I know this thread is for test cricket (mostly), but today's T20 performances against Zimbabwe was unbelievably poor. Losing to these guys is unacceptable on any deck. Mind you, we seem to playing all of our games on low turners. What does it say about our ability o play spin? You don't need to be a genius to guess what I think.
I was thinking about the outrage such a pitch would cause here, the top tier have become prima donnas. They rated the MCG pitch poor and that pitch good!
If you want to know what the real America is like, pick and stay at a Holiday In in a remote southern location, sleep in before attending for a late breakfast.
Just after the travellers and business types have left the restaurant will be a ghost town, you can sit there alone at 9:30am and all of a sudden out of the kitchen will roll tray after tray full of bacon, scrambled eggs, tomatoes and breakfast sausages, jugs of watered down orange and melon juice, stacks of white bread and trays of croissants piled high. The staff will man the doors as the first RVs roll into the car park, it's like Boxing Day sale stampede where every shopper is 30 stone, but it is the 10am all you can eat breakfast buffet.
The staff had given me a polite warning of the pending doom, is was just a simple question not wanting to be rude, "Do you really want to sit here?" I ignored it, I should have taken the hint, now I know why!
They don't need youth crime in the USA, they have ICE.
For what it's worth regarding Victoria, things aren't so rosy in other Australian states either, claiming one is better is more an issue of cherry-picking than identifying better ways.
Crime is rife in WA, but just like the NT no media entity on the east coast gives a stuff to report it, and they don't have Bec Judd on social media as the town crier.
Sindney's organised crime makes the CFMEU in Vic look like amateurs, and it extends into parliament house and the police force.
Most in Qld are too drug f@3k3d to know what the f@ck is going on!
SA thinks Elon Musk is a good solid business partner, and that carbon emissions don't apply to all the green tech they import.
Tassie is the fraud capital of the country, half the multi-million dollar well to do homes overlooking Salamanca are occupied by NDIS welfare recipients!
Cottrell and Hollands are elite aerobic runners, marathon athletes, but not the combination of pace and deep running that Binns is capable of, however both of them have Binns comfortably covered because when they get to the contest they compete, Binns tends to move / run to receive.
I don't get why the MAGA media post this stuff and think it's a positive for RedTrump, or how anybody can read it and think he some sort of righteous clarion.
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The Miami Herald’s Julie K. Brown, probably the foremost reporter on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, has revealed what Donald Trump told police all the way back in July of 2006, back when the first charges of sexual misconduct against Epstein became public knowledge.
Mr Trump told Palm Beach police commissioner Michael Reiter “everyone has known” about Epstein’s activities. He also called Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, “evil” and advised law enforcement to “focus on her”. He described her as Epstein’s “operative”.
I read that paragraph and think, this heavily resourced and connected Kent new what was going or in a global paedophile ring back in 2006 and chose to do feck all about it!
Too many similar types and he didn't have any tricks, disposal was average.
O. Hollands, L. Camporeale....even Cottrell play the same role and better.
Certainly, competing for the same roles, but Binns' running was well above the others.
Although I think his physicality was well below those he competed with, and that might not be acceptable for a coach with Voss' history!
Anyway, it's just another speculation, I think the real question is not why he was delisted, but why he wasn't picked up because his running is elite at any level.
I've a business associate in Chicago, he tells me that region is generally a red state but even so it has started to call out the sh1zen and grow tired of the rhetoric. At a recent RedTrump rally the organisers packed almost everybody in the venue into the stage behind him and he spoke to camera with a mostly empty auditorium behind them. You can apparently tell which events this happens because RedTrump can't stop himself from involuntarily trying to turn around and face the live audience behind him, he apparently looks quite awkward speaking at funny head twisted angles. GOP blamed the weather.
Moir has an upside, and obvious AFL level tricks, we shouldn't be burdening him with too many negatives so early in his career.
This time next year would be the time to be more critical.
The U23 category is interesting, because it basically sits on the boundary of who will and who won't.
At 21 it's too early to write many players off, and by the time players are 25 you know if they are going to make it or not. I realise there will be some claim they told us so, "they knew" back when a player was 18 or 20, but that news always arrives retrospectively.
I like Darcy's boy in terms of his attack on the footy, the aggression he shows, but AFL is full of big bodies and eventually that style of play is going to take it's toll and that could be in Rnd 1 or in years from now, but it'll happen.
Handbaggers will always be in and about given they have the experience and are well managed through the season, they just need to find a way to get the big names into a GF in a fresh state, at the moment they keep burning them in Prelims or early finals.
Having said that, I heard that Scott has gone MiA, or LoA, whatever it is it could be a sign he grows weary.
