Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket
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Low ratings? Legends of the game love retelling their sledging stories to all and sundry. Incorporate the sledging into the broadcast. Insant hype. Make the game great again.
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Beat me to it.@duluth said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@mariner4life said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
It's not too hard to see why test cricket is fucked. SA v Aus is a massive series. And no one turned up.
People seem interested now. Warner is the saviour of Test cricket
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@canerbry said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
Whatever happened between Candice Warner and Sonny Bill Williams and multiple others has no place on the cricket pitch.
absolutely this. It should be left in the pub toilet, where it belongs.
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@barbarian said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
- gets on the front stool and belts the ball, and doesn't give a shit about what people think.
He's one of those unique characters that exist very rarely across all sports. Aussie cricket does have a habit of producing them - I reckon Hayden and McGrath are two others who fit this mould as well. Steve Waugh maybe, but he was a little bit less brash.
Warnie would be the obvious one from that era wouldn't he?
Chappelli, Thommo, Lillee, Kim Hughes, Greg Matthews, Craig McDermott, Brett Lee, Michael Clarke - seemingly pretty brash characters
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@chris-b said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@barbarian said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
- gets on the front stool and belts the ball, and doesn't give a shit about what people think.
He's one of those unique characters that exist very rarely across all sports. Aussie cricket does have a habit of producing them - I reckon Hayden and McGrath are two others who fit this mould as well. Steve Waugh maybe, but he was a little bit less brash.
Warnie would be the obvious one from that era wouldn't he?
Chappelli, Thommo, Lillee, Kim Hughes, Greg Matthews, Craig McDermott, Brett Lee, Michael Clarke - seemingly pretty brash characters
Warne was more along the lines of the clever quipster that would make a perfectly timed and targeted comment to derail concentration.
Unfortunately that's what all the other boorish players think they are doing but instead they have the subtlety of a mullet.The convicts truly can't understand what they are doing wrong as it is how they are brought up playing like that. It is a part of the game from youth levels up.
Edit: why do Oz think they have the right to decide where the line in the sand is drawn? What is acceptable or not surely differs between cultures?
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DDD cleared to play.
Warner cleared to play second Test after accepting disrepute charge
Australian vice-captain David Warner has been cleared to take on South Africa in the second Test after accepting three demerit points and a heavy fine for his role in a stairway scuffle in Durban.
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@virgil said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
When you appoint someone called Boof as coach what do you expect?
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"Australia's captain Steven Smith and coach Darren Lehmann should be held accountable for encouraging David Warner's aggressive on-field behaviour, former captain Ian Chappell has said."
Umm....that came from Ian Chappell....
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@donsteppa said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@snowy People who now scream Get Off My Lawn were also a young person once...
I'm not a forgive and forget kind of guy. (ask @taniwharugby).
Nothing against TR. He just knows that companies that piss me off don't get my money. AMP
I am also old and grumpy.
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The Saffers have been almighty sooks about this whole thing, as usual.
While they obviously have a better long-term record that us, they are hardly saints on this front either (Rabada's verbal send-offs have been pulled up twice in the last year, just for one).
The place it will cost them is on the field. This stuff will do what it's always done - galvanise and motivate the Australian side (who will go into 'us against the world' mode).
I'm more confident of a series victory now than I was two days ago.
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@barbarian get your hand off it Barb. Why sooks? Didn't Faf pretty much say "yea, shit was said by both sides"?
Who is having a cry to the media about "lines", and not crossing them? Neither side is coming up well here.
You are right about one thing though. Your merry bunch of fuckwits do thrive on this shit. We've seen it before. Give out a fuck ton of verbal, get fired up when the opposition come back at them, cross an arbitrary line in the sand they themselves drew. Cry to the media. Create siege mentality.
I never understood why, considering generally Aus have the better players anyway (and certainly do this series).
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@barbarian said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
The Saffers have been almighty sooks about this whole thing, as usual.
Staying away from Australian media lately?
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@mariner4life said in Convicts v Marxist Land Thieves - Crucket:
@barbarian get your hand off it Barb. Why sooks? Didn't Faf pretty much say "yea, shit was said by both sides"?
Well today the Saffer coach has come out and said De Kock has done 'nothing wrong'.
"We are appealing because we think Quinny didn't do anything. Quinny wasn't aggressive," Gibson said. "You saw some footage and the footage showed Quinny walking up the stairs and somebody else being restrained and then Quinny gets [charged with] a Level 1 [breach]. That doesn't seem fair."So instead of going 'shit happened, lets move on', they are fighting the charge. We now get bogged down into a he said/she said, where the only actual witness was Tim Paine. And he says that de Kock DID say something.
The story drags on for another day or two, we pour over grainy video like it's the Zapruder film, and get a few more days of opinion from all comers. And I can't see how De Kock beats the charge.
Warner carried on like a total cock, for sure. But by whipping all of this stuff up, I just can't see how the Saffers come out ahead.
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@barbarian they don't. you are the one trying to find a "winner" with your sook allegation.
Ian Chappell - Wikipedia
