Cricket Season Thread

Halbrowne61 said:
Just wondered that’s all. I haven’t had a massage for some time but my legs and hips are giving me hell and thought I might try a targeted massage.
Terrible, terrible day BF, drove one and a half hours each way from my place to Cranbourne for very little return.
Back to the drawing board for the big New Years twilighter at Flemington then Geelong next Saturday.
“ Money lost, nothing lost - courage lost, everything lost” !
New Years Eve is an interesting experiment by the VRC. Traditionally a New Year’s Day meeting they have brought it back as a 3.30 start and 7.30 finish on NYE. Track will remain open after that until 1.00am for a NYE party with bands, fireworks.
Early ticket sales 12,000 with a 20,000 crowd expected. (Should have done a ticket deal with the Barmy Army before they leave town and that would have doubled numbers),
I will be heading home after the last coz I gave up NYE celebrations many years ago.
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I like a good massage Hal. It is amazing how strong tiny little Asian ladies are. I sometimes get just legs and feet since the chemo messed up my feet. I have tried Acupunture for nerve damage a few times but that Bowen Raki is shite. Rip off. They hover their hands above you and you are supposed be massaged by the invisible energy flowing through their hands. Popped a disc and a friends Mrs said try this bloke. He spent 1/2 hour not touching me and said finished that be $300. I would have killed that bloke if I could’ve stood up. He was not happy but left with a fifty I threw at him.
A traditional massage is the go.
 
Would of liked to watch them today but they all played like they cracked open a beer at 11 with Travis...
Seriously though I can't work out how CA made a loss after the Indian series they were big crowds. They needed to make back money on this series?
 
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Buttface said:
I like a good massage Hal. It is amazing how strong tiny little Asian ladies are. I sometimes get just legs and feet since the chemo messed up my feet. I have tried Acupunture for nerve damage a few times but that Bowen Raki is shite. Rip off. They hover their hands above you and you are supposed be massaged by the invisible energy flowing through their hands. Popped a disc and a friends Mrs said try this bloke. He spent 1/2 hour not touching me and said finished that be $300. I would have killed that bloke if I could’ve stood up. He was not happy but left with a fifty I threw at him.
A traditional massage is the go.
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Sounds like a witch doctor !
I lived in Asia for some years and my wife and I used to have regular massages, even had an older nurse who used to supplement her income with home visits to several of the expats in our housing complex.
Apart from the ongoing naughty side, it’s quite common over there for health benefits.
Most interesting I had was in Seoul, Korea where the Hyatt Hotel used to have elderly “blind” masseuses in their health club, both male and female.
Didn’t say much but they had hands of iron, very invigorating.
 
GNR4LIFE said:
The curator fronting the media was a bit much. It’s just a game of cricket for Gods sake, not the Spanish Inquisition.
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Anyone would think he used yellow sandpaper on the pitch.
He’s been good in the past and one bad game doesn’t make a hack. I reckon it’ll be shorter next year.
I heard Sydney have been told to make it a longer game. 🤷‍♂️
 
tiger_one said:
IMO, there's a massive elephant in the room after this Test.
Two two-day Tests this series exposes an issue I think has been lurking for some time.
And it's NOT about pitches (although I laughed at champion @Buttface picture of the long grass).

It's about the disappearance of both technique and sufficient concentration skills from the art of batting.
I'm finding it harder to believe it's not seriously impacting players' ability to play at Test level.
And no one in the coaches or selector's rooms are lifting their hands to help.
And the players are like school children (and their teachers) who have lost the art of cursive hand writing. Batting technique appears lost in time.

Now the problem of batters' poor technique has gone beyond the playing arena - it's hit the paying public who have paid dearly for booked flights, hotels, and tickets months in advance, sacrificing time with family over the holidays, all in anticipation of the full drama of a Test match at the 'G—the roar of 90,000+ on Boxing Day, the tension building over days, the twists on days four and five.
These recent episodes will stall cricket revenues going forward.

Cricket purists well remember the fight and resolve of playing for one's country.
When the baggy green was earned.
When grit like the Borders and Waughs of our past ensured leadership and never-give-in games.
This elephant is here now for all to see.



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There is a guy who sometimes posts on the forum as he is a massive Weststigers fan who was a very handy grade cricketer and now coaches one of Sydney’s better grade clubs. Anyway he told me when he first played top grade every club had two guys who could bat all day and half the next if required, by the time he finished a few years ago there were probably two players in grade who could do it.

Of course the game has changed but I would love to find an opener and a no3 that had the ability to dig in when required. Sadly it is right across the test playing teams and I guess it all comes back to white ball cricket
 
It is a bit of an indictment on pitches that the average wicket in Australia has dropped by an average of 16 runs over the past 10 years. With the wickets doing so much, I think the feeling is that while you may have a sound defence and good judgement to leave, there will eventually “one with your name on it”. Batters feel they need to score as many as they can while they can.
 
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