having done? Potentially just a check up, but as he was travelling so much & didn't know when he might be around for treatment, he booked & paid for a two hour slot so that any work could be done immediately.
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We stayed at the Prem Travel Inn in Perth when watching the Jonny Walker at Gleneagles a few years back. Quite a few golfers came in and disappeared to their rooms. If you're not quite at the top table... Not a life I'd want.
 
Hobbit said:
We stayed at the Prem Travel Inn in Perth when watching the Jonny Walker at Gleneagles a few years back. Quite a few golfers came in and disappeared to their rooms. If you're not quite at the top table... Not a life I'd want.
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Nor me mate, not that it would ever be an issue with my game, but it's not a lifestyle I'd want.
 
Hobbit said:
We stayed at the Prem Travel Inn in Perth when watching the Jonny Walker at Gleneagles a few years back. Quite a few golfers came in and disappeared to their rooms. If you're not quite at the top table... Not a life I'd want.
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Have just arranged for our LET player and her fellow pro to stay with friends in NZ when playing the NZ Ladies Open. Keeps the cost down and they get to see how families live in NZ. Should break up the hotel syndrome for them whilst down under ;)
 
Plenty of cricketers, top players too, like Trescothick and others have found the travelling and being away from family too hard and had well documented issues that eventually ended their international careers. It's a well paid and lucrative life but it can come at a heavy price for some
 
A pal of mine's daughter was Britains number 4 tennis player and travelled all the time and never complained. She did leave home at 11 years old to go to full time tennis/ school, travelled from country to country, pretty much alone when over 18. Never really saw any of the places she travelled to as it was airport to hotel to venue back to airport and on to next country.

She never earned a fortune but enjoyed top level sport for a few years but it was lonely sitting in hotel rooms and living out of a suitcase wasn't something most would want. There are many "would be" sports people who do this to live the dream and never quite get the gain from all the pain.
 
SaintHacker said:
You ever been hit by a hardened lump of leather travelling at over 80mph? It bloody hurts!
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I have. Still nothing compared to the things that professional wrestlers, and fighters put themselves through every year. Pro Wrestlers have a harder lifestyle than 99.99% of people on the planet. On the road 300 days a year, constantly injured but under pressure to stay in peak physical condition. I'd much sooner cop a bouncer from Dale Steyn to the ribs than I would join the travelling circus of the WWE. It's a brutal lifestyle.
 
Pro Wrestler ?!

Are you talking about that scripted fake WWE ?
 
Dan2501 said:
Elaborate on what you mean by fake before we go down this route......
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It's false , fake , scripted - guys jumping around and pretending to actually wrestle

It's more like a soap opera just has guys smacked up on steroids as the cast.
 
Scripted yes, the outcomes of matches are pre-determined, and it is more like a soap opera, but no-one that watches it is under the illusion that it's anything else. The contact is real, the blood is real, the injuries are real, and every move they do hurts. They're not wrestling on a trampoline or a nice matress, the ring is made of metal bars, wood and thin layers of padding, it is not soft and it hurts to land on it. They live an incredibly brutal lifestyle. Constantly on the road, spent insane hours in the gym, have to couple athleticism with power, poise and a personality to match. They're amazing, the most under-appreciated athletes on the planet.

Very few of them are actually on steroids now too. There's been a major crackdown since the Chris Benoit murder case, and now WWE run stringent drug testing and have a wellness policy in place to make sure the guys are clean.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
It's false , fake , scripted - guys jumping around and pretending to actually wrestle

It's more like a soap opera just has guys smacked up on steroids as the cast.
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More like ballet dancing with bad attitudes! If they actually did what they appear to do there would be many deaths and serious injuries. I personally can't stand WWE wrestling because it is so obviously fake and not a real sport! :(
 
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Dan2501 said:
Scripted yes, the outcomes of matches are pre-determined, and it is more like a soap opera, but no-one that watches it is under the illusion that it's anything else. The contact is real, the blood is real, the injuries are real, and every move they do hurts. They're not wrestling on a trampoline or a nice matress, the ring is made of metal bars, wood and thin layers of padding, it is not soft and it hurts to land on it. They live an incredibly brutal lifestyle. Constantly on the road, spent insane hours in the gym, have to couple athleticism with power, poise and a personality to match. They're amazing, the most under-appreciated athletes on the planet.

Very few of them are actually on steroids now too. There's been a major crackdown since the Chris Benoit murder case, and now WWE run stringent drug testing and have a wellness policy in place to make sure the guys are clean.
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They may be top sportsmen/women but harder lifestyle than 99.9% of people, nah, I personally know men and women in their early twenties who have done multiple tours of Afghan and Iraq and seen some horrrible stuff. The wrestlers maybe thoroughlly dedicated and professional, but please don't compare it to the real world.
 
Dan2501 said:
Scripted yes, the outcomes of matches are pre-determined, and it is more like a soap opera, but no-one that watches it is under the illusion that it's anything else. The contact is real, the blood is real, the injuries are real, and every move they do hurts. They're not wrestling on a trampoline or a nice matress, the ring is made of metal bars, wood and thin layers of padding, it is not soft and it hurts to land on it. They live an incredibly brutal lifestyle. Constantly on the road, spent insane hours in the gym, have to couple athleticism with power, poise and a personality to match. They're amazing, the most under-appreciated athletes on the planet.

Very few of them are actually on steroids now too. There's been a major crackdown since the Chris Benoit murder case, and now WWE run stringent drug testing and have a wellness policy in place to make sure the guys are clean.
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They are actors - bad ones at that but very rich ones.

Sorry but some of the stuff they get "hit" by or falls etc would kill or put people in hospital - it's fake

But people love the entertainment

It's like those Geordie , Essex , Chelsea programs - all scripted fake reality
 
I played a round this year with a cricketer called broadhurst or broudy. Something like that anyway
Didn't even know he was a cricketer until a week later. He was a proper nice bloke too
 
Obviously some of the strikes with weapons aren't real or full force, but with all of them there's contact and guys did used to get hit clean by steel chairs to the head (WWE don't allow chair shots to the head anymore due to the number of concussions caused as a result). Do some research on Mick Foley, he was one of the few guys that used to take steel chairs clean to the head. Most guys put their arms up to block but he let guys hit him full blast in the head with chairs, and he was one of the biggest stars of the industry. Ask him if a steel chair shot is fake.

The falls are fake? Ha. You don't know what you're talking about. Every fall they take is very much real. They put their bodies at risk, falling off 20ft ladders, being thrown off cages. Sure, they've been trained on how to land, but the fall is very much real. Again, Mick Foley. One of the most famous bumps of all time came when he was first thrown off a cage through a table. On that fall he was concussed and dislocated his shoulder, he picked himself up continued the match and later on was slammed through the top of the cage. This fall gave him a second major conscussion, and there happened to be a chair next to him as he fell through, so he fell, the chair fell with him hitting him in the face as he landed knocking 2 of his teeth through the inside of his mouth and out of his nose. Again, ask him if that was fake. I can tell you, it wasn't.

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Real fake.
 
So pretty much like a stuntman then - so still not a sport for me , acting , entertainment yes but not a sport. And certainly not the hardship portrayed
 
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