Blah blah blah. Sledging is for wankers, full stop. Shut your mouth and let the way you play the game do the talking. Tom Carter needs to stop carrying on like a spoilt child and just play the game. That phylosophy applies to all people who take part in that rubbish on the Rugby paddock.
Silly thing is he seems to have worked on some of the faults of his game (eg. his distribution is looking much improved) but we are talking about him making a dill of himself on the paddock. You only have yourself to blame Tom Carter.
I think that the reality, Ruggo, is that he has woken up to the fact that whatever he does he will still get slagged by those who are always focussed on "the faults of his game". Even after an outstanding effort like last night Lindommer will still be convinced that he only threw one "pass all of, about, 1 metre in the first half".
I don't think he is going to "shut his mouth" because you think "sledging is for wankers" or that you think he is "carrying on like a spoilt child" or that he is "making a dill of himself on the paddock". I am not aware that there is anything in the Laws of Rugby that deals with such things. Consistent with this he rarely gets penalised and I can't remember him being sin-binned even though I have followed virtually all his games since he left school.
I think he realises that he will almost certainly never be given the opportunity to play for the Wallabies or Australia A even if he were to do everything that all his critics tell him he must do and no matter how well he performs. So I have a very strong impression that he intends to ignore you all and just get out on the field and play the game the way he wants to play it.
It's a genuine impasse. There's nothing he can do to stop the ridicule and there's nothing that those who ridicule can do to make him conform to their view of what is acceptable on a rugby field.
