Controversy Boils Over on AFLNT Admin As Fields Stood Down
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46 SPORT FRIDAY MARCH 4 2016 Controversy boils over on AFLNT admin as Fields stood down FROM BACK PAGE resolved, I’m stood down and toxic administration that was nomination at the board’s ning of the season when it was operate on an equal footing Fields told the NT News he won’t have any further partici- trying to dictate terms, one big AGM. his intention and desire to ap- with clubs and their advocates, was stood down by the league’s pation at the tribunal,’’ he said. example being a media pres- “In that email I did criticise point people he knew to the who can now employ lawyers general manager of football “I told Joel ‘you don’t dic- ence at tribunal hearings.’’ how women were permitted to tribunal.’’ up to a Queens Counsel,’’ he operations Joel Bowden on the tate to me who my friends are, Fields, a presence on the tri- get in and that he (Criddle) had Fields said he told Bowden added. belief he had grievances on you don’t run my life and tell bunal since 1999, said the con- been shafted and overlooked,’’ he needed to put a professional “The tribunal needs to be how the administration and me what to do’ when you resist troversy erupted when he sent he said. selection process in place to chaired by people with a law the board of the AFLNT and won’t accept ideas and a personal email to Stephen “And in relation to tribunal give confidence to clubs, sup- degree so it is on an equal foot- operated. suggestions I put forward. Criddle, Andy Gray and Shaun selection, I had a discussion porters and the general public. ing with the advocate and Joel “So until those matters are “I also told him he had a Hardy supporting Criddle’s re- with Joel Bowden at the begin- “Because the tribunal has to agreed.’’ NZ cricket loses Crowe ROBERT CRADDOCK when they had champions like Garner and Holding and THERE is a subtle mark of a somehow cobbled together Rowing silver medal winner champion cricketer that goes three centuries in seven Tests. Sarah Tait has died from cancer beyond cold statistics. That’s rare form. It is when other great play- As a person he was com- “Pure statistics ers impersonate him, often plex, particularly as a young- Trailblazer without even thinking about it. ster, an intriguing mixture of don’t quite do In the mid-1980s, when confidence, bravado and oc- Pakistan’s cricketers landed in casional insecurity. Growing justice to an Olympic Australia soon after playing up was not easy because ex- outstanding New Zealand, the great fast pectations were unrealistically medallist bowler Wasim Akram greeted high of the boy nicknamed New Zealand the media in Brisbane by ask- “Hogan”, after the comedy ing the reporters a question. Hogan’s Heroes, because he batsman” mourned “Have you seen Martin was leader of the pack. Crowe?’’ said Akram, who then He made his Test debut at OLYMPIC rowing silver med- put his left leg down an im- 19, failed in his first five innings allist Sarah Tait lost her battle aginary wicket and “played” a and took 13 to reach 50, but de- with cancer yesterday. classic cover drive with an in- termination and a bankable The three-time Olympian, visible bat perfectly moving be- technique got him through be- who won silver at London with side his invisible pad. fore a bad knee finished him. Kate Hornsey in the women’s “Outstanding technique. Crowe’s dealings with the pair and competed in the Defence. Cover drives. He’s media could be tense, particu- women’s eight at Athens and just so good. You bowl to him larly amid rumours about his Beijing, was 33, a wife and and you think you are never fractured relationship with his mother of two. going to ever find a way vice-captain Ken Rutherford Tait was also a member of through.’’ and a volatile first marriage to the women’s eight who won Coming from one of the Simone, whose controversial the world championship in greatest bowlers of all time, it media statements occasionally 2005 and also won silver in the was quite a compliment. In his made life difficult for him. pair at that regatta. 