Looks like the Great Lara is mellowing with age,

[Islandman]

he has been making some well thought out comments:

"Lara felt the reason for West Indies' recent struggles did not lie with the players. "I see ordinary Australians get on the scene and in three or four years they are top-class players," he said. "I see [that] in the West Indies, really special young players get out there and struggle, [and] can't find their way. Something must be wrong with our system."

[Baddaz]

i was going to post the link to the interview last nite... i really enjoyed his interview... he is very inciteful... its a damn shame that the wicb and the fans who blamed him for everything that went wrong forced him out of west indies cricket... i always thought it was unfair... he could still be playing...

i've noticed one thing about our caribbean people, we use age as a limiter... it happened with lara and it happened with tappa...

[Me]

He has always had many sensible and rational things to say in interviews. His attitude just towards cricket and the team simply was not what it should have been.

[Gamma]

correct! i wrote him off when he sabotaged walsh's tenure as captain especially on that tour of pakistan.

[Islandman]

I had never believed that his captaincy was the main problem. The team is as bad now three captains later as it was then. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

Having said that he certainly had a problem with motivating his players though, in that respect he was not a good captain.

[Baddaz]

point taken... there was a time when i wasn't paying keen interest in cricket... i thought lara had gotten a raw deal... didn't understand the negativity towrds him by the fans and wicb...

[Sickko]

He is at golf at Half Moon (with a fine young thing) and he seems to be havibg a great time, today we were at the 8th hole watching the end of the days play and he was hanging out with a caddy and chatting up a storm

[Peter R]

He also stated at one time that cricket was mashing up his life... not a direct quote.

As he matured, reached his thirties, I think he began to see the bigger picture and understand what his role as an "elder" in the (cricket) community is.

[Gamma]

and more importantly, he is not bigger than cricket! it was around LONG before him and will be around long after THEN he started to be concerned about his "legacy" will people revere his as they do sobers and bradman or will he fade away the day his records are broken?