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chicko1983

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Salazar said:
I am hastily revising my opinion of Mark :lol
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yeah, I have never agreed with him previously either.

Empty said:
thanks for sharing
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mate, you should hear the commentary in Australia at the moment. It is all doom and gloom. I've never heard stuff like it. To think that people, knowledgible people, are seriously talking of 5 or 6 changes for the next test is unheard of...I'm scared of a 4-0 series loss at the moment.
 
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Grug

Member
chicko1983 said:
Fox Sports 3’s Inside Cricket last night, transcript:
Brendan Julian “So where do we go from here boys, Junior what do you reckon?”
Mark Waugh “Mate if I was a selector there are at least five, maybe six, of those blokes who’d be looking for something to do next week, because they wouldn’t be playing cricket in Perth.”
Damien Fleming “Such as?”
Waugh “Mate, Doherty for a start. I mean jeez, we’ve picked a bloke because we don’t know who our spinner should be. Should we seriously pick a guy who has played 10 state level tests in his life to go up against Pietersen, Cooke and those guys?”
Julian “Bit harsh”
Waugh “Bit harsh? He was chucking that many pies at Pietersen he may as well have opened a bakery on days 2 and 3.”
Fleming “North?”
Waugh “Gone”
Julian “Bollinger? Siddle?”
Waugh “Gone”
Gladstone Small “ Can I interrupt for a minute?”
Waugh “No”
Julian “Junior is on a bit of a roll here Stone”
Waugh “No I mean fair go, we’ve got it wrong here. If I’m the only bloke not happy that we’ve been rolled for an innings and 70 odd runs on a runway of a pitch and that lets be honest we’re going to have a summer of the poms handing us our **** in this series then fair go boys, something’s wrong here. What’s Clarke doing after getting out? He’s on twitter saying sorry for not walking? Mate if he did that in our side there’d be hell to pay. AB would chuck his twitter box off the balcony or whatever it is. Sorry for not walking? *expletive*

:lol :lol
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This may be the greatest thing I've ever read. Is there a video of this anywhere?
 
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ItAintEasyBeinCheesy

it's 4th of July in my asshole
Pietersen caught speeding in Lamborghini

Star English batsman Kevin Pietersen continues to rack up centuries.

Only days after scoring 227 against the Aussies in Adelaide, Pietersen has made one off drive he probably wishes he had not.

The 30-year-old has been clocked driving at 121 kilometres per hour while going for a spin in a Lamborghini organised for him by Shane Warne.

He was pulled over by Victorian police this afternoon while driving the $475,000 car on the Geelong Ring Road, which is a 100kph zone.

One of cricket's excitement machines, Pietersen was fined $239 and lost three demerit points.

While his team-mates were training at the MCG in preparation for a three-day game against Victoria starting tomorrow, the South Africa-born Pietersen opted to indulge his passion for fast cars.

He decided to go for a drive along the Great Ocean Road in the car arranged for him by his buddy Warne, an ambassador for Lamborghini.

Only days ago, Warne had warned Pietersen about speeding on social networking site Twitter.

"@kevinpp24, will organize Lambo for you watc (sic) out for speed cameras , lots in Melbourne," Warne tweeted.

Pietersen cleared enjoyed the drive but mentioned nothing of the fine in his own Twitter posting today.

"Stunning beaches on the Great Ocean Rd ... Gorgeous drive!!" he said, after earlier posting a picture of the sportscar and thanking Warne and the car dealer.

"Massive thanks to Lamborghini Melbourne & @warne888 for letting me play with this for a few days."

The England team has declined to comment but said no disciplinary action would be taken against Pietersen.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/09/3089404.htm?site=sport&section=all

Should have locked him up and thrown away the key :lol :lol :lol
 
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newelly87

Banned
Mark Waugh always talks shit about crappy spin bowlers. Understandable when he was a part timer and better than these clowns bowling for Australia lately.
 
