Well, I look at the variability of Vettel versus the early form of Ricciardo and it makes me wonder, was Webber too rash in pulling the pin?
We have had the heads of RBR complaining about the new regulations, they are virtually crying over what they perceive as changes specifically targeted to reign them in. Paranoid as that may be, Ricciardo seems to be doing OK.
This makes me think Vettel seems unable to adjust to the refinements and requirements of driving a turbo to the limit, he has made statements about the new power plants, while Ricciardo in the same machine seems to do fine. Most of the other drivers I regard as turbo experienced seem to have adapted to the change better than Vettel.
How would MW go with the return of the turbo, they are cars that need a driver not just a reckless bloody minded lead foot?
Multi 21 Seb, get out of Ricciardo's way you are slowing him down!
We have this problem in our F50, it is jam packed with defenders 90% of the game and our talls don't mark!
We need a tactic that thins out the opposition defense, make them cover more ground.
Bring back the torp I say, let Jammo, Watson and Tuohy patrol the HFF at kick ins and when we press up the ground. If we turn it over on the F50 at a kick in, or if there is no way forward off the flank even consider kick it backwards to them.
Sure the accuracy might be rubbish, but once defenders stand watching kicks sail over their head a few times you see a significant shift in the attitude to opposition flooding. You only have to get one goal and they will not be so keen to leave you unattended. I do not know a coach or defender who is happy to leave the scoring of a goal by the opposition up to chance, they are more about eliminating those chances all together. Draw them out and the likes of Garlett, Murphy, Ellard and Yarran have much more room to play in!
PS: At the moment Tuohy averages 0.4 goals, Watson 0.1 goals and Jamison 0.0, anything they score is a plus!
Well anyone who has seen this must be gob-smacked.
A sport worth trillions of dollars, players worth millions and influencing trillions more in gambling dollars can tolerate such a blatant fraud without penalty or consequence.
I have to laugh today about the debate going on in the media about the poor snow bunnies blaming a shortness of funds for the lack of results in their sports. Just struggler's they are, hardly a quid between them!
Yes you guessed it I am being just a tad factitious.
Individually a lot of this winter Olympics team even shadow Andrew Bogut for personnel wealth. This isn't your everyday budget sports team, many of those kids are the children or grandchildren of the double, maybe even triple, filthy rich!
Dale Begg-Smith, allegedly more money than Israel hidden in offshore accounts. Could allegedly buy the team and run it as a private party enterprise. Rumors he had Sochi snow shipped to the Caribbean to get in some early pre-olympics practice on the right stuff!
Belle Brockhoff, that is Belle of the Biscuits Brockhoff, family allegedly richer than God but apparently short of some sugar!
Tora Bright, allegedly the snowy fields female equivalent of Tony Hawk, could not afford to stop singing paid autographs and endorsements for long enough to get in some practice!
FFS taxpayers please empty your pockets this is urgent, without your help those poor bastards will have to drink plain old Bollinger instead of Cristal on the flight home!
Like most to the cheap crap copies of quality Western goods that China frequently dumps in our domestic market, killing Australian jobs in the process, even the high end space vehicle "Jade Rabbit" has bit the dust.
It lasted a mere fraction of the life of it's NASA competitors, surprise surprise, and now is doomed to be yet more industrial waste.
When will we in "The West" learn, you get what you pay for? We better remember this as we wait patiently in the dole queues, before returning home to our faltering 155cm TVs and noisy refrigerator in our self disassembling car!
OK, we have had the positive threads about the best 22 for 2014. Lets look at the flip side for some balance. Not just a who is on the slide or who isn't good enough, but players who might have external reasons to struggle as well.
Who do you think is going to struggle in 2014?
I will open up with what I think is a safe bet, but I think SpecialK cannot be expected to deliver much in 2014. It's almost Feb and over this pre-season the lad has been in a moon boot for months and still has not resumed full training.
He is a ruckmen who plays his best when the he gets significant game time in the engine room. Without a full fitness base I suspect he won't ever catch enough up by the time the season starts, and that will leave him struggling for 2014. I suspect that is why they recruited Wood.
The use of Real-Time Snicko will quickly lead to the realisation that most top level batsmen are out many times an innings and that goes almost unnoticed on a regular basis. The Indians know this, BCCI has had local eggheads go over the technology with a fine tooth comb and have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to have it "de-tuned" through the bureaucracy of the ICC. They have quickly come to the conclusion that with an accurate sensor technology batting on normal wickets would be almost impossible. But they cannot stop the broadcasters doing what they like with it even it the umpires get a watered down version.
Pessimists will say this can only result in two things, the production of dead flat boring wickets to maximise the favor to the batsmen, and the end of five days of test cricket excluding when weather interruptions.
Optimists will say the era of cricket being dominated by the bat is over and dead, long live 20/20.