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@nzzp said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@booboo said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps vs England Series:

I fail to see the point of Philips. Not good enough at bowling, doesn't contribute enough with the bat and has brain farts I the field. Second thoughts, he's a traditional Black Caps all-rounder

He's made me think he's a really promising batsman. Just not delivered on that in this series.

The bowling and fielding is a bonus.

I want him to deliver on his primary role, which because of my fanboi-ing I'm sure he can ...

We haven't used Phillips well. He's at best a part time bowler, and his first class record suggests that - decent enough averages but has never bowled a huge amount of overs. So batting him at 7 just makes no sense. It makes even less sense when you consider we've been insisting on playing Blundell as an all rounder and batting him at 6 when leading up to that century he'd been averaging about 14 for the past year, on top of his glove work being generally untidy.

Swapping them around would benefit both players. It'd give Phillips a chance to bat with batsmen more instead of managing the tail, to see if he can replicate his 40 FC average at test level. It would also mean he can come out with a license to play his natural attacking game knowing there is still enough batting left to eek out some more runs if needed. For Blundell it'd take some pressure off his batting and hopefully allow him to focus a bit more on his glovework which is his primary role in the team.

This is an astonishingly well thought out post. Too much sense for it to be written by a Ferner !

Totally agree

@No-Quarter are you @Mauss ?

@No-Quarter is a millennial and therefor that post was most likely plagiarised from someone older and wiser.
I am unsure of @Mauss's generation so am unable to make gross generalisations about him but the post does really make sense and will inevitably not happen. It's annoying Phillips is not being utilised properly at the moment.

@No-Quarter said in Australia v India:

BMac didn't even look like hitting it, the ball was just way too good for him.

He openly blames himself for that one. Says that he broke his own very simple golden rule - watch the ball.

Coney (I think) was talking about it during last England test.

@booboo said in Black Caps First Eleven for hall of fame.:

@Snowy said in Black Caps First Eleven for hall of fame.:

With hindsight, Laker must have been absolutely pissed at Tony Lock.

Reminds me of Hadlee denying himself the 10fer ...

Taking a catch in BNE I think?

With hindsight, Laker must have been absolutely pissed at Tony Lock.

@Machpants said in Formula 1:

Pretty good points

Formula 1, Motorsport, Sport

'Hardest job in F1': Warning to Lawson over taking Red Bull seat

A former F1 technical director is worried the Kiwi faces a short career in the sport.

Whilst it is always going to be tough in the same team as Max (he is really quite good), there is also the likelihood that Perez is a bit shit, so hopefully Liam would have his initial results compared more to Perez recent ones, than Max.

Obviously he would have to improve and adapt to the car, but Perez seemed to get worse not better, I'd back Liam to go the other way given his record of winning in new cars very quickly. They also stuck with Perez for 4 years with crap results which likely cost them at least a couple of constructors champs so you would think Liam will get a bit of slack to start.

@SBW1 said in All Blacks 2025:

Does anyone think Razor will change his coaching staff before 2027?

We would be relying on coaches getting injured, so, unlikely.

@Smuts said in Nomination - Favourite Overseas ferner:

@Snowy oh no you don’t - if you want to curse my lions with your support you’re going to have to work for it.

Oh, not for me, just clarifying for @voodoo

I already curse / support a variety of teams that fail, and none of them are called Lions.

@Smuts said in Nomination - Favourite Overseas ferner:

@voodoo you could get me back by supporting the Lions.

Yes, but which Lions? They are like arseholes, everybody has one.

British and Irish, Jo'burg, Welly, Montevideo, Chicago, Tbilisi, etc. and that's just rugby ones. Common as muck.

@dogmeat said in Fernies - Nominations - Best Memer (King of Memes):

Is it @rembrandt that sporadically posts 20 or so incredibly dark memes and then disappears off the thread again?

Anyway - that guy.

@RoninWC dumped a heap at once a few times. Usually dark or pervy IIRC. Not judging, just describing 😀. Don’t think he’s been around for a while.

@Rapido said in Black Caps vs England Series:

It's probably hard to find an equivalent run ever in NZ history.

"He had one of the worst home summers by any Kiwi seam bowler in the country’s 94-year history of hosting tests, using the common metrics of average (runs per wicket) and strike rate (balls per wicket).

Cricinfo’s Statsguru makes it easy to find a list of New Zealand seamers who have bowled at least 60 overs across at least four innings during any given season.

That gives you a group of 177 bowler-seasons, from Ted Badcock in 1929 through to Southee, Henry and Will O’Rourke in 2023-24.

Southee’s average of 71.33 this summer was the third-worst mark and his strike rate of 127.1 was the sixth-worst mark."

That is from prior to latest test.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350209891/breaking-down-black-caps-captain-tim-southees-summer

@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Did anyone really expect this regime to drop Southee in his final series?

No, but it doesn't stop us wanting it to happen (or whining that it isn't).

@Chris-B said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@Snowy The most annoying thing is that they'll open the bowling with Tim - when he should be the fourth seamer.

@Chris had the only plausible reason for this that I have heard - Tim is shit with the new ball, but he will be much shitter with an older one.

He may have been a touch more eloquent than that about it.

@Jet said in Nomination - Most level headed ferner:

If I dont win this I'll be absolutely gobsmacked.

A shoo-in, I think that you are pegged for the humility award too.

@Jet said in Sevu Reece - in trouble again:

As my granny used to say "nothing good happens when you are out after 11pm"

Some of the best fun I have had has been while out after 11pm. It all depends on your definition of "good"...

I try not to judge lest my own virtuousness be examined.
Having said that, I don't hit women or crash cars into garages (intentionally).

@Crazy-Horse said in Black Caps vs England Series:

The sentimental farewell tour - something NZ sports teams are priding themselves on lately.

Yeah, the pride is supposed to go before a fall, we are just incorporating it.

Losing when you aren't putting your best players in the team is unbelievably stupid in a business that's sole purpose is to win (or at the very least inspire performance). I can't see watching "has beens" lose being inspirational for the guys waiting either.

@Jet said in Nomination - Ferner most like to have a beer with:

@Snowy said in Nomination - Ferner most like to have a beer with:

@Machpants said in Nomination - Ferner most like to have a beer with:

Speaking of that, I'd love to have a yarn with our own personal Hannibal and talk flying escapades

I suspect it would turn into a Monty Python and Blackadder rehash session, but yeah, would be good.

Ethan?

Well his continued selection is (hopefully was) a joke, just a lame one (pun intended, with apologies).

I am really struggling with Southee's continued selection. In fact, it is seriously pissing me off! IIRC he took 2 wickets at Hagley, one of which was the GP screamer that had no right to be caught, and was in no way attributable to good bowling. He had none of the dropped sitters off his bowling either.

He was very good for a long time, but bloody hell it is over Tim!

I really hope that the above is somehow a reverse jinx, but it seems soooooo unlikely.

@Machpants said in Nomination - Ferner most like to have a beer with:

Speaking of that, I'd love to have a yarn with our own personal Hannibal and talk flying escapades

I suspect it would turn into a Monty Python and Blackadder rehash session, but yeah, would be good.

@Virgil said in Nomination - Most level headed ferner:

Maybe we dont have any level headed ferners here..

@Jury left. He was it.

Everyone seems unusually sober these days. "Post like a pirate" seems a really long time ago for example (@barnya and @canerbry amongst the culprits IIRC).

I can never tell if @Tim has been on the piss or not from his posts...😉