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Australian Doom and Gloom Thread

Justin Langer

  • Waste Man

    Votes: 8 38.1%
  • Elite honesty.

    Votes: 13 61.9%

  • Total voters
    21

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
The team is beyond embarassing. How we went from Ponting Hayden bevan and mcgrath to this absolutely hopeless lot I will never understand.

We wont qualify for the WC and frankly we dont deserve it. I would much rather CA stops spending money on these tours and instead use that money on more pressing issues faced by people in the country.

As for me, im done with Cricket for a while. No point watching match after match if they continue to embarass themselves and their supporters game after game. Without showing any improvement.
 

Line and Length

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M0rphin3

International Debutant
Could've been so much better if Smith, Maxwell and Warner were playing. At least woulda won the first one. That loss was just awful, this one was on the cards. They're just super inept.

I really don't think Cummins might have had that much of an impact here anyway, it's 50/50.

Also, won't this be the end of the rope for Langer? I'd have thought he was on thin ice already.
 

Burgey

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Cummins misses is pregnant and he wants to be with her, no? Didn't think it was about him not being ****ed.
So ****ing what? He didn't want to be with her when he was playing for the big bucks in the IPL. Sit both out or neither. Don't pick and choose. If you have the energy to knock her up, you've got the energy to bowl four ****ing overs per game.
 

Spark

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The team is beyond embarassing. How we went from Ponting Hayden bevan and mcgrath to this absolutely hopeless lot I will never understand.

We wont qualify for the WC and frankly we dont deserve it. I would much rather CA stops spending money on these tours and instead use that money on more pressing issues faced by people in the country.

As for me, im done with Cricket for a while. No point watching match after match if they continue to embarass themselves and their supporters game after game. Without showing any improvement.
This is bigfooty tier nuff
 

Burgey

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TBF, Warner has looked far more injured than Steve Smith ever did in the first half of this year.
Yeah but he recovered enough to play in the IPL, coincidentally, I'm sure. Just not enough to play for his country afterwards. It's a joke. Retire and become the white Chris Gayle (of five years ago tbf). Don't pretend you give a **** any more.
 

Burgey

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Maybe he could have thought "I won't play IPL, because there's a tour for my actual ****ing country a couple of months later and I'll miss both then."

This is an absolute joke. You can't defend it when he's opted into a big pay day while she's up the duff only to not tour for his country. It's woeful from him, frankly.
 

Burgey

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why do you care about losing t20s? at least the other salty bloke who started a thread is sad about a real format.
Not speaking for the OP. but it does burn my cheese a bit when blokes slough off citing "family" and "fatigue" when they literally went to play hit and giggle for big bucks in the middle of a pandemic. It's ****ed. It goes to their attitude and tot he culture within the playing group.
 

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
How do the contracts work? Do these guys just sit back and collect money?

Obviously not feasible in NSW right now, but if they can't be ****ed touring then all these guys should be going around to primary schools every week and drumming up the game that has given them everything
 

Burgey

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They're a bit too tired to do that, unfortunately.
 
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GotSpin

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They're a bit too tied to do that, unfortunately.
Yeah probably

I've often thought about it though. What are these guys actually doing while they're paid 100k a week?

I'd have all domestic players going out to primary schools every single week. Honestly, get them working rather than just a light gym session and tennis
 

Burgey

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A lot of the domestic players do that sort of stuff tbh. And players contracted to BBL franchises too.

The national players though? There is no less accessible sporting team in the nation than the Aus cricket team. They have very, very little to do with supporters outside waving to them as they leave the field after a win.
 

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
A lot of the domestic players do that sort of stuff tbh. And players contracted to BBL franchises too.

The national players though? There is no less accessible sporting team in the nation than the Aus cricket team. They have very, very little to do with supporters outside waving to them as they leave the field after a win.
Oh yeah fair enough. Never seen the big players out and about though
 

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