the big bambino
International Captain
The slide started after the oval test 2009. Eng won and got stronger. We basically kept the same side and it just got 2 years older and copped the flogging it deserved in 10/11. Once we had a plan. A succession of players coming in for those on the way out. Under Hilditch we kept Hussey as a non performer for almost 2 years. Kept Ponting when it was clear his reflexes were gone at around the time of 2009. We got an Indian summer out of Hussey and that is annoyingly flouted in your face as justification for the lack of foresight. Curiously young players were given the heave ho at the 1st sign of trouble... That isn't planning for the future but begging for trouble. Then we see the folly of planning around players in their late 30s when they up and retire on you. A management that's taken by surprise like that aren't much good.
So now we're in a situation where we have the team disintegrating and a captain who is partly to blame. If it comes down to a choice btwn Clarke and those who hate him then the latter have to go and not just for the obvious reason that Clarke is quality. He's smarter than those he's put offside. He's shown he can learn. Once a chicken against short pitched bowling he's mastered that weakness. When he sensed that gormless tit Lara Bingle was jeopardising his career he took out the (trailer) trash. I'd hope he'd learn from his mismanagement of players and trust he would. Whereas I think Watson will always be a droning little whiner. Warner high maintenance and Usman a cricketing hobo happy to piss his talent and opportunity up against the wall. If you don't have the talent to select then pick character. Start the purge now and just remember it should have begun in 2009.
So now we're in a situation where we have the team disintegrating and a captain who is partly to blame. If it comes down to a choice btwn Clarke and those who hate him then the latter have to go and not just for the obvious reason that Clarke is quality. He's smarter than those he's put offside. He's shown he can learn. Once a chicken against short pitched bowling he's mastered that weakness. When he sensed that gormless tit Lara Bingle was jeopardising his career he took out the (trailer) trash. I'd hope he'd learn from his mismanagement of players and trust he would. Whereas I think Watson will always be a droning little whiner. Warner high maintenance and Usman a cricketing hobo happy to piss his talent and opportunity up against the wall. If you don't have the talent to select then pick character. Start the purge now and just remember it should have begun in 2009.
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