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    Not a bad night of you have money on England win/draw the series and Ben Stokes to be player of the series.

    Good cricket all round.

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    Don't you hate how polar the English are?

    Two days ago they wanted this lot strung up with up to 8 changes for the next test, now they are asking for them all to get MBE's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jetmaster View Post
    Don't you hate how polar the English are?

    Two days ago they wanted this lot strung up with up to 8 changes for the next test, now they are asking for them all to get MBE's.
    They still managed to boo Root at the presentation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dunster View Post
    They still managed to boo Root at the presentation.
    I thought this for a while till I realised the drunks like to bellow - "Rooooooooooooootttt"!

    Much like I did in the 80's at Fanny's.

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    Steve Smith is a machine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung View Post
    Steve Smith is a machine.
    I can't recall a batsmen who consistently made runs under pressure like Smith does. In absolute terms he's not even close to the skill of Viv Richards with the bat, nor does he have Bradman's average - but there's absolutely no way either of them had the guts and determination of Smith to consistently dig deep and pull a team out of the shit and into a winning position.

    THose two were also surrounded by quality batsmen who could support them - Smith pretty much lines up knowing that if he doesn't make runs it's unlikely anyone else will.
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    For grit also add S Waugh, J Langer, A Border. Would wear 100 round trophies to stay in. But today Smith is basically holding the batting side by himself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim View Post
    For grit also add S Waugh
    Biggest myth in world cricket history. Not even the best player in his family.

    Had to make the huge captaincy calls of throwing the ball to either McGrath or Warne.

    Was seen as tough because he could block out his end to enable Gilchrist to do the real heavy lifting in the middle order.

    Took a nice catch once, owned a red blow rag.

    **** Steve Waugh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    Biggest myth in world cricket history. Not even the best player in his family.

    Had to make the huge captaincy calls of throwing the ball to either McGrath or Warne.

    Was seen as tough because he could block out his end to enable Gilchrist to do the real heavy lifting in the middle order.

    Took a nice catch once, owned a red blow rag.

    **** Steve Waugh.
    I'm hoping this is just for dramatic effect and humour..
    You have gone full MFKS on us...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bon View Post
    I'm hoping this is just for dramatic effect and humour..
    You have gone full MFKS on us...
    Personally I've come to the view that Steve Waugh is a great example of how "good" batsmen can be effective via different skillsets. I think his brother was a more technically proficient and talented batsmen, definitely appeared that way to the casual observer. Yet Steve averaged roughly 10 runs more per innings at Test level. Rarely looked very flashy or anything, but perhaps had more determination or stronger concentration / mental side.

    As an aside, that to me is one of the downfalls (to me) of the T20 cricket, there's no value placed on those skillsets of essentially making no mistakes during an innings. More value is placed on having a good eye and being able to improvise. Entertaining in its own way, but quite different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bon View Post
    I'm hoping this is just for dramatic effect and humour..
    You have gone full MFKS on us...
    Plenty of bandwidth for you to provide a water tight counter argument good sir.


    I stand by my post.

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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    Biggest myth in world cricket history. Not even the best player in his family.

    Had to make the huge captaincy calls of throwing the ball to either McGrath or Warne.

    Was seen as tough because he could block out his end to enable Gilchrist to do the real heavy lifting in the middle order.

    Took a nice catch once, owned a red blow rag.

    **** Steve Waugh.
    I don't think Steve ISN'T a great cricketer, but I also never loved him. Looking back at the teams he played in and then captained, there's so many other players that i loved watching more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frodo View Post
    I don't think Steve ISN'T a great cricketer, but I also never loved him. Looking back at the teams he played in and then captained, there's so many other players that i loved watching more.
    oh he was a perfectly servicable cricketer. you need to be really really good to play for your country.
    but this revisionist bullshit about his toughness always gets me.


    dont worry though, for some reason Warner (who has been trash for ages, and inconsistent his whole career, and oh, a massive bellend and cheat) somehow escapes the criticism that has applied to Khawaja his whole test life. add to that the likes of Handscombe, the Fat lad from Queensland who played a couple tests, Marnus (aint touching that last name) and about 40 other middle order aspirants.

    Aussie cricket needs a good marketing tool, and if you dont have a tag line attached to you like 'gritty' or 'swashbuckling' then you are disposable.

