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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 5 : BLUES Defeated Dogs (Finally Final Siren Elation)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Your Enthusiasm
Carlton v Port Adelaide? How boring to start a year (although we should get a win).
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The Sports Desk / Re: Third Ashes Test (WACA) - The Decider ??
Selfish to retire now? Absolutely.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Rafa Nadal - 13 slams - no love here ?
The grace of Fed on the court is amazing. Loved both Lendl and Edberg in the 80s (and Miloslav Mecir)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: ELIMINATION FINAL : Ninth Beats Ninthmond (Ha Ha Ha Ending)
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The Sports Desk / Re: Ashes Controversy - Poms Tape Bats To Avoid Hotspot
Not if you tape the outside edge and leave the inside edge 'pure'...while it may then pick up the inside edge for a caught behind, or down leg side, percentages probably mean that you're still in front...
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The Sports Desk / Re: Ashes Controversy - Poms Tape Bats To Avoid Hotspot
It is not banned. It is not tested. It is the players coming up with a solution to a problem.
Is it moral? Possibly not. Is not walking when you've nicked it moral?
What happens now? Does the theory actually get tested? Do the tests go further as per the suggestions by LP?
Do they sack hotspot until there is some proof.
This is a much more fun concept than using drugs to get an unfair result.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Time For The DRS To Be Scrapped - Ashes Farce !!!
Currently if an umpire gives an LBW appeal out and the batsman asks for DRS, then assuming other conditions are met, the ball only needs to be shaving the stumps for it to be given out. If the bowling team asks for DRS for an LBW given not out, and other conditions are met, then majority of ball needs to be hitting stumps.
This needs to have only one interpretation. Doesn't matter which.
The third umpire has to be able to intervene when a 'Stuart Broad' situation arises. Takes one reply to realise he's out, before the bowler has gone back to his mark.
The umpires must also be able to ask for a decision to be reviewed if they are not sure.
There still needs to be a limit on the number of decisions teams can ask for DRS incorrectly in order to limit abuse.
As has been mentioned, the DRS was introduced to prevent 'howlers'. Could hardly call both the Clarke and Hadding decisions howlers...