104-Test career Akram never During Australia’s 1993 tour She was diagnosed with said that about anyone else. of New Zealand, Crowe asked cancer after the birth of her Just as he impersonated his close friend, the late cricket second child Luca, in March Crowe, so Crowe tried to im- writer Peter Roebuck, for ad- 2013. personate Greg Chappell, be- vice and Roebuck replied: “For It was recommended that cause he wanted a technique as God’s sake, and your sake, you she retire from the sport. She near to perfect as possible. He must tell your wife to zip it.’’ said it “was a simple decision came close. Crowe’s deep-thinking for me to bow out of rowing Pure statistics don’t quite do spawned several innovations, and focus my time on getting justice to an outstanding NZ such as using spinners in the better and looking after my batsman who yesterday lost his opening overs of 50-over family”. protracted battle with cancer. games, pinch-hitters and his When she retired in 2014, He was 53. pet project, Cricket Max, was a Tait listed her silver medal at Crowe’s average of 45.37 forerunner of Twenty20. London as her greatest sport- does not rank him among the The New Zealand Herald ing moment, where she was greats, but he played in an era yesterday ended its obituary of coached by her husband Bill. when, unlike today, great fast Crowe with a touching line “Without a doubt, my great- bowlers were prowling the from his final column for est achievement has to have earth like dinosaurs in a Steven espncricinfo.com, written dur- been combining with Kate and Spielberg classic. ing last year’s World Cup, in our coach Bill to take home What about this for a blue- which he said his “precarious that silver medal for Australia blooded list of bowlers who life ahead may not afford me in the London 2012 Olympics,” dismissed Crowe at Test level – the luxury of many more she said. Dennis Lillee, Bob Willis, Mal- games to watch”. “Bill has been a great sup- colm Marshall, Courtney “So this is likely to be it,” port and in the last eight years Walsh, Ian Botham, Michael Crowe wrote. “I can happily has made the most amazing Holding and Joel Garner. live with that.” difference to my rowing career His 45 average would be Many of his batting records and my life, both as my hus- worth 50-plus – easily – today. will be erased by Kane Wil- band and my coach.” But rating him is not easy. It liamson, but there will only The president of the Aus- would be a stretch to put him ever be one Martin Crowe. He tralian Olympic Committee, in the company of Sachin Ten- will always be the measuring John Coates, paid tribute to dulkar and Brian Lara, but cer- stick by which NZ stars are her courage and talent. tainly he is on the next level. measured – and the bar is, in- Martin Crowe in a photograph taken one year ago – the New Zealand batsman died yesterday at the “Sarah was an extremely He faced the West Indies deed, high. age of 53 after a long battle with cancer Picture: AFP/MiCHAEL BRADDLEY talented Olympic rower taken far too soon from us. “She battled to the end,” Coates said. Andrews out but Weatherald remains for SA Sheffield clash “We are extremely sad- dened to hear of Sarah’s pass- LUIS NARVAEZ South Wales in Coffs Harbour western wicket, adding to the Redbacks fifth on the ladder. taking 6/28 for Glenelg against ing and offer our deepest and was dropped as a result. squad Nick Benton, who was South Australian paceman Adelaide University in the sympathy to her husband, two TERRITORY spinner Tom Fellow Darwin Eagles jun- unavailable for selection Cameron Valente has been West End Premier Cricket children, family and friends.” Andrews has been axed from ior Jake Weatherald was re- against New South Wales last omitted from the squad and is competition last weekend. Tait made history at the South Australia’s Sheffield tained in the Redbacks’ 12-man round due to illness. replaced by Chadd Sayers, who Weatherald’s impressive 58 London Games when she was Shield side. squad to take on the Western Both sides are almost out of comes in after touring New from 83 balls in his debut the first mother to row for Aus- Andrews claimed 1-62 in Warriors in Perth tomorrow. the running to make the Shef- Zealand with the Australian against New South Wales tralia at the Olympic Games the second innings of SA’s Redbacks selectors opted field Shield final, with the Test squad. helped him stake his claim to following the birth of their first most recent match with New for a pace attack on the bouncy Warriors sitting fourth and Sayers returns in good form, remain in the squad. child Leila in 2009. NTNE01Z01MA - V1.