Some of the World’s leading scientists are cautioning that the goodwill Shane Warne built up with Australians during his cricketing career will be exhausted by 2019.
“Under current conditions, the massive reserve of goodwill Warnie once possessed could be depleted as early as 2019,” said Professor Kate Sharma of Stanford University.
“While issues such as the closure of his charity have some impact, it’s more just everything he says. He’s been using it at an unsustainable rate for sometime now.
“Australians love winning but they also don’t like someone who is acting like a goose.”
Despite many off-field stumbles during his career, Warne enjoyed one of the largest reservoirs of goodwill ever seen upon his retirement.
Dr Malcolm Schröder of the University of British Columbia said since then, Warne has almost seemed to be on a mission to spend all that goodwill.
“The weird ads, that mural. Just unsustainable practices really. Then he attacks Steve Waugh. No. Just no.”
“The biggest contributor to the erosion of his goodwill though is social media. The selfies definitely contribute but it’s also the constant posting in the style of an excitable thirteen-year-old that is the biggest factor.
“No grown man should use emojis at the rate he does.”
Scientist are yet to determine what impact Warne’s appearance on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! will have on their prediction.
“Our modelling doesn’t cover that yet but it seems the more contact people have with Shane outside of a cricket field, the more goodwill he uses up,” said Professor Sharma.
“Matching wits with Brendan Fevola can’t help.”
A spokesperson for Warne hit back however and said the science was unclear over Warne’s goodwill and lacked any real consensus.
“These are alarmist theories from scientist on the fringes of this complex issue and do not represent the views of many experts,” said the spokesperson.
COMMENTS
Aaron Grogs
Feb 10, 2016
Nah if your good with a ball your set for life in this country
Jason Paschke
Feb 10, 2016
Matt Francis classic!
Scott Duane Lancaster
Feb 10, 2016
Top bloke he is
Annie Haddad
Feb 10, 2016
His goodwill ran out a long time ago, if you're not a bogan like he is.
Scott Chapman
Feb 10, 2016
He was just using a razor to shave his stomach on I'm a Celebrity...WTF is that all about?? U0001f601
Niroshan Balasundaram
Feb 10, 2016
Al Macdonald Lloyd D'Costa Dan Balasundaram too funny
Sean Delaney
Feb 10, 2016
Titus, you're on team Waugh over Warne???? You will loose your Victorian passport for that!
Declan Smith
Feb 10, 2016
Adam Cawthorn Patrick Rosenthal Aeddan Evans almost exactly the sentiment I was trying to express at lunch
Daniel Henderson
Feb 10, 2016
Very conservative Tom Jockel
Ben Rout
Feb 10, 2016
Ever met Steve Waugh? What a drip wouldn't even stop for an autograph when I was 10
James Chirgwin
Feb 10, 2016
Curtis Mollison theres science backing it up now
Anthony Ashton
Feb 10, 2016
Really. It was gone long ago
Tom Jockel
Feb 10, 2016
Run out? Haha
Ricky Walsh
Feb 10, 2016
You and Warnie certainly know how to hold a grudge haha
Ben Rout
Feb 10, 2016
As a 10 year old I was gutted!
No word of a lie Warnie stopped for photos and a chat for a good 5 minites
Roi Apostolopoulos
Feb 10, 2016
He still had some ?
Lachie Barber
Feb 10, 2016
Hugely concerning Oliver Young Lachie MacDonald Dylan Minutoli
Alex Kelly
Feb 10, 2016
"Matching wits with fev cant help" haha
Jamie Mills
Feb 10, 2016
Well, I know this is an unpopular view, & I'm not defending Warnie for a second, but Steve Waugh WAS a selfish cricketer. When he batted with the tail, he rarely tried to farm the strike, & often gave the impression he was batting for a not out...
Trent Maconachie
Feb 10, 2016
Literally read it. It's hilarious
Oliver Young
Feb 10, 2016
A sharp leg break turning out of the rough to take leg stump will win my love any day
Tom Reynolds
Feb 10, 2016
With the increase in hot gas emulating from the subject, we may see accelerated global boring.
