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Get Ready For A ****ing Sacking - The Michael Clarke Story?

Spikey

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Gone whack at Symonds, Buchanan and Hayden.

The drunk comment at Symonds the best one. So good.
wasn't that much of a whack at Hayden tbf. So Clarkeh needs to work on that for next time
 

Spark

Global Moderator
I must admit, the story in Whitewash to Whitewash of Symonds tipping a drink over Clarke's head in the West Indies was incredibly hilarious.

Amazing how far that friendship fell so quickly.
It just sounded so random too. Like he suddenly decided to methodically and calmly pour a drink over his head without any warning at all.
 

howardj

International Coach
In defense of Buck, he inherited a team with the same personnel of the few years before. Under Taylor, Australia still had the Waughs, McGrath, Warne etc. but they'd been losing dead-rubbers, playing piss-poor on the Subcontinent

Buck got the team to see what was possible. In Steve Waugh's book he details that when Buck took over the team in Brisbane in November 1999 the first thing he did was write up on the team whiteboard that today is our first step towards being as good as the 1948 Invincibles. In short, he raised the bar and got the team to think differently. We then went on a streak of 16 Test wins, performed in the Subcontient, crushed teams in dead-rubbers etc.

Buck was a good fit for the team at the time
 

Daemon

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When you read things like these, it really does make you realize that when people far removed from the team start blaming/praising the coaches, you probably shouldn't listen to them.
 

91Jmay

International Coach
Clarke/Symonds were likely never really friends. Just two 'blokes' who socialised and tried to pull women together. Once all that went away they realised their relationship was built on bull****.
 

sidecast

Cricket Spectator
Michealavelli Clarke - Quick Book Summary

I never made a bad decision.
Anybody who criticised me was just trying to raise their media profile.
Nobody loved the BG more than me.
Anything that went pear-shaped was someone else's fault.
Buchanan was a crap coach who got lucky with the quality of his players.
Steve Waugh was a great captain, the quality of his players didn't count.
I was the bestest ever.
 

watson

Banned
8643 Test match runs at 49.11, plus 47 Tests as captain with 24 won, and 16 lost. Not bad considering that many of the Tests were fought in the wasteland of the post Hayden, Ponting, Gilchrist, McGrath, Warne era.

I think that Clarke has earned the right to the occasional verbal exocet. Although I hope we don't hear too much more of this 'Womens Day' stuff.
 
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Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Buchanan cops **** for being coach of a champion team but Steve Waugh doesn't really have his record as captain watered down as much because he captained such a good team.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Buchanan cops **** for being coach of a champion team but Steve Waugh doesn't really have his record as captain watered down as much because he captained such a good team.
It's a bit like how you suck
 

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
When you read things like these, it really does make you realize that when people far removed from the team start blaming/praising the coaches, you probably shouldn't listen to them.
This isn't true. I am all praise of Waqar Younis for instance. Depends whether the praise/ridicule is based on facts and knowledge or it is just blabbering
 

Red

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Buchanan seems pretty well liked by most of the guys from that era apart from Warne (who was just parroting Ian Chappell in his hatred of cricket coaches) and Clarke (who was just parroting Warne).


Agree with the idea that elite players in cricket don't need coaches in the strictest sense, especially not teams like that one. It's more a man management thing, and support role. Buchanan also brought in some good ideas IMO.
 

Flem274*

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it's a bit more complex than that. the main issue was he and john wright were not on the same wavelength because they had very different methods. wright wanted him gone.
 

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
Buchanan seems pretty well liked by most of the guys from that era apart from Warne (who was just parroting Ian Chappell in his hatred of cricket coaches) and Clarke (who was just parroting Warne).


Agree with the idea that elite players in cricket don't need coaches in the strictest sense, especially not teams like that one. It's more a man management thing, and support role. Buchanan also brought in some good ideas IMO.
Macgill was critical and you can't accuse him of not being a rational bloke.

Dunno what he did to piss so many off. Guess he didn't kiss their arse
 

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