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chicko1983

Member
Grug said:
This may be the greatest thing I've ever read. Is there a video of this anywhere?
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nah sorry, a mate sent it to me via email, I have asked him for the full transcript but he hasnt gotten back to me yet
 
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edbrat

Member
Mark Waugh is pretty cool, love the way he just slaps down poor Gladstone. I can imagine him sticking clarke over his knee and giving him a bloody good thrashing for not being Aussie enough. He has exactly the type of "no quarter given" attitude that helped Australia dominate world cricket for over a decade, if they had even half a Mark Waugh in the current side things would be different.
 
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jambo

Member
chicko1983 said:
Fox Sports 3’s Inside Cricket last night, transcript:
Brendan Julian “So where do we go from here boys, Junior what do you reckon?”
Mark Waugh “Mate if I was a selector there are at least five, maybe six, of those blokes who’d be looking for something to do next week, because they wouldn’t be playing cricket in Perth.”
Damien Fleming “Such as?”
Waugh “Mate, Doherty for a start. I mean jeez, we’ve picked a bloke because we don’t know who our spinner should be. Should we seriously pick a guy who has played 10 state level tests in his life to go up against Pietersen, Cooke and those guys?”
Julian “Bit harsh”
Waugh “Bit harsh? He was chucking that many pies at Pietersen he may as well have opened a bakery on days 2 and 3.”
Fleming “North?”
Waugh “Gone”
Julian “Bollinger? Siddle?”
Waugh “Gone”
Gladstone Small “ Can I interrupt for a minute?”
Waugh “No”
Julian “Junior is on a bit of a roll here Stone”
Waugh “No I mean fair go, we’ve got it wrong here. If I’m the only bloke not happy that we’ve been rolled for an innings and 70 odd runs on a runway of a pitch and that lets be honest we’re going to have a summer of the poms handing us our **** in this series then fair go boys, something’s wrong here. What’s Clarke doing after getting out? He’s on twitter saying sorry for not walking? Mate if he did that in our side there’d be hell to pay. AB would chuck his twitter box off the balcony or whatever it is. Sorry for not walking? *expletive*

:lol :lol
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Ice cold!

:lol :lol :lol
 
Papa

Papa

Banned
Clarke is a brat, plain and simple. I'm English on my mother's side, maybe it's not too late to change camps :lol
 
scotcheggz

scotcheggz

Member
I'd love to see Warne back, the man was a joy to watch, but there's too many reasons for him not to do it.

Also, :lol at Mark Waugh
 
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Grug

Member
Salazar said:
He won't do it.
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Very, very, very unlikely, but you wouldn't write it off altogether. Shane has a messiah complex (and who can blame him for that).

Would just be a hilarious circus though. :lol
 
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Grug

Member
I'd hope people aren't laughing at the Waugh transcript in the belief that it is some sort of meltdown. It's clearly not.

It's just a bloke who wants to bust up the "jobs for mates" boys club that is the Cricket Australia establishment, sick of the religious reverence that has been afforded to the Australian selectors for too long. Good on him. Our dominant team from the 90s-2000s essentially picked itself. Now that the selectors have real work to do, they're being found out.

He is also baffled at the lack of committment, focus and desire in the current team. His comment about Clarke on Twitter and what Allan Border would have done in that situation is so fucking spot on.

<3 Mark Waugh
 
scotcheggz

scotcheggz

Member
^ I laughed, not becuase I thought it was a meltdown, just becuase it was painfully frank and hilariously put. Twitter box? :lol Brilliant.

Grug said:
Very, very, very unlikely, but you wouldn't write it off altogether. Shane has a messiah complex (and who can blame him for that).

Would just be a hilarious circus though. :lol
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I was listening to test match special (or I might have been watching on sky.. can't remember) on one of the days last week and they were talking about him coming back, he just said somehting along the lines of "with the way my careers gone, I wouldn't rule anything out".

I think he was just playing along though. I'd love him to come back, in a perfect world the guy would have never aged and just played cricket for the rest of my life, but I'm sure it's never gonna happen. If he did, I'd be so conflicted, obviously as an englishman, I'd love to see him smashed all over the park and sent packing, but it wouldn't do his international career justice at all :(
 
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Grug

Member
scotcheggz said:
I think he was just playing along though. I'd love him to come back, in a perfect world the guy would have never aged and just played cricket for the rest of my life, but I'm sure it's never gonna happen. If he did, I'd be so conflicted, obviously as an englishman, I'd love to see him smashed all over the park and sent packing, but it wouldn't do his international career justice at all :(
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Worst case scenario is that instead of Hauritz or Doherty getting smashed around the park, it's Shane Warne instead.

