ACIC - Craddock's take

Not often do I find myself agreeing with large parts of any 'Crash' Craddock article in the News Ltd rags. But today, he may be on to something...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/cricket/why-australian-cricket-is-in-crisis/story-e6frey50-1225948021350

Then again, a lot of what he's said in there has been said here before. Maybe Crash reads FB.

Nobody agrees with him and he visits FB

What's Hass's day job?

I think Hass is some sort of journo. Maybe you're onto something as well...

The article is a turd rolled in glitter

Dave Warner has played 7 JAMODIs and 23 JAMITTs ...theyve worked out he shouldnt be playing JAMODI ...but he brings some novelty value to and some hitting power to TT when he goes off ...We all think TT is joke cricket and that M Clarke is bigger joke of selection than Warner ...No one seriously considers Warner a chance of Test selection and the IPL will pay him well so 'not selecting him for 2 years' will make farcall difference to Warner

Shaun Marsh has always been an immense "talent" ...but has always found ways of getting out to stupid shots ....like his dad did in the 80's , he has tightened his game up and has better results at FC level than his average would suggest ...he has played solidly in JAMODI for Australia without being a superstar ....needs to score a bit quicker and stop getting injured ...but has earned his place and performed at a level to show that

Thae clamour for Cameron White is because he can captain ....he has a few ideas about tactics ...Ponting leads the players well , they follow his lead without question ...unfortunately he goes round in circles most of the time ...Clarke seems as clueless and now is being whiteanted by claims he is unpopular ...Katich is another "leader"...not sure how good tactically he is ...but he's as old as Ponting and I dont see him playing after the 2011/12 season

Ferguson has a woeful FC average ...but was performing well at JAMODI level before he did his knee ...if North was performing better at Test level then we wouldnt be clutching at straws like Ferguson ( and surely its only Sozzies who are calling for him to be in the team for Brisbane)

Matthew Hayden couldnt get a game when Slater and Taylor were opening for Oz ...and when he did he underwhelmed ...then he came back a superstar

No mention of a string of over rated hacks who have played for even less reason than those mentioned ...and failed to perform ...which would have actually made his point ...

The contracted players share the spoils of CAs profits from almost continuous international cricket ...what would happen if they werent compensated properly or they played less cricket ...the IPL or similar would expand to fill the gaps in the International schedule and they'd be paid even more ...

As sad as the statement is ...Nathan Hauritz is our best spinner ....we've tried a few post TGM ...and they've all been worse than Haurie ...Doherty struggles to play FC for the Tozzies and suggesting he is the "answer" contradicts the Warner position made earlier in the turd

If the Oz team has a heap of support staff (doctors, physios, psychologists, nutritionists, batting coaches, bowling coaches ... you name it.) then I'd suggest that some of them arent doing their jobs rather than there being too many of them

Who wants "free spirits" ...the media and public jump on any off field misbehaviour and condemn it repeatedly ...Symonds was a free spirit and he was crucified

Stuart MacGill was also probably a "free spirit" ...wasnt missed when his body gave in to injury

Michael Clarke seems to a bit different too ...but we'll call him a self indulgent whinger ...and run a whispering campaign that he's not popular

The stats given to the board show a decline in interest in 50 over cricket ...which theyve stopped the neutral games of the tri series and replaced the domestic comp with a split innings 45 over game in an effort to aprk some interest ...Tests and T20 were stable or rising in interest ...

Aye

FFS. I should have copyrighted 'Australian cricket in crisis' shortly after I first introduced the phrase to the forum in 2004 to wind up Zim.

Zat wrote:I think Hass is some sort of journo. Maybe you're onto something as well...

Except Hass is now living in Paddington. Craddock is in Brisbane, no?

Gotta love Token...

One quality Andrew Symonds did bring to the Australian team was that he used to pull the Gen Y boys into line with lines like "mate, if you worried less about your hair and more about the team you would be a better bloke".

And nobody said to him "mate, if you worried less about getting full and carrying on like a drunken pisstank yobbo, and less about going fishing, and less about being one end of a Bingle spit roast, and more about the team you would be a better bloke"...?

Just asking, like...

YT has averaged over 50 in Shield games since 2007. His career average is 'only' 42 because he only plays half the Shield season these days plus he spent several years at the start of his career playing primarily as a bowler because he was a new blond Vixen leggie.

I wouldn't be caught dead writing for News Limited.

It would be like supporting Manly or barracking for the Poms in the Ashes.

I think Crash makes perfect sense. All the past stats of players means nothing if they are not performing in the current series.

Usman Khawaja averages 54 in first class cricket. But he's being overlooked because he's black and doesn't play one day cricket or T20s.

Henry wrote:Usman Khawaja averages 54 in first class cricket. But he's being overlooked because he's black and doesn't play one day cricket or T20s.

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i'm sure this is news to him...

A whole succession of bad days for black people then...

6000 cricket fans got polled to death by the Spiv Sunday SPFSP and Callum Ferguson got most votes as the bloke that should come into the XI wth 28%. Other results:

Sack Nielsen - 69%
We won't win Ashes back - 57%
Preferred skipper after Punter - ShyT - 29%
Who's to blame for our slide to 5th - NSP - 47% (90% think the NSP is doing a sh!t job)
Best head of NSP - GSC - 62% (Hildick got 5%)
Preferred Test spinner - Smithy - 38%
Who should be Coach - Warnie - 47%
Ollie should be punted - 69%

More people said they'd prefer LJH as head of the NSP than Hildick, didn't they?

I think if you and I put our names up we'd poll higher than the clown. And yeah, LJH polled 12% to Hildick's 5%.

How many times did you take the poll skulls?

I was going to do the poll, but when I saw I could only select 1 option for "Who's to blame..." I said "stuff it".

Zat wrote:How many times did you take the poll skulls?

Unforth I didn't see the poll, but if I had LJH mighta made 20%.

Callum Ferguson got most votes as the bloke that should come into the XI wth 28%

Anyone but the Muslim, huh. Never mind he averages 20 more than Ferguson in first class cricket.

He was 2nd with 23%, Trev. Give it a rest, mate, you are beginning to sound tedious on the subject.

Beginning to?

I still don't get why, if Trev loves to complain about Australia, he still lives here.

If things are that much better in the Utopia he seems to think is England, then why doesn't he go back there?

Henry wrote:Usman Khawaja averages 54 in first class cricket. But he's being overlooked because he's black and doesn't play one day cricket or T20s.

Maybe he should ask Ntini for help?