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  1. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Fair enough - btw not meaning to stalk you from here to the BCCI article thread! :p Just enjoying actually having a reasonably substantive discussion in CC after a while on a couple of issues, and you're on at the same time as me. ;) I understand what you're saying about referring to Speed not...
  2. Matt79

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    It's defending because you're downplaying the seriousness of the issues involved and suggesting they are to a degree acceptable when you use an argument suggesting something along the lines of "so what, everyone does that" (which I acknowledge is a paraphrase of your comment). That is, by my...
  3. Matt79

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    In the context of this discussion? I thought this was defending the BCCI by suggesting that they were no worse than anyone else which, as I said, seems a poor kind of argument. And the "exactly" was agreeing with this post: which is playing the man, not the argument, again as a way of...
  4. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Well, I wasn't part of it and didn't endorse it when Australia "ruled the roost" as you put it, but fair enough if that's your point of view. Please just don't ever act offended by anything that has been done to Indian cricket in the past, or indeed in the future, if that's your attitude...
  5. Matt79

    A.F.L. Thread II

    I like the Dogs, but generally Libba deserved anything he got and then some.
  6. Matt79

    *Official* Tennis Thread

    It's unfair and irrational, but I just find Nadal to have a massively punchable head, and no amount of talent, heart, or daring on his part as a player is probably ever going to be enough for me to move past that. Tennis is one sport where I find myself taking an instinctive liking or disliking...
  7. Matt79

    *Official* Australia in England

    Generally an obsession with the :laugh: and actually watching the cricket you're arguing about don't seem to go hand in hand.
  8. Matt79

    Speeds of Australian fast bowlers

    Brett Lee is normal sized, not really a big guy, and with his delivery style, he really doesn't make a lot of use of what height he has anyway.
  9. Matt79

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    If you think that it's part of a pattern of baseless claims that people make because of a prejudice, as opposed to having any basis in reality, just come out and say that, or ignore the conversation altogether. Otherwise, you telling me to deal is ironic. Defending something solely because it...
  10. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Given the level of knowledge and understanding of logic of most discussion of cricket in the media and especially on the 'net (CW aside), what I get back when he's googled, or what a ton of people who find him offensive doesn't mean anything to me. You've raised a concrete point thee regarding...
  11. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Not satisfied at all. There's a lot of room between "Speed should be ignored on everything because the 2007 WC was poor" and "Speed is God, ok?". If that's seriously your reason for saying you just discount his views then I'm afraid I don't find your argument very persuasive.
  12. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    What was he supposed to have done that was so atrocious in either position that we should simply discount his views now?
  13. Matt79

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    Why is that always the defence when people criticize institutions like the BCCI? "it's not like it's the only board around the world that's ****ed *shrug*" That's a pretty low basis against which to hold anyone and a really just a way of dismissing the case without discussing it.
  14. Matt79

    The Power of Hypocrisy - an anti BCCI rant

    Got to be the most racist comment I've read on CW. Ban?
  15. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Zac has already said what I was going to re: Haigh so I'll move on. I think Conn is poor too, but Speed is entitled to put forward his views given he has vastly more experience of trying to run the ICC than almost everyone else in this discussion.
  16. Matt79

    Battle of Cricketers - CW's Favorite Cricketer

    Have to wonder why he's following the thread if he has no interest in the concept. :huh:
  17. Matt79

    Battle of Cricketers - CW's Favorite Cricketer

    Martyn. Bond simply didnt play regularly enough to ever be more than a tease.
  18. Matt79

    *Official* Tennis Thread

    Didn't Djokovich do it in the Aus Open he won? EDIT: no, he beat Federer, but Tsonga beat Nadal in the other semi.
  19. Matt79

    *Official* Australia in England

    Hilfy might not be clearly ahead of Harris until its clear that he's back in fitness and form - not sure whether he'll have much chance to demonstrate that he is prior to the Aussie summer. Both should be ahead of Siddle, much as I love the bloke.
  20. Matt79

    John Howard to head ICC?

    Which I immediately acknowledged to be an over-the-top piece of rhetoric, whereas you've got your "facts". Good work Langdon, you've cracked the "beat down the subcontinent's hockey teams" conspiracy. ;)

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