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Love Test cricket, love cricket history and love Victor Trumper. Also, enjoy the ODI world cups but the T20s and regular ODIs are just money-making garbage. Sorry. Like the Olympics, soccer World Cup and NRL finals, too.
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PR
I’m getting off the platform.
I still browse articles but I will no longer be active.
I enjoyed your ashes 1989 piece 👍
Australia's greatest: Bradman or Trumper?
FYI
The author chose Border in his all-time Australian XI
Mark Waugh was selected in the fourth XI
How Australia could have won the 1989 Ashes 6-0
Don’t take it personally.
I wouldn’t do the ‘back and forths’ with people. Just make your point once and move on.
Regarding your last, it’s up to you –
Probably won’t get a big response.
Anyway, I’ve enjoyed your series on junior.
Comparing the Waugh twins with peers in Ashes battles
Another good job PR
England really were below par in this era and it’s hard the believe they only won one live test in eight series.
It is interesting to speculate what might have happened if the 2005 series coincided with an Australian side that contained both Waugh’s someone near their peak.
As you have shown, they were both such great players under pressure.
They might have made the difference in such a tight series.
Comparing the Waugh twins with peers in Ashes battles
Definitely
Capping is not only legitimate but in fact absolutely imperative when comparing batsmen
Matth
Are you sure about that last sentence?
Capping is not only legitimate but in fact absolutely imperative when comparing batsmen
The mega rich are 95% on the left
Zuckerberg,
Gates,
Dorsey
Bloomberg,
Bezos
Anyone in Hollywood
Anyone in University
Anyone in the media (except Fox)
Soros
Almost every top 100 company in the US is fully woke to the point where asking for an ID before voting is considered deeply Ray Cist – not my words by those of the current President
Walt Disney
Delta
Amazon
The only exception I can think of is Elon Musk.
So which party stands for the working class?
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Why would I want to protest ‘disparity’?
Isn’t a rocket scientist supposed to earn more than a plumber?
Isn’t the guy who works 80/week supposed to earn more than the guy who works 40?
Doesn’t the guy who saves all his money deserve to have more than the one who spends all on booze and women?
Eliminate disparities???
Sounds like a typical University education.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Same here.
Everyone I’ve met from SA say it’s become a s hithole.
They can’t all be wrong.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Matth
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It’s not that hard in Australia to start with NOTHING
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and make your way into the middle class
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My parents did it
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Came to Oz with ZERO
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Couldn’t speak the language so didn’t know that ‘dirty slimy Dago’ was a pejorative
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Plenty of discrimination in them days against Italians
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But they worked their butt off
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Nor is their story an isolated case
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EVERY single person from mum’s village secured a comfortable life in Australia
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And that same story is true anywhere in the west
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Immigrants to America, from Africa, India, South Korea, Chile
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They all do well through building strong families, hard work, avoiding vices and living a clean life (and dare I say it, religion helps).
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It’s not that hard
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But the welfare system destroys self esteem and motivation
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And when you see yourself as a victim
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rather than the star of your own success story
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Things will never change.
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Welfare, handouts and affirmative action, destroy personal agency.
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Rather than go to the next B LM protest, or march for g ender equity,
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Ask your boss for overtime.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Left is fine Rowdy
As long as you don’t want to come and redistribute my money
among your friends 😂
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Eye for eye, Rowdy?
Let’s avenge crimes from 200 years ago
What could go wrong?
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
I get it
Dirk thinks the right way forward is revenge.
Let’s round up all those white people and cart them off to A uschwitz
You can operate the watch Tower, Dirk
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Brilliant JN
And you are speaking from direct experience in SA
I fear that the west is heading down the road of r acism 2.0
Where the teams change sides.
My days in Australia are numbered.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Poor people today,
in the west,
Are 100x wealthier that those from the middle class in 1890.
I live in Indonesia,
were the middle class earns less than someone on welfare in Australia
And Indonesia is one of the safest of countries.
Poverty is never an excuse for crime – EVER
Why would crime rates fall when people claim that it is justified and legitimate?
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
In the 20th century,
100 million people died because China and the USSR decided to follow Marxist ideology.
Marxism was, is, and always will be, a road to hell.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
@Big Joe
You took the words right out of my mouth.
A memo to b lacks :
Stop joining ‘the cribs’ and ‘the bloods’ and start going to the library.
Stop impregnating random women and find yourself a respectable wife.
Stop taking Fentanyl and go to the gym instead.
Stop l ooting and r ioting at B LM protests and volunteer for extra shifts at work.
Stop committing homicides at 4 times the rate of whites and go to church instead.
In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, these suggested behaviours were common among black Americans.
Why did you stop??
Maybe it’s time to stop blaming Ray Cist and return to your old ways.
There is something rotten in the Rainbow Nation
Definitely.
There’s a couple of great documentaries on YouTube, too.
If you haven’t seen them.
Capping is not only legitimate but in fact absolutely imperative when comparing batsmen
Strange
Here’s another interesting observation
Junior would have been rated much higher had he played in Trumper’s era, when there wasn’t such an obsession with smashing opponents.
No one cared if you made 250* against some weak opponent.
Comparing Mark and Steve Waugh against Pakistan
I’m surprised Dave won’t acknowledge that India in Australia were minnows, in the 1990s
😱
Comparing Mark and Steve Waugh against Pakistan
150 in front of par is a good marker
From here, the chances of defeat are in single figures.
Anything beyond that point is low impact
And before you say it, Pope
That doesn’t mean these runs don’t count or that the captain should declare.
It means they would be excluded from an analysis of high-impact performances.
Which is what PR has done 👍
Capping is not only legitimate but in fact absolutely imperative when comparing batsmen
I won’t be commenting anymore, PR, but I’ll make an exception for your articles.
Just give me a heads up when you post something.
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