Chappell-Hadlee
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@mariner4life said in Chappell-Hadlee:
some dude on cricinfo has said Napier has had 5.8mm of rain today. What kind of a backward shithole can't drain off that much water? McLean Park is good for fuck all.
In even more WTF-ery, it's barely rained there for a month so you'd think the ground would be like a sponge!
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@Chris-B. we've had 36mm in 6 hours here, i bet you could still play cricket on Cazalies
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@mariner4life We've had 13mm here today and I just tested a run-up in my paddock. It's still slippery on top, because it's still drizzling - but the soil is solid as.
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@Chris-B. tough blokes like you are why Ta$man beats Hawkes Bay nearly 50% of the time
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@Chris-B. TBH most of us up here are pissed off at NZC for staging a cricket game here and jinxing our perfect run of sunny days. This is the only dodgy day for a while and it's back to sunny and hot again tomorrow, while the rest of you will back back to your cloudy and dreary lives.
Yeah, it's been dry as and windy as well, so the ground is like concrete.
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Cric info:
6.05pm Another inspection in 25 minutes, folks. We've had four inspections to determine the next inspection time.
Anthony: "Absurd. Player-preciousness aside, in this day and age if Napier can't afford covers that extend well beyond the circle, then take international cricket away from them."
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@mariner4life said in Chappell-Hadlee:
@Chris-B. tough blokes like you are why Ta$man beats Hawkes Bay nearly 50% of the time
Even @Nepia admits that Hawkes Bay is our bunny!
They haven't beaten us since Steve Tew abandoned his campaign to get rid of us and the Chiefs' region teams had to give up on stealing all our players who didn't otherwise know whether they'd have jobs.
There are teenagers who don't know that Hawkes Bay has ever beaten Ta$man!
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@JC said in Chappell-Hadlee:
@Chris-B. TBH most of us up here are pissed off at NZC for staging a cricket game here and jinxing our perfect run of sunny days. This is the only dodgy day for a while and it's back to sunny and hot again tomorrow, while the rest of you will back back to your cloudy and dreary lives.
Yeah, it's been dry as and windy as well, so the ground is like concrete.
I'd imagine there will be plenty of people welcoming some rain - but, I am mystified as to how the ground could be unplayable other than the grass being wet?
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@Snowy said in Chappell-Hadlee:
Cric info:
6.05pm Another inspection in 25 minutes, folks. We've had four inspections to determine the next inspection time.
Anthony: "Absurd. Player-preciousness aside, in this day and age if Napier can't afford covers that extend well beyond the circle, then take international cricket away from them."
to be honest, in Napier, it's only 5m from the circle to the boundary, so they may as well cover the whole field
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@mariner4life said in Chappell-Hadlee:
@Snowy said in Chappell-Hadlee:
Cric info:
6.05pm Another inspection in 25 minutes, folks. We've had four inspections to determine the next inspection time.
Anthony: "Absurd. Player-preciousness aside, in this day and age if Napier can't afford covers that extend well beyond the circle, then take international cricket away from them."
to be honest, in Napier, it's only 5m from the circle to the boundary, so they may as well cover the whole field
They do in India, but we can't afford the staff in NZ.
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fuck you Hawkes Bay, and fuck your shitty "stadium"
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Wow the people at the game will be pissed. What a massive waste of their time.
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@No-Quarter said in Chappell-Hadlee:
Wow the people at the game will be pissed. What a massive waste of their time.
Most of them will be from Hawkes Bay - the crime rate probably plummeted!
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@No-Quarter said in Chappell-Hadlee:
Wow the people at the game will be pissed.
They'd probably been cut back to two beers per person at 2.30pm if Eden Park was anything to go by.
Oh right, not THAT kind of piss.
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@Chris-B @ACT-Crusader @Chris-B @Smudge @mariner4life @Snowy @Frye
Fuck you all for making me come to a cricket thread!
Although good of NZ Cricket to schedule a match in Napier in January to break the drought for the Bay.
