Blokes couldn't give a **** when they counting all their cashQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
****s give a **** about on par as the Jets do for winning games
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Blokes couldn't give a **** when they counting all their cashQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
****s give a **** about on par as the Jets do for winning games
Don't worry boiz, Steven O'Keefe is the answer to all our woes apparently.
Him and Maxwell the new Spin Kings.
But the other answer is to drop Khawaja againQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
The only bloke besides Renshaw who actually will be prepared to occupy the crease rather than play flashy shots
This in a side bereft of blokes prepared to bat time
Nearly everyone of these ****s gets out in the sub continent for **** all as they don't want to face 40-60 balls getting in before trying the big shot
In a side with this problem why they persist with Maxwell defies belief
He a luxury you just can't afford in a weak side
They say test cricket is on the way out, not because of the public but the players. They can earn trillions playing hit and giggle for four hours - whey play test cricket for five days?
Just like footballers, it is now about getting the most coin, not what the best challenge is. They have their coin, oversize bats, short boundaries, drop in pitches - they have become lazy.
Forget about nets - to train for tests properly put these twits on a field, two at a time and force them to bat a full day each, with fresh bowlers and fielders rotating. Nets does nothing for technique.
Depends what you mean by technique. Nets are pretty much the best way to improve technically. The issue is that scoring runs isn't just about being the most skillful bloke with a bat. Glenn Maxwell is obvious proof of that - the bloke can bat. But his decision making, mental game, patience, determination etc , whatever aspects you want to pick on, are clearly not suited for test cricket.
Other than that I agree with most of your points. And 100%, if top order test batsmen at some stage are not spending multiple hours at a time at the crease in practice, with directives to not give up chances then they should be.
Here we go again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
My man Jetmaster complaining that the only section of society who shouldn't aim to work less and earn more are professional sportspeople.
I'm sure my man Jetmaster made his post by writing a letter and paying for a stamp and putting it in the postbox because using technology to get your point across cheaper and faster surely would be against his standards.
Hey Plague when they get beaten by shit ****s like Bangladesh then they have no excusesQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Employee or doing it for the love of it this result is unacceptable
Players are weak as piss and wouldn't have lasted 5 mins under Simpson Border Tugger Waugh Ian Chappell etc
These current players are weak as piss and there is no other way to dress it up
Correct Plague - so wish I wasn't a capitalist pig.Quote:
Originally Posted by plague
Read my post as I was stating that as a fact, not criticizing it. More players are going for the T20 merry go round (eg Chris Gayle). That's fine do it and earn as much as you can.
But then don't say test cricket is the ultimate challenge and then fold like a deck of cards because you aren't used to the conditions and haven't played any warm up games.
yeah pea hearts. Like to see them shit their pants then bat for 6hrs at Mumbai.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Then stop segregating 'players' from the rest of the public because everyone would choose the same route. Its human nature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
As for 'capitalist pig', thats a fair stretch there. These blokes have very short careers and have put all their eggs in one basket. Obviously being an elite athlete doesnt entitle you to only having to work for a few years but once sport is over only a minute % find opportunities to live on the same income. Athletes ability to maximise that income should be no concern of yours, especially when for the most part they are accepting offers which means that someone out there thinks their talents are worthy of the paycheque. But of course im sure you knock back pay rises all the time.
Besides, everyone knows all the best socialists are filthy rich. They are our modern day TV evalgenists.
and theres a sucker born every minute willing to hand over their cash for the cause.
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Cv-0TBEhW...Ds/s800/C3.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
http://www.famahaber.com/wp-content/...0270932616.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OBOndWum8f...GMT-Master.jpg
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Dunster is woke
how is it that every year, the commentators on channel 9 get worse? surely there is a base level somewhere!!!
shaun marsh is the greatest secret agent england has. tries to take out stark with a sly boot to the leg, drops a sitter. will no doubt get out at a crucial time in australia's innings.
No Smith Aus is fkd
Well you weren't wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
agent marsh strikes again!
carn straya
Chasing 170
What price these cunce go down like a Gypo in a GF
Ok 2nd test ready to go.
This is usually a road. Team batting 1st gets 450. 4th inns is worth 170. Bat 1st
Unless the wicket is wet / very green I'd always bat first.,Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk
i think the theory is that batting at 'dusk' is the pits. both teams trying to manage their exposure to batting during that time.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
also, Broad is a plonker all day every day then he bowls one of 'those' spells that rips your whole team apart.
you know its coming some time this series.
It used to be that way until they went to the night tests thereQuote:
Originally Posted by hawk
Since then it been a bit of a lottery.
If your batting as night descends then it not that hard as blokes "in" stay in
But if you walk out to the middle after night falls making runs impossible and you back in the pavilion like you Shaun Marsh
Hopefully get a bit fairer contest between bar and ball at night time there this year
nice work dave.
yeah, forgot about the day night thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
damn runout was unlucky
Shaun Marsh
FMD
In the team now for another 12 months
Poms need 78 to avoid the follow on.
carn straya
Why the fook would we not send them back in ? Smith is not a captains arsehole.
The new ball is dancing all over the place - Bancroft is out.. and I'd say more to follow as Anderson and Broad are getting some good movement off the seam and through the air.
New age captaincyQuote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
They don't enforce the follow on unless a certain innings win or time constraints
To me it not that much a problem
Bat tonight
Bat tomorrow
Declare at some stage
Get to bowl twice at them in the dark with them batting to survive
Send them back in and we more than likely going to have to bat to win the game
Why put ourselves under any pressure
Grind them into the ground this way
lol, one of the worst decisions you will ever see hahahaha
250 odd is plenty of lead already. Just need to pick when is best to send the Poms back in to wrap this up.
yeah, with 6 wickets in hand, they are good for about another 80 runs minimum, puts the chase around 350. english have almost zero chance of winning this one i reckon.
it was some outstanding batting by lyon last night. that time-wasting in the last over was magnificent.
Australia wasted the new ball today and Poms are 50 without loss.
I hope they knock Australia over just so we can hear all the excuses.
Edit: 2/54 now the poms looking to throw it all away.
Don't think it an issueQuote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
These days it all about workload and sorts science and all that shit
Hazelwood Starc Cummins and co they want to manage their workload and recovery etc
Dont forget 5 tests in 7-8 weeks so they don't want to burn them out etc
I agree soft as all ****
But that the way it is these days and unless we miles in front or weather time constraints it ain't happening
So not following on was an incorrect decision but what can ya do. Its happened before and will again. Aus still should sneak it but eng will get lucky with 166 edges through slips
Didn’t Oz enforce the follow on against India (?) one day and they scored like 900 then rolled the Aussies for 20 or something?
Fabulous.
Umm this time we knew the new ball in the evening would be lethal and we also had only bowled 40 odd overs at them - so bowlers had plenty in reserve. Choosing to bat meant we would face the new ball at the worst time - and be rolling the dice about when we got to bowl at them. The result is we got to then bowl the new ball at a time which suited the batsmen rather than in the dodgy light and conditions conducive to swing. The new ball was essentially waster ... and the rest is historyQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Not only that, I think someone mentioned something about getting two shots at the poms in the dodgy light - but the reality is the game will be well and truly over by then win lose or draw.
Even if Australia managed a win from this - they will be doing it the hard way.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if Mark Jones, GVE, Scott Miller, and Phil Stubbins had something to do with Smiths decision - it's all too familiar.
Good start to the days play so far!