    Steve Waugh had that luxury and good on him. but he couldnt tie the shoelaces of 80% of the blokes he played with back then.
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    And I don't argue with FR. The bloke is a legend and deserves great praise for his contributions to football in the Hunter.
    He is also the second best poster on the entire Foz behind you
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    sometimes there's more to life than just winning
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    What a deadset ****ing coward **** you are
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frodo View Post
    there's so many other players that i loved watching more.
    oh, there is literally no one, other than maybe some of the trash off spinners from that era (hahahhaahha Tim May FFS) that was more lame to watch that Steve Waugh.
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    And I don't argue with FR. The bloke is a legend and deserves great praise for his contributions to football in the Hunter.
    He is also the second best poster on the entire Foz behind you
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    sometimes there's more to life than just winning
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    What a deadset ****ing coward **** you are
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    Seems like I am WRONG

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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    oh he was a perfectly servicable cricketer. you need to be really really good to play for your country.
    but this revisionist bullshit about his toughness always gets me.


    dont worry though, for some reason Warner (who has been trash for ages, and inconsistent his whole career, and oh, a massive bellend and cheat) somehow escapes the criticism that has applied to Khawaja his whole test life. add to that the likes of Handscombe, the Fat lad from Queensland who played a couple tests, Marnus (aint touching that last name) and about 40 other middle order aspirants.

    Aussie cricket needs a good marketing tool, and if you dont have a tag line attached to you like 'gritty' or 'swashbuckling' then you are disposable.

    Steve Waugh had that luxury and good on him. but he couldnt tie the shoelaces of 80% of the blokes he played with back then.
    Waugh played against some of the best bowling in history - namely The West Indies when they cared about cricket and Pakistan when they had the two fastest bowlers in the world who put reverse swing on the map.

    He used to hook the ball a lot as a young bloke but after a year or two in the Australian team he started playing a less aggressive style of cricket - both as a batsmen and later as a captain.

    He wasn't someone I enjoyed watching either - but much like Boycott it's hard to argue against his talent with the bat or ball for that matter.

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    I was playing in England in 1989, Waugh's big breakout series - managed to see some of it live.

    The English were more fearful of him and spoke of him in the same tones as they are now of Smith.

    Could be a khunt but respect, it's what we needed at the time as we were poo in the previous 10 years.

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    And there's another VAR fk up...
    Fat phuck has 2 England reviews. Starc has it right on leg. No fat finger up. Must be up his @rse...or Roots?

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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    oh he was a perfectly servicable cricketer. you need to be really really good to play for your country.
    but this revisionist bullshit about his toughness always gets me.


    dont worry though, for some reason Warner (who has been trash for ages, and inconsistent his whole career, and oh, a massive bellend and cheat) somehow escapes the criticism that has applied to Khawaja his whole test life. add to that the likes of Handscombe, the Fat lad from Queensland who played a couple tests, Marnus (aint touching that last name) and about 40 other middle order aspirants.

    Aussie cricket needs a good marketing tool, and if you dont have a tag line attached to you like 'gritty' or 'swashbuckling' then you are disposable.

    Steve Waugh had that luxury and good on him. but he couldnt tie the shoelaces of 80% of the blokes he played with back then.
    You are dead set talking complete and utter BS now Plague

    Can't believe no one has called you out on it either


    Steve Waugh was the epitome of what you want from a cricketer

    If you needed a bloke to bat to save your life then you would pick this bloke.

    The amount of times he got runs when his country needed them and when he eked out hundreds by batting with the tail defies belief

    Yeah his bro had more natural talent no doubt. But Steve got the job done so much so his Average is massively superior to Mark

    You forgetting his 200 in West Indies to finally dethrone them
    You forgetting his 2 centuries on a green top with Aus 1-0 down in the Ashes and in deep shit when he came to the crease
    You forgetting his 100 no in the 99 WC when he single handedly got us into the Semi and we won that in a tie to go through

    Yep you talking complete and utter shit

    His captaincy was pretty good too
    Much better than Smith and Ponting and AB

    But behind Tubby and Clarke for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
    If you needed a bloke to bat to save your life then you would pick this bloke.
    if you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed someone to bat to save your life then you really need to question what the the **** you do with your life to find yourself in such a pickle.

    oh, and the answer is Bradman.
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    And I don't argue with FR. The bloke is a legend and deserves great praise for his contributions to football in the Hunter.
    He is also the second best poster on the entire Foz behind you
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    sometimes there's more to life than just winning
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    What a deadset ****ing coward **** you are
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    Seems like I am WRONG

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    Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
    if you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed someone to bat to save your life then you really need to question what the the **** you do with your life to find yourself in such a pickle.

    oh, and the answer is Bradman.
    really? i'd pick somebody who was at least alive to try and save my life.

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