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El Diablo said:Watson is so bad he would make a great captain of NZ.
at least NZ gave England a close game :lol:
El Diablo said:Watson is so bad he would make a great captain of NZ.
JJ said:at least NZ gave England a close game :lol:
El Diablo said:the finals were between Aus and England, not NZ and England.
JJ said::lol: one team wins, the other's do not...
JJ said:on this occasion Aust did not
JJ said:and look pretty shaky going into a World Cup
JJ said:but if you're happy with the runner's up prize, good for you!
Stuart said:Thats absolute bullsh*t. The 4 specialsist bowlers were McGrath/Bracken/Lee/Hogg, watson was the 5th. Your assertion taht if he was replaced by a specialist bowler we would have won, leaves us with a 5 man bowling attack, a formula that hasnt been used for a while and would have left our batting decidedly depleted. While in hidsight this didnt matter as we collapsed it does in the longer term. Your argument only works with a 5 man attack, if we play a 4 man attack and another batsman we would have had very little bowling (Clarke had a niggle and wasnt bowling), i dont know who you'd put at 7 but none of the options are good bowlers leaving Hussey and Hodge to bowl 10 overs. we can debate what if's till the cows come home, the fact is he played and we lost, not because of his bowling but because McGrath, Lee and Bracken also released pressure at cruicial time and a horrible batting collapse...
(We may still have lost with th 5 man attack, Clark, Johnson and Tait have all had expensive (off) games this season, who is to say they would have performed?)
dice said:We played the entire series with 4 specialist seamers and relied on part time spinners in Clarke/White/Symonds to make up the 5th bowler. We still had three part time spinners (Hodge can bowl) yet we opted to weaken our seamer lineup in favour of a "specialist" spinner. Great call that one.
If you can't see how a 4th specialist seamer would have done more for our team than the 1/183 and 60 odd runs achieved by Hogg and Watson then I really can't help you.
Stuart said:And if you cant see that 20 overs from White, Hodge and Hussey would be a very risky move your deluding yourself.
dice said:How is jagging ten overs from the part timer spinners in Clarke/Hodge/White any different to the ten overs they were getting out of Clarke/Symonds/White? I don't think they could have done much worse than Hogg and certainly not worse enough to justify losing a specialist seamer.