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We should wear dark socks/shorts and our normal top when we play the Saints, and they should wear their normal top and white bottoms.

I just read the article and watched the interview excerpts at the link Macca provided: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/players-will-look-at-jonathan-trott-and-think-he-did-a-runner-20140317-hvjis.html?skin=text-only To me it certainly sounds like more than being out of form - the way he was trying to avoid his teammates, the severe anxiety about even going to the ground and the comment that the GP would, in normal circumstances, have signed him off for three weeks leave from his job all point to more than being out of form.

I've never even heard of this guy! What a truly astounding match he played.

His Test record is similarly up and down, although not to such an extreme. From memory I think his WA teammate Marcus North was a bit the same.

Even if Harris never plays another Test, I think he'll be able to look back pretty satisfied with his work in the international arena.

Nice work, 45, appreciate it. I like Misbah. Even though there's still some speculation re: Pakisan captaincy, I reckon that it's been about as stable as you'll get for a Pakisani cricket captain over quite a long time now. (He'll probably get the sack tomorrow).

So we decide not to enforce the follow-on and Rogers and Warner ran out to bad. After six overs Warner's on 25 from 17, playing as you'd expect in this situation. Meanwhile, Rogers goes to bed on 1 from 19...David makes it look easy sometimes, but it's not. Effectively 0/234 with two days left, how long do we bat for?

That's probably helpful to us, given we're 7/494 after two days on this pitch.

IMO Clarke should bat where he gets the most runs for us. If he gets more runs batting at #5 than #3 then that's fine with me.

Happy for us to give up the Queen's Birthday clash with Collingwood?

While you're right that the gist of the article is that coaches quickly get written off after being seen to have 'failed' as senior coach, bush demon's point is that Jake Niall talks up ND's achievement as if it's so amazing because he was coaching at the 'dismal dees' - 'that's right folks - he managed that record at MELBOURNE'. However, if we made finals in 6/10 years before ND's arrival, as bush demon asserts, then we were hardly dismal at that stage. As for the article's main point, I think Niall's final line sums it up: 'AFL clubs worry too much about whether they can ''sell'' a coach, and they don't think they can sell anyone without the sheen of success'. It's why someone like Knights, despite undoubtedly being a better Coach in a second incarnation, is unlikely to ever get a crack at a senior gig again. It's much easier for a Board to either go for an untested coach or someone with proven success, rather than risk explaining why you've gone for someone who was seen as a failure.

The domestic 50/50 crowds were never anywhere near the BBL crowds.

The crowd and television ratings for domestic 50-over cricket versus Big Bash League cricket aren't just in a different league, they're in a different stratosphere.

Nothing to do with that, but moreso that TV and crowd numbers are going to be better over the current period, where you've got the Xmas/NY break, school holidays, better weather, etc.

His FC form hasn't been good.

The last two Johnsons haven't given us much.

Thanks. 56 needed off 13.5 overs with De Villiers just falling. Faf's on 123 and Duminy is striding to the crease.

Haha, love it.

Adopting an extremely promising youngster would be 'legally recognised', but most would think the F/S rules should not apply under certain hypotheticals.

It's very achievable to have something like 20% more members than we've ever had?

Are you serious or just trolling?

That's a joke, right?

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/bit-of-mongrel-and-we-have-a-new-captain-grumpy-20131125-2y67p.html Pretty interesting.

If I could like this comment I would.

Who did you hear that from? From what I've read, The Guardian overseas is sifting through 200,000 documents and the Aus branch got this info shortly before publication.