Michael O'Brien
Feb 10, 2016
Steve Waugh is a legend of the game in more ways than one. Selfish? The bloke is known throughout India for giving his time and money to help poor children. That in itself makes him a legend.
Stej Bosnjak
Feb 10, 2016
Mark Latham asked Steve Waugh to be a federal ALP candidate, nuff said
Ant Hardie
Feb 10, 2016
Was stuck under a rotunda at rosehill with mark Waugh during rain one day. No one else besides me and his misses and refused to acknowledge me, his wife did though.
Matthew Passmore
Feb 10, 2016
It's never really been the strategy to farm strike. Hussey also used to just let the tail Enders bat
Geoff Schaefer
Feb 10, 2016
It won't matter. With global warming, his face will melt before his goodwill runs out...
Jamie Mills
Feb 10, 2016
Mick - selfish cricketer was the point. Doesn't mean he wasn't generous in other aspects of his life. Matthew, Waugh averaged a not out every 5.65 innings, & Hussey had blokes like Gilchrist (then Haddin) & Johnson following him. Just an observation guys...
Colin Arbuckle
Feb 10, 2016
All the opportunities life has thrown at him...and he has to humiliate himself on that rubbish show?!
Prathibha Shanker
Feb 10, 2016
On the lines of what I was telling you about
Robert McCosh
Feb 10, 2016
But Steve Waugh has exhausted his free will for Matty Elliot in 2016
Mark Rockliff
Feb 10, 2016
This conflict Warnie is expressing seems to have its date at the Instinctive level. https://www.enneagramworldwide.com/instinctual-subtypes/
Greg Berryman
Feb 10, 2016
That head bothers me.
David Hoysted
Feb 10, 2016
I think that must have been a type. Should have been 2009 not 2019.
Robert McLeod
Feb 10, 2016
Warne is Gatting himself up against the Waugh Brody Jacob
Heather Preston
Feb 10, 2016
Modelling incorrect - goodwill exhausted several years ago.
Adrian Vassallo
Feb 10, 2016
Waugh make it a rule that top end batsmen worked individually with tail Enders to improve their batting, so he lead from the front showing faith in them. A leader of men and Captain material if ever I heard of it.
Adrian Vassallo
Feb 10, 2016
No he wont
Adrian Vassallo
Feb 10, 2016
Mark Latham also asked John Howard because he thought he would get more votes. Jog on floggo.
Derek Mott
Feb 10, 2016
Is that Warnie or Paul Hogan #doppelganger
Michael O'Brien
Feb 10, 2016
He wasn't selfish. He was no Mark Waugh in regards batting talent and as such he batted where he would benefit the team, simple as that Jamie Mills
Michael O'Brien
Feb 10, 2016
He had tenacity, and the guts to take hits to the body for the team. He knew he couldn't pull or hook so took that out of his game. If you ask me he was an all rounder that learned to bat as his career progressed.
Graeme McIntyre
Feb 10, 2016
Leave the argument to "them" Let's remember 2 of Aussie's greatest cricketers for who they were ... they were champion Australian's & any other argument should not demean this.
Dylan Stephens
Feb 10, 2016
U spoken to a 10yr old ben?
Ben Rout
Feb 10, 2016
Didn't have to speak to me, a ten second signature would've been plenty
Sean Spencer
Feb 11, 2016
Waugh didn't take steroids to speed up recovery from shoulder surgery either
Russell von Bergheim
Feb 11, 2016
What is more important, being a good cricketer or being a good human being?
Bill Dusting
Feb 11, 2016
sorry to point out your mistake, but you seem to have used a stock picture of Joan Rivers. Know you're strapped for time.
Russell Baptiste
Feb 11, 2016
Warne.....Biggest A....hole ever
Judy Higgins
Feb 11, 2016
Scientists are wrong. It will be much sooner than that. Probably by the end of I'm a celebrity get me out of here, if not sooner.
Joanne Everett
Feb 11, 2016
I thought you meant plastic surgeons. Has he had a mooch job or what?
Shaun Trevillian
Feb 12, 2016
Steve Eberhard Shane Fromm it's getting that way
Steve Eberhard
Feb 12, 2016
I agree with everything except the attack on emojis U0001f623