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

thierry henry

International Coach
If I'm completely honest, the more I hear people bleat on about "mUh SaNdPaPeRgAtE", be it former cricketers like Johnson or be it nobodies online, it genuinely makes me think more highly of Warner than I likely otherwise would.
Yeah my natural state is disdaining Warner because I really don’t enjoy his batting, it embodies a lot of what I loathe about modern batsmanship and to make matters worse he plays for Australia. I’ve found myself becoming a Warner sympathiser just because I don’t understand the generalised personal hatred for him.
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Yeah my natural state is disdaining Warner because I really don’t enjoy his batting, it embodies a lot of what I loathe about modern batsmanship and to make matters worse he plays for Australia. I’ve found myself becoming a Warner sympathiser just because I don’t understand the generalised personal hatred for him.
Warner is quite obviously a massive ****wit on a personal level.

But like GAS, I find myself forgiving that because of the pearl clutching surrounding his ball tampering. That's one of the least ****witted things he's ever done.
 

thierry henry

International Coach
Warner is quite obviously a massive ****wit on a personal level.
Come on it’s not like he’s Ben Stokes or something.

In all honesty apart from 1 or 2 things, if there’s a laundry list of genuinely bad things Warner has done (beyond say, nasty sledging) I’ve probably missed them. A lot of that stuff tends to pass me by unless you’re literally on camera knocking a bloke unconscious and then lying about it in Court.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
There's a headline on ABC this morning about Smith's T20I form. The only question that should be bring asked is why he wasn’t 'retired' from white ball internationals after the World Cup.
 

Burgey

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It wouldn't be the first time, right? I'm trying to remember who we've booed before.
Greg Matthews copped a **** ton of abuse from NZ fans back in the mid 80s by all reports. He was a bit of a different character but I'm not sure why he was the subject of it, aside form making some runs against them in the preceding series here which NZ had won.
 

RMBolton

U19 Debutant
General NZ behaviour towards Australia in sports is woeful and kinda embarrassing IMO. It goes well beyond banter and in to genuine anger sometimes. Would love to see it toned down a bit, but yeah with the tours being few and far between I reckon we could see some nasty stuff, hope to be proven wrong though!
Especially in the Tests, because they come here so little, they deserve it.

The Sandpaper stuff is so overdone it's boring. How about something different, like "Sunrisers replaced you with Kane" (even though this one is outdated), "get back to TikTok" or "Go back to your OLED TV" or something like that.

I'm all up for childish humour, but can it at least be stuff we haven't heard a million times already.
 

Spark

Global Moderator
Especially in the Tests, because they come here so little, they deserve it.

The Sandpaper stuff is so overdone it's boring. How about something different, like "Sunrisers replaced you with Kane" (even though this one is outdated), "get back to TikTok" or "Go back to your OLED TV" or something like that.

I'm all up for childish humour, but can it at least be stuff we haven't heard a million times already.
Haha it's the least likely one by far but ironically also the one that's most likely to actually piss him off, he's clearly still got an axe to grind with whatever went on there.
 

Athlai

Not Terrible
Bunnings references are evergreen IMO. Just adds a sorta colloquial twist to it that makes it more fun
 

jcas0167

International Regular
Yeah, sandpaper has run its course. Or at least it has when it's the tired old 'Hey Davy been to Bunnings lately' etc
It certainly should have. What also annoys me about it is he has taken the blame for it when it was clearly something others, namely the bowlers, must have been aware of.
 

Gob

International Coach
Warner is quite obviously a massive ****wit on a personal level.

But like GAS, I find myself forgiving that because of the pearl clutching surrounding his ball tampering. That's one of the least ****witted things he's ever done.
Hasn't he changed though? Was listening to his pressy after his last test I think and he said something like sledging and being aggressive to opposition players was something he did in the early stages of his career but no longer think it's good and has its place.

Anyway I could never understand people who pay to see elite players play and then decide to abuse them
 

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