3rd ASHES TEST: Australia v England at Perth, Dec 16-20 2010

[madunit]

essentially 40 runs in 8 overs.

tone has been set.

 

[icewind]

was it ever really in doubt

 

[_snafu_]

I'm glad I'm not the only one pissed off with this nonsense.

 

[Fast Eddie]

How rubbish do you have to be to not be able to get the seam upright? Johnson is a disgrace, and then he goes mouthing off:crazy::lol:. Might want to be able to back it up champ.

 

[madunit]

Today, Johnson 2.2 overs, 0/13.

His form hasn't varied since Gabba.

Can't say I'm not surprised. He's a f**king passenger

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

It frustrates me. I have coached 16 year olds on the basics of bowling and the importance of consistency and they grasp the concept perfectly.

Test f**king cricketers have no f**king idea on this at all.

How can you expect to build pressure, and bowl consistently when every over you throw in a pointlessly ineffective bouncer which clears the batsmen head quite easily.

Not only that but their bowling is being dictated by the batsman it's something we were used to for 15 years let the good balls go and the bowler will change his line or length to force a wicket then the batsman has runs to plunder. It's called 'Test' cricket for a reason and a lot of these players are used to picking up wickets with pies because the batsman are pretty muched forced to play at everything in the shorter formats none of them seem to have any idea of the concept of patience and consistency.

It is really painful to watch ill discipline cricket. I would employ Glenn McGrath just to sit there at every practice session and every team meeting for 2 hours to beat in to them the idea of consistency.

 

[madunit]

last 10 overs, 0/46

it was a practically new ball with some swing. This is just f**king atrocious.

 

[madunit]

Not only that but their bowling is being dictated by the batsman it's something we were used to for 15 years let the good balls go and the bowler will change his line or length to force a wicket then the batsman has runs to plunder. It's called 'Test' cricket for a reason and a lot of these players are used to picking up wickets with pies because the batsman are pretty muched forced to play at everything in the shorter formats none of them seem to have any idea of the concept of patience and consistency.

It is really painful to watch ill discipline cricket. I would employ Glenn McGrath just to sit there at every practice session and every team meeting for 2 hours to beat in to them the idea of consistency.

I'd like to go to an Aussie training session and say to Johnson, Siddle, Harris and Bollinger:

"I want you to come in and bowl a ball that hit's the off stump 3 inches down from the bails. You must do it 10 times in a row before you can go home. Full tosses are not counted"

And leave them there until they do it. And then make them do it again the next day

and the next day

And hopefully train those spastic f**king nothing bouncers out of them.

 

[_snafu_]

It frustrates me. I have coached 16 year olds on the basics of bowling and the importance of consistency and they grasp the concept perfectly.

Test f**king cricketers have no f**king idea on this at all.

How can you expect to build pressure, and bowl consistently when every over you throw in a pointlessly ineffective bouncer which clears the batsmen head quite easily.

They are consistently bowling rubbish.

 

[Didgi]

Cook gooooorne

 

[_snafu_]

Cook out.

 

[skeepe]

Finally!

 

[Collingwood Storm]

haha, pi$$ off Cook... thankfully I resisted the urge to put him in my dream team and I have both Hussey and Johnson who got rid of him

 

[skeepe]

Needed that, particularly as Strauss has made an additional 30 runs since Watson did his impression of a pot plant.

 

[madunit]

hopefully mitch remembers that he got that wicket because he pitched it up.

 

[skeepe]

Any takers for a bouncer for Trott's first ball faced?

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

I'd like to go to an Aussie training session and say to Johnson, Siddle, Harris and Bollinger:

"I want you to come in and bowl a ball that hit's the off stump 3 inches down from the bails. You must do it 10 times in a row before you can go home. Full tosses are not counted"

And leave them there until they do it. And then make them do it again the next day

and the next day

And hopefully train those spastic f**king nothing bouncers out of them.

You would never go home but if you were paid by the hour you'd be a rich man.

There was an absolute prime example of this team. Hilfenhaus bowls a ball that Strauss lets go and Hilfy turns around shaking his head with an expression on his face as if he was thinking "f**king hell I wish this was over" then next ball bowls an absolute pie within Strauss' arc which he calmly putts through the covers for 2 easy runs.

You can almost guarantee that mix up with Haddin is still on Watson's mind and will be when he comes on to bowl especially if Strauss is still out there which he most likely will.

Lol Watson's impression of a pot plant.

 

[skeepe]

Two maidens in a row. Never thought I'd see the day.

 

[madunit]

You would never go home but if you were paid by the hour you'd be a rich man.

There was an absolute prime example of this team. Hilfenhaus bowls a ball that Strauss lets go and Hilfy turns around shaking his head with an expression on his face as if he was thinking "f**king hell I wish this was over" then next ball bowls an absolute pie within Strauss' arc which he calmly putts through the covers for 2 easy runs.

You can almost guarantee that mix up with Haddin is still on Watson's mind and will be when he comes on to bowl especially if Strauss is still out there which he most likely will.

Lol Watson's impression of a pot plant.

well someone needs to train these boneheads about disciplined bowling and patience.

I've never seen an entire bowling line up so ill-disciplined, impatient, inconsistent and have such an ill-conceived concept of the task at hand, ever in all my cricketing life, as a player and as a spectator.

 

[madunit]

Two maidens in a row. Never thought I'd see the day.

Hilfenhaus almost had a perfect over there except for that snotty bouncer down leg side.