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McDermott Australia bowling coach

Spark

Spark

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There's talent there.

Copeland
George
Hazlewood
Coulter-Nile
Cummins (y)
Starc
Pattinson

Are the ones I can name off-hand...
 
salman85

salman85

International Debutant
Not too sure if McDermott is the right man for the job.Donald would have been the best choice,but apparently he's set to sign a contract with NZ.
 
Andre

Andre

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salman85 said:
Not too sure if McDermott is the right man for the job.Donald would have been the best choice,but apparently he's set to sign a contract with NZ.
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Surely if Donald was the best choice, he'd have got the job? He might have been the best bowler of the candidates, but that doesn't make him the best fit for the job, it is more complex than that.

I reckon McDermott is a good pick based on 2 main factors:

1) He's got an intimate knowledge of the talent coming through in Australia at the moment and from all report has worked very successfully with them at the academy.

2) His links to the Border/Simpson era. A real believer in good old fashioned hard work and dedicated training. I applaud the decision to employ someone who is into this more than they are sitting behind a computer and watching something so many times it becomes completely different to what it is.

The bloke has real geuine bowling smarts. As a quick, he was one of the first to develop a regular slower ball (which he adopted the split finger from baseball in the US). Plus, he did bowl really good areas in his career. Used to get lovely shape at pace, bowl a length that made batsmen come forward and got the edge. This is something we've lost of late in our attack, we've got too carried away with short-of-a-length. Guys like Siddle and Hilfenhaus will really benefit from having Billy in the job.
 
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Andre said:
Surely if Donald was the best choice, he'd have got the job? He might have been the best bowler of the candidates, but that doesn't make him the best fit for the job, it is more complex than that.
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True, but the effect Donald has had on the likes of Tim Southee in particular show he's pretty good at the coaching side of things too.
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

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Still feels a bit "job for the boys" for me. They take him in after his business goes bust, very soon he's at the academy and now he's the Australian bowling coach.
 
four_or_six

four_or_six

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I haven't been following this massively closely, but why are they doing all the coaching appointments before the review?
 
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smalishah84 said:
when was his *** tape released????
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Hopefully never.

vic_orthdox said:
Still feels a bit "job for the boys" for me. They take him in after his business goes bust, very soon he's at the academy and now he's the Australian bowling coach.
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Yeah it's interesting (and probably a bit dodgy) how quickly he's risen.

What Andre said is true, though. McDermott was a bloke who had to work well beyond his natural talent to become the Test bowler he was, was super-fit, hard-worker, etc. Top, professional bowler.

One wonders whether he's been hired specifically to handle blokes like Johnson, tbh.
 
BoyBrumby

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He was interviewed for our bowling coach gig if memory serves? Saker got the nod and, I think I speak for every English cricket fan, when I say our powers-that-be got that shout right.

The big fella's worked wonders. McDermott might do the same for Oz, but I think they've let the jewel slip from their grasp, myself.
 
robelinda

robelinda

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McDermott doesnt strike me as the coaching genius type to be honest, but we'll see. Always thought he was one of the dumber fast bowlers. I recall Bob Simpson telling him he was weak and a ***** in 1994.
 
Burgey

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BoyBrumby said:
He was interviewed for our bowling coach gig if memory serves? Saker got the nod and, I think I speak for every English cricket fan, when I say our powers-that-be got that shout right.

The big fella's worked wonders. McDermott might do the same for Oz, but I think they've let the jewel slip from their grasp, myself.
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True, though we thought that with Cooley. They brought him back and they still can't bowl three maidens a day between them.

I think our bowlers are just ******** ATM.
 
howardj

howardj

International Coach
vic_orthdox said:
Still feels a bit "job for the boys" for me. They take him in after his business goes bust, very soon he's at the academy and now he's the Australian bowling coach.
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I agree mate.

The Langer reappointment (and initial appointment) smacks of this same thing.
 
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