All the relentless hate for Australia of the late Tony Grieg, mixed with the genuine misery of Ian Chappell.
At least in the cricket threads he doesn’t just continuously blame the umpires for everything. There is that.
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All the relentless hate for Australia of the late Tony Grieg, mixed with the genuine misery of Ian Chappell.
At least in the cricket threads he doesn’t just continuously blame the umpires for everything. There is that.
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This is an Aussie cricket forum you flipping r3tard
Plugger is always going to have a negative view of Australia....it's in the Kiwi DNA....adds spice to the banter.....hopefully the 3 umps get less grief than Barnes did, if NZ lose in this WC format.....
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Yep classic kiwi DNA, come here for the cheaper rent and aussies live in their head rent free
A dark day indeed
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Agreed
God I miss Tony the guy could elevate the most boring game imaginable into something interesting, I always laughed at his comments on Australia. He was spot on sometimes especially when guys like McGrath got grumbly over nothing.
Kerry Packer TV miniseries.
Painted Greigy in a better light and explained why he joined channel 9.
You couldn't blame him Kerry gave him a job for life. Greigy took the bullets in WSC that helped the cricketers get the money they do today.
Abbot by far our best death bowler.
He’s even from NSW.
Won’t stop the picking Starc though.
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I was actually astounded he caught Lawson off Brown, with the kind of bloke he was, it genuinely shocked me he didn't drop it.
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It adds nothing. It'd be banter if he had even the remotest idea how to do that, he's just a bitter twisted imbecile rocking in his chair drooling over a photo of Trevor Chappel winning the Benson and Hedges cup.
And it's boring.
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I don't think the Australian team back then was as weak as some people make out.
Australia's batsmen in that test were Wessels, Hilditch, Boon, Border, Ritchie, Phillips and Matthews who had all played test cricket before.
Apart from Kim Hughes I don't think any of the batsmen on the South African rebel tour would have made that batting line up any stronger.
The other batsmen on that South African rebel tour were guys like Mike Haysman, Graham Yallop, Greg Shipperd, John Dyson, Steve Smith and Steve Rixon, none of whom would have been walk up starts to make the Australian team ahead of the batsmen that did make that team.
You constantly whinging about me or anyone else here that doesn't agree with your one eyed view of cricket gets pretty boring too.
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It looked like our only plan for 40 overs yesterday was to make sure we had a reasonably steep target to chase. That literally was the plan.
Which I guess is progress... It's the first time we've had a plan with the ball this tournament.
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I've always been amazed by this. When I played (very badly I'd be at pains to point out), whenever I took a catch I never threw it in the air. Once I even caught a hat trick ball and still held on to it. In fact I'd regularly get in trouble from my team mates for not throwing it back to the umpire! I never like it when players do it - things can only go wrong, as we've seen. Surely there are other ways to celebrate with ball in hand?
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He got tied down and frustrated. Think he'd made about 2 off 10 balls before he got out. Needed to go back to rotating the strike while he found his groove again.
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Don't mind Lab in the side - no batters are making themselves undroppable who are currently outside the team. And labs fielding is worth a few runs. Made an impact against NZ and bangers
He provides us an option if 2 of the top order don't come off.
And allows Inglis to move to 7 in a role where he can play a power hitting role - something he is probably more suited to (other than opening which he righfully won't get a look in for)
He provides us an option if 2 of the top order don't come off.
And allows Inglis to move to 7 in a role where he can play a power hitting role - something he is probably more suited to (other than opening which he righfully won't get a look in for)
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Ahhh... So it's a ratings ploy. That's it. That's literally the only rational explanation how he keeps getting a game.
