Ron Attwood Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 What's really happening with the test match in Adelaide? In the UK, all we're getting in the newspapers and TV, is nonsense that England are giving the Aussies a hard time. Can't be right, surely. I reckon it's because we're having such awful weather here, they're just trying to cheer us up. Yeah, that'll be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I sense a lifetime ban coming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Theres people on the pitch they think its all over...............................................It is now ;D cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I think that for once the British media might be justified in their critisisms. It was a bit of a shocker on our part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maurice_King Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Cricket ? what the hell is that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Having watched England play for many years, they could easily lose all the remaining tests. Wouldn't surprise me at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 Cricket ? what the hell is that. It's a game where one man throws a ball at another man, who has to hit it with a fat stick as far as he can. Australia used to be bloody good at it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 Having watched England play for many years, they could easily lose all the remaining tests. Wouldn't surprise me at all That thought is in the minds of every Englishman, but they're keeping quiet about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Cricket ? what the hell is that. It's a game where one man throws a ball at another man, who has to hit it with a fat stick as far as he can. Australia used to be bloody good at it! For us that is Baseball. But darn it I am moving to New Zealand this January so no more Baseball for me :'( Guess I am going to have to learn about this thing you guys call cricket \ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dow Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 I say thank god for the re-emergence of the other nations, I turned off for the last couple of years due to the smug superiority of the aussie teams and the utterly predictive results. It really did get boring, worse even than F1. I'm also finding it hard to get interested in the game as there is just too much, it's like a broken record now. When I was growing up cricket occupied about 6 weeks of the year for most of us, with a further couple of months of shield games and some distant coverage of foreign tests. Now there's about 6 weeks a year when there's NOT some form of test, one days, 20/20 etc and as with most over-hyped saturation coverage, it actually is counter-productive. Finally, to end this rant, I find today's coverage tedious. Multiple post mortems on every ball, commentators who choose to contest umpires' decisions with the benefit of slow motion video, and constant inane chatter. In the old ABC days, if there was nothing happening out there for a minute or two, the commentary would peter out for a while, the camera would focus on a lonely seagull or an interesting spectator, my brain would relax as well, and when the action started it was all fresh again. So even with the renewed interest in the results, I've given up cricket on TV because I just plain don't like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 Oh no! Don't tell me we're winning because you lot can't be arsed any more. \ Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Well as an Eheem... impartial cricket fan. Australia just got thumped and part of me was waiting for the normal killer punch the Aussies were so good at producing. But it never came. It has been this way for the last year. Have faith my English cousins, Ashes victory on Australian soil is but one win away and from the display of cricket i have seen in the last two weeks i cannot see Ponting turn this around, his team has no depth, no go to guy and their confidence is shot. The table have turned 180 degrees. Who now maybe even a miracle might happen and my forever down trodden Black Caps might win a test series against their arch nemisis. South Africa put my faith back in this great game when they came here and won a series, and now to see England dominate is such a breath of fresh air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Harris Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 We need to lose so we have something to whinge about, and besides we revel in being the underdog, it brings out the best in us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I sense a lifetime ban coming Tempting!!! ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Henare Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 We need to lose so we have something to whinge about, and besides we revel in being the underdog, it brings out the best in us That how use Kiwis have survived as a nation. You see what happens if you win all the time is that your fans expect it then don't understand when you start loosing. The way New Zealand sports works is that we hope to win but expect to loose. So when we do win it feels so much better. Just look at our amazing Soccer World Cup effort. No one expected us to be so competitive. We are the eternal underdog in world sport. Even the All Blacks have only won the Rugby World cup once even though they dominate any other time. My work mate poo poo me with this attitude saying only winning counts, but i think they are starting to understand why i have longed to see the Aussie cricket team to struggle for so long and why having a dominating team for long periods is not good for the sport. Its not the winning that counts for me its the fight to try to pull off the impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradHosking Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Oh no! Don't tell me we're winning because you lot can't be arsed any more. \ Bummer. Ron... I could say many a thing to that comment... however I shall not cause it might sound like one of your tabloids if I did. I wonder what tune they are singing to now. I can see a visa expiration occurring on some English cricketers.... What was more exciting was the punch up that Botham and Chappell had after the game. Had more life in it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 Fear not my Aussie friends, England has a history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. But not this time.....please? Incidently, I noticed a couple of posts condoning sportsmanship. Can we keep it on topic please....Nationalism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I must announce with regret that England did give Australia a very hard time, indeed a salutary whalloping. I have had to maintain a bright smile and cheerful visage as my Pom friends have paid me back in heaps. Englishmen you have a right to be cocky, the first two tests have been all yours. And I see no way that Australia can win even one. Our only hope is flooding rain, which might work for Melbourne but in Perth it has been