<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (roger-m @ Jun 23 2008, 02:58 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>she is young and nieve. that relationship wont last. you only have to see the look on her face when he is in a strop. he was a nice lad until the fame went to his head. come on mike you must have seen the change in him over the past couple of years. that poor girl has to put up with his whining and tantrums all the time.
He is still humble in anything I have ever seen in the australian press, particularly the specialist motorcycle press; he actually still doesn't get all that much coverage in the mainstream press and the free to air TV telecasts are delayed, sometimes by hours to well past midnight. He consistently said here last year that he had hoped for top 5, and never dreamed of winning the championship. I imagine and I am sure you would agree that it is actually fairly hard to beat rossi and requires great singlemindedness, and it seems he gets villified if he gets beaten and also when he wins, not leaving him much room to manouevre. In the last week alone he has gone from having revealed the shallowness of his talent by being totally unable to develop the 2008 bike to having an unfair advantage again
. If after being well beaten in several races you and your team having put in a tremendous effort win again against the great rossi, it must be annoying at age 22 to get booed( if this did happen). I agree it wouldn't ever have worried vale, but he is immensely more sophisticated than casey and is obviously much more of an extrovert personality-wise.
All jokes aside I really like england and the english(and scotland and the scots), go there often and have close english friends. But your press are not above a beat-up; we should know, our former citizen rupert owns most of it
. The intense focus of the european press on motogp does not exist in australia, and stoner obviously just does not cope with it.
Before this story I had been impressed with the mutual respect shown by the the top three on the track after the finish, and stoner and pedrosa appeared to be chatting very amicably on the podium. He doesn't ever say anything negative about pedrosa by the way, whom he respects greatly from their 250 days.
As I said humorously previously, he just might still come and get your boy, particularly if he has a dnf, and vale knows it
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