The Official Gareth Hopkins isn't terrible thread

[Dan]

"We would have been #1 much earlier if only they'd picked Tim Weston over BJ Watling all those years ago" - @Flem274*, probably

 

[Chewie]

"We would have been #1 much earlier if only they'd picked Tim Weston over BJ Watling all those years ago" - @Flem274*, probably

Used to work in cricket captain

 

[thierry henry]

Man Blocky completely rekt you all re: Watling

 

[Athlai]

Man Blocky completely rekt you all re: Watling

Yeah he really did. People need to make more avatar bets on things like whether a player sucks or if they're just a bit ****. I was pretty invested in Hopkins doing okay but not being great for a minute there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Man Blocky completely rekt you all re: Watling

He was a big Wagner fan too. For all the dickishness he ended up right an unnerving amount of times.

 

[Athlai]

Was just a total ****wit

 

[Chubb]

FWIW Gareth Hopkins was the best overseas player my uni mates' team in Norfolk ever had. And they had a young Ross Taylor after him.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

He was a big Wagner fan too. For all the dickishness he ended up right an unnerving amount of times.

His Steve Smith prediction completely wipes out all of his wins imo (hey Blocky I know you're reading this)

 

[SteveNZ]

Tim Weston

Lord help me if anyone ever bumps my views on Wagner as a Test bowler, Santner as a Test cricketer (only to change my views almost Test by Test) and probably BJ Watling too to be fair.

 

[straw man]

Hopkins was terrible

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Should've picked Derek De Boorder (one of the best players not to make the Black Caps) instead of Hopkins, but then we might not have got Watling.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Geez what absolutely dire days these were ... reading this thread sure makes you appreciate the way the last decade has gone.

Maybe Blocky was BJ all along (2 first class wickets).

 

[Howsie]

Haha he took those two wickets against India A on a tour over there. Funny thing is Aaron Redmond took them and the scoring officals buggered it up, put that spell down to BJ apparently bowling leg spin ha.

Hopkins might be my most hated cricketer. Absolute prick

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha he took those two wickets against India A on a tour over there. Funny thing is Aaron Redmond took them and the scoring officals buggered it up, put that spell down to BJ apparently bowling leg spin ha.

Haha and no-one ever fixed it?

 

[Chewie]

Another thing to fix for CPL

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Haha and no-one ever fixed it?

Probably need to redo all of your sims now.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Haha he took those two wickets against India A on a tour over there. Funny thing is Aaron Redmond took them and the scoring officals buggered it up, put that spell down to BJ apparently bowling leg spin ha.

Lol true, Cricket Archive has it correct: https://archive.nzc.nz/Scorecards/185/185797.html

Class work, cricinfo!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Lol true, Cricket Archive has it correct: https://archive.nzc.nz/Scorecards/185/185797.html

Class work, cricinfo!

How did Nathan McCullum get 6/90?!

 

[Prince EWS]

How did Nathan McCullum get 6/90?!

Haha it was his best ever FC figures too.

 

[Howsie]

Haha and no-one ever fixed it?

Well there you are PEWS, it looks like it was a cricinfo mistake and not scoring mistake. I wonder how often that has ever happened haha. Watling said he’ll take it anyway (just owes Redmond a drink every time they catch up) But if you have ever seen Watling bowl you know he’d have done amazingly well to take 2/30 bowling lobed up off spin