Bahnz
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With the way this morning is going we can now look forward to SP scoring an arsey 40
With the way this morning is going we can now look forward to SP scoring an arsey 40
He's been exactly as he generally is. Turns it one way, gets good bounce...but he's not drifting it, nothing is spitting or running underground, it shouldn't be insurmountable.Sounds like Lyon has been superb this morning. He really has done some great work since the India series.
At least there will be no great victory to spare NZ. Drive the sword home into the underperforming good old boys rapist including team.
Which is a dodgy tactic given that pro athletes are simply not very intelligent. We're a long way from the likes of David Kirk or Jeremy Coney representing their country and even back then it was hardly an array of shining minds in the dressing room.How NZC and the Provinces recruit for governance and leadership positions is to always look at ex-players or people from within the system.
I wouldn't say Lyon has been superb this morning, it's been more bad batting from us than great bowling from him that contributed to the 3 wickets.Sounds like Lyon has been superb this morning. He really has done some great work since the India series.
At least there will be no great victory to spare NZ. Drive the sword home into the underperforming good old boys rapist including team.
Those people with other views could include people with expertise in the necessity of change, and how to implement change. Sticking with the status quo for too long will result in staleness in any organisation; fresh voices & fresh ideas bring new energy and new ways of looking at things, and generate renewal within the set-up.How NZC and the Provinces recruit for governance and leadership positions is to always look at ex-players or people from within the system. Totally agree that people from in the system need to be in there, but they need some people with other views to be in the mix too IMO.
Dumb cricket really, really pisses me off. Unlike basically any other sport, in cricket you have time to think, and captains who actually have the ability to influence the game through tactical thinking. It's not like football or rugby or whatever where everything happens quickly, it's a series of discrete events where patterns emerge and plans can be enacted.100% this. We are a reasonably skilled team that is not well led and is not going anywhere near delivering on its potential because we don't prepare well enough.
Think you're selling Lyon a little short here. Yeah Rachin's dismissal was weak, but Blundell was a classic Lyon dismissal, using overspin to generate awkward bounce from a good length. Then GP's dismissal was a consequence of all the good balls that came before it - worried about the bounce and going back to a ball that he should've gotten forward to.I wouldn't say Lyon has been superb this morning, it's been more bad batting from us than great bowling from him that contributed to the 3 wickets.
I feel like the Phillips one was well bowled - flatter, knowing GP likes to play back. Blundell was in the right area, but yeah nothing deadly...and the Rachin one was just a plan that worked because the young guy wasn't smart enough or experienced enough to combat it.I wouldn't say Lyon has been superb this morning, it's been more bad batting from us than great bowling from him that contributed to the 3 wickets.
It'll probably be enough to keep his place in the XI, too.
I was going to pop in this morning and comment on the tone of a few posts from yesterday which are in a similar tone to this one, namely “if everything bad which happened to nz in the test hadn’t happened then they would have won.” We had all reasons this is totally on nz and nothing to do with aus, and it’s crap.I wouldn't say Lyon has been superb this morning, it's been more bad batting from us than great bowling from him that contributed to the 3 wickets.
It's incredible that of a generation inspired by Gilly, that this guy is considered the best of them in 2024Carey keeping like his batting
Fmd what a stereotype.Which is a dodgy tactic given that pro athletes are simply not very intelligent
lolHate to admit it bit SP has had the best plan to Lyon of any of our batsmen this morning. Get as far forward as possible to smoother the bounce, leave anything shorter and if you're going to play anything on the leg stump line just try and moose it.
I stand by it.Fmd what a stereotype.