Carlton Supporters Club

Rabada not getting two years was a fit up.
Marnus cops a lot of flak but Khawaja has gotten away with being a hundred or zero man for while.

Embarrassing performance from our blokes, Saffies are within reach of victory with opener Markram hammering our bowling, we could still win given SA are a rubbery batting line up who could collapse but we still need 8 wickets and they only need 80 odd runs.

Both teams have decent attacks but the wicket doesn’t hold any terrors.  Inept batting is the key to us winning/losing 🙄

Quote from: DJC – on June 14, 2025, 10:49:00 am

Both teams have decent attacks but the wicket doesn’t hold any terrors.  Inept batting is the key to us winning/losing 🙄

It's been that way for several seasons now, when the opposition batting fails to collapse like our own list we like to blame our bowlers.

Hayden's comments expose the folly, he was basically telling people the pitch was unplayable and blokes were sitting in the rooms in dread and tears. The pitch might well be a sh1t pitch for the WTC Final, but it's not horrendous, it's just not your typical Lord's pitch. Horrendous is when you go into a forward defence and get hit in the face, this pitch has done none of that sort of rubbish!

IPL has made these blokes soft and weak minded, if the pitch isn't a road they bitch and moan. They want runs delivered to them on a platter. They need to take some of Jeremy Clarkson's advice, the advice he gave to Kaleb Cooper when he returned to the farm from his theatre performance gig, how to get over a dose of "c@#t flu!"

Sometimes it is the bowlers at fault, but in general our bowling is good on average despite one or two highly variable performances from certain players.

Our best performed bowler in the UK in recent times isn't even in the squad.

Until the NSW Cricket Mafia lose control of CA nothing will change, they have there favourites and the deflect like hell to defend them.

Saffies rolled us, lost a few wickets this morning(England time) but Markram with 136 did the bulk of the work required. Going to have to be changes and the Aus mates club losing a few members.

Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on June 14, 2025, 10:30:17 pm

Saffies rolled us, lost a few wickets this morning(England time) but Markram with 136 did the bulk of the work required. Going to have to be changes and the Aus mates club losing a few members.

Smith has to miss and Inglis has to replace Marnus.  Webster keeps the all rounder spot and another batsman replaces Green.

Quote from: LP – on June 14, 2025, 12:14:34 pm

It's been that way for several seasons now, when the opposition batting fails to collapse like our own list we like to blame our bowlers.

Hayden's comments expose the folly, he was basically telling people the pitch was unplayable and blokes were sitting in the rooms in dread and tears. The pitch might well be a sh1t pitch for the WTC Final, but it's not horrendous, it's just not your typical Lord's pitch. Horrendous is when you go into a forward defence and get hit in the face, this pitch has done none of that sort of rubbish!

IPL has made these blokes soft and weak minded, if the pitch isn't a road they bitch and moan. They want runs delivered to them on a platter. They need to take some of Jeremy Clarkson's advice, the advice he gave to Kaleb Cooper when he returned to the farm from his theatre performance gig, how to get over a dose of "c@#t flu!"

Sometimes it is the bowlers at fault, but in general our bowling is good on average despite one or two highly variable performances from certain players.

Our best performed bowler in the UK in recent times isn't even in the squad.

Until the NSW Cricket Mafia lose control of CA nothing will change, they have there favourites and the deflect like hell to defend them.

Pitch is fine if you can bat , one of their blokes has made 100 and their captain is 67 not out, too many IPL champs but no one with any technique in English conditions. The IPL has stuffed test cricket and we have seen Bazball short format stuff adopted by most test nations and its created a breed of batsman that cant cope in bowler friendly conditions.
The Batsman are not getting out through dangerous deliveries but from well executed pace bowling backed up by good fielding.
Id be moving George Bailey on, has no idea imo and just keeps picking the mates club players regardless of form, opposition or conditions. Green should never have played and we need two specialist openers not makeshift players who are popular with teammates but havent made a score for a couple of years ie Marnus.

Head bats like it's the world cup and has to start giving a F about test batting.

I think Marnus has been unfairly blamed, Khawaja is years past his best and it looks like they're going to have to pry him out with a crowbar.  Green is over rated - way over rated and needs a kick up the ar$e.  Head bats like it's the world cup and has to start giving a F about test batting.

Hazelwood didn't do enough to justify being selected over Boland either.

Konstas has done very little to justify selection, yet another NSW-centric selection.

The one who really has no clue is Bailey, constantly goes conservative and picks the same old names.  Has faith in the same hacks for too long and needs to look at players from outside NSW. Time to go George.