Re: Butterworth

by JKLever Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:51

lardbucket wrote:It's a strange gig, this county cricket. You can have blokes like Law, Moody, and Di Venuto making runs for years, whereas Greg Chappell (as I recall) really struggled (apart from his leg spin).

Early form on strange wickets is no real guide to a player's quality. How he adapts to them will be interesting.

County crickets standard fluctuates from year to year even, since the 4 day game was introduced its much higher.

To be frank though, he just looked like a 78mph English seamer

by JKLever Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:54

Indeed, the squinty eyed ones were out-saged by his Mudgeness.

(The lad is now guaranteed a 5-fer against his next opponents)

by lardbucket Wed 27 Apr 2011, 11:45

he's probably better than JK Lever, for a start ...

by JKLever Wed 27 Apr 2011, 11:48

Joe Dawes was better. And i'm not lying.

by lardbucket Wed 27 Apr 2011, 11:50

Joe Dawes was OK.

Butterworth has loads more talent than Dawes, and a lot more time to realise it.

by JKLever Wed 27 Apr 2011, 11:52

Are you sure you're not just giving him +40% brownie points because he's a Tasser?

by lardbucket Wed 27 Apr 2011, 11:54

he gets some bonus for that, but most of my praise is justified, based on observations and a hope that he will continue to develop

by skully Wed 27 Apr 2011, 12:44

Wiki reckons about £2.80 per pound or $1.43 per kilo in Aus at current exchange rate.

by LeFromage Wed 27 Apr 2011, 12:48

[Echo and the Bunnymen]"Spare us the Butter..."[/Echo and the Bunnymen]

by skully Wed 27 Apr 2011, 12:59

Apparently Butter is also worth a wormhole

by horace Thu 28 Apr 2011, 00:52

cue RD

by JKLever Thu 12 May 2011, 12:06

Where'd he go to? Dropped by Scotland?

by Big Dog Thu 12 May 2011, 22:19

JKLever wrote:Where'd he go to? Dropped by Scotland?

He has commitments with Aust A side.

by JKLever Fri 13 May 2011, 01:19

Aust A cheaping cricket...

by lardbucket Thu 19 May 2011, 10:13

Use the force, Luke.

by LeFromage Thu 19 May 2011, 14:08

Spare us the Butter (reprise)...

by lardbucket Thu 19 May 2011, 14:18

Hats off to his Marge.

by Brass Monkey Sun 22 May 2011, 19:35

Well, this Butterworth chap, eh?

Scotland cruising to victory, let's lob on our overseas player they say. Gets carted for 15 runs and Northants are in the driving seat of this Noddy car. I owe him a couple of beers.

Is he the Tasmanian bowling equivalent of Bruce Francis?

by LeFromage Sun 22 May 2011, 20:06

Is he spreadable straight from the fridge?

by Brass Monkey Sun 22 May 2011, 20:09

Ask Lardy. The nearest I've got to him is 45 miles away. As per the stipulations in the injuction.

by JKLever Sun 22 May 2011, 20:12

Brass Monkey wrote:Well, this Butterworth chap, eh?

Scotland cruising to victory, let's lob on our overseas player they say. Gets carted for 15 runs and Northants are in the driving seat of this Noddy car. I owe him a couple of beers.

Is he the Tasmanian bowling equivalent of Bruce Francis?

Smited by James fracking Middlebrook of all people. I'm beginning to think they've pulled a fast one on Scotland and sent them a local Tassie club bowler instead.

by Brass Monkey Sun 22 May 2011, 20:19

Aye could be! TBH, I hadn't seen his face before the Leics match... but his pedestrian dobbers matched up to descriptions on here.

by beamer Sun 22 May 2011, 20:29

He wasn't bad for Norwich in the 90's... didn't do much for us, although we got a certain Stuart Pearce in addition as part of the deal!

by lardbucket Mon 23 May 2011, 15:44

sounds like he's got some England-adapting to do, still

by Brass Monkey Mon 23 May 2011, 15:52

Well I was wrong anyway.... he went for 16 in his last over. I think he's got a 'when in Scotland' mentality.

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