tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post1550152348582144391..comments2023-11-05T23:07:01.842+11:00Comments on Grog's Gamut: C’mon Punter – put your hand up and goGreg Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04956402439870441083noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-21584798429421026322011-01-15T19:51:49.313+11:002011-01-15T19:51:49.313+11:00three weeks ago i have big problem which is popula...three weeks ago i have big problem which is popular of all of us ! what should do and how to go on living, I cant understand ((I have stopped <b>smiling at ALL!!!!</b> :( yes!!,i have bad teeth because of <b>heredity</b> ... why I? Teeth is the first thing you see when meet anybody,or doing something like this, I found a solution in putting <a href="http://getlumineers.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">lumineers</a> ! and i need to say it has guaranteed 100% result,i will advice that its a good investitionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-41563775625027268542011-01-01T07:40:32.007+11:002011-01-01T07:40:32.007+11:00English cricket was a mess for decades because in ...English cricket was a mess for decades because in became a little club. They seem to have gotten over it. Australia now has the problem. <br /><br />If you love watching Australia win your in for a decade of pain (unless someone has the power to put a rocket through the cosy little group from the management down).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-16686496513541342892010-12-31T12:01:27.167+11:002010-12-31T12:01:27.167+11:00So, we're looking for the new Allan Border - s...So, we're looking for the new Allan Border - someone to do the thankless task of leading a pretty average Oz cricket team, until a new messiah is uncovered. <br /><br />IMHO, we've had a patched up team performing beyond expectations for a few years now. Think unexpected series win in SA, etc. As poor as the batting has been this time, its the bowling where the cupboard is most bare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-24047082445282188882010-12-30T21:46:07.350+11:002010-12-30T21:46:07.350+11:00Nice to meet a fellow Greg Chappell devotee. ;)
I...Nice to meet a fellow Greg Chappell devotee. ;)<br /><br />I had no interest in cricket until one day I walked past the TV and saw this guy walking through a gate. He looked incredibly focussed and determined.<br /><br />I stopped and watched. He walked onto the field, with every step looking more nervous but like one of those unstoppable forces you see mentioned. I think his shirt was buttoned up past his throat, and he couldn't breathe, but boy, was he going to make things happen!<br /><br />"Happen where?" I wondered, and sat down to watch Greg Chappell make a century in his first innings. I was hooked.<br /><br />In later years, Steve Waugh's batting also gave me moments of pure joy. Do we have anyone who can grow like this? Do we make it possible?<br /><br />Or is it now just an unthinking game of hit and miss, for the huge endorsements and advertizing?Clytiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17277014279419795602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-59247063951994323182010-12-29T03:52:37.227+11:002010-12-29T03:52:37.227+11:00It's 1984 all over again, bar the crying. What...It's 1984 all over again, bar the crying. What is needed is for selecters to choose a captain who will be able to lead them out of the wilderness; ie someone with no illusions. Someone who can stand up to a pace bowler and threaten to send him home on the next flight.<br /><br />All this talk of sacking this player and that and getting rid of the board of the selecters and the batting coach and the team mascot and the kid who serves lemonade in the dressing room is only so much knee jerk reacting that can only have the short term effect of having everyone feel good about themselves that "something is being done". <br /><br />Which in the long term creates a disaster. You give the captaincy to someone who can take us forward from this point, and who understands that he has the job until someone else emerges to take the team back up to the top level. <br /><br />Who is that player? You tell me, I've been living in Italy for the past 10 years so I'm fucked if I know.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-38307550202723101912010-12-29T00:35:06.810+11:002010-12-29T00:35:06.810+11:00If you were going on coaching form, ability and as...If you were going on coaching form, ability and astuteness you would poach ric charlesworth from Hockey Australia and give him carte blanche to fix attitude, discipline, aggression in the right place and selection.<br /><br />Next you would ban all media comment by players and managers - only when the team can prove it knows how to play cricket professionally, rather then be a group of contracted professionals who also play cricket, would the ban be lifted. <br /><br />And too many managers jockeying for position to get their pet up-and-coming player into the limelight - yes they have been successful at creating opportunities for their clients (especially the NSW ones) but in the end pretenders are found to be wanting...