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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Hughes
Katich
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey/Symonds
Watson
Haddin
Lee
Hauritz
Johnson
Hilfenhaus
12: symonds/hussey
i've had enough of the love for symonds/hussey. they are totally out of form right now 1 or the other must be dropped. my call is hussey.
Thats a bit harsh isnt it? Surely Hussey still deserves his place in the side?
For all his "knowledge" he's still got nowhere to put Watson in that lineup, aside from dumping and possibly ending the career of Symonds.Respect for you Thommo, seem to know what you're talking about.
How about.............
Watson
Katich
Ponting
M.Hussey
Clarke
Symonds
Haddin
Krezja
Johnson
Hilfenhaus
Siddle
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Lee (12th)
And finally Brett Lee, pull your finger out and do something against a side that counts (yes i know he took 9 fa agaisnt NZ) but has been woeful agaisnt India and SA. Running in from Long off and bowling 138 kmh is a waste of time. either swing the ball at that pace or steam in and let it rip and bowl with some pace and purpose!
True, but these players are dotted sporadically throughout 6 batting line ups. A bowler doesn't need to dismiss those guys to have good figures. For every Greg Blewett there are three Nathan Adcocks. A Shield game featuring any players from the Australian XI is a rarity.I think people underrate the shield competition.
There are plenty of world class players at shield level. In the past few years, they've bowled at blokes like Katich, Bevan, Hodge, Elliot, Blewett, Love etc etc. All of these players would have had long fruitful test careers if they weren't Australian.
We still have 3 players in the test side with better test averages than they do shield averages and blokes like Brendon Nash who couldn't get a game for the QLD 2nd XI last year are knocking out test half-centuries on debut...
True, but these players are dotted sporadically throughout 6 batting line ups. A bowler doesn't need to dismiss those guys to have good figures. For every Greg Blewett there are three Nathan Adcocks. A Shield game featuring any players from the Australian XI is a rarity.
The only place - apart from a test match - where a young aspiring bowler will get exposed to a line up the quality of Smith, Amla, Kallis and de Villiers all in a row is in one dayers.
The one bowler lately who actually did get a run in one dayers first was Mitchell Johnson. He did well in India and took a few quality, top order Indian wickets which meant the selectors could select him with at least some level of confidence.
So we completely failed to take wickets in the last innings despite making a sizeable total with the bat, and your solution is... drop a genuine bowler for an all-rounder? Makes sense...