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  1. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Nincompoops

    Hard to go past Inzy here. I would love to see the Aamir Sohail incident though - is that around on Youtube (or elsewhere)?
  2. Slow Love™

    Should Greg "Bowl this one underarm Trev" Chappell be Australia's next coach ?

    I don't think Andy's post is that ridiculous. I wouldn't say Chappell's move was tactful (is that what you meant?) but I don't think many would deny that it had a fair degree of cunning about it. Outside of a wide which you'd likely have to bowl again, it's a delivery you could guarantee...
  3. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    Well said, Burgey, but really, far too mild. Legglancer, you're a right ****ing idiot. I read Benaud's comments, and disagreed with him, and thought it was far too charitable towards the umpires in this situation. But calling a man like Benaud a bigot, on no basis other than he gave his...
  4. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    It's terrible for me, right now. Slow as molasses, loading up about two-thirds of a page and then hanging. Pretty much unusable.
  5. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    Fair enough, yeah, I did take it as a shot at OZ. Believe it or not, we're a reasonably decent country - if a little less so since the rise of the Poison Dwarf. 8-)
  6. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    We weren't really arguing on legal terms. We were operating on a hypothetical premise that Hair had shown a demonstrable bias against all subcontinental players, in all situations. My point was that this would probably be enough for me to call him a racist. Faaip's point was that you can't...
  7. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    Needlessly inflammatory. That wasn't the point. Either you're reading my post too quickly, or you're just not bothering. For ****'s sake, you just completely removed the context of this statement. I didn't say it was foul play. Please read the post and pay attention to what I'm saying...
  8. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    Well, if you've got the time, it would be appreciated - of course, it's a request, not a demand. I think many have their own suspicions perhaps re: Hair, but I think it's one thing to wonder, and another to indict, and I think you're being a bit unintentionally ironic in your clamouring for...
  9. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    C_C, can you itemise Hair's offences against the subcontinental teams, vs his offences against non-subcontinental teams? EDIT: Actually, anybody's welcome to do it.
  10. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    Well, I don't think that many are surprised by the verdict, no. But what I do think it demonstrates is that the rule that allows the charge of ball tampering to be made on the spot without any visual evidence of it occurring is now untenable. IMO correctly so, it's ridiculous, and will result...
  11. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    Just been effectively locked out for about 35-40 minutes.
  12. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    Haha, a bit of a "two pumps and she'll be happy" fella, eh? :p
  13. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    Sorry mate, I don't do MSN or any of the chat progs. But if it's useful, it's happening right now. What tends to happen is that I'll sporadically get through, or I won't. So I'll have a block of say, half an hour where I can barely get through. But for a three minute window within that, I...
  14. Slow Love™

    Ball-Tampering Hearing

    We can probably have fun with the diplomatic wording of Mudagalle's statement 'till the end of time, but he did also say "Given that the physical state of the ball did not justify a conclusion that a fielder had altered its condition, and neither of the umpires had seen a fielder tampering with...
  15. Slow Love™

    Slowness and Adverts

    Yeah, it's fairly often terrible for me, although I don't know if there's any direct correlation to times of the day on my end. It's not as bad as it was, say, back in January, when it got so bad either posting or just reading that I eventually stopped visiting. IIRC, Shounak was having...
  16. Slow Love™

    Ponting and Buchanan are Losers...

    Fatcat's probably got a point, but he's staked everything on Australia losing the Ashes. So if Australia win (dare I say, as expected), even if Ponting captains poorly and Buchanan isn't much of a coach, he'll have egg all over his face, and will have to eat his words. Perhaps a mea culpa or...
  17. Slow Love™

    ICC appoints Hair for Champions Trophy

    Dunno about that - the Indians haven't been backward in their criticism of Bucknor in the past. Anyhow, it looks like Hair definitely isn't standing in the Champions Trophy now - safety concerns are being cited. *nudge nudge wink wink*
  18. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Test captains

    I had four originally, but then edited it back, as that might have been a tad excessive. Three seemed to get across my level of outrage just right.
  19. Slow Love™

    Does China have hope in Cricket?

    They weren't (well, from the 70's, at least, when global opposition became so pronounced). I think they were re-admitted at roughly around the same time the cricket team was.
  20. Slow Love™

    Battle of the Test captains

    Not wanting to sidetrack the thread too much, but it's not falling for the cliched trap of "black and white, where the bad guy is all bad etc" so much as drawing a line through Cronje's conduct directly related to cricket (which sets it apart from say, appreciating the films of Roman Polanski in...

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