Aussie Cricket
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@Virgil said in Aussie Cricket:
So Watson isn't a cancer but he's a tumour that could grow into a cancer?
I think he meant to say he's a Malignant tumour, not benign.
Pup could at least get his medical jargon correct if he's going to slam a fellow ex player.watson always struck me as a relatively innocuous lump.
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Channel Nein is under some serious fire for appointing "blokey" old boys Test players into the box, who spend most of their time wanking on about the good old days.
Clarke did a couple of guest spots last summer, and he was one of the few in there trying to steer talk onto the game at hand, rather than what happened in the distant past.
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@reprobate said in Aussie Cricket:
@Virgil said in Aussie Cricket:
So Watson isn't a cancer but he's a tumour that could grow into a cancer?
I think he meant to say he's a Malignant tumour, not benign.
Pup could at least get his medical jargon correct if he's going to slam a fellow ex player.watson always struck me as a relatively innocuous lump.
He certainly made getting out LBW popular again.....
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@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Don't like Clarke, but reckon he'll be a really good commentator.
Seems 9 have listened to the backlash from last Summer. Clarke and KP are smart hires, and ditching Brett Lee is great too.
Have they got rid of Mark Nicholls too ? ( he asked excitedly )
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
He certainly made getting out LBW popular again.....
I didn't realize Shane and I batted alike.
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@antipodean said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
He certainly made getting out LBW popular again.....
I didn't realize Shane and I batted alike.
At least you're not horrifically overrated like he was.
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@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Don't like Clarke, but reckon he'll be a really good commentator.
Seems 9 have listened to the backlash from last Summer. Clarke and KP are smart hires, and ditching Brett Lee is great too.
Have they got rid of Mark Nicholls too ? ( he asked excitedly )
Not sure.
But they need to get this guy involved.
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@NTA said in Aussie Cricket:
@MN5 said in Aussie Cricket:
@barbarian said in Aussie Cricket:
Don't like Clarke, but reckon he'll be a really good commentator.
Seems 9 have listened to the backlash from last Summer. Clarke and KP are smart hires, and ditching Brett Lee is great too.
Have they got rid of Mark Nicholls too ? ( he asked excitedly )
Not sure.
But they need to get this guy involved.
Loosest Aussie bloke ever can be hit or miss but even my mate who fucken hates cricket thought this was hilarious.
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@MN5 It's just fucking out alright, look at that, that's fucking plum. Gold.
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@mariner4life "No one gives a fuck, Mark. Shut up..."
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Playing for Australia isn't all it's cracked up to be
Brett Geeves adds his say to the score-settling currently happening in the Aussie cricket books circle.
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@mariner4life said in Aussie Cricket:
Playing for Australia isn't all it's cracked up to be
Brett Geeves adds his say to the score-settling currently happening in the Aussie cricket books circle.
classic
I reckon that's a shitload more honest than anything you'll read in Michael Clarke's book
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This is a great story about Mark Nicholas meeting Kerry Packer. You get the feeling the decline in 9's commentary has a lot to do with him no longer being around.
Here is the key excerpt - Packer's commentary advice:
“Without warning, he launched into a spellbinding attack on our commentary,” Nicholas wrote. “He talked quietly but firmly and with a sense of threat. His words were less advice than instruction and the long and short of them was: stop telling us something is interesting, the viewer can decide whether it’s interesting; don’t use that word ‘clever’ — it’s a game of cricket, that’s all; stop asking questions of other commentators and excluding the viewer; stop telling us about s*** weather; cut out the in-jokes — we’re not interested in your tennis and golf games or your fish and chips; keep women, kids and blokes who don’t play the game in the loop by keeping it simple and explaining it for dummies; call the f***ing game, not the peripherals; tell us about the game but don’t analyse everything — it’s not science, it’s a game, and all that analysis is boring; call the game; know the players, know the figures, know the conditions and take us inside the game. Don’t lecture. Call the bloody game.”
Looks like they are trying to rectify the current situation though - James Brayshaw has also been punted from the commentary team, thankfully.