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-31811405858371368342010-12-28T11:46:57.729+11:002010-12-28T11:46:57.729+11:00Further, I agree that the problem begins and end w...Further, I agree that the problem begins and end with the selection cartel - can't lay all blame at Punter's feet. If they are unable to make the right/brave decisions then perhaps they should consider why they were awarded their positions in the first place.<br /><br />As a Victorian, there is a marked contrast between the player management of the AFL and the Cricket Australia. Teams are either rebuilding, looking to recruit established guns or top up their list. CA seem to be doing all three.alanjaenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-88288571779888717762010-12-28T11:36:46.446+11:002010-12-28T11:36:46.446+11:00This is coming from a totally biased perspective (...This is coming from a totally biased perspective (as I hail from this fellow's home town) but why has Cameron White been overlooked? He is rarely mentioned as part of the up-and-comers but has a fairly good record (with the bat) and is an astute leader. Give the Bear a chance!alanjaenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-80727785103581767782010-12-27T18:48:50.423+11:002010-12-27T18:48:50.423+11:00Ponting was an adequate captain when he had an exc...Ponting was an adequate captain when he had an excellent team, but since they all (well, almost all) retired a few years back, his lack of brilliance as a captain has been shining through.<br /><br />If Ponting goes, Clarke should go with him - neither of them are playing well lately. They may be prepping Clarke for the captaincy, but he really shouldn't even be in the side right now and the same with Ponting - their lacklustre performance isn't something that should be rewarded.<br /><br />There's no use canning Ponting before the Ashes series is over as he has lead his team to a record defeat in Melbourne - even a large number of the 85,000 strong crowd had left before the end of the first day's play (before we were all out for the grand total of 98) as a show of support for the current captain and selectors' inability to pick a cricket team.<br /><br />Now the current performance (or lack of it) of the Australian team definitely isn't all Ponting's fault. Sure, he can't set a field for any of his bowlers, doesn't know what a spinner is, can't keep his pace bowlers on line and has real issues batting, but the current selectors need to take a good chunk of the blame too - they have decimated our bowling attack, failed to show Punter the door when it was needed (ie, long before this current Ashes series) and can't seem to get a solid batting nor fielding performance out of the many flavors of an Australian team they've been changing around and trying for some time.<br /><br />And its not just poor Test performances that we've been having - we've been having poor One Day and Twenty/20 performances as well.<br /><br />We're going through a slump, undoubtedly. We had the world's best team for quite some time and now we most definitely don't. That's the way the cookie crumbles. But leaving an underperforming captain in while we try and rebuild the team from the ground up surely isn't the best way forward.Hilton Travishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05320101024049706410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-54668354596717566182010-12-27T15:20:31.346+11:002010-12-27T15:20:31.346+11:00To an extent I do agree with the selectors. When W...To an extent I do agree with the selectors. When Waugh, Taylor and Hayden retired there was an obvious replacement and at the times these guys retired the teams were very settled with very few changes . This is clearly not the case. Kahwadja has a reasonable average in shield cricket but these days Id question that. If these wasnt so much cricket played so closely together I would say more shield cricket would benefit but apparently that isnt necessary these days either. <br />Anyway Im being philosophical about the whole thing. There is a whole generation of cricket fans who have only known a winning Australian team. You have to experience the lows to really appreciate the highs of test cricket. As Saint Frankly said yesterday on twitter<br />"And for all those clowns who claimed cricket was dull when Australia ruled, hope you're enjoying the "excitement" u wished for". Yeh aint it great. At least next Ashes real cricket fans might be able to get a ticketSoniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02129398639035921852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-1695184924583276032010-12-27T11:35:50.079+11:002010-12-27T11:35:50.079+11:00Sorry for illiterate second comment. The perils of...Sorry for illiterate second comment. The perils of typing on phones. Batsmen should have been told to not worry about being boring, leave everything they could, put the big back swing away and let the pitch die down and attack the poms in the afternoon. Having just heard an interview with Australian coach I thought if the whole dressing room is as delusional as him we all have problems. But as someone who remembers the 80s it is a familiar part of cricket. The old era of supremacy is gone and we have about five years to rebuild. But you can;t rebuild with current line-up. And that includes the selectors, who have failed to spot new talent especially in the spinning department, and bring it on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-49550231460787795092010-12-27T11:13:37.541+11:002010-12-27T11:13:37.541+11:00Good post Greg.
