Anyone else

[Ciderhound]

Think we missed a trick in not employing Gillespie as national coach?

Early days yet but i stuggle to see how Langer will improve our lot in the subcontinent and England.

 

[Power Raid]

more time needed before making a call

 

[Demosthenes]

Culture.

 

[Belnakor]

Think we missed a trick in not employing Gillespie as national coach?

Early days yet but i stuggle to see how Langer will improve our lot in the subcontinent and England.

i don't think JL is the worst coach possible but Gillepse would have been better.

I thought Dizzy wasn't keen on the exorbitant amount of travel?

 

[corbies]

i don't think JL is the worst coach possible but Gillepse would have been better.

I thought Dizzy wasn't keen on the exorbitant amount of travel?

They interviewed him on the Wisden commentary during the lunch break yesterday. He basically said just that. Wouldn't really want the job due to the amount of travel and time away from his family. His family can go with him when he does his Surrey duties in our winter.

 

[010203]

Hopefully Langer's coaching will be more nuanced than this quote in Gideon Haigh's recent book: “I love Boof. He’s got a great heart and he loves the players. But, really, he hardly coached technique at all. ‘You’re struggling? Just whack it.’ ‘You’re going for runs? Just bowl yorkers.’ ‘We’ll smash them.’ He really just had no answers but to try and built up this arrogance.”

 

[frankrizzo]

That was pretty obvious with boof, he was a terrible choice for a team with such limited talent we did stuff all away from home under him yet he got a contract extension as a reward.

 

[Ishikawa]

This whining and bitching about the current side is fantastic, actually makes me like the team more. Good on the likes of Langer, Finch, Marsh(es), Khawaja, Paine, Siddle. I hope they may long continue to stick it up the negative sorts.

I do like Gillespie, Maxwell and Renshaw but not so much this righteous campaign that's turned them all into messiahs (and it's absolutely not being driven by any of the three aforementioned blokes). Just the populist "someone else, someone else" movement that generates outrage and sells clicks/newspapers

That was pretty obvious with boof, he was a terrible choice for a team with such limited talent we did stuff all away from home under him yet he got a contract extension as a reward.

With succession of coaches I think it's all about contrast. Arthur's downfall with Australia was down to his intensity and inability to successfully overcome a pretty toxic environment engendered by senior players. Lehmann's success in coming in was throwing all the shackles off and letting the players run with freedom & encouragement of macho aggression. But there's a point to which this attitude runs it's course and things start to go awry so you once again need a disciplinarian like Arthur or Langer who can provide direction to cricketers who were a bit lost with their games and confused in their approach. Lehmann enjoyed some impressive highs in his tenure (and yes some shocking lows), so given that I think it's a reasonable concept that he got the benefit of the doubt with a contract extension. The best organisations can sense pre-emptively when there are signs of staleness creeping in and either make a change then or put a rocket up existing management (an adequate organisation would stick with the status quo owing to selective memory of the successes). Cricket Aus is not a best practice organisation, but the decision they made to continue with Lehmann wasn't without some merit.