Fourth Test team

[The Casey Cat]

If that’s true, that’s completely ******.
Firstly, as you point out, you’re screwing with some kids head.
Secondly, it’s completely devaluing the baggy green.
Disgraceful

Sounds about right. There's a reason we are where we are and it's exactly where we deserve to be. We've been even worse off field than on.

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[Art Vandelay_]

Geeves is a bitter no-hoper. A hero of yours naturally?

Grow up.

The further Geeves gets away from his playing days the more palatable a pundit he becomes. Did come across as a guy with a case of sour grapes at first, but it is good to have media voices outside of the CA 'family' (Cowan & Katich are others).

All 3 have had their good moments so far this summer. Katich utterly bemused at Marsh’s dismissal in Melbourne was a corker

 

[The Casey Cat]

Righto, so this is how we will likely go in tomorrow, Marsh and Finch dropped.

Khawaja
Harris
Marsh
Handscomb
Head
Labuschagne
Paine
Cummins
Starc
Lyon
Hazlewood

Not huge on the Labuschagne selection, but if we are dead set on an all rounder I suppose it is a good thing we are at least giving someone else a chance? Hope he proves me wrong and scores some runs and takes some wickets.

What a joke. I have no problem with Finch and Handscombe out. They have been shithouse. But the two to come in are Wade and Burns. Not great but facts are they are best performed bats in the shield and not absolute kids either. Play Lab over Hazelwood. Instead we do the above bull shit. Is why the side and CA are not only crap but have lost the respect of this country for how they go about things.

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[bird_man]

What a joke. I have no problem with Finch and Handscombe out. They have been shithouse. But the two to come in are Wade and Burns. Not great but facts are they are best performed bats in the shield and not absolute kids either. Play Lab over Hazelwood. Instead we do the above bull shit. Is why the side and CA are not only crap but have lost the respect of this country for how they go about things.

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Agree Burns should be in the side. Disagree Labuschagne should play in place of a front line bowler. That would be madness.

 

[Kappa]

Marsh is such a bad number 3.

Number 3 should be your star reliable batsmen who averages 45+ and rarely gets out cheaply.

Marsh at 3 will put so much pressure on our middle order when he inevitably goes out straight after an opener

 

[Park cricketer]

Australia to pull SCG Test shock with Labuschagne set to be new No.3

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...hagne-set-to-be-new-no-3-20190102-p50p9d.html

Welcome to the Marnus era!

 

[Gough]

In unrelated news Chappelli is currently fashioning a noose for himself.

 

[HLM*]

Australia to pull SCG Test shock with Labuschagne set to be new No.3

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...hagne-set-to-be-new-no-3-20190102-p50p9d.html

Welcome to the Marnus era!

I feel sick.

 

[bird_man]

Australia to pull SCG Test shock with Labuschagne set to be new No.3

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...hagne-set-to-be-new-no-3-20190102-p50p9d.html

Welcome to the Marnus era!

Haha, wow

 

[Park cricketer]

Australia going for the tried and tested route of picking a part time leg spinner who bowls right arm filths and batting him up the order, who then goes on to become one of the best ever batsmen in test cricket history here.

 

[DanT7]

Marsh is such a bad number 3.

Number 3 should be your star reliable batsmen who averages 45+ and rarely gets out cheaply.

Marsh at 3 will put so much pressure on our middle order when he inevitably goes out straight after an opener

Haha Marnus then.

 

[DanT7]

Khawaja
Burns
Labuschagne
Head
Wade
Maxwell
Paine


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[Hamingja]

Would be short odds that we play MM in Melbourne, Labuschagne in Sydney, then Stoinis against SL I reckon.

Selectors have no idea.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Pretty extreme sink or swim scenario for poor old Lasagne.

 

[Scotland]

And Stoinis was told recently to stick with the short form because Mitch was the preferred option at test level. Seems a strange way to go about it all to me

Stoinis' FC record is ordinary.

53 matches for a batting average of 33.6 and a bowling average of 42.4. At Shield level he is basically Mitch Marsh scoring fewer runs and taking fewer wickets. He's been great in ODIs but anyone who thinks Mitch Marsh doesn't belong at test level can't keep a straight face if they think Stoinis has any runs on the board with the red ball.

 

[ROOTA#6]

Stoinis' FC record is ordinary.

53 matches for a batting average of 33.6 and a bowling average of 42.4. At Shield level he is basically Mitch Marsh scoring fewer runs and taking fewer wickets. He's been great in ODIs but anyone who thinks Mitch Marsh doesn't belong at test level can't keep a straight face if they think Stoinis has any runs on the board with the red ball.

So what you are saying is that we don't have a capable all rounder...so why do our halfwit selectors think they have to keep picking one

 

[Doss]

At this rate Langer might as well come out of retirement and pad up at first drop himself.

 

[theyellowsash]

If there's anything this last series has shown, is that the selectors still choose players they personally like in positions they hope they can play, instead of players in form in positions they play, to the significant detriment of the side.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

So what you are saying is that we don't have a capable all rounder...so why do our halfwit selectors think they have to keep picking one

Because they are still having nightmares over Flintoff!

 

[SunshineBoy]

So we drop Handscomb because he needs to fix his technique, so when did he fix it between tests? Or is he a good bloke too?

 

[SunshineBoy]

At this rate Langer might as well come out of retirement and pad up at first drop himself.

Becarefull what you wish for

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Australia to pull SCG Test shock with Labuschagne set to be new No.3

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cri...hagne-set-to-be-new-no-3-20190102-p50p9d.html

Welcome to the Marnus era!

So that's how they will fit him and MarshM into the same side?

 

[Cleavy]

So we drop Handscomb because he needs to fix his technique, so when did he fix it between tests? Or is he a good bloke too?

Did you not see the BBL game where he got forward to everything, rather than playing back like a goose?

 

[eddiesmith]

So we drop Handscomb because he needs to fix his technique, so when did he fix it between tests? Or is he a good bloke too?

They dropped him because they needed an all rounder in case they lost the toss and the bowlers bowled Pies which they did. Now they need someone who can play spin

 

[TBoyleSuperstar]

Because they are still having nightmares over Flintoff!

Pretty much this. Flintoff killed us on 05, and we’ve been shoe-horning ‘allrounders’ in to try and replicate it for us.
The beauty of a great all rounder is they are bloody rare and make your side so so much better, problem is, if you play average allrounders, you weaken your side a fair bit.