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You know what really grinds my cricketing gears?

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DaRick

State Vice-Captain
Richard said:
Yeah, well I've had the misfortune I guess to be exposed to rather more of Conn's nonsensical anti-every-team-ever-to-tour-Australia(especially-England) simplistic scrawlings than Craddock. I honestly can't say I've ever read something in a piece of his (Conn's) that I agreed with other than absurdly obvious stuff (not dissimilar to a poster or two on this forum that, of course), so I've naturally taken a very strong, visceral dislike to his writing.
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Fair enough. I've been exposed more, I suppose, to Craddock's knee-jerk reaction to each and every incident (i.e - 'Australia are going down', etc.) and Dorries' lazy journalism.

After a while, when a writer has disgusted me to a certain degree, I generally tend to stop reading their works (I know one Matthew Pitt has this attitude to a certain Peter Roebuck for example) so in recent years I've barely read anything written by Conn, other than the odd bit and piece around Ovalgate time (when surprise surprise he came accross to me as defending Hair because Hair was Australian). So someone who makes more of a habit of reading him would presumably have a better chance of finding material to agree with. :)
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I don't make a habit of reading Conn, per se (as I stated, I'm not a big fan, I just prefer him to Craddock); I just find more in his articles, evidently, to agree with than you do. Oddly enough, I haven't yet got to the stage where I'll stop reading a journo's articles (not even Craddock/Dorries, although I deliberately avoided many of Peter Roebuck's articles for about a month or two).
 
Smudge

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
Flem274* said:
The myth that NZ have no good seamers bar Bond

Go look up the averages of Franklin, Mills, Southee and Gillespie then come talk.
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I was with you until you mentioned Gillespie. His statistical record paints him in a prettier light than his performances deserve.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

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Voltman said:
I was with you until you mentioned Gillespie. His statistical record paints him in a prettier light than his performances deserve.
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But if I put in Martin all the CricInfo stats readers would have disagreed completely. Gillespies stats look nicer therefore he gets a mention.:ph34r:
 
Smudge

Smudge

Hall of Fame Member
Flem274* said:
But if I put in Martin all the CricInfo stats readers would have disagreed completely. Gillespies stats look nicer therefore he gets a mention.:ph34r:
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Go directly to ranting remedial classes. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
The New Zealand cricket team:

I've said enough. Are we that useless or that players actually so rubbish despite being talked highly about on this site? I mean Aaron Redmonds gets runs in the warm-up games but goes MIA in Tests, not good enough.
 
Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Craig said:
The New Zealand cricket team:

I've said enough. Are we that useless or that players actually so rubbish despite being talked highly about on this site? I mean Aaron Redmonds gets runs in the warm-up games but goes MIA in Tests, not good enough.
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Hah, that's a pretty friggin ignorant comment. Geez.
 
Perm

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Craig said:
Since you can do better, why you go ahead then and write a better rant then? I mean what do they teach you at University all day, my superior :dry:
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You've got a real complex about people that attend University don't you Craig? Time to move on son, we've heard it all before and frankly it's a load of bull****. If you can't handle people criticising a rubbish post that you make, then you really need to harden up.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
Perm said:
You've got a real complex about people that attend University don't you Craig? Time to move on son, we've heard it all before and frankly it's a load of bull****. If you can't handle people criticising a rubbish post that you make, then you really need to harden up.
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That wasn't criticising, that was having a go at me (IMO). I can handle criticism, but at least say 'DWTA etc, etc'. And please don't call me 'son', I find that quite patronising itbt.

Yeah my earlier post was written out of anger, after losing a Test by an innings & 9 runs and a pretty inept performance I wasn't too pleased, and yeah it was an OTT and rash post, your no angel with your baiting attempts either. As for my apparent complex, my best mate is currently attending University, so I don't exactly hate him for going there.

If you have no time for what I write, fine, but don't go around provoking me since I haven't exactly been doing that with you.
 
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FRAZ

International Captain
Perm said:
You've got a real complex about people that attend University don't you Craig? Time to move on son, we've heard it all before and frankly it's a load of bull****. If you can't handle people criticising a rubbish post that you make, then you really need to harden up.
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What university has to do with harden up thing ?
Is there any criteria for posting here ?
For what I've seen is that all the longer posts posters are university lads having nothing productive to with their spare time .
Specimen : http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/showpost.php?p=1116865&postcount=136
 
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