Do any of you Aussies agree and others.

[POPEYE]

That this Ashes series ought to be scrapped this year because it's becoming a contestagainst men against boys due to last casualty on the injury list. Chris Silverwood

 

[Willow]

No way... lets grind them into the ground.

The last 90 minutes of the Australian innings today was the some the best Cricket I've seen for years....

Aussie tail enders, coming in and copping bouncers and then belting 'em for six... watching the pommies get distressed... watching their captain send fieldsman to the boundary against our bunny batsmen and then watching them hit the fence regardless...

How could anyone say that is a bad thing?

 

[imported_E_A__]

It was a contest between Men and Boys before a ball was bowled.

The least it will do is blood some younger players. Once they get through this tour, everything else will seem like a walk in the park.

 

[Willow]

EA: "...a contest between Men and Boys..."
Todays Sunday Mail has the headline:

IT AIN'T MUCH FUN, MUM

Homesick, English quickSteve Harmison crumbled under relentless pressure as Australia's batsmen continued their rampage in Perth today...

Harmison, who badly misses his family in England lost his run-up three times in one over before skipper Nasser Hussain was forced to pull the 24 year old out of the attack.

IMO, that makes two bowlers that are injured... one physically, one mentally. Its reported that Harmison is a shattered boy and was furthered effected by sledging from the crowd with some sections barracking 'mummy's boy'... Send the kid home I reckon.

 

[ozbash]

"mummys boy ? "
hardly a sporting gesture.
i thought gilchrist was a bit off when caught out. he turned around and was coming back for another go before the ump told him to sod off.

 

[Willow]

Ozbash: You're listening too much to Tony Grieg.

Gilchrist did walk but he turned and was called back. The umpires were conferring with the video umpiure who eventually gave the batsmen out.

The crowd giving aplayer a hard time has been around for thousands of years.

 

[ozbash]

lol, it was quite funny when grieg kept on saying gilly should go and ask the fielder if he had touched the rope for christ sake.
course the pom would say he was a mile inside....
wasnt a bad catch tho.

 

[Willow]

It was top catch. Best thing that happened to the poms all day.

lol.. yeah, Tony Grieg said it three times...'ask the fieldsman... ask the fieldsman!'.. what a wanker.

But the best Tony Grieg quote was earlier in the day:

'Some of my lady friends have asked about the Australians [regarding not walking or over-appealing]... my lady friends have asked...'isn't that cheating?'

Grieg is wrong on two counts:
1.) Its not cheating to appeal or claim a catch or to wait for an umpires decision.and,
2.) He is of the opinion that he has friends who are female.

 

[Willow]

Another one I remember was when Tudor caught that ball inside the rope, Tony Grieg said,

"...there is someone in the crowd pointing at the spot and yelling out that he touch the rope...obviously a local..."

lol... I'm sure that goes down well in South Africa.... Tony Grieg has some issues.

 

[ozbash]

haha, you mean the bloke in white ? i mean black ? wasnt it white ?lolol.

he makes ol ritchie look quite intelligent.

 

[Willow]

He's strange fellow Tony Grieg.

About ten years ago while commentating on a match in the West Indies, he commented that the crowd was getting very excited and 'waving all their black arms in the air'.

A few years back in Adelaide, while the camera was zooming to a wedding taking place in an adjacent parkland, Grieg seemed to notice that the bride was of SE Asian complexion and spurt out 'looks like she just got off the plane'...

...somethimg of a reference to mail order brides but its didnt go down well and he was suspended from commentating for the rest of the match.

lol.. and these are just the things he says when he knows there is a microphone in front of him.

 

[BARMMY EYE]

WELL POP THE BARMMY ARMY WERE STILL SINGING AS THE SHIP SUNKRULE BRIANYA BRITANYA DOES NOT RULE THE CRICKET

 

[Cronulla_Mania]

lol....Britainnaya hey?? thanks eye

Moffo

 

[SpaceMonkey]

For once (and I wouldn't normally say this, all being fair in love and war and all that) I think the crowd should lay off sledging the English players a bit and actually give them some encouragement. The Aussie team just don't need any crowd assistance, and the English must be getting mentally dstroyed as it is. Its sort of like if Australia qwere giving France or Lebanon a hiding at league, you probably wouldn't bother sledging the opposition because of the one-sidedness.

 

[Willow]

Firstly, its only a small section of the crowd that are sledging. The majority are there to applaud good cricket and acknowledge gutsy efforts...regardless of which side they support.

Also, everytime I hear someone saying that we should feel sorry for the poms or lay off them I feel compelled to say, why? I mean, why should we give this mob an inch? They never did for anything to try and make Aust feel better about themselves when Allan Border was trying to resurrect Australian cricket... Its payback time. My only regret is the Australian aren't being as big basrtards as the pommies were in the 70s and 80s.

Finally, I laugh when I hear how sledging or appealing are un-sportsmanlike... I remember when the Poms were doctoring their pitches to suit their own bowlers. As Tony Grieg's lady friends would say...'isnt that cheating?'

 

[imported_midas]

I agree.You can beat an egg but you can,t beat a Pommie (badly enough).
Seriously,they have had a tragic run with injuries and it keeps getting worse.I saw a fair bit of them on Fox during their summer and they looked OK but everything has gone wrong for them.If they were able to field Gough,Thorpe,Jones,Flintoff and Giles it would certainly be a much tighter contest.
Notwithstanding the Perth debacle,it is impossible to get a decent ticket for New Year,s Day in Sydney.

 

[ozbash]

rumour has it that the boxing day test at melbin is going to be a day-nighter

 

[imported_midas]

It is very important that the Poms get their act together and quickly.Crowd support has been tremendous for the first 3 Tests and advance bookings are good for Melbourne and Sydney.For this to continue we must have a competitive English team.
Rod Marsh reckons he,s got some hot prospects in his Academy squad,maybe it,s time to chuck a couple of them into the Test side to start the rebuilding process.
Anyway,these things are cyclical.Given the age of most of our batting lineup,we could be in for a bad time in 3 or 4 years time.

 

[imported_E_A__]

"Anyway,these things are cyclical"

I used to think the same about International League.

 

[BARMMY EYE]

come on pommy come on come on pommy stiff uper lip OLD BOY