Sport The Hangar Cricket Thread IV

[Phone]

Shane Warne basically urging everyone to get smashed drunk is maybe a new low.

 

[Pweter]

Shane Warne basically urging everyone to get smashed drunk is maybe a new low.

It was pathetic.

Great to get WC number 5 though, next best is 2. We rock!

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Most mean-spirited run-out ever.

 

[Seagrave_Holmes]

Devo that I missed out on the first innings!

 

[The Speaker]

It was pathetic.

Fitting end to this World Cup, then.

I'm still waiting for a good World Cup to happen.

 

[Beerfish]

Shane Warne basically urging everyone to get smashed drunk is maybe a new low.

It was weird. Like he couldn't think of anything else to ask after "how do you feel?".

 

[Whispering_Jack]

It was weird. Like he couldn't think of anything else to ask after "how do you feel?".

It was his fall back as he obviously wasn't prepared. It was pretty pathetic considering it went all around the world.

 

[Yoda_]

McCullum's press conference and all his interviews post final reek of class. A true gentlemen of the game (off field)

 

[Doss]

Fitting end to this World Cup, then.

I'm still waiting for a good World Cup to happen.

1999 was a good one.

 

[Ashton Agar]

Vale Richie Benaud.

 

[Pweter]

Vale Richie Benaud.

Indeed.

 

[Harlequin]

Thanks Richie. You will be missed

RIP

 

[Beerfish]

I don't really know what to say. It's not unexpected but a little upsetting given he forms part of my childhood which seems so long ago.

 

[Doss]

There's really only Ian Chappell left of the old guard of commentators now. That's sad.

 

[Ashton Agar]

And Bill on Boxing Day.

Unfortunately Chappelli is the worst of the 4.

 

[Doss]

Bill barely counts anymore, one Test a year is minimal at best.

Chappelli can be annoying at times but he's a damned sight better than listening to Warne talking about Tinder, or Healy and Slater being clowns, or Brayshaw talking about all the bucks parties he's been to.

 

[eth-dog]

Ian Chappell is terrible. Would rather listen to Gerard Healy.

 

[Doss]

I've literally never heard you express your dislike of Chappell before.

I don't mind people having their opinions, but give me one logical reason beyond "he's a flog" why he is worse than Brayshaw. Or Healy. Or Slater. Or Warne.

The commentary team on Ch. 9 is appalling.

 

[eth-dog]

He's just boring. He takes 10 minutes to explain a point that could have been done in 1 and he talks far too much about the old days and not about the new game. Pretty much all of the channel 9 team is terrible except Mark Nicholas.

 

[Doss]

Welp, I'd still rather hear about the old days than about Shane Warne telling 'strayans to drink beer at the barbie or his Tinder escapades. Or just the general drivel that flows from the mouth of the other three most of the time.

 

[eth-dog]

I'd rather just listen to the ABC. Which I tend to do nowadays.

 

[Doss]

Granted, ABC is much better.

 

[The Speaker]

He's just boring. He takes 10 minutes to explain a point that could have been done in 1 and he talks far too much about the old days and not about the new game. Pretty much all of the channel 9 team is terrible except Mark Nicholas.

He's being increasingly relied upon to be the sole voice of reason, which isn't a role he is necessarily suited to. He's better with others to work off of, rather than being some kind of sage.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

I've literally never heard you express your dislike of Chappell before.

I don't mind people having their opinions, but give me one logical reason beyond "he's a flog" why he is worse than Brayshaw. Or Healy. Or Slater. Or Warne.

The commentary team on Ch. 9 is appalling.

Beyond appalling. I just mute it and listen to the radio.

Read this article, if you haven't already. Found myself nodding in agreement with every single sentence.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/feb/13/channel-nine-destroying-cricket-legacy

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

He's being increasingly relied upon to be the sole voice of reason, which isn't a role he is necessarily suited to. He's better with others to work off of, rather than being some kind of sage.

When the old guard was present, he was often the agitator in the box. Says a lot about the current commentators that he's supposed to be the voice of reason.