Fern leaves

Knee injuries end Bracken's career

Perhaps he shouldn't have spent all that time moonlighting on the women's tennis circuit.

More seriously, the WC side would be far far better if he'd remained fit ...

I thought he'd already retired long ago, to be honest.

more time for Inside Cricket or Cricket Superstar or flogging headbands or whatever it is he does

Sounds like he'd harboured hopes of a return until relatively recently.

I will always believe that he should have gone to England in 2005 ahead of Tait (and Lee) ... the conditions would have suited his bowling well. Accuracy, left arm variety, and the ability to move the ball were all lacking in that tour and I'm sure he would have been better value than Tait, Lee, and (as it turned out, though I wouldn't have guessed at the time) Gillespie.

He broke down in tears at the press conference to announce his retirement.

A horrid little queen (RD and skully's blue-ribbon idol) was on Fox Sports Nooz this arv saying 'Nathan Bracken was the Roger Federer of one day cricket'.

Sounds like Jonesy wanted a gobful of Fern sap.

He broke down in tears at the press conference to announce his retirement.

Geez, it's not like he hasn't had two years to contemplate it.

Zat wrote:He broke down in tears at the press conference to announce his retirement.

A horrid little queen (RD and skully's blue-ribbon idol) was on Fox Sports Nooz this arv saying 'Nathan Bracken was the Roger Federer of one day cricket'.

in that he's a nice guy?

Wears a headband when playing?

Well, in his 'look at me, I'm Amelie Mauresmo's twin' days, he wore that stupid f*cking Alice band.

Well done, Ferny. You served your State and your Country well.

Zat wrote:Well, in his 'look at me, I'm Amelie Mauresmo's twin' days, he wore that stupid f*cking Alice band.

Amelie was more of a man than Bracken.

The Australian Ryan Sidebottom.

In other words, the camp version.


Shame for the man, and his national side. Are career-threatening injuries to seamers mor or less common than they used to be? On the one hand, a lot more cricket played at the top levels of each format. On the other, superfitness regimes you might expect to sort that out. Do they? (Jonah and Watto would seem to be two cases at least of overtraining, especially in the muscles dept.)

I suppose lefties are more liable to break down (from Reid and Wasim to Bracken and Sidebottom, with various in between) because of the vrious weird angles of run-up and delivery they almost always seem to have to adopt.

Which is odd - isn't it? - when you would expect their actions to be just mirror-images of orthodox right-hand bowling.

PeterCS wrote:The Australian Ryan Sidebottom.

In other words, the camp version.


Shame for the man, and his national side. Are career-threatening injuries to seamers mor or less common than they used to be? On the one hand, a lot more cricket played at the top levels of each format. On the other, superfitness regimes you might expect to sort that out. Do they? (Jonah and Watto would seem to be two cases at least of overtraining, especially in the muscles dept.)

Nah, at least Sidearse had his moments of success in test cricket. Bracken did nothing in tests.

No, but he rarely let the side down in JAMODI's. Well done him.

Do think there is any way we could transplant Ferny's brain into Midge's head?

Zat wrote:He broke down in tears at the press conference to announce his retirement.

A horrid little queen (RD and skully's blue-ribbon idol) was on Fox Sports Nooz this arv saying 'Nathan Bracken was the Roger Federer of one day cricket'.

Sounds like Jonesy wanted a gobful of Fern sap.

Never had you down as a homophobe

JGK wrote:Do think there is any way we could transplant Ferny's brain into Midge's head?

And his arm and seam position?

eowyn wrote:

Zat wrote:He broke down in tears at the press conference to announce his retirement.

A horrid little queen (RD and skully's blue-ribbon idol) was on Fox Sports Nooz this arv saying 'Nathan Bracken was the Roger Federer of one day cricket'.

Sounds like Jonesy wanted a gobful of Fern sap.

Never had you down as a homophobe

eowyn, suggest you look up the most detestable turd in the punchbowl that is Australian society. He goes by the name of Alan Jones. Not the F1 driver. The so-called broadcaster.

By the way Lardy, top thread title.

If only he'd given it one last go, you could have titled it BrokeBracken Mountain a comeback.

That's why you are the Head Cheese....

I've got a great idea for one of those sh!tty posters made by Indian fans that can be used at the World Cup-

India authorises YUSUF force!!!!!




Yeah!

Henry wrote:I've got a great idea for one of those sh!tty posters made by Indian fans that can be used at the World Cup-

India authorises YUSUF force!!!!!




Yeah!

The coat rack is that way!