I think Hussey or Haddin or Katic...Good post Greg.<br /><br />I think Hussey or Haddin or Katich could be good captains. Frankly, they could do worse than drop the lest effective pacebowler (arguably Johnson match by match but possibly Hilfy) and replce with Shane Warne. After bowling, captaining was the thing he could have been best at. <br /><br />We do have Watson and Smith to also bowl after all. If we brought in David Hussey for Punter, we'd also get a fine fielder who can alos bowl offies.<br /><br />And who is our leading runscorer in Shield over the last year or so? Ed Cowan. Heard of him much?<br /><br />Horrie is trying to get picked as a btasman these days. One has to laugh.Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934312179608056908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-52633009680680357722010-12-27T10:57:38.267+11:002010-12-27T10:57:38.267+11:00Pick the best 11 players and then choose the capta...Pick the best 11 players and then choose the captain from them. That probably means Hussey or Haddin as captain. Another alternative is to make Cameron White the 12th man and de facto captain on the field!Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13061413827755873948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-71876769164548700432010-12-27T10:43:13.150+11:002010-12-27T10:43:13.150+11:00Like Tendulkar, Ponting's problem has been tha...Like Tendulkar, Ponting's problem has been that he was never cut out to be the captain. I think his severe limitations as a tactician and man manager has finally had an impact on his batting and general mental state. The Crciket Australia people should have had the foresight to make Hussey the captain 3 years ago. <br /><br />However, they have been stuck on the idea of "grooming" Clarke as they "groomed" Ponting. The "grooming" failed with Ponting, but the admission of failure is something Cricket Australia cannot do. Border wasn't "groomed" from a young age, neither were Taylor or Waugh. <br /><br />We are now in an era not unlike the 1980s so I believe we should have Hussey or Katich (if he comes back) as the captain. Haddin, like Marsh and Healy before him, is too combative a wicketkeeper to be a calm, considered captain. <br /><br />For all to occur, though, there needs to be regime change in Australians cricket. Hilditch has failed repeatedly as the chairman of selectors and I really can't see what Tim Nielsen brings to that tactical nous of the team, when a proven tactical guru like Geoff Lawson sits on the sidelines. If Lawson was the coach, he'd be currently tearing strips off these batsmen for forgetting how to bat on a proper first day cricket wicket, and he'd have the weight of experience and test cred (as well as the reputation of a man who captained both Waugh and Taylor in NSW). Nielsen is just a wicketkeeper from SA, one of the least successful teams of the 90s. The same state, of course, from which Hilditch sprung. Funny that. I remember Hilditch as a batsman. It made the decisions emanating from his selection committee look good.Preston Towersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-32881823803052020112010-12-27T10:30:46.457+11:002010-12-27T10:30:46.457+11:00It happens with all Australian Captains. Border,T...It happens with all Australian Captains. Border,Taylor even Steve Waugh they start to think they bigger than the game. A clean out is required. Ponting has lost the ashes three times he has no idea how to keep his bowlers on the square and his understanding of spinners is non existent. Yesterday morning he should have told his batsmen tdon't worry about being boring leave everything you can play straight now big back swings just let the pitch die down we can plunder the poms in the afternoon. Instead Hughes went out playing like a 20 200 game and his lack of technique was exposed. Ironically the only jaffa of the day was the one that got Ponting. That was unplayable. The rest of the outs were off balls that could have been left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8434369190746987531.post-47393535609154251992010-12-26T22:45:32.618+11:002010-12-26T22:45:32.618+11:00If Hilditch has any sense and integrity remaining ...If Hilditch has any sense and integrity remaining form his tenure as a selector, Ponting must be tapped on the shoulder and told this time is up. <br /><br />Unfortunately the two players who could really lose from this are Hughes and Smith. In a strong team they could be carried to really develop (I rate them both) but with the team so weak, they could be scapegoats. <br /><br />And there is the amazingly ineffectual bowling. Do not any of the Aussie pacemen understand line and length and bowling to a plan? Of course Ponting doesn't help as he seems have no idea how to set a field but still, they are professionals. I got some bowlers in my 6th grade side who are far more consistent and better understand the virtues of bowling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com