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Are we really going to pretend that Tim Southee...

Days of Grace

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Mediocre ones who shouldn't be selected, yet have people constantly defend them as class, yup. I do.
So, for example, you would rather NZ lose a test match so long as your point is proven about certain players?

Didn't Southee have a good return against Pakistan recently?
 
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Blocky

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We could continue to bowl the pie throwers and have them go for 120/1 each off 20 overs and still win this match.
 

cnerd123

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I don't understand this.

This thread was made in November 2014. Southee was awesome back then.

How does his decline suddenly devalue people rating him back then? It's as though players and opinions on those players isn't allowed to change with time.
 

Blocky

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Because he was never that good to begin with, someone who has almost a decade in international cricket, who can only point to 18 months of consistent cricket that entire time doesn't deserve to be spoken of as "awesome".
 

cnerd123

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Because he was never that good to begin with, someone who has almost a decade in international cricket, who can only point to 18 months of consistent cricket that entire time doesn't deserve to be spoken of as "awesome".
This is so weird.

So what if it was just 18 months. He was ****ing awesome for those 18 months. For those 18 months he was one of the best bowlers in the entire planet, out of 7 billion ****ing people.

That's when this thread was made

That's when he got all the praise

How is that even a problem to you?
 

Blocky

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Let's make it logical for you.

ITT: People rated Southee as the second best new ball bowler behind Steyn, in a period of time where his statistics didn't show it.
Consequently, people have made: "Oh, Southee and Boult are the best new ball pairing" until possibly the recent Australian tour.
Thus: Pointing out how much hype a reasonably **** player got is no different to any other critique in this forum.
Having this thread appear in a "Southee vs Anderson" thread where people are arguing the merits of Southee and bringing it back up to show how over-hyped he got, that's comedy.

Why people get so emotional over players being critiqued, when they're more than happy to throw praise on them is beyond me. Get over yourself.
 

cnerd123

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Let's make it logical for you.

ITT: People rated Southee as the second best new ball bowler behind Steyn, in a period of time where his statistics didn't show it.
Consequently, people have made: "Oh, Southee and Boult are the best new ball pairing" until possibly the recent Australian tour.
Thus: Pointing out how much hype a reasonably **** player got is no different to any other critique in this forum.
Having this thread appear in a "Southee vs Anderson" thread where people are arguing the merits of Southee and bringing it back up to show how over-hyped he got, that's comedy.

Why people get so emotional over players being critiqued, when they're more than happy to throw praise on them is beyond me. Get over yourself.
You're the one who bumped a two year old thread to laugh at people...
 

Blocky

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A two year old thread that showed in "Similar threads" and was meaningful considering how **** he's bowled since he was anointed "awesome"
 

cnerd123

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i'm actually alarmed that anybody ever looks at similar threads
Over the last few months I've gone from being annoyed at Blocky to now actually being somewhat concerned for him. I feel like he's carrying a lot of anger. Reading his posts makes me uncomfortable.
 

Blocky

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Obvious troll is obvious.

You'd think being infracted and eventually banned for this posting style would stop you from continuing it, but apparently you're not a learn by doing sort of guy.
 

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