[Goatie]

Stoner has his little I told you so moment.

I think he should just shut the fuck up because he is a quiter.

Seriously, this little rat face should keep his mouth shut until he used some of his money he made from the racing business and hires a PR advisor.

Stoner is shitting on his own legacy

Casey Stoner slams Valentino Rossi

[Goatie]

Casey Stoner blasts Valentino Rossi over return to Yamaha | News.com.au

[Able Duc]

Val is a bit of a smarty.

He deserves a bit of a serve before he returns to Yamaha and everyone forgets about the shit he put on Casey and how he was going to re-invent the wheel at Ducati. He's a top shelf rider, no doubt (or was) but an fwit just the same.

Val says: "Anyway there are still 8 GPs until the end and we will keep trying our best to do some nice races. Ciao all from Indy. #valeducati"

Bullshit. I think Jorge will put a bit of pressure on him next year and this year he will be nowhere.

[pat1098]

A bit harsh Goatie. I get it that you're not keen on Stoner (you aren't alone there!) but probably the main reason he is leaving the sport - I wouldn't characterise it as quitting, when he has raced almost his whole life - is that "whining/rat-faced etc" type of attitude.
When he won fair and square at Donington, and got booed by the British fans, the clock must have been ticking on his devotion to the sport.
He has raced since early childhood, presumably at the expense of other areas of life the rest of us have experienced.
He is young, wealthy, supremely successful, and still has his health. He has started a family with his pretty wife - can't he choose when to go, without getting slagged off? Perhaps he is doing the smart thing, not leaving the sport in the way of Doohan or Rainey (or Simoncelli).
I don't want to start up the anti-Stoner brigade name-calling thing - we're all sick of that - but the fact is Stoner brought Ducati what may be the only real success they ever experience in GP.
On a Ducati forum I fail to see what all the hate is about. As to "rat-faced" - we are all a product of our parents' genes. Not too many roadracing champions are fantastic looking specimens. That's not the contest.

[Goatie]

The thing is Pat is that I agree that Stoner is able to choose to leave the sport because he has lost the passion as he has raced all of his life etc etc.

But what I, and many others, dislike is that the guy thinks he can spray the sport and other riders like he is Lord Muck. Seriously with all of his money he should have hired a PR Consultant given his comments have not won him fans.

There might be some substance to his gripes but he would have been better shutting his cake hole and waiting till he had retired and then wrote a book or something. IE Shown some good grace.

When it comes to Rossi v Stoner, well looking at the statistics Rossi is way up ahead in the stratosphere to the extent that it doesn't compare and Stoner will never ever come near him, remember he is quitting.

I have no doubt Rossi will hit the ground running next year on the Yamaha and start winning races again in the first quarter of the season.

As for Stoner he will be nowhere, out of the limelight and no one will give a rats tinker about his immature views

[Smarty]

Go Stoner. He's just saying what plenty of people are thinking.

[pat1098]

After copping the sort of sprays he did from Rossi, not to mention being taken out by him, I think he has every right to speak his mind.
Why is it OK for Rossi to say what he likes about Stoner, but not OK for Stoner to comment on Rossi?
I haven't suggested Stoner has or ever will 'beat' Rossi's record overall. But he has beaten him many times on track, and has the better statistics in the '800 era'. And better statistics on a Ducati..
Let it go mate. I think you may be reading too much into comments Stoner had every right to make. He was really only responding to a conversation which Rossi started.
And he is still the world champion.

[brettc63]

Originally Posted by Smarty

Go Stoner. He's just saying what plenty of people are thinking.

+1

Except Derwood

Originally Posted by Goatie

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Stoner is shitting on his own legacy......

That much is true.

But good on 'im.

[748R]

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[brettc63]