I Dont' Like Cricket, Oh No, I Love it, Yeah

[84 Baby]

I think Sarfraz Ahmed is Maverick.

And Alpha-Faf is Iceman?

FFS!

Although now that you mention it Sarfraz does have a touch of the Tom Cruises.
And Faf could be Val Kilmer

 

[84 Baby]

Although his hair is nothing on 80s Iceman

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Although his hair is nothing on 80s Iceman

I think you're misremembering. It was never that good.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Go the Toffs!! I never lost faith.

 

[strider]

Go the Toffs!! I never lost faith.

Im glad i chose the Toffs as my second team

 

[strider]

Bloody rain - ruining our chances of a crushing victory

 

[Gronk]

We got dis.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Double or nothing in Sydney for Ashes glory!

 

[strider]

It was a shit pitch in melbourne anyway ... doesnt count

 

[Twizzle]

Labuschange added to the squad for Sydney, that will have the India team weak at the knees

 

[hineyrulz]

A bloke who averages mid 30’s in first class cricket is going to fix our batting woes.

 

[Gary Gutful]

A bloke who averages mid 30’s in first class cricket is going to fix our batting woes.

Good to see that the eels don’t get preferential treatment.

 

[hineyrulz]

Good to see that the eels don’t get preferential treatment.

No mate, the Aussie team are on about Par with the Eels atm.


So they are copping a jolly good riding as well.

 

[Gary Gutful]

It’s all Langer’s fault.

 

[Twizzle]

he is part of the problem

 

[Bazal]

he is part of the problem

Absolutely.

He's the kind of space cadet that might be successful with a strong team that needs more mental work than actual coaching, like the gun team of the late 90s

These blokes need actual coaching and he hasn't got the ability to do that in between transcendental meditation sessions.

 

[Gary Gutful]

I don’t really follow cricket but he comes across as a bit of a deadshit.

No doubt he got the best out of his own career but he doesn’t seem particularly clever or knowledgeable.

 

[Noise]

Absolutely.

He's the kind of space cadet that might be successful with a strong team that needs more mental work than actual coaching, like the gun team of the late 90s

These blokes need actual coaching and he hasn't got the ability to do that in between transcendental meditation sessions.

Space cadet is definitely the most appropriate term to describe JL.

The other thing I’m not liking (and this might not be a JL directive) is the mentality that if all the players be nice on the field and give friendly interviews on camera they will win the public over. It’s bullshit. The only way they are going to win the public over is by playing good cricket and start winning a few tests.

 

[84 Baby]

Space cadet is definitely the most appropriate term to describe JL.

The other thing I’m not liking (and this might not be a JL directive) is the mentality that if all the players be nice on the field and give friendly interviews on camera they will win the public over. It’s bullshit. The only way they are going to win the public over is by playing good cricket and start winning a few tests.

This. I get not being a dickhead or cheating, but dabbing at balls 2 metres from off stump seems to be the current team mantra

 

[Bazal]

Space cadet is definitely the most appropriate term to describe JL.

The other thing I’m not liking (and this might not be a JL directive) is the mentality that if all the players be nice on the field and give friendly interviews on camera they will win the public over. It’s bullshit. The only way they are going to win the public over is by playing good cricket and start winning a few tests.

Well honestly there are deep-seated issues in Australian cricket that make winning a few tests more difficult than it's probably ever been before. And there is certainly a sense of distaste over what happened in Cape Town, the things that lead to it and the things the culture review exposed within the setup. So image is controllable and important, for sure.

Besides, it's not like Paine is trying to be a saccharine, faux-nice guy like Brendan McCullum and his NZ side. His sledging has been the best we've had for ages, since COATs like "Choo-Choo" Hayden and "Don't Talk About Candice" Warner basically decided that sledging meant out and out abuse...