Ashes 3rd test @ The WACA

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You should've stopped at Hadlee, who wa san all-time great. Chatfield averaged 32 with the ball at less than 3 wickets a Test. Snedden was very average.
Chatfield was ok, an honest toiler. Sneddon, on the other hand, was as useless as tits on a bull. To mentioner him alongside names like Hadlee, is a ******* joke.
 
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Lol he's the biggest knob on BF changed AFL teams cos the Essendon saga.
At least he doesn't go around calling other posters knobs.

Far be it for me to put words in his mouth but I believe he felt cheated & lied to by Essendon & chose a team in Sydney that he had a lot to do with well before he switched his "team supported" on BF... Then again, you wouldn't know that as you have no idea of his backstory. If you did you'd look like a dill for suggesting he's just a bandwagoner.
 

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The blokes on 39*, people are acting like he's won the nobel peace prize.

The critique on him has been fully warranted, particularly his continued selection based on an obsession with an allrounder. Though he is batting well, hopefully he cashes in.
This. He gets out now and people are criticising him again. It's a flat WACA wicket. Malan made 140 FFS.
 

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At least he doesn't go around calling other posters knobs.

Far be it for me to put words in his mouth but I believe he felt cheated & lied to by Essendon & chose a team in Sydney that he had a lot to do with well before he switched his "team supported" on BF... Then again, you wouldn't know that as you have no idea of his backstory. If you did you'd look like a dill for suggesting he's just a bandwagoner.
This. Knowing his backstory and the circumstances that lead to him supporting Sydney, it's pretty bloody poor form to put that in the same sentence as calling him a "knob". The shit he cops on here is pathetic.
 

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The blokes on 39*, people are acting like he's won the nobel peace prize.

The critique on him has been fully warranted, particularly his continued selection based on an obsession with an allrounder. Though he is batting well, hopefully he cashes in.
No wickets.
Dropped a soda.
On 40 no.

Hardly resurrected his career yet....
 
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This. Knowing his backstory and the circumstances that lead to him supporting Sydney, it's pretty bloody poor form to put that in the same sentence as calling him a "knob". The shit he cops on here is pathetic.
Yep. Anyway. Offtopic. Let's get back to the cricket.

Smitty for 200 before stumps. Cmon Smitty!!
 
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I don't get this. Been interesting to watch people change their opinions and other people trying to mock people that were criticising the Mitch Marsh selection as if people didn't have a reason to doubt him. Same with Sean Marsh and Paine.
I'm not talking about people who criticised, I'm talking about the ones that spent 3 days spitting absolute vitriol at him. That was pathetic.
 

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I don't get this. Been interesting to watch people change their opinions and other people trying to mock people that were criticising the Mitch Marsh selection as if people didn't have a reason to doubt him. Same with Sean Marsh and Paine.
Ignorant criticism is frustrating. This thread and others have been full of people jeering at his Test average and expecting him to fail with the bat. Anyone with half an eye on the Shield this season would have known that he has been batting really well, and (more importantly) has gone a long way to rectifying the problems that caused him to struggle last time around. I doubt anyone who has actually been watching him play is that shocked by what we're seeing.

If people were worried about his selection because his bowling is pretty underdone and he hasn't had a lot of match practice since shoulder surgery, I would understand it - because that stuff's actually true. But most of the negativity is coming from people who clearly have NFI what they're talking about.

The exact same thing happened with Steve Smith when he came back into the side.
 
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