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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Last post by LP -Also, how Green topped the IPL auction can only be a confirmation that marketing spin and corruption dominate performance.
Netanyahu is within rights to steam roll palestine and solve that problem once and for all,Surely nobody, neither side in this dispute and nobody in any dispute, has the right to target facilities or take actions that cause the collateral death of children and infants, either directly or indirectly.
Target military, terrorists and gorillas all you like, but stay away from civilians and children.
Netanyahu is within rights to steam roll palestine and solve that problem once and for all,
Hang on!
You can't have it both ways.
You can't say 2023 is SOS's team and then in the next breath say Austin has had six years.
The only one moving goal posts around is your good self.![]()
All list managers build on their predecessors list to some extent.
Cripps and Docherty were part of that for Silvagni so was Ed Curnow
You can't just dismiss the players that Austin added for 2023.
And the real fruits of Austin's tenure are yet to hit their peak.
So are you saying our list manager had built a side capable of winning a flag![]()
Potentially....but our previous one...
Potentially....but our previous one...
...was long gone.
The list position we found ourselves in was a combination of the efforts of both.
You can't have one without the other.
And two injury hit and disrupted seasons later you want the one left gone.
Crash mentioned 2002 but there was another injury hit season in 2014 when many of our best players including Judd and Kreuzer missed big chunks....and Robinson and Garlett went off the rails.
The brains trust at the time decided we needed a rebuild and the incoming list manager cut the list and sent the club into oblivion.
So are you saying our list manager had built a side capable of winning a flag![]()
Potentially....but our previous one...
2 sides to every coin.
How well did we do with Charlie doing nothing? Imagine if we get him up to speed and added depth around him, rather than losing depth. Thats not so 'magical' now is it?
Results did worsen, but thats about the playing list rather than the coaching.
Even Docherty said as much post retirement.....thats if you don't want to take my word for it which was well documented at the time as well.
....and one last thing.
The result 'proves' we were brittle?
In case you are unaware, that team that showed how 'brittle' we were, were a goal off having a 3-peat.....and we had them 5 goals down on their home deck early.
Doesn't seem brittle to me. Seems to have been beaten by the best side in the modern game right now
So are you saying our list manager had built a side capable of winning a flag![]()