Aussie Cricket
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Looks like they are trying to rectify the current situation though - James Brayshaw has also been punted from the commentary team, thankfully.
Punted or walked? http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/james-brayshaw-gone-from-channel-9-cricket-commentary-team/news-story/79791df72d5ab9097f80499f15e8be25
Doesn't matter. The point is, SHAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYNE is still there, so expect shit.
Clarke will be there to hopefully balance the shit out a bit, and get some analysis back into the game.
No surprise Mark Nicholas used a hundred words to say what a dozen could.
Anyway, from the article above:
Mark Nicholas will again be the centre piece of the Channel 9 commentary team with Mark Taylor, Shane Warne, Ian Chappell, Michael Slater, Ian Healy, Clarke and Pietersen to step up to the microphone.
Then a bunch of whatever about Brayshaw's AFL negotiations with 9.
I didn't mind Brayshaw, and understand how a lot don't like him. But at least he was funny. Besides Grumpy Old Chapelli and Shut-The-Fuck-Up Mark, you've got a bunch of bland inanity and Warne just checking his phone for the nearest fake tan salon and hot chicks in the crowd.
It'll still be a dog's breakfast.
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Pietersen and Clark might add some good stuff ( he said clutching at invisible straws )
As I've said on here ( and got shot down for ) to me it always sounds better coming from a guy who has been there and done that. The fact Nicholls is a colossal pommy dickwad who hasn't even played test cricket gives me the screaming shits. Fuck off, no one wants you.
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
Pietersen and Clark might add some good stuff ( he said clutching at invisible straws )
As I've said on here ( and got shot down for ) to me it always sounds better coming from a guy who has been there and done that. The fact Nicholls is a colossal pommy dickwad who hasn't even played test cricket gives me the screaming shits. Fuck off, no one wants you.
Thing with Nicholas is that he is actually known for being quite an astute reader of the game, particularly from his playing days. But the act he puts on in the commentary box is beyond ridiculous. Here's hoping he heeds some of the advice above...
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Warnie's arrogance is his greatest attribute in the box. He knows the game very well, and doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks, so he tell it.
Clarke is lucky Warnie is there, because after this week it appears the only people in Aus cricket who likes Pup are Pup, and Warnie
Pietersen has been good in the T20 stuff, but lets see what he is like when it's 334-2 on a slow day 3 in Adelaide.
Slater, Healey, Tubby, the pommy fuckwit (oh yeeessss) all offer fuck all. They offer nothing in terms of insight, and it's all blokey back-slapping bullshit, with lashings of over-the-top parochial fuck-knucklery. Thank fuck Lee is gone. He's another arrogant douchebag who offered fuck all.
Chappell is good, especially because he's one of the only ones who will mention when the Aussies have fucked up. Get Punter in, he's great in the Big Bash (and that's from someone who fucking hated him when he played).
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Warnie's arrogance is his greatest attribute in the box. He knows the game very well, and doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks, so he tell it.
Forget his skills with dusting up poontang. He seems to know a lot about cricket too. Talk about attributes any youngster should look up to.
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@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
On the flip side, Warnie put away Liz Hurley, enhancing his legend somewhat.
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Whether Brayshaw walked or was sacked, who cares, happy days.
Although the producers should've gone the next step and canned Slater and Healy. Don't mind Taylor so much.
I like the Big Bash team with KP, Ponting, Waugh.
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@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
On the flip side, Warnie put away Liz Hurley, enhancing his legend somewhat.
2015 Liz Hurley, not 1990s Liz Hurley which would have enhanced his legend immensely.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
On the flip side, Warnie put away Liz Hurley, enhancing his legend somewhat.
2015 Liz Hurley, not 1990s Liz Hurley which would have enhanced his legend immensely.
Actually 2010 Liz Hurley but all that is irrelevant anyway. There's not many that any of us would climb over Liz to get at.
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@Catogrande said in Aussie Cricket:
@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
On the flip side, Warnie put away Liz Hurley, enhancing his legend somewhat.
2015 Liz Hurley, not 1990s Liz Hurley which would have enhanced his legend immensely.
Actually 2010 Liz Hurley but all that is irrelevant anyway. There's not many that any of us would climb over Liz to get at.
I may throw a shot in as I climbed over, but it appears to me you're not making the most of this Instagram thing.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@nzzp said in Aussie Cricket:
@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 on the flip side, Warnie does say a lot of fucking stupid things these days, diminishing his legend somewhat.
On the flip side, Warnie put away Liz Hurley, enhancing his legend somewhat.
2015 Liz Hurley, not 1990s Liz Hurley which would have enhanced his legend immensely.
2016 Liz.
Hmmmm.
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Even Notch is having a shot at the skipper!
Mitchell Johnson: Team culture ‘toxic’ under Michael Clarke
Johnson: How ‘toxic’ culture poisoned Clarke’s team
Despite enjoying the form of his life under Clarke (120 wickets across 27 Tests at 24.71), Johnson maintains Australia’s team culture eroded under the right-hander, with cracks emerging after the retirement of Ricky Ponting in late 2012.
“The dynamics definitely changed. It became more groups in the team. It wasn’t a team as so. There was different little factions going on and it was very toxic,” Johnson told Fox Sports News ahead of the release of autobiography, Resilient.
The left-arm fast, who took the fourth-most wickets (313 at 28.40) of any Test bowler in Australian history, says little was done to stop the damage.
“It (the toxic culture) just built very slowly but everybody could see it, everybody could feel it.
“Nothing was being done at that time, so it wasn’t a very enjoyable place to be and you’re supposed to be enjoying yourself when you’re playing for your country.
“It was a pretty bad experience, bad time, a couple of us didn’t want to play. Even some of the young guys coming through could see it a mile away and they didn’t enjoy it, they said ‘state cricket’s so much more fun.’”
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@NTA everyone is settling scores this christmas aren't they?
