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2019 ASHES: 3rd Test Australia v England, Leeds Aug 22-26

Meapro Ham

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Not defending the umpire. Couldn't believe they gave him another game myself. It was plum. The review system is there for shockers like that. Both our reviews were clearly wasted that innings.

The review system is wrong anyhow. Should not be up to players to decide what gets reviewed. It’s easy to say watching replays from the couch whether reviews should happen but not so easy out there in the middle in the heat of the moment.

The DRS is supposed to be there to stop the howler but a howler has just decided a test match and maybe an ashes series. System doesn’t work.
 

Wizardman

First Grade
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I don't understand what you mean? How is it fair and square if he was out and we should have won the test? We lost the plot in that final hour, but how did we deserve to get beaten when that prick Joel Wilson doesn't give a plumb LBW?
So, you expect umps to be perfect when we made five million f**kups to wrap up the match off our own steam?
Umps will never be perfect. I could not see any hometown ump give a player out in that situation tonight under that pressure. The loss is definitely on our million f**kups rather than the umps right at the end.
 

undertaker

Coach
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Nope. He’ll give some pat rafter level “gracious loser” speech, all the f**ksticks who don’t watch cricket but demanded smiths head will pat him on the back, and he’ll remain in his position for another 2-3 years

The Pat Rafter-type personality (or, to use rugby league terms, the Michael Hagan coaching style "doesn't matter that you lost by 50 points, you still played well. Let me pat you on the back for your efforts") is EXACTLY the public persona Cricket Australia want, as they know this subtle form of esmaculation/effeminacy is what touches the hearts and appeals to the female supporters of the game and their children, especially in the aftermath of the sandpaper incident. Like Tubby Taylor during his captaincy, Tim Paine is also a "YES" man: the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' mentality.

Long gone are the days of the hard man/play tough and never give up mindset that dominated cricket between the World Series Cricket revolution of the late 1970s to when Allan Border retired in the mid '90s. And like with other major sports, the onfield personalities such as those that Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Merv Hughes, Doug Walters, etc. had have been killed off by the PC crowd. You couldn't have that type of personality in professional sport these days and at the same time expect to retain all your corporate sponsorships. The players, like athletes in most other professional sports, are basically robots now, very careful with what they say to the public over fear of some SJW/far left-wing person trying to crush them in the media, trying to make something out of nothing etc. Nowdays, most athletes are ar more interested showing off their useless photos on facebook/twitter/instagram, get more tattoos, the "Hey, look at me now!" narcissistic attitude.....
 
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thebigredv

First Grade
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The review system is wrong anyhow. Should not be up to players to decide what gets reviewed. It’s easy to say watching replays from the couch whether reviews should happen but not so easy out there in the middle in the heat of the moment.

The DRS is supposed to be there to stop the howler but a howler has just decided a test match and maybe an ashes series. System doesn’t work.

I think it works very well when controlled by a competent captain. Neither of the calls we used ours on were howlers. They were both just hopeful and wasted. If Tim keeps one up his sleeve, Wilson is shown up and we win the game we should have won.

Paine and Cummins to a lesser extent need to take ownership for allowing the likes of Broad, Root and Stokes to party hard now when they should have been down and out with the Ashes gone.

Ah well, that's cricket. I put the mocker on any team. I support right now...
 

Wizardman

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Blaming umpiring is an easy out for a lot of people rather than facing the fact that their team just purely f**ked up. Tonight is a case in point.
 

jezmond

Juniors
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So, you expect umps to be perfect when we made five million f**kups to wrap up the match off our own steam?
Umps will never be perfect. I could not see any hometown ump give a player out in that situation tonight under that pressure. The loss is definitely on our million f**kups rather than the umps right at the end.

I don’t expect perfection but I expect umpires to give out plumb LBW’s. What do you mean hometown ump? He isn’t from England.

I agree there was plenty of f**k ups from us but that should have been given out. It’s a shocking decision and us playing badly doesn’t change that.
 

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