Wonderful interview, Joe Root is a very modest, understated character, but with a steely underbelly & a wicked sense of humour to boot. I could listen to Mike Atherton talking cricket with Yorkshire’s finest for hours.
Shouldn’t be understated what Joe has done in this interview, he could’ve easily turned it down and left it for the skipper this week but I’m sure Joe recognised that Ollie pope will have benefitted from focusing on the team and that he as the senior player in the team could step in here to share his thoughts and memories of Thorpe. It’s a pleasure to hear about how many of England modern international greats were influenced by Graham Thorpe. In what’s been such a sad end to his life, it’s been beautiful to see the touching tributes and memories he really was an inspiration.
No disrespect indeed Joe. Athers nasser and thorpey had to deal with pollock/ Donald, wasim / waqar, McGrath/ warne , Ambrose and Walsh. If you compare what cook had to face in his career could you imagine what a fit athers would scored against them attacks that followed
@@michaelmulhall5007you think this is the place for that when Joe is talking to Athers about the loss of a team mate, a coach, a mentor and a friend in such appalling circumstances? A bit of perspective about what’s important wouldn’t go amiss.
@@michaelmulhall5007 this video is about Joe Root remembering Graham Thorpe. What on earth do Alastair Cook and inflated averages have to do with that?
Can't imagine Thorpe's train of thought during his last couple of years, but so selfish doing it infront of a train, ruining other lives along the way, the poor train driver, people on the platform, and not to mention his own family.
What's the point of all these tributes. None of them were there for him. No one was there for him to hold his hand and stop him when he was at the railway station
Yeah they talk about him as if he died of a normal disease, they need to talk about the route cause and start talking about mens mental health, the suicide pandemic is out of control and the cricket audience need to hear it
They didn't know that he was in such a bad place mentally in fact no one really knows what another person is going through, Men in particular pretend that they are fine when they are anything but , people who suffer with mental illness tend to downplay the seriousness of their situation and Men don't have the support network that many women have hence the the difference in the percentage of Men who take their own lives.
@@LavisP thoughtless??? The guy committed suicide on railways tracks. How alone and depressed must a man , a fighter like thorpe be??? His teammates failed him. And now they are paying silly tributes. This should haunt his teammates and make them feel guilty for the rest of their lives. He was there for them always but they were never there for him
Wonderful interview, Joe Root is a very modest, understated character, but with a steely underbelly & a wicked sense of humour to boot. I could listen to Mike Atherton talking cricket with Yorkshire’s finest for hours.
Love Rooty, wonderful player and wonderful bloke
Shouldn’t be understated what Joe has done in this interview, he could’ve easily turned it down and left it for the skipper this week but I’m sure Joe recognised that Ollie pope will have benefitted from focusing on the team and that he as the senior player in the team could step in here to share his thoughts and memories of Thorpe. It’s a pleasure to hear about how many of England modern international greats were influenced by Graham Thorpe. In what’s been such a sad end to his life, it’s been beautiful to see the touching tributes and memories he really was an inspiration.
So sad. R.I.P. Thorpe. Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes. 🙏🏼
I love Joe Root
No disrespect indeed Joe. Athers nasser and thorpey had to deal with pollock/ Donald, wasim / waqar, McGrath/ warne , Ambrose and Walsh. If you compare what cook had to face in his career could you imagine what a fit athers would scored against them attacks that followed
Yh the period when he made runs in 2010/11/12 the aussie and indian teams were poor losing home and away
What does Alastair Cook have to do with this video?
@@iPro3millionCook has a inflated average the point been the team if the 90s faced better opposition I could picked other players
@@michaelmulhall5007you think this is the place for that when Joe is talking to Athers about the loss of a team mate, a coach, a mentor and a friend in such appalling circumstances? A bit of perspective about what’s important wouldn’t go amiss.
@@michaelmulhall5007 this video is about Joe Root remembering Graham Thorpe. What on earth do Alastair Cook and inflated averages have to do with that?
Can't imagine Thorpe's train of thought during his last couple of years, but so selfish doing it infront of a train, ruining other lives along the way, the poor train driver, people on the platform, and not to mention his own family.
we will never know. just be grateful that you got to watch him play and entertain cricket fans around the world in the 90s.
His suicide is so very, very sad. I'm not sure about selfish. Hard to understand, certainly. To understand all is to forgive all.
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Yeah tell all that to the train driver and his family
What's the point of all these tributes. None of them were there for him. No one was there for him to hold his hand and stop him when he was at the railway station
A fair point. It's such a shame we can't help people more.
Yeah they talk about him as if he died of a normal disease, they need to talk about the route cause and start talking about mens mental health, the suicide pandemic is out of control and the cricket audience need to hear it
They didn't know that he was in such a bad place mentally in fact no one really knows what another person is going through, Men in particular pretend that they are fine when they are anything but , people who suffer with mental illness tend to downplay the seriousness of their situation and Men don't have the support network that many women have hence the the difference in the percentage of Men who take their own lives.
What a thoughtless comment. Well done.
@@LavisP thoughtless??? The guy committed suicide on railways tracks. How alone and depressed must a man , a fighter like thorpe be??? His teammates failed him. And now they are paying silly tributes. This should haunt his teammates and make them feel guilty for the rest of their lives. He was there for them always but they were never there for him