View Full Version : Beware the ashes are rising !!
wild side
17 Nov 2010, 17:52
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/cricket/8335381/johnsons-hitting-puts-wa-on-top-of-vic/
Mitch will be our matchwinner !!http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/images/icons/icon12.gif
stmookeyj
17 Nov 2010, 18:02
Note the headline though, he's doing it with the bat rather than the ball when he needs to do it with the ball.
wild side
17 Nov 2010, 18:33
I reckon he can do it with both !!
Went and watched him last Saturday playing in the local District game, and I wouldn't have wanted to face him. Granted I only watched the first 3 overs, but he was bowling fast and the 1st grade boys were not handling it well.
He's our matchwinner IMO !!
Its not the Punter anymore, its Mitch !!
If he gets consistent in this upcoming Ashes series, watch out you Soap Dodgers !!! :-)
And how often do you hear that Batting confidence transpires to bowling confidence.
japaljarri
17 Nov 2010, 18:44
Doesn;t quite make up for the fact that Watson, Katich, Punter, North, Hussey, Khawaja, Hughes and Ferguson all failed with the bat today!
wild side
18 Nov 2010, 17:49
I'm telling you, you naysayers !! You may as well all be soapdodgers !!
http://au.rd.yahoo.com/news/rss/cricket/*http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/cricket/8347299/johnson-puts-stamp-on-shield-clash/
Bucking Beads
18 Nov 2010, 18:52
I honestly believe if Mitch fires we win, if he doesn't then sadly the urn heads back to England. He is our only real X factor TBH, sure he may have a shocker but he is a genuine game breaker.
TassieSaint
19 Nov 2010, 11:49
Very encouraging signs. Johnson's worst cricket is pretty bloody average but his best cricket is among the best in the world, and he can genuinely turn a match. Would be awesome to see him get back to the form from the South Africa series.
Unbeaten century and 5 wickets before the first test, good to see at least someone's hitting serious form ahead of the Ashes for us.
It would be ironic if after all the shit, the positive press for England and the doom and gloom for "worst side in 30 years" Australia, Mitch comes out and goes batshit South Africa insane on their batting order to blow them away. It's career defining stuff for him this ashes, both in terms of how he'll be remembered and where his long term future will sit. That's got to be nagging at him, I just hope it has the effect it typically does on an Australian - eliciting a higher level of performance.
Bucking Beads
19 Nov 2010, 15:13
It would be ironic if after all the shit, the positive press for England and the doom and gloom for "worst side in 30 years" Australia, Mitch comes out and goes batshit South Africa insane on their batting order to blow them away. It's career defining stuff for him this ashes, both in terms of how he'll be remembered and where his long term future will sit. That's got to be nagging at him, I just hope it has the effect it typically does on an Australian - eliciting a higher level of performance.
I agree 100%, big series for Johnson I hope he has a blinder..
wild side
19 Nov 2010, 21:41
That's more like it, boys !!
Bit of patriotism !http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/images/icons/icon9.gif
I thought you were all soap dodgers.
Mitch is the best player out of the 24 by the length of the straight.