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John Howard's cricket skills

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Lance Uppercut said:
Bull******** he knows a lot about cricket! Biggest ********ing myth ever thrown around about the wizened little pygmy with eyebrows like caterpillers.

This "John Howard Cricket Tragic" is an absolute load of crap he's fostered over teh years to appear one with "the common man", or his "battlers" (incidentally teh same folk he's trying to rape with the IR laws.)

I heard him on radio on ABC during the cricket once, and they were asking him questions about it. Little pustule was using all his political stonewalling powers to hide his utterly obvious lack of knowledge about the game.

FFS they asked him what he thought about "the current issue with the middle order", without specifying what it was. (For the record it was to do with one of the batsmen holding his place.) Little Johnny was ********ed, he had no idea what they were talking about, he could only stutter out about how he thought the status quo should be maintained, being completely general about it because he had no ********ing idea.

The man's a fraud.
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Interesting you bring the ABC commentary team into it. Kerry O'keefe is on record as seriously saying he has the best off spin action of any politician he has ever seen.

Do you expect him indicate to selectors he favours one batsman over another.

The time I was sure he had the last election won was when he rebutted a journalist referring to a cricket analogy with admiration for Clarkes just hit maiden test century.

That might go with your line but I doubt it.
 
teams said:
Interesting you bring the ABC commentary team into it. Kerry O'keefe is on record as seriously saying he has the best off spin action of any politician he has ever seen.
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Did he laugh after he said that? Or did he genuinely bowl better than Mal Colston and Malcolm Fraser?
 
johnnyhoward said:
Did he laugh after he said that? Or did he genuinely bowl better than Mal Colston and Malcolm Fraser?
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Seriously means no laugh. He eulogized about his action.
 

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Johnny can, or at least could, play a bit. I think.

About 10 years ago, back when he first got in, he was on the Midday Show, they set up some kanga cricket gear and put the ball in his hand. Can't remember who was facing him, but Johnny stepped in and bowled a reasonably good off spinner. The batsman got on to a pretty solid straight drive. Howard dived to his right and took an absolute blinder. Seriously it was classic catch material.
 
teams said:
Interesting you bring the ABC commentary team into it. Kerry O'keefe is on record as seriously saying he has the best off spin action of any politician he has ever seen.
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That would not be hard.

teams said:
Do you expect him indicate to selectors he favours one batsman over another.
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Absolutely! Why wouldn't he have an opinion?? It's not international diplomacy. Unless he has no idea of course...

teams said:
The time I was sure he had the last election won was when he rebutted a journalist referring to a cricket analogy with admiration for Clarkes just hit maiden test century.

That might go with your line but I doubt it.
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He knows the basics, gotta keep up appearances.
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Absolutely! Why wouldn't he have an opinion?? It's not international diplomacy. Unless he has no idea of course...
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He does pick the prime minister's eleven and has his say there.

International diplomacy. Nothing like it. Just paying equal respect to all players. It's intefering with the selectors and any player's mentioned heads if nothing else if he says something like Clarke out Hodge in.

Always seems to have good recall of past results. Indication of a genuine enthusiast. Now Keating, he couldn't even fake it.
 
teams said:
He does pick the prime minister's eleven and has his say there.

International diplomacy. Nothing like it. Just paying equal respect to all players. It's intefering with the selectors and any player's mentioned heads if nothing else if he says something like Clarke out Hodge in.

Always seems to have good recall of past results. Indication of a genuine enthusiast. Now Keating, he couldn't even fake it.
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Fully, Keating didn't even want to. He didn't give a fig for the common man, he liked his expensive suits and his Italian clocks :p

I disagree with you, but I respect your opinion, you seem pretty convinced. I really doubt the PM has very much input into the PM's XI at all, and they were laughing about that on ABC radio during the last test when the squad was announced. OK, he'd have some input, but IMO he's got even less chance of knowing who any of those lesser known players are than you or I.

But as for the PM's opinion impacting on selectors or players, gimme a break! :p
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Fully, Keating didn't even want to. He didn't give a fig for the common man, he liked his expensive suits and his Italian clocks :p

I disagree with you, but I respect your opinion, you seem pretty convinced. I really doubt the PM has very much input into the PM's XI at all, and they were laughing about that on ABC radio during the last test when the squad was announced. OK, he'd have some input, but IMO he's got even less chance of knowing who any of those lesser known players are than you or I.

But as for the PM's opinion impacting on selectors or players, gimme a break! :p
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Perhaps he is a poser. Don't know. If the PM's opinion is a vibration against current team structure, of course it has to have some impact.
 

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Disgrace!!! Actually, it was absolutely hilarios... one of the soldiers said something along the lines of 'that's called a wide kids'!!! Great stuff!!!
 
From my understanding I am led to believe that he actually had a couple of cold ones before he stepped in to bowl.

Good on him.

It was a ********er.
 
Viking Wizard Eyes said:
On a very good day, maybe.
When it comes to cricket, they are pretty ********ing inept.

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true, unless they can actually play :rolleyes:
 

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