dee-luded

lets get some hardass player who is a gun. no, not the Dustman. actually, a wino would do.

Might be that the other clubs want better numbers thru the gate to aid their coffers, that could get us another pick. last year they thought we would be too good for them, so they froze us out like big Arny.

If so, some will be traded for a gun wanting back home.

I say the best Find of 2014, will be the Roos's...

i already new you did macca I respected that niceness but now your just hitting out like a little kiddie macca itsa your idolotry thats childish, & especially wehn it makes you so preciuos about your skipper. childhood fantasy taking reality proportions in your mind its not me who needs help old boy. the truth is out there for You to seek. I already been way along that path. I not particularly seeking forum friends as it were, I don't need to speak one on one with forum postors. I'm here just to read & put forth ideas & thoughts, like most here. and I don't fell lonely. I feel sad for the way things are changing, & values are diminishing, such as your friend clark, who is about the same talent as kim hughes. just in a different Era... stats are only relative to the current environment. by the way I felt sorry for kim hughes to. so I take it we're getting a divorce macca, I here daisy is available.

yes without taking many barrages like the true aussie cricketing hero's. Punter withstood much more at the front-line than this bloke. I have Full respect for what he's done in this test, & its about time he stood on the frontline, instead of back in the command post like the poms at gallipoli. all he has to do to be a hero is stand up-front, against the onslaught. as a leader he shouldn't hide from intimidation. he should Lead from the very front.

I went to the club lat night to watch it after they were 4 out. harris was fantastic, a huge change from his effort last test. and the variation of watto was very handy.

maca, its all truth. face it. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idolatry

No. they're your words. and your logic. he's partway to a good skipper. he runs the onfield like good oil. especially now in the past 10 - 12 months since boof came onboard. but his history speaks for itself with trouble with other past players in the sheds, and after the days play. thats is a part of his record. imo he now is leaning from boof, but he'll never be a really relaxed character from what I see. However, he is now getting on better with the players, & the team is functioning again, & Winning. he's gettin better at the skipper areas he was weak at. this is KEY to the redevelopment of this team. & I go so far as to say that if he didn't improve his ability to get along with the other players, then he would shortly have retired from injury. Now we are a force in world test cricket again. And look at the timing of Warne'y coming onboard this week.... for the next short version game, whilst still playing this last test match of this series. before we take on the Africaans in one day. I wonder if Warney has already had some mojo rub off on the team so far.

He's finally showed up under full provocation, to stand up & be counted; its about time after all these years. this was a gutsy knock, even if sometimes he turned his head sside on instead of watching the pill. but congratulations on a fine captains knock, one that should, after Warners fine lead, set us up for a win from here. now its up to mitch & patto.

Ii agree with you re selection. I have no qualms art all about what i said about clark. I haven't liked the way he has represented the Aussies, in his role as captain. he skippers well re positional changes. and so many of us have felt embarrassed by him as skipper along the way. he's starting to get a bit better, with a long way still to go. this innings he's faced a barrage at the body, its about time he had to face the chin music, instead of batting amongst the spinners down the order. so, with clark its embarrassment all round.... thats why he's just so popular I guess. that he needs media help to ramp up his popularity. almost as popular as Hird. just sayin

I don't hate clark at all. I want him to do well. but I want him to stop looking down on traditional Aussie ways. he's too good for those ways. because of his upbringing & driven by his insecurities. from his youth. its his elitist thinking that makes people feel uneasy about his ways. thats why he's unpopular. I have no personal feelings about him. I don't like the way the Australian captain represents the Australian test team... & I have no personal issue with you Macca, except you do seem to idolise national leaders, & defend them to the hilt. they are nothing more than Just people. like all of us.

kiss his feet macca your devotion to some sort of 'leader worship' is frightening. he's a soft whimpish sort, leave your adualtion for a better model mate. or when clark comes out of his own fear.

I'll barrack for PuP, when his transformation is more complete. he's still got a wayz to go in my eyes. he's caused a lot of conflict in the past & needs to continue to work on himself. tubby is still my fav' skip. & tugga.

actually it wasn't clark coming off winning 6 tests. It was the test team, On, & Off field, that won 6 tests. If it was clark, we would have won all tests in Ye Old` England. but alas, not so.

thats easy to say but as the skipper its about how he effects the rest of the side. if him falling off the order, puts the heat on less experienced batsmen, & they get less runs at the top of the order, & in particular in the first innings of our test matches; then maybe he should look at himself.

it may be how the site is communicating with your browser? or i don't know cookies or something. its happened to me a few times, but only seems to last a few minutes. as if a glitch happens & corrects. I use firefox

maybe try doing a clean of your computer with 'C' Cleaner... the registry, & the general clean? http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner - (free) cleaner http://www.piriform.com/defraggler - (free) defrag

thats happened to me a couple of times but rectifies itself. I'm not that tech savvy with software. nasher will know.

I think your responding to me, lol. I sense Clarke is getting better since Boof arrived, it must be tough for Clarke to relax imo, after he's had a difficult upbringing. Lets hope under Boof, he can learn to relax & mature, within the guidance. but IMO, Clarke will never feel able to let his hair down fully, & just be one of the boys. we'll do what we can.

I don't think he likes batting against raw pace. imo, Clark is too heavily invested in his status; even moreso than the team. just sayin.

That's why I would put Watto in at 3, for this match. Rome wasn't built in a day, they say Macca. after this series is done is the time to be more creative. not during. of no one gets to pick whether there is the side or not, or where they bat or bowl. not even clark.

batting order: I think they'll return it to to old order after this recent collapse at 3/4/5/7. even if for the short term. so Watto at 3. my longer term aim would be to try to arrange Marsh to open, with Warner at 3. another at 4 maybe Smith or Doolan from this lot. I'd be looking towards the eventual retirement of Clark & Watto with my batting order thinking. Rogers will eventually be replaced as well but it all needs to well stagger'd, with time in between shuffles.

rotation policy, no. but just that with back to back test series, with a key bowler to just be the icing on the cake in Sydney when he clearly needed an operation on his knee. They tried to stretch their luck, & its hurt us this 2nd test. We could also have used some more Venom on this dead track, so Pattinson should have been considered to replace Harris, who has been really struggling. Watto has to come in to help resettle the early order, & to add some variation. but we lose another fine fieldsman in Doolan IMO. Pattinson is a must. It'd be nice to come away with a win, and hopefully it wouldn't give us a false sense of "the jobs done", we've made it syndrome.

the 2nd test would have been the prefect time for a rest for Harris. with Pattinson coming in to fire hard. Harris could have finished off in the 3rd test, or gone for an Op'. ah hindsight. Harris should have had the Op' after the MCG test.