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  1. Dick Rockett

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    The pitch and wickets may be but the cameras can never quite be. Which may be accounted for in the margin of error, idk.
  2. Dick Rockett

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    Even Spam has a use by date.
  3. Dick Rockett

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    Obviously it comes down to opinion, doesn't it? I like that it keeps the umpires relevant.
  4. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    It's a rhetorical question. It means having a life long love for the game counts for nothing.
  5. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    I'm well aware of what the IPL is. The one good thing about sport as a business is that anyone can withdraw their custom if they don't like it. That's what I'm doing, not that those running the game care. What's love got to do with it eh?
  6. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    I wish the rest of the world would leave the 'Big One' to play its hit and giggle by itself, then maybe we could have international cricket back in its rightful place. I wish.
  7. Dick Rockett

    Does anyone wish, odi cricket was back?

    Initially it was matches disappearing behind TV paywalls, increased prices for tickets and concessions, teams not sending or playing their best sides, Australia being too damn good, proliferation of copycat tournaments elsewhere, competition from other entertainment options. Then T20 came...
  8. Dick Rockett

    Hawkeye founder on 'umpires call' debate

    I think umpire's call is quite an elegant solution. It baffles me that it makes so many people so angry. Mind you, so does the faith so many have in technology.
  9. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Matthew Bell takes the team psychologist job.
  10. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Fair points. Would be great to have him on board in the future but knowing NZ cricket it will depend on whether those in the big chairs like him personally or not.
  11. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    I'm no fan of English cricket but I had to admire the way they saw problems and took dramatic steps to fix them. I'm referring to their response to us humiliating them at the 2015 world cup and the hiring of Brendon McCullum as test coach. Would much prefer that kind of attitude instead of the...
  12. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Well yeah, that's the whole point - why does this guy get a shot when what he did is so much worse than what these other guys did? I mean it's been done to death in this thread and on this forum and out in the real world and I've said my piece, so I'll leave it at that.
  13. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    I suppose it comes down to your own personal outlook as to whether you feel Jesse Ryder was 'dudded' or not. Perhaps my own background and politics prevent me from seeing this as clearly as you do, which is why I'm just banging on in an obscure forum and no one with any clout cares what I think...
  14. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    If you have insider knowledge of what support Jesse Ryder got beyond what we all know from media reports, then please share it. Because what I saw was a poor kid with alcohol problems and a parasitic entourage who got half-arsed "support" from the system when it was already far too late...
  15. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Jesse Ryder didn't have the benefit of being identified early and mentored out of the life circumstances into which he was born, like Ross Taylor did. He didn't tow the line and the system decided bad headlines weren't worth the meagre investment they'd put into him so he was cast adrift, as if...
  16. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Just once I'd like to hear them say how pissed off and embarrassed they are, like any passion whatsoever. If they seem not to care then why should we?
  17. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Don't forget the 35 runs the drop of Lyon cost us.
  18. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Tim Southee is an AI confirmed. But yeah, add a few "obviously"s and that'll be it
  19. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    They are not going to drop the captain for what will be his hundredth test. And at least Blundell has done something against Australia. Latham, on the other hand...
  20. Dick Rockett

    *Official* Australia tour of New Zealand Feb-Mar 2024

    Hopefully it's that and not that they don't want to be seen waving the white flag to end such a damp fart of a test, because if he aggravates that hammy batting here I'm going to cry.
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