Cricket Chat is not same ...............

[honestbharani]

To look at it in another, slightly less sleep-deprived way - Cricket Chat is much like Test Cricket. Every so often, people have a whinge about missing the golden era, retirements lowering the standards, fast bowling being a dying art, and brain-dead sloggers proliferating.

There are still some links to the golden days - Richard Dickinson is like Sourav Ganguly: obnoxious, irritating, universally disliked but for a select few who call him "dada", and refusing to go away. I'm like Shaun Pollock, ginger and still just about here. Langeveldt has become Hansie Cronje, hung upon an edifice of his own creation. Marc, like Inzamam an iconic figure of respect and ridicule, has departed. Mr Mxyzptlk is the entire West Indian side, fading from glory but still able to stun you with the occasional moment of iridescence, and Scaly Piscine is Mark Ramprakash: disappearing into the sunset having been ignored once too often.

In their place, we have Jamee and PhoenixFire - Broad and Bopara, young, bold and confident. Silentstriker may very well be Sreesanth: sometimes sensational, sometimes dismal, but always controversial. Perm could only be the Angry Man of NZ Cricket, Jesse Ryder (now where's my crash helmet gone...?) Matt79 is Mike Hussey: it already feels like he's been around forever. Piper must be Graeme Smith's other half, Minki - particularly given that this sentence now neatly brings Richard's twin obsessions together. Pasag is Ricky Ponting - reformed troublemaker toeing the party line about the Spirit of Cricket Web, and Prince EWS is Michael Clarke, his lieutenant.

This is Shaun Pollock, retreating back to fine leg following an uncharacteristically long spell.

 

[Goughy]

Cricket Chat is not as good as it was. There are the obvious issues with topics and arguments being repeated but there are a few things that have made this place regress. The taking of threads OT and the tedious nature of posts are to name but 2.

There are things that could be done to improve CC but this is neither the time nor the place to detail them.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Cricket Chat is not as good as it was. There are the obvious issues with topics and arguments being repeated but there are a few things that have made this place regress. The taking of threads OT and the tedious nature of posts are to name but 2.
There are things that could be done to improve CC but this is neither the time nor the place to detail them.

I agree.

Does anyone know a good recipe for a low-fat curry?

 

[Craig]

I still post on here as force of habit. I want to take an extended break, but I know I can't and it won't last long. I would love to know what international cricket I represent.

 

[Son Of Coco]

I still post on here as force of habit. I want to take an extended break, but I know I can't and it won't last long. I would love to know what intenrational cricket I represent.

I'd say this one....

 

[Beleg]

lol, it's nice to see you posting aussie, mate. (


its a reminder of the good auld times.

 

[Son Of Coco]

lol, it's nice to see you posting aussie, mate. (


its a reminder of the good auld times.

Thanks mate, it's called 'being unemployed' Or part-time anyway.

Edit: Dammit, you weren't talking to me...see how no quotes confuses me...and it seems to be just me.

 

[archie mac]

I still love it

Sometimes when I visit there are not many topics I wish to comment on, but I know in a couple of days there will be plenty

 

[Craig]

I'd say this one....

Naturally.

 

[Matt79]

Great stuff from CW's #1 Ginger.

Well I have to say that if he's labelled me the Hussey of CW!

 

[andyc]

Ooohhhh, do me, do me!

FFS Nath, how am I meant to get any at all if you keep doing it by yourself?

 

[andyc]

FFS Nath, how am I meant to get any at all if you keep doing it by yourself?

 

[Richard]

Hahaha at Cameron (the predictability element) and at Patrick too, as Gelman said, 't'was a funny-'un.

And yeah - the Pickup comic genius strikes for the 2nd time in CW history. Well played. I disagree with most of the analogies, obviously - I'm far more the Don Bradman of CW for starters, obviously - but that's by-the-by.

 

[Richard]

But this is better still:

Don't post in CC as often as before due to hectic school work, 6th form at the Manchester Grammar School is pretty rough added to my extensive dealings with the ladies.

 

[Richard]

Plus I think the other thing for you BP is that you're probably getting the 'second year' blues.

TBH mate, BhupinderSingh has been around for quite a while. 25\02\2005. Hope no-one minds me mentioning, obv.

 

[vic_orthdox]

But this is better still:

Got a big rise out of me, that one.

 

[The Sean]

TBH mate, BhupinderSingh has been around for quite a while. 25\02\2005. Hope no-one minds me mentioning, obv.

Well played.

 

[Matt79]

Got a big rise out of me, that one.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Am picturing how, instead of having a room dedicated to cricket books (a la archie mac), aussie has a room dedicated to housing "the ladies".

 

[Richard]

IMO, CC is getting very samey. All the threads seem to be about the same thing and anything different gets dragged back to old, unwinnable arguments.

As regards the serious matter... this has always happened, there've always been on-and-off spells of it. Same in OT. You always get different people saying "it's not what it once was" at these times - but things always get better again eventually, and likewise they get worse again after that, and better again, etc. etc.

You've got to take the rough times with the smooth. It's always a great shame when we see someone - 16toS for instance - leaving because of the fact that there's currently a rut. It's so, so much better if we can stick it out.