I am trying to understand the modern world
I wonder if Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds have some sort of good-cop-bad-cop deal going on. 

First Andrew Symonds and the Monkey/Maa-ki-gate business, Haydos is all like, "It's racial vilification mate.  It's a shit word and you know it".  Good cop: Hayden.

Then he goes on radio and makes his "noxious weed comments".  Bad cop: Hayden.

Then this week, with Brendon McCullum's recruitment into the SpeedBlitz Blues (Why not just call yourselves the NSW Pigs?), Symonds is all philosophical-like, talking about how it's unAustralian and he doesn't understand how it's all going to turn out.  Good cop: Symonds.

And then he goes on radio and talks massive lumps of cow-dirt about how McCullum will be perceived as the villain, and how he needs the grace of Haydo's wife to help the food go down.  Buried within his rant is a salient point about how mercenary this whole 20/20 business has become, but it's so poorly expressed that it's not worth mentioning.  Bad cop: Symonds.

Then, Hayden comes out of the blue with generous words of sympathy about the state of NZ Cricket and how they are being screwed over by the ICC/BCCI.  Good cop: Hayden.

I am thoroughly confused by these two, they seem to have gotten their roles mixed up.  One's always supposed to be the bad cop, the other the good cop.  In any case, one is retired, the other close to it.  Let's hope they can sort this out before they begin their inevitable commentary jobs.