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  1. Matt79

    Freddie at the Oval

    After the spanking at Leeds, English fans are understandably seeking hope in the return of Flintoff for the decider. Given his injury was so bad that they could not give him enough painkillers to let him play at Headingly without endangering his overall health, I'm curious to know what English...
  2. Matt79

    Swimming - now a joke

    Stealing this from a radio show, but I think the current controversy re the suits has simply marked the absurd end point of a sport utterly obsessed with records and medals. For starters, why are there four strokes competed in at the Olympics and majors? We dont have a running backwards...
  3. Matt79

    AFL 1997-Present: Non-key Backs

    This category is an absolute ****-fight. Some amazing players are going to miss out on selection in this category. Select just TWO at this stage. Non-Key Backs 1. Andrew McKay. Carlton. 1993-2003 244 games. 16.2 disposals per match. Premiership 1995. All Australian 1993, 1999, 2000...
  4. Matt79

    AFL 1997-Present: Non-key Forwards

    We're looking for TWO people off this list. Non Key Forwards: 1. Alan Didak. Collingwood. 2001-Present 145 games. 206 goals (1.4pm). All Australian 2006. Collingwood B&F 2006. 2. Brad Johnson. Bulldogs. 1994-Present 336 games. 533 goals (1.6 pm). 4 time All Australian (2000, 2005, 06...
  5. Matt79

    AFL: 1997-Present: Key Defenders

    As with the Run Withs, I've included some stats, but obviously the most important stat for a key defender (number of goals your opponent kicks) isn't readily retrievable. I've included disposals per match to give a sense as to which players are more purely negative, and which are more creative...
  6. Matt79

    AFL: 1997-Present: Run Withs

    Here's the poll for the team's run-with man. I've included some stats with this, but obviously, as with the defenders' polls that are about to go up, stats are misleading sometimes here as it is often their opponents' stats that are more telling, and they aren't readily retrievable...
  7. Matt79

    AFL Team 1997-Now: Key Forwards

    This category is either very simple, or an absolute ****-fight, IMO, depending on what weighting people want to put on considering only performances within the time frame of the team (1997 onwards) compared to performances over the length of a player's career. Lockett and Carey are probably the...
  8. Matt79

    AFL Team 1997-Now: Midfielders

    We are selecting 6 (SIX) midfielders only in this poll. Once we've filled other slots, we'll do a round of follow up polls to complete the remaining spots in the 22, and there will be a chance to add midfielders who miss out there. Player profiles below. Apologies for the patchy data on...
  9. Matt79

    poll test

    Thanks. Mods feel free to delete - I can't seem to.
  10. Matt79

    AFL Team - 1997-Present

    I thought we could do an AFL "best of" team in the style of Bagapath's "best of" cricket team threads - ie. a series of polls by specialisation within the team. I reckon with footy, even more so that cricket, you can't really make a sensible decision between players you haven't seen, so I think...
  11. Matt79

    Best Ashes Teams

    Based on the Roland Perry (shudder) idea of the same name: Pick you best Ashes teams, based on performances in Ashes. Can be either based on what you've seen or of all time. All Time: Trumper Morris Bradman Border Waugh Miller Gilchrist Warne Lillee McGrath Alderman Pretty much picks itself...
  12. Matt79

    Jumping the Shark II

    A further idea for a team selection challenge, given the flurry of draft threads have largely dropped off. This one will be for four players at a time, if we have more than that, look at doing two concurrent games of four. Will be a serpentine selection order, but the first thing to be...
  13. Matt79

    Simon Katich

    So, how do people reckon he'll go? He's had a couple of scarifying experiences in previous outings in England, and has managed 3 decent scores, but no centuries in 11 innings there - all in the middle order, not opening. His test record ain't that impressive. On the other hand, his record...
  14. Matt79

    Windies pace quartets overrated?

    Just a question - do we adopt an element of rose-tinted nostalgia about just how good the West Indies pace quartets were? Before you go for the lynching rope and acuse me of being an ignorant idiot, let me say that I'd think they would clearly be some of the, if not THE, best bowling attacks in...
  15. Matt79

    Ashes vs other cricket

    For Australian and English fans - if you had to choose between having Ashes contests only or all other cricket without any Ashes, which would you choose?
  16. Matt79

    Which CW chestnut gets your goat?

    There are a few perenially debated topics on CW, a few of which are currently getting a work out again in a few threads. Thought it would be interesting to see which one is the topic that most gets people irritated, and from what angle they're approaching that topic. See the above poll, vote...
  17. Matt79

    Caption this: Brad Hogg

    "Are you the brain doctor? My brain hurts!"
  18. Matt79

    Jumping the Shark Draft

    As promised in the Test II thread, here's my suggested draft variation. My proper net is offline tonight so I'm doing this via iPhone and as such will keep this brief and apologize for typos now. This draft is for test players and will be 8-10 players only. It will be a draft where the best...
  19. Matt79

    Who's the better ODI batsman?

    Viv or Sachin.
  20. Matt79

    Interesting case

    Stumbled upon this bloke on Cricinfo the other day having never heard of him before. His test average of 54 over 15 tests is obviously inflated a little by a few not outs, but you'd still have to wonder why he didn't get more tests if that had been his record to date - include eight 50+...

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