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Good one Joel, the test match is at Wormsley (strange name) 13 August 2013, unfortunately there seems to be no market for it on Betfair.
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South Africa looking Ashes winners more and more as we get closer
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too true happpy valley... so much of this sports science and management is just utter ****. The way the oz cricket admin. is carrying on right now reminds me of the sort of sports science that goes on at clubs which are perrenial losers. They just seem to find ways to destroy morale and turn v. good players into confused messes. Take an example from AFL.... a club of perennial losers like footscray recently got close to being a top 4 club with a definite premiership chance. Too put a cherry on top of the progress and try and deliver that cup, they imported a champion player. He was a brownlow medallist, a three time premiership player and exactly what they needed structurally to go the next step... a genius goal sneak who could run all day, get a ton of it wherever it was and be creative when a shot for goal wasn't on offer.
What happened?? The guy had entered a club which has always found a way. A "leadership" group was set up by sports management and almost straight away this group began ostracising the champion that was a better player than they were and could ever hope to be. Instead of bonding, becoming friends and working "with" the champ..... they began finding fault. He loved to do handstands after kicking miracle goals and before walking off the ground triumphant in victory... sooo..... they started applying the management .... and made him stand up in front of the bunch of losers and explain "to them" why he was such an idiot. Alienated him completely and the rest is history. In a few years the club slipped straight back to where they always have been. You do NOT need to write essays and give lectures about "what you did wrong" and stupidity... to win sporting contests. |
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what was they thinking actaully asking them to such a thing...
how much do they get paid again?? not much to ask i would think |
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Mickey Arthur is actually a long-term British agent, a sleeper, whom we've used to infiltrate Cricket Australia and totally fcuk things up for you guys, inside and out and backwards and forwards
Shane Watson going home is especially brilliant for us as he's been such a consistent player against us and at least takes some pressure of Clarke's need to score runs. He also seems a hell of a solid and proper pro in his attitude. Well done Mickey. Great job. We will soon repatriate you and give you that false ID. |
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Aussie Driver, as it happens i along with many British cricket fans are not at all in favour of current regulations which allows someone such as Trott to represent SAfrica all through his youth and then play for England.
But that is not the issue is it? The issue now is your players not doing their homework. Surely a detention would have sufficient punishment. Apparently Watson said he did do it but the dog ate it and the reason he's so upset is that they didn't believe him.  |
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Patto giving Clarke a wedgie didn't help either, and Mitchell Johnson wouldn't swap one of his vegemite sandwiches for a ham one. The culture is all wrong.
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Do you have mental issues?
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Oh Gosh SecondComing, I'm all a tremble.
And it sounds like you are already started. Btw, where's your sense of humour, this is just a bit of pre-Ashes banter with a few serious issues thrown in. Especially this latest one where I'm clearly in sympathy with the plight of Cricket Australia and heavily critical of Mickey "The British Agent" Arthur. |
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I literally cannot stop laughing!!!
 Australia in disarray and it's getting worse each day!!! Messrs Clarke and Arthur make Julia and Wayne Swan look competent (only just)! You've only got 12 players left in India - only one of the 12 is any good, and the other 11 hate him! !!! |
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But at least they do their homework..........
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i still expect them to be competitive by the time the Ashes comes around - in fact deep down don't you want them to sort out all the rubbish that is going on, get rid of Arthur and get some cohesion.
as i've said above, don't let's forget that Simon Kattich (spelling?) was also very badly treated and he's never really been replaced at the top of the order. there just seems to be a lot of nose cutting off to spite face. |
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SecondComing
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SC - pleased to hear that.
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Dont worry about SC, he seems like a bit of a willy wanka
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yes I am a willy wonka kinda guy, not even a gobstopper can shut me up
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SC - is that your sense of humour again.
I wasn't lying or lieing or even fibbing. I was happy to see you had calmed down and weren't threatening to banish me to living a life in Regret as I don't plan to leave HK anytime soon. I did go to Regret a couple of times and found it a rather inhospitable joint and vowed never to return. |
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I offended Joel somehow and I never directly spoke to him
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btw guys there is a very good post from Deadly Earnest (imo of course) on the Wellness fred which might be of some interest to you.
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4-0 looking very likely v india now.... And let us not forget, India are not a very good team. This is the worst aus team i have ever known, even worse than the 2010/11 vintage, but are they worse than that eighties rabble that botham used to take to the cleaners? Hmm, I think so.
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New Zealand are not a very good team either and they are making England look pretty ordinary too. Oz will be different team in England. Ashes looming to be a very close battle.
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I already told you how bad they were ffs, worst since World Series Cricket
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would aust be the 1st country to have a ring-in??
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Will Swan be back for the Ashes?
If not, then who would England use as a spinner? Surely Panesar can not possibly be selected, current tour of NZ his stats are.... Overs = 121 Runs = 297 Wickets = 3 |
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That would make him our best spinner
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He still throws like a girl though, wouldnt get a game in a real team.
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earlycrow, how exactly did you come to that conclusion?????
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Disregard that question earlycrow, no matter what your answer is I won't accept it as being logical.
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joel - panesar plays very successfully for sussex, my team!
the team of john snow and tony greig and imran khan and keplar wessels and javid miandad and matt prior, we even had barry richards and the guy who was the run machine at essex for many years, macEwan or something like that, but we let them both go, indeed when once forced to pick between wessels and miandad we picked wessels!! |
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How many aussie fans does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they just sit in the dark and talk about how good the old one was. |
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Never write off Australia.
Ill be backing them every test to win and Lay off when Green. We can never perform well in India Only Rain can save england |
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Not clever at all, it's a very old joke which is best applied to a team in a "league" who's fans do not want to let the successful players of the past go because of former glory.
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just seen that panesar showed his balls again by helping us save the match and the series against NZ.
and it reminded me of his huge rearguard action, joel, in that all-important first test against your boys in Glamgorgan when he batted for well over an hour, perhaps even two, as our last wicket held out against all the odds and we went onto win the Ashes. so you're being unfair to Monty, imo, especially as he was so instrumental in our defeat of India. Good old Sussex by the sea! |
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Please don't remind me of that
I still maintain my stance.....he throws like a girl  |
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i over-estimated a little, in Glamgorgan it was 69 balls and 45 mins that Panesar and Anderson, our last wicket pair, held out. We also batted all day.
Why do girls throw like girls? (other than because their girls of course ) |