Spark
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How many people who aren't diehard cricket fans actually bothered to watch SA09, though? Let's be real here.
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Spineless pathetic bastards...
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Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
Its a ****ing trumpet not a horn.
Benchy, you may not find them amusing or enjoy their songs, but I'm not sure you are in any position to be calling them irrelevant. Ask the McGrath foundation and various other beneficiaries of their charity work if they think they are irrelevant.
How irrelevant do you think they are in the eyes of CA who view them as a massive cash cow. And most importantly I can absolutely assure you that they are very relevant to the England team.
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TNT
Banned
Still no different to any drunken abusive cricket fan.
TNT
Banned
I have, unfortunately I've been seated next to the barmy army and the more they drank the more they became obnoxious. They are no different to any drunken yobbo.
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
Or more specifically, a bugle I believe
And yes, the Barmy Army are worth their weight in gold to organisers and cricket boards around the world hosting the english team, particularly the more cash strapped ones who really need the ticket sales.
Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
Billy Cooper (trumpeter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And for the record he has played his TRUMPET for the London Symphony Orchestra...... he is a very talented musician.
And for the record he has played his TRUMPET for the London Symphony Orchestra...... he is a very talented musician.
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
The terms are often used interchangeably going by my quick internet searches (or that my first few sources were just wrong), but upon doing an image search of Billy it appears that he is in fact playing a trumpet, so that clears that up.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Indeed. Winning the Ashes in Australia, and that after having lost the last 3 series, is worth more to the casual fan than anything Mitch did in South Africa. And by a long long way.
Ausage
Cricketer Of The Year
But the point is "hot and cold" is the narrative for Johnson. If he goes off the rails in Perth that narrative will just start up again. Brisbane and Adelaide will be considered flashes in the pan and the calls will come back out to drop him.
Besides, we're not even talking about the average cricket fan. How many here would support him if he had a couple of bad tests in a row? Most of us saw SA09 and very few wanted him anywhere near the team before the Ashes.
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Clapo and that's about it.
The position so many people took on Johnson pre-series was ridiculous. His selection was completely reasonable given Australia's injury woes heading into Brisbane.
Son Of Coco
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His selection was only reasonable if there were signs he'd contribute more than he had in the previous few years. Otherwise it was an incredible risk. If there was a good chance he'd have come back and performed as poorly as he's capable of then there were better options. Fortunately, things have changed on Planet Mitch for the good recently (which I'm sure the selectors were aware of).
Maximas
Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah, the selectors probably knew more than we did, but our line of fast bowlers extends pretty far back and we had a few guys who on recent shield form could have been considered ahead of Johnson, of course our stance looks stupid now but many of us always said it is possible he could do this, it was hard to know. I think what got us nervous was that he was picked on the back of ODIs, his last two test matches were pretty poor and the shield games in the lead-up gave little indication of what was to come.
