Graeme Swann

[theegyptian]

haha what a g. f the haterz.

 

[Hooksey]

The fact that Panesar was likely to play anyway means Swann announcing this now means nothing.

What if Panesar gets injured in Melbourne with Sydney still to play?

 

[lockton2skipper]

Englands best spinner in the last 30 years by a mile, going to take some replacing, superb talented all round cricketer !!

 

[MW1304]

Dobell said in his video that Swann was the most irreplaceable (yeah doesn't entirely make sense but you get his drift) player since Botham. Not far off IMO.

 

[_Ed_]

Just been reported on ABC radio that Monty told team-mates in Sydney club cricket yesterday that Swann was going to be dropped for MCG and replaced by him

 

[GIMH]

According to the twatosphere, Swann is quoted as saying some of his team mates have disappeared up their own arses

Piers Morgan is going sick about it which is good to see.

 

[social]

According to the twatosphere, Swann is quoted as saying some of his team mates have disappeared up their own arses

Piers Morgan is going sick about it which is good to see.

From what I have seen, he simply mentioned "some players"

Media is trying to beat it up into team-mates and/or KP specifically

 

[Tom Halsey]

Yeah I saw that headline as well and then read the article and it actually doesn't mention team mates at all. Just sensationalist media stuff basically. Just said "some players" as social said.

 

[andyc]

Yeah, still a bit of a strange thing to say on your way out mid-tour.

“Some people playing the game at the minute have no idea how far up their own backsides they are,” Swann said at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. “It will bite them on the a--e one day and when it does I hope they look back and are embarrassed about how they carry on.”

Link

 

[Adders]

FMD, dunno what to make of any of this now really. A lot more to this than meets the eye me thinks.

If I played in this Boxing Day Test and the Sydney Test it would be to experience them again and go out waving to the Barmy Army as I walked off. That sort of player doesn’t deserve to be in the team. You don’t build teams around guys like that.

Is that a thinly veiled crack at Colly??

There seems to be an "undertone" to a lot of the comments Swanny has been making, or am I reading too much into them?

 

[Top_Cat]

All will be revealed in 'Swanny - Spinning Tales', summer 2014.

 

[Jono]

Swann should just leave quietly and make these comments in a year or something. Bit unnecessary.

And those saying well the media are blowing it up bigger than it is. He knows they'd do that. Why say it?

 

[Adders]

At the end of the day this is just the icing on the cake for a really ****ed tour for England. Just when you think it can't get any worse...........

 

[Tom Halsey]

Swann should just leave quietly and make these comments in a year or something. Bit unnecessary.

And those saying well the media are blowing it up bigger than it is. He knows they'd do that. Why say it?

I'm not defending it at all. Just saying that the headlines are factually wrong.

 

[GotSpin]

Always thought Swann was quite a character. Shame

 

[Jono]

I'm not defending it at all. Just saying that the headlines are factually wrong.

Yeah fair enough.

This is just odd from Swann. As I said earlier, love the bloke. Something's annoying him though. Guess he's human just like all of us.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Swann probably referring to us with that comment, and with Warner, Watson and Clarke that's a whole raft of circumstantial evidence.

 

[Hooksey]

This is playing out worse and worse for Swann.

 

[uvelocity]

At the end of the day this is just the icing on the cake for a really ****ed tour for England. Just when you think it can't get any worse...........

we aint done with you yet!

 

[Adders]

we aint done with you yet!

Mate if you wanna take pleasure out of beating up on our second 11 then go right ahead Uvo