Pick your Australian selectors

[pskov]

As an Englishman:

Yoko Ono
My 17 year old sister
The Dalai Lama
and Geoffrey Boycott as the inside man just incase they accidently pick someone good.

 

[Evermind]

Steve Waugh
Shane Warne

That is all.

They might just end up fighting each other till the second coming and not get any actual selection done.

 

[G.I.Joe]

They might just end up fighting each other till the second coming and not get any actual selection done.

Perhaps that was my intention

Steve would try and boot Warne out and get MacGill in instead. Warne would retaliate by compiling a more recent list of the best cricketers ever and downgrade Steve Waugh to below Dean Waugh.

 

[susudear]

:d

My 17 year old sister

Pics?

 

[Rant0r]

Pics?

hahahaha

 

[howardj]

What;s the bet that this boofhead panel dismisses Lee's woes since India by blaming his ankle? First it was his marriage, then gastro, and now the ankle. No doubt his ankle is injured, just as there is no doubt that, like many 32 year old guys who rely on pace, his effectiveness is rapidly fading. One of the problems as I see it, is that people use McGrath as the barometer in terms of fast bowlers (he went through until 37), rather than the more realistic example of Gillespie (who lost his nip when the same age as Lee i.e. 32).

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Believe it's a broken bone in his foot, not his ankle. Obviously not the point of your post, just saying.

 

[Rant0r]

What;s the bet that this boofhead panel dismisses Lee's woes since India by blaming his ankle? First it was his marriage, then gastro, and now the ankle. No doubt his ankle is injured, just as there is no doubt that, like many 32 year old guys who rely on pace, his effectiveness is rapidly fading. One of the problems as I see it, is that people use McGrath as the barometer in terms of fast bowlers (he went through until 37), rather than the more realistic example of Gillespie (who lost his nip when the same age as Lee i.e. 32).

i was thinking the same thing actually, there's always an excuse with lee, it could never be the fact that he's played ****.H

He has more talent in his little finger than peter siddle has in his whole body, no offence to siddle, he's a hard working bastard, yet lee is the biggest and most perennially underachieving waste of talent. only been given so many opportunities due to the fact that he has so much bloody talent, and he's another of the blonde brigade.

mcgrath shouldn't be used as a barometer for anyone, the guy is a freak, he was australias most important bowling force in the last 15 years.

 

[Mister Wright]

D. Lehmann
S. Law
A. Border
S. Waugh

 

[Top_Cat]

I think the term which applies to Lee is 'regression toward the mean'. He had one good year, good on him. Doesn't change the fact he'll likely go down as the worst Test bowler to take 300+ wickets.

What's particularly infuriating about it was that during his one good year, he seemed to have figured out how to bowl without relying on pace. Smart lines, awkward lengths and still good pace. Since then, he's been back to yorker/bouncer Lee so many times. Where did new Lee go? He was a far, far, far better bowler.

 

[Rant0r]

I think the term which applies to Lee is 'regression toward the mean'. He had one good year, good on him. Doesn't change the fact he'll likely go down as the worst Test bowler to take 300+ wickets.

What's particularly infuriating about it was that during his one good year, he seemed to have figured out how to bowl without relying on pace. Smart lines, awkward lengths and still good pace. Since then, he's been back to yorker/bouncer Lee so many times. Where did new Lee go? He was a far, far, far better bowler.

glad someone agrees with me, he's so frustrating, and yet all the media wanted to talk about during his year as 12th man was why he should be in the team, and poor brett lee 12th man while the men in the team did an infinitely better job.

 

[howardj]

Another thing...three selectors is more than enough.

You don't need four people to pick XI players.

With four people, there's too much scope for analysing and rubbish, funky theories to be thrown around.

 

[Rant0r]

aren't the captain and coach included ?

 

[Craig]

An old Inside Cricket article suggested Justin Langer would make a good selector. They got some boffin in with a dozen titles next to his name to do a psychological assessment on the Australian cricket team

 

[Craig]

aren't the captain and coach included ?

Nope. Don't have a say IIRC or at least officially they don't, but in saying that I could be wrong.

 

[howardj]

I think the term which applies to Lee is 'regression toward the mean'. He had one good year, good on him. Doesn't change the fact he'll likely go down as the worst Test bowler to take 300+ wickets.

What's particularly infuriating about it was that during his one good year, he seemed to have figured out how to bowl without relying on pace. Smart lines, awkward lengths and still good pace. Since then, he's been back to yorker/bouncer Lee so many times. Where did new Lee go? He was a far, far, far better bowler.

Married life clearly agreed with him.

Was the best 12-18 months of his career!!

For the sake of our attack, would strongly suggest CA invest in some last-ditch marriage counselling for he and Liz.

 

[howardj]

An old Inside Cricket article suggested Justin Langer would make a good selector. They got some boffin in with a dozen titles next to his name to do a psychological assessment on the Australian cricket team

JL loves everyone though.

He wouldn't be able to trim his 40 man squad back to a final XI.

 

[Rant0r]

An old Inside Cricket article suggested Justin Langer would make a good selector. They got some boffin in with a dozen titles next to his name to do a psychological assessment on the Australian cricket team

he sounded alright when he did a bit of commentary on abc during the perth test, he always crossed me as someoen who'd taken one too many hits to the head the way he spoke, but he was quite insightful

Nope. Don't have a say IIRC or at least officially they don't, but in saying that I could be wrong.

that might be just on tour, or do the selectors go on tour nowadays

Married life clearly agreed with him.

Was the best 12-18 months of his career!!

For the sake of our attack, would strongly suggest CA invest in some last-ditch marriage counselling for he and Liz.

waste of time, just shoehorn in the next battery of pacemen and they should be right in a couple of years, i dare say most of them should turn out better than lee

 

[howardj]

Was just joking.

 

[Rant0r]

he but he's still a lost cause.

lets rank the aussie quicks shall we ? (only my opinion)

clark
noffke
bollinger
hilfenhaus
johnson
lee
siddle
magoffin

looks like i might be missing some, give me a leg up someone