Smith blasts ex-players/selectors via Twitter

[Matt79]

Love how Twitter apparently means that there's no longer any requirement to act professionally re: keeping things in house!

Fat Grey's come out swinging in response to criticism of his team:
"Find it amazing that kepler can sit and say should have picked a younger squad when he was 1 of the selectors who chose it!unbelievable!" Smith wrote on Twitter and followed it up with "Atleast we own up to playing poorly.but all these so called experts/ex players im not sure I see a winners medal hanging round there necks!"

Punctuation and knowledge of homonyms ftl

 

[BoyBrumby]

Lolworthy stuff from the tubby blow-hard.

Fact is he's not a very good 2020 player. & SA obviously produce some batsmen who can score quickly 'cos our top order's full of them...

 

[andyc]

Tend to agree with BB, but if Kepler was indeed criticising SA's selection policies while being a selector himself, that's definitely a bit rich.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

You could have an entire grammar holocaust with that. ffs

 

[Sir Alex]

I saw one article saying SA top mgmt blaming IPL for not giving their players enough match practise and was like "Damn if u, damn if u don't"

 

[_Ed_]

You could have an entire grammar holocaust with that. ffs

Beat me to it.

Reading that grammatical atrocity damn near gave me a migraine.

 

[vcs]

Twitter is the death of grammar and punctuation as we know it, TBH.

 

[Debris]

I can understand the poor grammar. Typing on mobile phones is one of the most annoying things known to man.

 

[NZTailender]

Internet is the death of grammar and punctuation as we know it, TBH.

Bit harsh to say that Twitter is the sole cause, tbh.

 

[Top_Cat]

Tend to agree with BB, but if Kepler was indeed criticising SA's selection policies while being a selector himself, that's definitely a bit rich.

Both of them are well-known knobs though.

 

[Craig]

Obviously Fay Grey has been taking lessons from Lance Armstrong.

 

[_Ed_]

I can understand the poor grammar. Typing on mobile phones is one of the most annoying things known to man.

Sure, but that doesn't excuse the use of 'there' instead of 'their'.

Nothing excuses that.

 

[GraemeSmith]

Suddenly cricketweb has become a place for grammar puritans Considering half the stuff that gets posted here, I find it hypocritical of people to criticize Smith's grammar in a twitter post. There is nothing wrong with what he said, infact it was a breath of fresh air compared to usual diplomatic bs coming from players.

Love how Twitter apparently means that there's no longer any requirement to act professionally re: keeping things in house!

Fat Grey's come out swinging in response to criticism of his team:
"Find it amazing that kepler can sit and say should have picked a younger squad when he was 1 of the selectors who chose it!unbelievable!" Smith wrote on Twitter and followed it up with "Atleast we own up to playing poorly.but all these so called experts/ex players im not sure I see a winners medal hanging round there necks!"

Punctuation and knowledge of homonyms ftl

Love the irony of grammatical errors and use of great English words like 'ftl' in a post dedicated to bashing someone over their grammar.

 

[NZTailender]

Suddenly cricketweb has become a place for grammar puritans Considering half the stuff that gets posted here, I find it hypocritical of people to criticize Smith's grammar in a twitter post. There is nothing wrong with what he said, infact it was a breath of fresh air compared to usual diplomatic bs coming from players.



Love the irony of grammatical errors and use of great English words like 'ftl' in a post dedicated to bashing someone over their grammar.

 

[andyc]

Suddenly cricketweb has become a place for grammar puritans Considering half the stuff that gets posted here, I find it hypocritical of people to criticize Smith's grammar in a twitter post. There is nothing wrong with what he said, infact it was a breath of fresh air compared to usual diplomatic bs coming from players.



Love the irony of grammatical errors and use of great English words like 'ftl' in a post dedicated to bashing someone over their grammar.

Cricketweb and Twitter should be capitalised, and 'in fact' is two words. Just FTR.

 

[Top_Cat]

Indeed. I do also wonder what 'bs' is a contraction for.

EDIT: Cricket Web is two words, by the way.

 

[NUFAN]

I agree with Graeme Smith here. I also agree with GraemeSmith.

 

[Sir Alex]

I agree with Graeme Smith here. I also agree with GraemeSmith.

 

[Matt79]

Suddenly cricketweb has become a place for grammar puritans Considering half the stuff that gets posted here, I find it hypocritical of people to criticize Smith's grammar in a twitter post. There is nothing wrong with what he said, infact it was a breath of fresh air compared to usual diplomatic bs coming from players.



Love the irony of grammatical errors and use of great English words like 'ftl' in a post dedicated to bashing someone over their grammar.

Would love to know what you think were the grammatical mistakes in my post. I notice you've bolded "Fat Grey's", but as that was a contraction of "Fat Grey has" rather than the possessive, that doesn't really help. Acronyms are used widely on CW, so not really seeing your point there either. Finally, I thought it was pretty clear that my main issue was with the contents, with the expression a much less important aside, so I wouldn't call it a post dedicated to bashing is grammar. But good to see you taking time out from pondering whether Brett Lee is Chinese to contribute to the thread!

 

[Arjun]

I am no Twitter user. No account, no page, and hence no tweets. I try to avoid social networking as much as possible, and prefer forums and message boards. What do you make of that?

About SA's selection policies, I still can't get over the Bosman episode, if anyone caught it.