Who is more mediocre than Atherton and Hussain?

[SJS]

One vowel in twctopat? Good god man your better than that.

Sorry. But still its a tiough one.

[The nonsensical B]Two PC Pact[/B] is the best I could come up with

 

[SJS]

Okay here are the others.

HONEST BHARANI says SHINE ON BHARAT

MR CASSON is a very CROSS MAN

MASTER BLASTER has a RAMBLER'S TASTE

NEIL PICKUP has the best PICK-UP LINE

SUPER KING DAVE is fond of an ESP. VAGUE DRINK

JUST TOOL is a big JOLT TO US

TOM HALSEY invariably makes me LOSE MY HAT

I found WAUGHNEY to be a HUGE YAWN

GARAGE FLOWER is permanently on WELFARE AGGRO

Lady GENELIA is of decent LINEAGE

MISTER WRIGHT believes in WRITER'S MIGHT

but the best of them all are

WARNE IS GOD which i really think is A WIERD SONG

and

SCALY PISCINE whose posts always sound like A CYNIC'S SPIEL



Good Night

 

[twctopcat]

Sorry. But still its a tiough one.

[The nonsensical B]Two PC Pact[/B] is the best I could come up with

Less said about that the better, but then the others are good so we'll let that one go.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Okay here are the others.

HONEST BHARANI says SHINE ON BHARAT

MR CASSON is a very CROSS MAN

MASTER BLASTER has a RAMBLER'S TASTE

NEIL PICKUP has the best PICK-UP LINE

SUPER KING DAVE is fond of an ESP. VAGUE DRINK

JUST TOOL is a big JOLT TO US

TOM HALSEY invariably makes me LOSE MY HAT

I found WAUGHNEY to be a HUGE YAWN

GARAGE FLOWER is permanently on WELFARE AGGRO

Lady GENELIA is of decent LINEAGE

MISTER WRIGHT believes in WRITER'S MIGHT

but the best of them all are

WARNE IS GOD which i really think is A WIERD SONG

and

SCALY PISCINE whose posts always sound like A CYNIC'S SPIEL



Good Night

Try Mr Mxyzptlk now.

 

[Scaly piscine]

So you're now saying he was a reasonable batsman, thus negating your earlier argument.

Absolute nonsense - the context was batsmen in general not guys who'd played 50+ Tests. Read properly in future instead of taking things out of context and making a futile 'point' like Richard does.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I like the longest word you can make out of... ones too, you get such contrasting words sometimes.

eg STEVE HARMISON = MONASTERIES/RAVISHMENTS

also STEVE DAVIS = SEDATIVES

 

[marc71178]

Read properly in future instead of taking things out of context

"Out of context"?

You're the one that now called him reasonable?

I as for "read properly", perhaps if you started by posting something worth reading...

 

[superkingdave]

SUPER KING DAVE is fond of an ESP. VAGUE DRINK

I like

IV DRUNK PEE GAS

 

[superkingdave]

and for Master Blaster i like - A TSAR TREMBLES

Neil Pickup - EPIC LINKUP

Tom Halsey - Hasty Mole

Scaly Piscine - Neils CIA spy

 

[Scaly piscine]

"Out of context"?

You're the one that now called him reasonable?

The context has always been Atherton & Hussain are mediocre for guys who've played 50 Tests for England - if you take these guys into the context of County Cricket or just in general it takes on a completely different meaning.

I as for "read properly", perhaps if you started by posting something worth reading...

Says the guy with the most tedious post-padding signature I've ever seen.

 

[SJS]

and for Master Blaster i like - A TSAR TREMBLES

Neil Pickup - EPIC LINKUP

Tom Halsey - Hasty Mole

Scaly Piscine - Neils CIA spy

And yes

BIASED INDIAN . ....I ABIDE IN SAND

 

[marc71178]

Says the guy with the most tedious post-padding signature I've ever seen.

