RIP Peter Robuck

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Just heard it on the news..55 and dead.

One of my favourite cricket commentators ...

RIP Pete...
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A terrific writer and very good analyst of the game. ABC commentary will miss him this year.

I didn't agree with some of his views, but it was hard to argue against his opinion. He was a good cricket brain, that's for sure. I wonder what Beefy will have to say. They weren't exactly best of mates.
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Yeah sad news indeed. Will be missed.
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Ive heard disturbing things about PM Robuck but no idea if they are true..

Either way 55 is too young to go and he was a huge supporter of the game, even though he wrote stories "to sell papers"!
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pixelboy wrote:Ive heard disturbing things about PM Robuck but no idea if they are true..

Either way 55 is too young to go and he was a huge supporter of the game, even though he wrote stories "to sell papers"!

He certainly was an enigma. He didn't get on with a lot of international cricketers. He was apparently a real loner. There are quite a few rumours floating around at the moment. The police had to visit him last night at his hotel it seems.

There was a Tweet earlier today that accused him of some pretty disturbing stuff, but I see it has disappeared from my timeline now.
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There is now talk of suicide and an accusation of sexual assault. He must have been a mess to take his own life.

I listened to one of his last stints on ABC radio and he sounded fine.
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From my experience people who commit suicide always sound fine. I knew a lad who went to rehab for a drug problem at the age of 17, the day he went home after being successfully rehabilitated he strangled himself with his belt. No-one expected that.

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The real story (apparently) isn't very pretty!
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never heard of him until now, but it sounds like he did the world a favor. One less dirty old pedo to ruin kids lives.
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pixelboy wrote:The real story (apparently) isn't very pretty!

That must have been what the Tweet I saw was alluding to.

There had been a few sly mentions of it over the years, especially after the South Africa thing.

It will be interesting to watch reactions over the next few weeks. Like that article says, cricket seems very good at sweeping things under the carpet.
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norbs wrote:It will be interesting to watch reactions over the next few weeks. Like that article says, cricket seems very good at sweeping things under the carpet.
Except players past their prime and useless wicketkeeper/batsmen!
But yes, did anyone ever get the full story on Woolmer?
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http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/ ... 1pgmk.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/societ ... 1pjhh.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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This is part of a series of articles written by Adam Shand. I know him quite well. Looks to me like he's writing a book on the man and to be fair he needs to investigate as many perspectives as possible. If you read the first article I posted, you'll see a rather different slant from the same author. He really does look like a prick in the first article.
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