drought, solidly fine and continuously dry. And we don't have one decent quick, and no Warnie to bowl into the footmarks as the pitch wears. This series has already cost me a lot of Tettleys and there are more thirsty Poms to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Smith Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Having watched England play for many years, they could easily lose all the remaining tests. Wouldn't surprise me at all Jeez man you oughta go into the fortune telling business ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 HUSSEY!!! Was a great day of cricket, enjoyed going immensely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6297j Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Having watched England play for many years, they could easily lose all the remaining tests. Wouldn't surprise me at all Jeez man you oughta go into the fortune telling business ) I think the wicket at the MCG should suit England better but the weather may force a draw in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 A most comforting result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 A most comforting result. Perhaps but Ponting still has to go. He should resign the captaincy and step down gracefully. He is a liability that we can do without. Andy b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 Andy, you should be ashamed.. and you a Taswegian too! Teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 The big problem is ... who would replace him? Clarke isn't doing so well himself right now and behind him I don't see a lot of leadership material. Good players, but not captains! I don't think Ponting needs replacing. We are so quick with the condemnation the moment somebody has a bit of a bad run these days. I blame the media and their ever increasing need to make a sensational story out of everything in order to get our ever more fickle attention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henderson Pow Posted December 19, 2010 Share Posted December 19, 2010 The big problem is ... who would replace him No doubt......if Hussey was younger there would be no reason why he shouldn't be captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ispy Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 To me Ponting looks tired and burn out at the moment. His average for the series is less than most of the bowlers. With a broken finger maybe he needs a "Rest" to revitalise himself. Imagine the boxing day test with The Hussey brothers playing or even Brad Hodge who is a run machine ATM. Both Victorians on their home pitch, look out England ! We might be down, but we're certainly not out ! England looked very brittle on a real wicket in Perth. Go Aussie ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 The big problem is ... who would replace him No doubt......if Hussey was younger there would be no reason why he shouldn't be captain. Hmm ... a possibilty. As you say though, he'd be a twilight years captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Webb Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I feel for Ponting. In the old days (>5 years ago!), you would have at least 3 people in the team that were captain material and would be in the media, helping the captain with tactics, etc. Nowadays, it's just him and he takes it all.... It's a lonely place being the Aussie captain at the moment!! I fear England will bounce back. The WACA pitch is so unique which, in my opinion, makes it the hardest for visiting teams. The MCG to me has lost its on-field character with the boundry ropes in so much, so England will find it much easier to play on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I feel for Ponting. In the old days (>5 years ago!), you would have at least 3 people in the team that were captain material and would be in the media, helping the captain with tactics, etc. Nowadays, it's just him and he takes it all.... It's a lonely place being the Aussie captain at the moment!! My thoughts exactly. It must be hard to have had what has been called one of the greatest teams to have ever played the game and to have them all retire out from under you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John York Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Don't worry you lot. You'll still beat us. We're experts at losing at cricket and football. You can't take that away in a hurry! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Attwood Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Is it true what I hear? That Australia have entered the winter Olympics.......Sledging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek McAllan Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 LOL you forget Ron, we're gold medal contenders for that every year! The likes of Dean Jones were masters of the quiet and subtle, yet utterly demoralising sledge... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Is it true what I hear? That Australia have entered the winter Olympics.......Sledging. Well ... when you give us so much to work with, what do you expect? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 At least the Poms are giving us good practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chumley Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Did I tell you I hate Cricket ? I hope the Poms whip our arse just to shut up the one eyed supporters of the god awful boring game. Andy b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Now, now, my son, be gentle. Speak kindly to us old gentlemen still stuck to this old game of patience, persistence, tea drinking and the glory of a hard fought draw at the end of five days. Cricket is still much loved by many. And who would ever want the Poms to beat us at anything. The Americans converted this slow game into baseball, and do you prefer that? This was done so they could enjoy their sport and use the rest of the time to save the world. Which they certainly did twice last century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John York Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 You're right about saving the world, but rounders? Nah, I could watch paint dry with more interest! I think I'd better duck under the edge now! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bosch Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Would you rather hear the one eyed supporters of Rugby, AFL, soccer, basebell, basketball, gymnastics or amy other sport, Andy? I guess it is a perfect example of us all being different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Baumanis Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 I have just spent a very enjoyable Boxing day watching the cricket. The answer to the topic question is: If you are a Pom - excellent If you are an Ozzie - pretty ordinary As a Pommie ex pat, I am now kind of neutral, so that's why I enjoyed it even though my adopted country faired so badly. Tomorrow is another day and who knows, England might just give it all away again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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