Oh, here we go, it's the "if argument is losing use insults" tactic.

If you really think mine is the most tedious signature, you've not looked very hard.

But then again since you think Atherton and Hussain are mediocre, it doesn't really show you as the best judge does it?

 

[KennyD]

aww come on its just a sig...

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh, here we go, it's the "if argument is losing use insults" tactic.

perhaps if you started by posting something worth reading...

There are probably 100s of other examples out there if I bothered to look. I merely did a like-for-like insult. I'd stick you on ignore if I could so to save myself the boredom of trawling through your next posts which are getting more and more pointless.


As for this thread I'm in effect comparing Atherton & Hussain mediocrity with:

Jack Russell
Alec Stewart
Graeme Hick
Mark Ramprakash (how the hell did he get 50 caps...)
Andrew Caddick
Graham Thorpe
Darren Gough
Mark Butcher
Michael Vaughan
Marcus Trescothick

Note: Mediocrity is not how good a batsman performs at Test level, think of it as a measure of a players' lack of actual cricket skill - I consider Atherton and Hussain to be very pedestrian in terms of actual cricket skill compared to the above players.

 

[marc71178]

Jack Russell - can't be compared, not batsman.
Alec Stewart - looked better at the crease maybe, but didn't actually average much more.
Graeme Hick - far worse than either.
Mark Ramprakash - far worse than either.
Andrew Caddick - can't be compared, not batsman.
Graham Thorpe - best English batsman of era.
Darren Gough - can't be compared, not batsman.
Mark Butcher - no better than Atherton / Hussain.
Michael Vaughan - played in a different era to Atherton, a far easier time to score runs.
Marcus Trescothick - if you really rate him ahead of Atherton then you don't really understand the game.

 

[KennyD]

sure they can be lacking in actual skill, but they were still good players at test level. Perhaps you should have mentioned that you meant their mediocrity in actual basic cricketing skill and talent. I think most ppl, including me thought you were having a go at Atherton and Hussain as cricket players, saying they performed mediocrely at test level, which many ppl including me, dont believe.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Mediocrity is not how good a batsman performs at Test level, think of it as a measure of a players' lack of actual cricket skill - I consider Atherton and Hussain to be very pedestrian in terms of actual cricket skill compared to the above players.

If I made up definitions to suit arguments, then I'd be right all the time, too.

 

[KennyD]

lol yeah thats right, he did change his stance a bit, but we'll forgive him.

 

[SJS]

Jack Russell - can't be compared, not batsman.
Alec Stewart - looked better at the crease maybe, but didn't actually average much more.
Graeme Hick - far worse than either.
Mark Ramprakash - far worse than either.
Andrew Caddick - can't be compared, not batsman.
Graham Thorpe - best English batsman of era.
Darren Gough - can't be compared, not batsman.
Mark Butcher - no better than Atherton / Hussain.
Michael Vaughan - played in a different era to Atherton, a far easier time to score runs.
Marcus Trescothick - if you really rate him ahead of Atherton then you don't really understand the game.

Its not going to get you anywhere Marc

There is a saying in India which when translated in English reads "Trying to hypnotise a BUFFALO with a snake charmer's flute "

 

[Scaly piscine]

The definitions have never changed, mediocre is still defined as:


Moderate to inferior quality

Ordinary, indifferent


I accept the former meaning more than the latter, but in the original context set out at the start of this thread, either would aptly describe Hussain or Atherton. As another example to see if a few of you can finally grasp the concept of mediocrity, is Thierry Henry mediocre because he has a poor record for his country or is he a class player because he has so much skill and ability even if he doesn't produce it very often for France?

As far as Trescothick is concerned if he played properly all the time in Tests (ie leaving so many threatening deliveries which he is very good at instead of getting lazy and doing his wide edged drive to the slips) he would easily be better than Atherton at present tho there's very little in it, they both have a poor record against Australia, but Atherton is still more mediocre.