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  1. Dick Rockett

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

    Tim Southee is an idiot. Whoever decided to make him captain is an even bigger idiot.
  2. Dick Rockett

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

    Yeah exactly. I don't think you'll find a single rational NZ fan who doesn't acknowledge that Australia are better than us, but we have been much better in the last decade or so than we have historically, and expectations rise. They rise even more so against Australia, the big brother who...
  3. Dick Rockett

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

    I stand by it.
  4. Dick Rockett

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

    lol
  5. Dick Rockett

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

    You have to give Lyon some credit - you don't take 500+ test wickets at 30 bowling offspin in Australia without being pretty decent. This isn't on the level of our capitulation to Phil Tufnell, or any of a plethora of other no-name spinners to visit these shores and humiliate us.
  6. Dick Rockett

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

    Which is a dodgy tactic given that pro athletes are simply not very intelligent. We're a long way from the likes of David Kirk or Jeremy Coney representing their country and even back then it was hardly an array of shining minds in the dressing room.
  7. Dick Rockett

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

    So it's to be another meek surrender then.
  8. Dick Rockett

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

    Bugger. Still a more logical selection than you know who.
  9. Dick Rockett

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

    Holy cow you're right, why didn't we? Bracewell is only a year older and his FC averages are eerily similar to the SP's. The big difference being that Dougie has actually done something at international level (and isn't a scumbag).
  10. Dick Rockett

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

    Yeah, agree. I think we can win this, but do I think we will? No.
  11. Dick Rockett

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

    That's how it goes sometimes. Green got a lot of praise for his hundred but for the first couple of hours of it he looked like he'd never played cricket before.
  12. Dick Rockett

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

    I was about to reply that it was unlikely we'd lose our last 7 wickets for 100, but then I remembered, y'know, it's us. Having said that, I do - despite my inherent pessimism - think we can win this. With the NZ cricket team, every test is Schroedinger's Test.
  13. Dick Rockett

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

    It's a pleasant enough town, if a bit conservative.
  14. Dick Rockett

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

    Fair play to him then, I wouldn't know. He should go talk about eggball and leave cricket to basically anyone else.
  15. Dick Rockett

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

    Sumo doesn't know much. I would love to know how that oaf is qualified to talk about basically every sport on TV.
  16. Dick Rockett

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

    Some of the punter comments that Cricinfo publishes are asinine
  17. Dick Rockett

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

    Oh bugger this, it's just never going to happen is it
  18. Dick Rockett

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

    That's another way of pointing out that he's not very good.
  19. Dick Rockett

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

    You're right. I suppose it is possible that they may miss the hundreds of other ads plastered over every other visible surface.
  20. Dick Rockett

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

    Imagine if - stay with me here - they just had plain, white sightscreens, without ads or technology?

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