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A week ago I wrote an article revelling in the glorious unpredictability of modern cricket, about the bipolar nature of recent Ashes series. Today…
Hand's down, this is the most fascinating Ashes Series for a decade. The quality of play might not always be there, but the surprise…
There has recently been a lot of articles venerating Virat Kohl for his fine individual performances against Australia, but these articles miss the point…
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Couldn't care less about who captains England? About whether or not Alastair Cook is sacked or not and who replaces him? Five-zip, hurrah, hurrah…
There is apparently a war going on in this peaceful land of ours. A war that has been smouldering in the background ever since…
Here here James,
A good article. Its cricketers like Alderman who are always quickly forgotten but are the heart and soul of good Australian sides. One thing I’d like to add that you missed though: Alderman was capable of bowling long spells, probing and drying up runs even when the ball was old and not doing much – just as vital for his success as his new-ball swing bowling.
Imagine if Terry Alderman was an Englishman
Are you guys, criticising Clarke and some others so vociferously aware of how personally you seem to take their performance? Not to mention how quickly you forget the service Clarke has offered to the baggy green. How easily you forget South Africa and countless mountains of runs he scored when Australia really were struggling and needed them. If Clarke retired today he would stand along side Waugh, Border, Chappell, et al. in the pantheon as great Australian batsmen/captain. For much of his time as captain he has had to work with a developing side and a lack of quality batsmen to support him. So at best you are unfair and largely incorrect. At worst you will end up with a massive load of egg on your collective faces.
Ashes: Where does arrogance end and stupidity begin?
Andyincanberra is right,
The Giants will get a big crowd at Manuka this weekend – big by canberra/Manuka standards anyway. And its actually a really good ground to watch footy, feels a little like an old suburban ground but with better facilities.
To the the debate about GWS playing in Canberra at all it’s really a tough choice: one one hand there is a large AFL supporter base in Canberra (due to always present ex-pats from other states, and, more recently, growing local popularity) it would be very unfair and not very good commercial decision to stop AFL in canberra. So if not GWS then who? On the other hand I get the point – a team is a team for one area and one area only. If the Giants become more and more entranced in western sydney then their supporters will resent more and more loosing hime games (if only 3/year) to canberra. Solution: AFL team in Canberra!
No chance of this happening until they have a 25,000+ stadium and can muster 20,000 supporters/week. This is unlikely to happen for a decade at least.
The AFL's kids are starting to play like men
Steve,
I’m just reading through some Ashes articles from the last few days and keep reading from you and others that there is no real alternative to Cook. Are you guys actually serious you wouldn’t consider Stuart Broad: arrogant, a fierce competitor and able to seize the moment? Did no-one else notice it was he alone who seemed to rise for that extra effort when England were down plenty bowling in Australia’s 2nd innings – he didn’t have many mates though. He seems to me naturally intuitive and tactically astute for these reasons. He also coped plenty for his batting in the first 3 tests but almost exclusively among England batsman (not to mention the tail) he seemed in Melbourne and Sydney to figure a way to play the Aussie bowlers. Just like to know what you think about Broad for England’s captain given I agree with everything you’ve said about Cook?
Men against boys in Australia's Ashes triumph
Whilst I would agree with most of this analysis and most of the comments, which seem to heavily favour Richmond, I would also point out one large unknown and novel factor, which emerged only last week when the Giants played West Coast. Due to the injuries to Cameron and Mumford GWS were forced to push Lobb into the ruck, have a single tall target forward (Patton), becaming a lot faster and smaller around the ground, in general, but especially up forward: a huge contributing factor to their very high score. So I think (baring outside influences like rain) it’s actually incumbent on Richmond to stop the Giants scoring. But like most I still have trouble backing GWS because of their year-long inconsistency. They haven’t really put a string of outstanding performances together all year, not is small part due to injuries, but they also seem to lack that extra something that the eventual premiers always seem to have. Adelaide, have it, and Richmond may too. But the Giants? I agree – as much as for resurgent Richmond, this is a defining moment for GWS. It feels like they’ve been on the verge of cracking the final step from hugely promising side to true contenders. If they can silence 90000+ Richmond supporter’s at the G they can do anyone
Richmond Tigers vs GWS Giants: AFL preliminary final preview and prediction