Favourite sporting sledge?

[the fly]

Originally posted by Dean3
"Leave our flies alone!" - Aussie spectator to John Snow as he swatted away flies on the fine leg fence.

Always liked that one.

The quote was "Leave our flies alone. They're the only friends you've got here." Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba directed that at Jardine during Bodyline.

 

[the fly]

Originally posted by Pedro
We must have the same book Asgardian. Trueman again - "You've got more edges than a broken pi$$pot"

Another one from that book. "It's like bowling fookin' doughnuts on a fookin shítheap" - Trueman again

"If you'd keep your wife out of my bed at night, maybe I'd have enough strength to bowl" - Kerry O'Keeffe

"Fookin hellfire! Do this at Bradfort and bat will stick in t' wicket. Do it here and t' wicket is so fookin' hard it sounds like some fooker is tappin' back" - Richard Hutton after tapping the WACA wicket with his bat.

 

[Bomber Spirit]

Another from Freddie Trueman, in a county game after Rev David Sheppard made a 50 including many snicks through slips.
"If thou's as lucky on Sunday as you are on Saturday, you'll end up Archbishop of Canterbury."

He nearly made it. He's a bishop of one of the big cathedrals in England.

 

[The Hippie]

Originally posted by Dean3
"Leave our flies alone!" - Aussie spectator to John Snow as he swatted away flies on the fine leg fence.

Always liked that one.

There was another great call on John Snow at the SCG on another occasion as well. Bloke yelled out to him when he was fielding on the boundary "Oi, Snow, I didn't think they could stack **** that high!"

(damn that filter)

 

[The Shev]

Not a sledge, but a funny call.

Start of a match. Match begins and straight away a pack forms and the umpire calls for a ball up. Someone in the crowd yells "BE CONSISTANT YA WHITE MAGGOT!"

 

[Booze Hound]

Originally posted by Bomber Spirit
Another from Freddie Trueman, in a county game after Rev David Sheppard made a 50 including many snicks through slips.
"If thou's as lucky on Sunday as you are on Saturday, you'll end up Archbishop of Canterbury."

He nearly made it. He's a bishop of one of the big cathedrals in England.

Liverpool is what your after.

My favourite Trueman tale is told by David Acfield who bowled offies for Essex over many years (he was also an Olympic fencer - unconnected useless fact).

Acfield actually made his first class debut for Cambridge University against Yorkshire. He always batted well down the order and came in, trembling, to face Trueman. He had to pass him on the way to the crease and got the full, baleful glare. On arrival at the crease he was met by the equally evil glare from the rockhard head of Brian Close. Acfield then takes up the story.

"I'd taken guard and was prepared to take the first ball when Trueman calls out..... "hey Closey, we've got a right one hear, 'e's 'olding is bat the wrong way round."

"And like a fool I looked."

 

[Runk]

I was sitting in the Northern Stand at the "G" in '93 watching the Ess vs Carlton night 1st semi final. I was quite close to the fence when Greg Williams was thumped and then pushed to the ground by Sean Denham. As he was hit he screamed really loudly. That's when someone in the crowd shouted at him "Do you scream like that in the showers Williams?"

Very funny.

 

[Tinker]

Originally posted by Runknisse
I was sitting in the Northern Stand at the "G" in '93 watching the Ess vs Carlton night 1st semi final. I was quite close to the fence when Greg Williams was thumped and then pushed to the ground by Sean Denham. As he was hit he screamed really loudly. That's when someone in the crowd shouted at him "Do you scream like that in the showers Williams?"

Very funny.

Priceless. Good effort by Denham too, seeing he was in a lighter weight division to Williams.

 

[Jars458]

Crows v Footscray back in the Doug Hawkins days

Dogs player was tracking the ball along the outer wing and it was bouncing very close to the line, but he finally picked it up and ran off.

Boundary umps whistle blew for the ball being out, and the Dogs player went absolutely mental much to the delight of the Crowd. Things settled down and went dead quiet just before the ball was thrown in.

My mate yelled out "You couldn't keep it in with your girlfriend [insert players name]"

very very funny.