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  1. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    He was a part of that great Essendon team as well of course.
  2. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    Nothing to do with Duke balls I suppose.
  3. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    sorry, that's outlandish. Johnson was the ICC cricketer of the year last year and dominated in Oz last year. He had a form slump in the Ashes but was clearly turning it around by the end of the series. Agree he and Siddle have improvement still to accomplish, but they were two of the better...
  4. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    Yeah. I wasn't able to watch those matches, and am told he bowled better than the figures suggest.
  5. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    Take it Matteh's still away. Jono, you're up.
  6. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    Exactly my thoughts. Reckon Hilfy will look average if he ever has to bowl to a decent line up in conditions less conductive to his style than he found in England and to a lesser degree SA. Siddle is developing with ever outing and has a style that will fare much better in the roads we seem to...
  7. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    Uppercut, you're confusing Lee's ODI form, and possibly also one brief spell against the Lions with his test bowling. The two need to be looked at quite seperately because Lee's career record shows there's little correlation with him being a world beater with the white ball, and often only...
  8. Matt79

    *Official* West Indies In Australia

    Reckon he'll be dropped permanently by the end of the summer. Johnson and Siddle are the future.
  9. Matt79

    Battle of Cricketer Girlfriends/Wives

    Mitch Johnson's or Shane Watson's ladies, in a canter.
  10. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    Comment from Mark Taylor regarding Waugh's reverse sweep against Tufnell: "I could see Junior was getting the dirts with Tufnell because it was fairly defensive bowling, then in typical Mark Waugh fashion he decides to play a shot that none of us has ever seen him play before. Simmo...
  11. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    Richard - just checked, Waugh was dumped in favour of Martyn for the third test of the series in NZ - it would have been his 22nd test.
  12. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    The thing was that he was very good at attacking spinners though. It cost him dearly on a few notable examples but he often thrived through his approach.
  13. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    Back on topic, to Migara's point re the 99 tour pf SL: Yeah, was speaking about the earlier tour. Mark vs spinners was always entertaining cricket because he was firmly of the view that spinners were there to be smashed and was rather good at it, but in the process would often show what was...
  14. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    Would love to see a game between our two sides.
  15. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    I'm pretty certain he was dropped for that second match you've referred to there Rich - I have to get up to get his biog. to check and at the moment my stitches are too sore for that. If he did miss through injury it saved him from the chop. Alternatively, he might have been omitted from a...
  16. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    No way you'd reconsider that is there Zac? :(. It's like you're trying to gut me in this draft. Had Millane penciled in for my team since about round three, but again dumbly figured given his vintage and too short span he'd slip. Wrote his name down before deciding to take Ling and going back...
  17. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    Mitchell's time is up. Seems to have gone the way of HJ. Jono's up.
  18. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    Int: Cameron Ling Geelong Prototype of the modern tagger. With him and Kirk in my team, my midfield pressure will def. match my ball winning ability. Best carrot top mullet ever? Quite possibly.
  19. Matt79

    Mark Waugh

    that's not quite right or fair. He was dropped twice within his first twenty tests, and played 10 of his first 19 tests against the West Indies attack of Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh and Patterson. That's the kind of start that would break many a young player. Instead he averaged 61 in the tour of...
  20. Matt79

    AFL Draft

    I even hazarded a guess at the correct spelling rather than saying "Dip, Dipi, Dip, the bloke with the big Choco name"! :) in this pic, next to Dermie, you get an impression of what a massive, ripped unit Dipper was back in the day. Famously played out the 89 GF with a punctured lung.

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