Geez, the fact that I'm even entertaining this situation shows how lost we are right now. :lol At least we can have a sense of humour about it all.
 
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legend166

Member
Steve Smith finishes with 8 wickets in the NSW vs SA Shield game.

Will the selectors risk picking him as the specialist spinner? I think he's the perfect number 6 to replace North. Better batsman, better bowler, better fielder.
 
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master15

Member
M Waugh not only is the most elegant and graceful player I've watched, I love the cold hard smackdown he laid there.

Kind of sums up where we are regarding spinners there's talks of brining back Warney :lol
 
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Grug

Member
Beer is one from obscurity. But so was Warney all those years ago.

At least the selectors are showing some balls.
 
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guidop

Member
Grug said:
Beer is one from obscurity. But so was Warney all those years ago.

At least the selectors are showing some balls.
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What were warnie's first class stats at the time? I'm sure he would have had a lot better figures then the lot going around today.

Hughes is the wrong choice he is averaging just 25 this season and just got out for a duck, Marsh would be a far better choice especially at the waca
 
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Rezbit

Member
Grug said:
Beer is one from obscurity. But so was Warney all those years ago.

At least the selectors are showing some balls.
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Yeah, but at the moment every spinner is obscure. Picking any spinner shows balls. Because every single spinner in the country is mediocre at best.

Hughes is a terrible choice. Based on current form, he doesn't improve the team in any way.

Wouldn't be surprised at all to see us routed in Perth.
 
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ItAintEasyBeinCheesy

it's 4th of July in my asshole
guidop said:
What ever you do don't check Beer's figures not pretty reading
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God i hope they arent choosing him because of Warnie recommending him. He is a advertisers dream though if he does pull of something miraculous.......... BEER.

Damn they need to get that guy from Victoria in the team that got Cook out, first time he hasnt score 100+ in a few weeks.
 
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Dead Man

Member
Calls for Cricket summit in Australia, also Clarke to remain as vice captain for ever:http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket...stralian-cricket/story-e6frf3gl-1225969309615
Former stars have called for ex-Test captain Mark Taylor to preside over a crisis summit into Australian cricket as the current generation of players was labelled "spoilt" and "mollycoddled".

As Ricky Ponting's men attempt to hit back against England in the third Test in Perth, cricket powerbrokers were urged to conduct a sweeping review of the sport and the culture of the national side after the Ashes.

Former Test gloveman Steve Rixon said Australia's slide down the ICC Test rankings to as low as fifth was unacceptable for a country as well resourced as any in world cricket.

Rixon believes the likes of Steve Waugh and Taylor, renowned as one of cricket's most innovative captains, could formulate a blueprint to return Australia to world-champion status.
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"There has been no suggestion from anyone I've heard, either around the board or anyone around the selection table, that there is anything but the ultimate confidence in Ricky Ponting as a leader and as a player," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said.

Sutherland also said the Cricket Australia board's position on Michael Clarke being Ponting's heir apparent remained unchanged.

"He's vice-captain of the Test team, he's vice-captain of the one-day team, he's captain of the T20 team, so I think that's a reasonable indication of where he sits in that pecking order," he said.

"There wouldn't appear to me, from where I sit, any indication that Michael isn't the person most likely."
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:(
 
phisheep

phisheep

NeoGAF's Chief Barrister
What - there's a two and-a-half hour time difference between adjacent bits of Australia?

How does that work, huh? No, don't explain - I wouldn't understand. All it means is instead of staying up for the morning session plus as long as I can keep eyes open, I'll join you guys sometime after the lunch interval.

Going to bed now.
 
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santouras

Member
phisheep said:
What - there's a two and-a-half hour time difference between adjacent bits of Australia?

How does that work, huh? No, don't explain - I wouldn't understand.
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the coasts of australia are about as non-adjacent as you can get :lol

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legend166

Member
So after all that, Beer isn't even playing.

Something tells me he'll be resigned to being nothing more than an answer to a trivia question forever now.
 
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