Dave Warner isn't exactly a 'young' batsmen though is he. Nearer Cook in age than Root.
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*Official* First Test at Trent Bridge
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uvelocity
International Coach
it was on a telstra ad a few years back
vic_orthdox
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There are a few who have but they donor earlier.
There are as many people on an AFL list as there are playing 1st grade cricket around the country on one weekend. You can't compete with that.
Funnily wright, the only way to compete would be to corporatise further and create a bigger cash pool to try and attract these talented athletes as professional sportsmen. But CA obviously have failed by not trying they. Or they have failed by trying that. Or something.
Furball
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Neither are anywhere close to Rooney.
Expressway76
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Flintoff definitely sounds as thick but is more eloquent than Rooney who sounds like he's struggling with every sentence.
grecian
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Yep, not sure about the Flintoff thing at all, would put Gough ahead of him in thickness, but Rooney can hardly speak at all.
GIMH
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Freddie isn't stupid, just has that dodgy lancs accent that's all
flibbertyjibber
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Yeah, makes them all sound thick.
wpdavid
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Not sure about Harmy actually.
Stapel
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The point is that fewer and fewer middle class parents are considering sending their kids to football. Possibly I'm not the best judge, but I do visit the UK at least twice year and have some good friend on the island. In the Netherlands we've seen a massive middle class shift from football to hockey.
That isn't even close to be true, more and more middle class people are getting into and enjoying football.
Furball
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Not in terms of the people who play the game.
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That may or may not be the case, I really don't know. But the point of my post was it's damn annoying when people lambast sports stars for not being the sharpest tools in the shed, when they're paid to score goals, bowl a cricket ball, hit a tennis ball etc etc. It's every bit as annoying and stupid as the cliche of the jocks at school picking on the nerds. If I'm following sport, I don't care if Wayne Rooney, Shane Warne, Taylor Walker, Sonny Bill Williams or Andrew Flintoff are as thick as two short planks. Their job is to play the sport they're paid to play. I don't expect a cricketer's tour diary to read like Ulysses (thank Christ, what a dirge that is).
Not saying you're advocating all this btw, but it's something that's really common.
As someone who coaches an U14 boys team I couldn't disagree more.