Australian off season domestic 2012/13

[bondi beach]

Losing Hughes is a disaster for NSW. They need to redouble their efforts to keep Khawaja and Smith.

NSW starting XI as it stands:

Maddison
Khawaja
Smith
Rohrer
Patterson
Henriques
Nevill (WK)
O'Keefe (c)
Copeland
Bollinger
Hazlewood

With Cruickshank, Hauritz and Lalor in reserve.

 

[Valer]

Hauritz in reserve.

Surely Hauritz won't stick around...

 

[bondi beach]

Surely Hauritz won't stick around...

Hauritz wouldn't be that great a loss. Hughes however most definitely is.

 

[Sylvester]

Can't lose anymore young batters, our batting pool is drained dried. Bowling on the other hand is still full of depth.

 

[Dan]

Can't lose anymore young batters, our batting pool is drained dried. Bowling on the other hand is still full of depth.

Suits the selectors, they're intent on playing 8 bowlers per game anyway..

 

[brockley]

Gulbris,Johnston,Doolan and Maher signed Tassie comtracts,Rainbird,Allanby and Jordan Silk signed rookie contracts for Tassie.

 

[AlanJLegend]

Gulrbis,Johnston,Doolan and Maher signed Tassie comtracts,Rainbird,Allanby and Jordan Silk signed rookie contracts for Tassie.

So did Paine, according to channel 9 news here.

Stoked for Rainbird and Allenby, went to school with those guys (although never really knew them that well personally).

 

[benchmark00]

NSW? That's in SA!

 

[benchmark00]

Play them as f****** overseas players then, FFS. If South Australia can sign Johan f****** Botha, who has ZERO connection to Australia to begin with, there shouldn't be any issue with picking a former Australian Test player who feels like playing as a local in England.

Jaques, Robson, Magoffin, Hogan et al. should just be played as their state's overseas player. It's ridiculous they don't, FFS.

Botha's love affair with lamingtons won the locals over iirc.

 

[brockley]

Daniel Hughes from north sydney(think thats his last name). would be the ideal replacement for Phil Hughes,or they could Open up with Dawson,i have no hope Khawajah will stay with the Blues.

 

[benchmark00]

Daniel Hughes from north sydney(think thats his last name). would be the ideal replacement for Phil Hughes,or they could Open up with Dawson,i have no hope Khawajah will stay with the Blues.

Dan Hughes didn't have a great season in grade. He's not exactly banging the door down.

 

[brockley]

Ok if not Dan Hughes,then Cruikshank to open and Dawson at 3.
Think NSW squad will look like this :
Dawson,Maddison,Cruikshank,Smith,Rohrer,Patterson,Henriques,Nevill,O'keefe,Doran,Bollinger,Hazelwood,Tremain and Lalor.
I think Triffitt will end up at WA.

 

[bondi beach]

Ok if not Dan Hughes,then Cruikshank to open and Dawson at 3.
Think NSW squad will look like this :
Dawson,Maddison,Cruikshank,Smith,Rohrer,Patterson,Henriques,Nevill,O'keefe,Doran,Bollinger,Hazelwood,Tremain and Lalor.
I think Triffitt will end up at WA.

Are Cruickshank, Dawson, Doran and Tremain good enough? It is realistic to expect Patterson to score as heavily as Hughes?

 

[brockley]

Bondi they are the best replacements we have,their is Scott Henry i guess and Shane Mott(both unlikely to be picked.)

 

[bondi beach]

Bondi they are the best replacements we have,their is Scott Henry i guess and Shane Mott(both unlikely to be picked.)

I think with that squad they will struggle. They have already lost Hughes, Katich, Jacques, Casson, Clark and Lee and cannot afford to lose anymore international players. Perhaps NSW should be looking to poach an opener from another state.

 

[brockley]

I am against recruiting players,unless they are class,Chris Rogers would be the only opener i would buy,best to wait the 1/2 years for one to emerge through the under 19's,heard Jake Doran is quite good dunno if he is an opener tho.We produce players pretty quickley.
I am not keen on us getting someone for the sake of it,we could get Wilf Robinson but he only averages low 30's.

 

[benchmark00]

Wilf Robinson

Agree though, Wes is a gun, very underrated. But we'll be right, we have a production line of talent.


Dan Smith having a thinly veiled crack at the Prince on Twitter?

"With all the moving of players from states/teams/codes across all sports is there such thing as loyalty anymore? #discuss"

#followseveryone

 

[NUFAN]

It would be quite unbelievable if NSW did bring in an opener from another state considering the abundance of openers they had this time last year.

I suggest Dan Smith to open, but more realistically I'm sure NSW will unearth someone who will be close to Australian selection by Xmas.

EDIT - didn't see Benchy's post until I hit send. I would say great minds, but Paszek.

 

[benchmark00]

It would be quite unbelievable if NSW did bring in an opener from another state considering the abundance of openers they had this time last year.

I suggest Dan Smith to open, but more realistically I'm sure NSW will unearth someone who will be close to Australian selection by Xmas.

EDIT - didn't see Benchy's post until I hit send. I would say great minds, but Paszek.

 

[Prince EWS]

I don't think the SA lineup will be that weak, Botha can hold up the tail from 7, which lets you play Ludeman or C***thwaite at 8 and three specialist bowlers. Who've you got in terms of middle order batsmen, apart from Christian and Cooper?

Hughes, Harris, Klinger, Cooper, (Batsman-that-isn't-Borgas), Christian, Botha, Ludeman/C***thwaite, Richardson, (Bowler) , George.

Forgetting Ferguson?

If you've just decided he's officially crap and aren't picking him then I can get behind that, but something tells me that's not it.