Everything major gets politicised in Aus which never leads to good outcomes......
This craps me to tears. You get the feeling that if one party says "up" the other party just says "down" as a knee-jerk reaction. doesnt get us anywhere.
The amount of playing the man rather than the issue during the pandemic was shameful. as others have pointed out on here, it was more about point scoring, rather than any thought of saving lives
Not a fan of 'best 22'. Rather a kind of 'core' and then those who are important and rotated for team balance, which factors in form and injury. For this little black duck it's a best 28. Core (first picked if fit): Acres Cerra Cripps Curnow Doc Gov H Hewett Martin Newman Pitto Saad TDK Walsh Weitering
Rotated through for team balance/need to cover injuries or form loss of core blokes: Boyd Cincotta Cottrell Cuningham Fogarty Hollands JSOS Marchbank Motlop Owies Kemp Kennedy Williams
Thats a great core of 28 - i would add small-Durds to it - and make it 29
plus you have a couple of incoming players (pick 16, a free agent/trade etc) and binns/cowan/young/carroll that we hope to see improvement from
it SHOULD be a good solid 30-35 players to form a good squad
100% votes for - Cez - Crippa - Gov - TDK - Blacres - Doch - Walsh - Martin - Weiters - Charlie - Saad - Cotters
Thats 12 with 100% votes - looks about right. I'd say the only surprises are Cotters in everyone's team (shows how important he is to our structures) and H out of 1 person's team. The rest you would pick before the vote was done
I'm with Shawny. Footy is so much easier when you're s-hit...haha.
ive never felt so nervous before a game - felt bl00dy silly, not as if i was playing or anything. but, you could sense it, in the ground, in all the bars pre-match, all baggers supporters were on their toes and edgy. even during the match, it was too close to enjoy the whole 2nd half (except after the Blacres goal, when all the tension was released).
a mate i was going to meet up with in one of the bars, after the match, was a no-show. he msgd me to tell me he just had to go home and have some quiet time, as he was emotionally cooked
Check 1:50 to go, Cripps kicks a looper into the forward line. Acres with a bung shoulder goes front on to Lever and gets poleaxed for about the 15th time. 50 secs later, with bung shoulder, takes a saving mark and kicks the winning goal. Don't tell me that won't be on high rotation at the review. Courage wins finals, snipers don't.
After Doc took the contested mark, with a bung shoulder, to get the fowrard entry........ just fckn amazing!!!
Couldn't work out why Stokes bowled Ali and Root so much but didn't give Wood a go till we were 0 for 100 and also only gave Woakes a few overs only too and they have been his best bowlers. Hope that continues.. The Broad show continues to roll on....no doubt it will continue in the commentary box where he will be employed to annoy Aus viewers.
Heard a few pundits say Wood is hurt.. wasnt giving 100% in his action. Coaches all denied this. Woakes bowled well thoguh, and should have bowled more overs - both havent played much cricket recently, had all of a sudden played 3 b2b tests.... could both just be cooked
We 'll need a serious opening stand to get anywhere near the target, which will be a record.
Maybe, just maybe, the tactic of wearing down thier attack in the first dig may be paying dividends?? was getting a bit sick of the brainwashed Pom press going on about how un-australian it was.
Seems to me only rain will save the Urn now. If there is no rain, what are the chances of Marsh and Green digging in and batting out the innings forcing the draw? Buckleys and none.
It may have been posted here but I read Cummins is standing down as Captain after the ashes. Who replaces him? Smith?
smith does most of the field placings and bowler changes when Cummins is bowling, and has a big say in everything during the bowling innings... he is not without blame in these last few bowling innings. having said that, it just goes to show that maybe you dont had the captaincy to a bloke who looks good in front of the cameras and speaks well, if he hasnt set a field since u12s
Our batting has certainly ben disappointing this series. Smith and Khawaja did OK early, but they've done nothing since. It is taking a big individual effort, instead of good, team stuff, since the end of test #1. Not sustainable. The guys need to look at how they're getting out and what to do about it. Selection - I could wax lyrical about that, but I don't really want to. Suffice to say that some of the decisions have been mystifying. But there have to be changes for the last test, no matter what the result. Reputations mean nothing at the pointy end; it is how you perform when the chips are down.
The first dig was embarassing. most clubs have a fine system that if you get a start (maybe 20-odd in club cricket) and dont go on with it, you shell out $...... what about the 8 best bats in aus all getting starts and not one of them putting their head down and grinding out a score?? did the extra bat mean they all thought someone else would do it?? if they had seen off woakes and broad, and hit moeen out of the attack, that would have left a tiring wood and a past it anderson, with no stokes. they should have made 500. there were runs there for anyone who really wanted them. continually getting out to soft dismissals from moeen, shows how they are going
@ElwoodBlues1 at one stage they had hit five(5) boundaries and a bunch of singles off Boland yesterday, four boundaries over or through slips, and one an inside edge to fine leg.
In the broadcast Taylor unloaded on Boland, in his last over Boland had Bairstow all over the place, Bairstow inside edged a ball just past leg stump for four, Taylor said Boland was too expensive and lacked control.
Cummins put himself on to replace Boland from that end the next over and Bairstow got pretty much the same inside edge onto the stumps, Taylor called it great bowling.
Rubbish commentary like that is straight out of an episode of The Twilight Zone, and it gets picked up by the media and parroted like it's a statement of fact!
I feel for Boland, he was probably our best bowler but just couldn't buy a wicket, the commentators labelled Boland as expensive but the other bowlers went for more runs off the middle of the bat! 20 of 49 runs Boland conceded came from completely uncontrolled edges.
I thouhgt boland would be effective in england, and against attacking batsman, but it just hasnt been. as much as i like him... 2/230 means he wont be playing again this series
