Radical suggestion:

Man, what an ascension that would be. From struggling to retain his spot in the XI to the Aus Capt. Go Fleas.

Well we all know that Spanky has wanted Katich as captain since January.

Pinting may well do a "Vaughan" if Aus lose this series and announce that he's stepping down in order to get the most out of his batting in the Autumn of his career.

Fred Nerk wrote:Clarke ... and his technique against the new ball has always stood up.

IMO, for the first two years in Test cricket he was all at sea against a fresh cherry. Or any non-shit fast bowling.

It's been interesting to note that Clarke has become a shotless crab in the last year.

has an australian test captain ever given up the captaincy and still remained part of the team? border, taylor, waugh all retired as captains. dont know if anyone did so earlier

Whoever (if anyone) replaces Ponting, he'll still not have Warne, McGrath and Gilchrist back.

[quote="lardbucket"]

Fred Nerk wrote: If Punter was run over by a bus tomorrow

Wishful thinking?

lardbucket wrote:I must ask Zat if horrie is a former citizen ... you know, "I'll be back ... on Zog"

How dare you besmirch the good name of Planet Zog? The Planet Tool, on the other hand...

In line with your suggestion I propose that Horrie be henceforth known as Gimlet (ie a boring tool).

phurt @ zog and the hack formulaic maloney/nerk writer..ponting is the best available captian...lardy's selection of fleas smacks of an english - let's appoint mike brearley - strategy...

the reality is this team is not performing because of the captain but simply because it is not terribly good...it has an ancient opening the batting with a crab who has lost tests for Oz in the past, an immature no 5 who throws away starts going for the premature bingle shot, an all rounder whose major attributes are ads, fishing, alcohol consumption and throwing his wicket away to bowlers worse than krazy, a spearhead 'fast' bowler perennialy selected on a sponsors exemption and abiove all a cretinous NSP that refuses to select players on form...

instead of Lardy disappointing "tory" proposals - lets try

hughes in for haydos
rogers as his partner
punter
fleas
hussey
north
haddin
watto
krazy
midge
hilf

the kid needs his tail booted for being profligate and a spell in dubberville may help remind him his job is make big tons and not just sparkling 50s..

symonds needs to go on fishing leave, with the big unit for company...bung needs to try and find away of moving the ball or holding up an end with the spivs, siddle needs extended bowling at shield level

Yes Gimmers.

yes maloney/karti

horace wrote:phurt @ zog

Now Gimlet... With your track record of posting gibberish - an effort only surpassed by doggaroo - you must learn to accept a discussion of your origins more readily. As for the rest of your post... WTF?

Zat wrote:

horace wrote:phurt @ zog<snipped the rest for the sake of brevity, and sanity>

Now Gimlet... With your track record of posting gibberish - an effort only surpassed by doggaroo - you must learn to accept a discussion of your origins more readily. As for the rest of your post... WTF?

just concentrate on what you do best - plastering your one remaining strand of hair down and chasing mudge

Nurse, Gimlet's swallowed the kero again. Can I light him this time?

yeah yeah

The One wrote:has an australian test captain ever given up the captaincy and still remained part of the team? border, taylor, waugh all retired as captains. dont know if anyone did so earlier

Ian Chappell did

Wish the Australian selectors had followed my advice ...

Also, had forgotten Fred's 'gimlet' for Horrie.

geebers we were a feisty lot in those days...poor zat...

sorry I cracked bad jokes about Fred..

otherwise my cricket judgement was not that bad.

lardbucket wrote:

The One wrote:has an australian test captain ever given up the captaincy and still remained part of the team? border, taylor, waugh all retired as captains. dont know if anyone did so earlier

Ian Chappell did

The key question remains....is Sniffy2 up for the job? Should he do the Kim Hughes?