Cricket Season Thread
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Buttface
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Kat for Oz coach and Cheif selector
happy_tiger
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Forget that .....replace Marnus 😆
111 and Nathan Lyon made 33*
Terrible. How does the team for the summer look? Marnus gone. Connolly has no first class tons but worth persevering? Kurtis Patterson probably deserves a shot? Boland?
Terrible. How does the team for the summer look? Marnus gone. Connolly has no first class tons but worth persevering? Kurtis Patterson probably deserves a shot? Boland?
Selectors who don't allow continual failures would be a good start.
supercoach
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Might be time to start blooding some players for the future. I think Edwards could be a genuine allrounder, need an opener and a no3. Lyons is a good containing spinner but lacks strike power, but who replaces him??Spud Murphy or the WA offie, both I don’t see any better.
Today’s result panned out as I expected
Today’s result panned out as I expected
Buttface
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🥾 🥾 🥾
Buttface
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I think you’ve mentioned KP before, I know he had a decent last season and has started ok this year except yesterday, but he is as old as Yoda.
Although for a year or so to let others develop might not be a bad call and his is from the Premier State, but I’m looking at youth.
Who you dropping for Boland?
I still can’t fit him in.
Buttface
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Ok, so it turns out I only like these kinds of posts when we win.
Betterdays22
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Changes need to be made. Team is on a downward trajectory. Just whether they need to go full rebuild guys like Konstas and McSweeney and look to the future or patch the team up with ageing guys like Patterson to get through the next 12 months
GNR4LIFE
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The batsmen cop it, and rightly so. But what about the bowlers? Lyon cops some stick, but what about the quicks? They’re put on a pedestal they are undeserving of. At least these days. They coast on reputation. If it wasn’t for Starc ripping through and getting 5 and 6 every now and then, they’d be screwed. Twice in this series, SA were on the ropes and this supposed legendary cartel let them off the hook when batsmen went on to score centuries that won SA those Tests and the series. Lyon is 40 in December. Seriously, enough is enough. And the others are aging too. I feel like the hangover when these guys go will be worse than when McGrath and Warne retired. I see us losing both in India and England next year.
The big issue is that our Captain on this tour would have to be our 4th best quick.
Seriously if all the quicks are fit he should be the one carrying the drinks on his form at the moment.
How important is his Captaincy is the question.
GNR4LIFE
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Harmer took 6/16 on day 5. You think Lyon has that in him?
KP is 33. I’m less interested in age and more in guys scoring runs in red ball cricket. Konstas needs a season playing shield cricket. Some of these guys have awful defensive techniques. Great at hitting a ball. Renshaw is a lock at opener. Probably Head because who else is there realistically to open? Smith probably bats 3 but if not KP is a natural first drop. Green looks hopeless against spin. Starc looked more at ease. McSweeney deserves a go in the middle order. Peake and Connolly look great prospects. Inglis isn’t the answer long term.
