Superthread LXXI - Honouring Phil Hughes. 63*

[butchmcdick]

LOL@Adelaide Utd

They love an own goal

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

I'll give them credit, they have scored all 3 goals this match. Pity they are behind 2-1...

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Not any more!

 

[HowHigh]

I go to the first A-League game of my life a couple weeks ago and its a 0-0 draw
This one was 5 goals in the first 30 minutes

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

I go to the first A-League game of my life a couple weeks ago and its a 0-0 draw
This one was 5 goals in the first 30 minutes

:lol:

 

[Red Bear]

Remember when they had that "darkest day in Australian Sport" press conference?

I think yesterday topped that. I'm shattered after that. Maybe it's just something that is, essentially, escapism in sport being so sharply brought back to reality. Someone my age getting killed playing sport in such a freakish incident. Maybe just the year, with a couple of people I know dying including a 23 year old from suicide. But i'm just shattered

Listening to Guerilla Cricket has been a pretty great thing at this point

 

[muzby]

Remember when they had that "darkest day in Australian Sport" press conference?

I think yesterday topped that. I'm shattered after that. Maybe it's just something that is, essentially, escapism in sport being so sharply brought back to reality. Someone my age getting killed playing sport in such a freakish incident. Maybe just the year, with a couple of people I know dying including a 23 year old from suicide. But i'm just shattered

Listening to Guerilla Cricket has been a pretty great thing at this point

yup..
surreal day..

whilst a times you think the coverage is OTT, essentially you watched a member of a national sporting team lose his life out on the field, in full view of everyone..

 

[thorson1987]

Turns out my son has 2 girlfriends at pre school.

One of them has even told her mom that she wants to marry him.

What a playa.

 

[Didgi]

Would Phil Hughes be the biggest death for Australians since Steve Irwin?

Absolutely shattered, like many others didn't know the guy but it strikes a chord. I think Aussies really do look up to their cricket players, they're above things like this. But apparently not. Just a terrible tragedy

 

[thorson1987]

Would Phil Hughes be the biggest death for Australians since Steve Irwin?

Absolutely shattered, like many others didn't know the guy but it strikes a chord. I think Aussies really do look up to their cricket players, they're above things like this. But apparently not. Just a terrible tragedy

Steve Irwins death didn't affect me at all. Was kinda meh about it tbh.

For me Peter Brock's overshadows Hughes, mainly due to me growing up idolizing Brocky, whereas I wasn't much of a fan of Hughes.

Although Hughes death has affected me a bit.

 

[Scott Gourley's Lovechild]

Absolutely destroyed our opponents today in cricket. Bowled them out for 132 with an over to go (40 over game). We got the runs after 21 overs.

My sole contribution was a catch.

 

[muzby]

Would Phil Hughes be the biggest death for Australians since Steve Irwin?

heath ledger

 

[Bazal]

Absolutely destroyed our opponents today in cricket. Bowled them out for 132 with an over to go (40 over game). We got the runs after 21 overs.

My sole contribution was a catch.

I;m a furious skipper tbh. Due to work being jerks I had to leave at 5pm regardless. Batted shakily but got to 150, which is defendable. Absolutely ripped in, had them 6/62 at drinks when I had to go. They f**king lost it from there....

 

[MKEB...]

We had a similar thing happen a couple of years back. A big islander with awesome hand-eye coordination came in at 11 and belted an unbeaten 60 and we lost in the last over.

 

[Twizzle]

you're just irreplaceable Baz

 

[Red Bear]

We had a similar thing happen a couple of years back. A big islander with awesome hand-eye coordination came in at 11 and belted an unbeaten 60 and we lost in the last over.

When I played locally there were a couple of 4th grade teams of islnders. Sometimes you'd get lucky and roll them for 60. When they were on though it was a looong day in the field

 

[Misanthrope]

46 hours of travel ahead of me, including an 11 hour layover in f**king Nairobi.

Kill me.

 

[madunit]

my most minimal involvement in a cricket game was in junior cricket, my third game. I was 9.

In our comp, you had to retire at the end of the over that you reached 20 runs in.

9 of our 11 batsmen all scored 20 plus scores. I got out for a duck.

the other guy was the keeper and he busted his shoulder when he took a catch diving down the leg side.

I took no catches and no wickets.

Even the injured bloke got at least a catch.

The next match I top scored and took 6 wickets in 2 overs.

 

[Bazal]

my most minimal involvement in a cricket game was in junior cricket, my third game. I was 9.

In our comp, you had to retire at the end of the over that you reached 20 runs in.

9 of our 11 batsmen all scored 20 plus scores. I got out for a duck.

the other guy was the keeper and he busted his shoulder when he took a catch diving down the leg side.

I took no catches and no wickets.

Even the injured bloke got at least a catch.

The next match I top scored and took 6 wickets in 2 overs.

I used to hate that retiring rule. I was a bloody good bat as a kid and always had to retire, so I started just trying to get there as fast as I could. Until recently I struggled to bat a long innings and I still sometimes find it hard to switch into a scoring mode if I come in and need to consolidate and I think not batting long innings from the start (partly due to my attitude, granted) has a bit to do with that.

Of course, the assumption when I moved into senior cricket that an opening bowler must be a tail ender also didn't help. That bloke was such a useless captain lol. One game I knocked out 40 odd in a 15 over stand with the number six, batting 10. Next week? Batted eleven.....

 

[Twizzle]

Not enough room here to talk abut my cricket exploits