Rumour doing the rounds-Mickey Arthur will be next Aus Coach

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:I think its a case of out of the frying pan & into the fire. We get rid of the hapless Neilson & end up with the self promoting blowhard Arthur.
I guess time will tell but i'm girding myself for some more joyless summers.

Dunno where the self promoting bit comes from. He was pretty anonymous in SA.

You obviously hav'nt heard him since he came to OZ.

Big Dog wrote:

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:I think its a case of out of the frying pan & into the fire. We get rid of the hapless Neilson & end up with the self promoting blowhard Arthur.
I guess time will tell but i'm girding myself for some more joyless summers.

Dunno where the self promoting bit comes from. He was pretty anonymous in SA.

You obviously hav'nt heard him since he came to OZ.

So he has learnt bad habits.

he answers questions honestly rather than the usual one week at a time bullsh!t ...it comes across as self promotion but he just gives his opinion because thats what hes asked for ...they probably edit out everything but the crap in eozzie

Cheers for the internal perspective, A. I wish the man well.

The gushing adulation coming from MB is scary as f*ck!

It's not necessarily adulation ...I just have heard a fair bit unedited of what he's had to say

There's nothing wrong with liking Mickey, MB.

Fair enough... will he get his way, though? The strines can be a bit 'Indian' about their selection policy.

Seems a reasonable bloke but he's been a bit of a dial a quote since he arrived on these shores.

That's heavy irony, Ms CutnPaste.

She's Arthur's medium of write-a-quote... threads started by Red :

Arthur weighs in the Indian captaincy 'controversy'. Tue 16 Sep 2008 - 14:54

The Sooky/Arthur blueprint for rolling the Aussies - Fri 3 Jul 2009 - 4:39

Arthur: Ntini betrayed me! - Sat 6 Nov 2010 - 12:56

Arthur warns Proteas about Johnson threat - Wed 28 Sep 2011 - 4:41

I guess that last headline should have finished 'with the bat'.

He has a name the subbies will love - we've already had our first 'King Arthur' headline, and look out for 'Uncle Arthur' as soon as he stuffs up. Also doubtless there's a bottomless well of 'Minder' refs....

Fred Nerk wrote:He has a name the subbies will love - we've already had our first 'King Arthur' headline, and look out for 'Uncle Arthur' as soon as he stuffs up. Also doubtless there's a bottomless well of 'Minder' refs....

When the Saffies were struggling I noticed that some of their fans used to call him Mickey Mouse.

And you wouldn't have any idea what they called him when they were winning because you were avoiding all internet and TV.

Mickey Arthur .... McIvor?