Australian Doom and Gloom Thread

[Chubb]

Ed Cowan is a big time Liberal and people seem to like him.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Is Liberal the good guys or the bad guys

 

[Nintendo]

Is Liberal the good guys or the bad guys

Liberal=Bad Labor=Good

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Actually they're all bad.

 

[Spikey]

‘I should’ve reacted differently’: Langer’s frustration at Amazon doco pay deal

The embattled Australian coach was the undisputed star of last year’s “The Test”. He negotiated his own payment — and was then gazumped by his own players.

www.smh.com.au

While Langer’s team ethos is all about unity, it can be revealed it was anything but when negotiating appearance fees for the [Amazon] series.

Langer cut a deal with Amazon Prime for a payment of about $40,000, according to sources familiar with negotiations, leaving the players to work out their own arrangement.

Imagine their joy, then, when the Australian Cricket Association told them they were each receiving $81,000, regardless of how long they spent on camera. Fringe players like Jack Wildermuth, who was on screen for a matter of seconds, received the same as Steve Smith and Dave Warner – and double the coach.

It’s been speculated for months that payment for the documentary has been a friction point between Langer and the playing group. It seems it was more of an issue for Langer, who was frustrated about his payday, something he confirmed on Thursday afternoon.

“You are absolutely correct in what you heard, and if I look back at that moment in time and with hindsight I should have reacted differently,” Langer said via text.

there is a power in a union, you love to see it

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

lmao amazing

 

[Spikey]

"And with hindsight I should have reacted differently" - The Justin Langer Story

 

[Starfighter]

You couldn't make this **** up.

 

[trundler]

Comical.

 

[Spikey]

Him being comfortably outpaid is one thing, but I truly can't believe he has seemingly made it known to the players that he thinks he got screwed to the point of causing friction with them.

I love this story so much that I'm now on the Keep Langer train.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Tbf, he was the most entertaining part of the doc. Deserved a bag.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Jack Wildermuth made 80 grand for that lol

 

[Spark]

solidarity forever

 

[Spikey]

Justin Langer getting a lesson on the benefits of Collective Bargaining

 

[SteveNZ]

Haha, wonderful. Absolutely sums him up. He had the ability to negotiate his own pay, did so and presumably was comfortable with it, then got gazumped by Jake Wildermuth and co. And then sooked it up in front of the players.

He's a 50 year old toddler.

 

[social]

Pretty sure that it was Wayne Bennett who said that the secret to being a successful long term coach is to have a healthy roster turnover as your message gets old pretty quickly

Doesn’t happen in test cricket so Langer might have simply worn out his welcome

 

[Spark]

What players have "regressed" under langer as head coach?

On this, I feel this is not really the point. The key thing is the players struggling to deliver collectively in pressure situations, as if they're too mentally or physically tensed to quite deliver. Three out of four times, when they were asked to really Witness Headingley, Sydney, Brisbane, where the attack clearly had the credentials on paper to close out those games but failed.

You can't really use lack of talent as an excuse when you have Cummins, Hazlewood, Starc, Pattinson, Lyon (and throw in Neser too if we're considering selection or lack of) at your disposal. That, and the really strange lack of any initiative or activeness in the overall batting approach.

 

[NotMcKenzie]

That, and the really strange lack of any initiative or activeness in the overall approach.

Fixed, given it applies to our bowling, too.

 

[Spark]

Fixed, given it applies to our bowling, too.

That's true but in that case it's harder to parse out how much of that is Langer and how much of that is Paine.

 

[Teja.]

‘I should’ve reacted differently’: Langer’s frustration at Amazon doco pay deal

The embattled Australian coach was the undisputed star of last year’s “The Test”. He negotiated his own payment — and was then gazumped by his own players.

www.smh.com.au

there is a power in a union, you love to see it

Haha, this is pure The Office stuff.