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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

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Who would be Langer's replacement?
Ponting or Gillespie are two options a lot of people (including me) like but CA may not be able to put up enough money to tempt them to do it. Beyond that not really sure who the options are.

One person who I would actually like to see back is McDermott as bowling coach.
 

sunilz

International Regular
Ponting or Gillespie are two options a lot of people (including me) like but CA may not be able to put up enough money to tempt them to do it. Beyond that not really sure who the options are.

One person who I would actually like to see back is McDermott as bowling coach.
Ponting is paid something like 500,000 USD for coaching Delhi capitals ( 2.5 months job).
So CA can't afford 1.5 million USD for Ponting ? strange.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Ponting is paid something like 500,000 USD for coaching Delhi capitals ( 2.5 months job).
So CA can't afford 1.5 million USD for Ponting ? strange.
As far as I know Langer's pay is about A$1M. Ponting would be giving up about $700k for a lot less work in the IPL and I seem to remember it being mentioned once that his media gig with C7 is worth well into six figures as well. Although they should spend less on administrative bloat, even accounting for that I don't see CA stumping up that much.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He's not done much since he retired, so regardless of whether he'd be good or not I doubt he'd be interested.
 

TheJediBrah

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Ponting is paid something like 500,000 USD for coaching Delhi capitals ( 2.5 months job).
So CA can't afford 1.5 million USD for Ponting ? strange.
As I said, they still don't want to do it. These guys have young families they want to spend time with. Much easier to spend a month as a T20 coach and a few weekends commentating during summer.
 

TheJediBrah

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Ponting seems like he'd be incredible though. One of the few former players that really thinks about the game and has genuinely good tactical planning skills, and a lot more level-headed as he's gotten older. Pretty much the anti-thesis of Langer.
 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Ponting was incredible with the guys in the wc, there was a reason a team with no form at all until 2 series pre the wc who had 2 guys who haden't played in the team for a year come back where so dominant in the group stage, and it sure as hell wasn't langer's doing. TBF, langer has done really well with the odi side since then.

Either way, punter wouldn't take the head coach job, he's said numerous times that he's more comfortable doing IPL and his media gigs and who can blame him tbh, Makes way more than langer with a lot less work to do and more time with the fam.
 

Chubb

International Regular
Gillespie seems like the man for the job but you understand why he’s not keen. Feel like he has the right blend of Lehmann good-blokishness, without the toxic racism and hypocrisy, coupled with technical knowledge, without overbearing treat-the-players-like-kids Arthurism.
 

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Winning ODI series in IND ,ENG also when nobody gave them chance.
Yeah no denying that we've been great in ODI under langer, and we've been good in t20's when everyone's been available, ****ed up a previously #1 Pak side and were highly competitive against the 2 best sides in the world, don't think you can blame him for our lack of depth, he's utter horseshite as test coach though.
 

Spikey

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It would appear that it is journalists who have problems with Langer ... far more than one or two players.
I imagine journalists are quite happy with Langer being there, a steady supply of stories because he can't stop being dumb. imagine putting someone boring and normal in there
 

social

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Shri

She’s an airhead who owes her position due to her gender

There’s lots of decent female commentators

She’s not one of them
 

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