next Oz captain post Clarke

GSC is in the press today opining that Mitch Marsh will be a future Oz captain...

if Clarke were to retire post Ashes 2015, I wonder who the candidates would be?
Mitch Marsh would be considered too inexperienced and young
Haddit surely will have gone by then
Schoolgirl similarly must be near retirement - tho the selectors may well have finally lost patience
Cannot believe Warner would be allowed near captaincy
which prolly means Australia's answer to I Ron B, Steve Smith

other alternatives?

of State captains only Vogues impresses....Bailey is not up to State cricket, the jellies have a saffie, Vic have a keeper and Hartley/Hopes are too ancient...

Finch. LOL!

hehehe....I am irritated that he has been selected in the Shield squad

Tweak for sure.

How come Horrie's name is in green in the "by Horace" section of this thread on the front page?

FB has gone all jolly green giant...just hit thanks on jgk's post and the post went bright green

Not sure Skully and Embee will appreciate turning green

horace wrote:FB has gone all jolly green giant...just hit thanks on jgk's post and the post went bright green

it's showing bright green for me too, but I didn't hit thanks

OK - I am off to find all BDs threads and hit thanks.

its normal except jgks first post on this thread being a particularly vile shade of green. i think its what douglas adams would refer to as gangreen

horace wrote:FB has gone all jolly green giant...just hit thanks on jgk's post and the post went bright green

What are you talking about "hit thanks".

I've checked a few threads I've started and I can't see any such button. Maybe it's only new threads?

aye seems to be the new threads

Is there a fark orf button to make it turn red?

taipan wrote:Is there a fark orf button to make it turn red?

Start a Fark Orf Red thread and find out.

Can't see any button. Maybe the OP can't thank.

Anyway, could be a tough task for whoever takes over... the generation of Clarke, Haddin, Rogers, Watson, Johnson and Harris is coming to the end of the road and few of the younger players have really established themselves. That said, there's so few quality Test sides out there that Australia would still probably be pushing top three without any of those.

I can't imaging Australia picking a captain who isn't an established member of the team, doesn't seem to be their way at all.

Henriques ... already NSW captain, he's got the Australian captaincy in a brown paper bag

Will be downie, right?

lardbucket wrote:Henriques ... already NSW captain, he's got the Australian captaincy in a brown paper bag

spot...he's from the right state and has ltd ability he's our Cook!!

Surely it's a field of one....take away the WC factor and they'd have already announced it (as they did for Clarke in 2007 when there was absolutely no urgency whatever), and made him Akela for the one day teams. TBH I can't see why they haven't done that anyway.

taipan wrote:Can't see any button. Maybe the OP can't thank.

Nigel - always there to splurt the ink into the unthinking!