Mickey Arthur Sacked

[western royboy]

Yeah fair points made. I'm not involved in any forms of cricket these days...just a keen observer and fan of the game. Your points are made from actually being involved in the game at a grass roots level.

Even if they do change it at the grass roots level, it's going to take many years to filter back up. Somehow they are going to have to fast track the development of players. Or at least develop them properly at a minimum. I don't believe players are being developed properly at state level given the nature of the game these days. Not having a proper grounding as per your post is not a good start!!

We have a generation of Milo players, players that have elite talent (listen to everyone of the dinosaurs talk about the young talent and they all say "they are better players than me") but they don't have the technique or mental application that separates the wheat from the chaff at the highest level. Plenty of youngsters can come in a blaze, but they are far less consistent than players of yester year. Under this system Mike Hussey doesn't make it.

I'm not sure you can fast track it, it would take a lot of money to identify the best candidates and put them into an academy system, noting that Adam Gilchrist took off most of year 12 to go and play in England. Plenty of poms (Stuart Broad at Hoppers Crossing) have done the same over here. It's an education process over time an in my opinion can't be fixed by 2-3 weeks at the academy.

 

[Cooldude]

Boof is the best choice you could ever wish for, mind, love that bloke to absolute bits. He'll do a great job

 

[ROOTA#6]

Credit to Arthur on the way he has handled himself following his sacking. He has not shied away from anything and has accepted responsibility. He has not taken shots at anyone or played the victim and I respect that. All this whilst grieving the loss of his mother. Class from the man in my opinion

 

[themidlandmaster]

Found this while looking for the old ALP video

 

[The_Reaper]

Our complete system is the problem refer to my post in this thread http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/fawad-ahmed.989278/page-12

Post 300 is the detail

Cheers

That post should be put in its own thread and stickied

 

[peternorth]

There are two suggestions.

1. He retired because of family.
2. He retired because of family and dislike of Clarke.

Neither has changed.

school of thought is that he retired to spend more time with family.
then he signed to play with sydney thunder

 

[Ill Chicken]

The rotation policy has been around for ages, it was only last summer they got it happening in tests. It'll still be there this summer in ODI's but will like be replaced with some choice words like "has a couple of niggles" or something along those lines with the final line of the summer being "need to maintain our players and make sure they're right in preparation for hosting the World Cup".

 

[Duritz]

Was Bill Shorten behind this??

 

[King Elvis]

The rotation policy has been around for ages, it was only last summer they got it happening in tests. It'll still be there this summer in ODI's but will like be replaced with some choice words like "has a couple of niggles" or something along those lines with the final line of the summer being "need to maintain our players and make sure they're right in preparation for hosting the World Cup".

ODIs are different.

We forfeited a Test due to the rotation policy, it was ****ing mental.

I'm glad he was sacked, but I agree, Arthur has handled himself with class and dignity.

 

[the_interloper]

Boof is the best choice you could ever wish for, mind, love that bloke to absolute bits. He'll do a great job

Yeah but he'll blow his top when he sees Michael Clarke and Warner having a few Bacardi Breezers after a tough day of Test cricket.

 

[peternorth]

The rotation policy has been around for ages, it was only last summer they got it happening in tests. It'll still be there this summer in ODI's but will like be replaced with some choice words like "has a couple of niggles" or something along those lines with the final line of the summer being "need to maintain our players and make sure they're right in preparation for hosting the World Cup".

i remember there was a time when fast and spin bowlers were shifted in and out citing "horses" "for" "courses". then it was put aside.

 

[peternorth]

ODIs are different.

We forfeited a Test due to the rotation policy, it was ******* mental.

I'm glad he was sacked, but I agree, Arthur has handled himself with class and dignity.

agreed. arthur has had a rough time recently, and with the decline of mandelas health too.
but has behaved in a professional manner and without the cliches we are accustomed to with the national team.

 

[The_Reaper]

Yeah but he'll blow his top when he sees Michael Clarke and Warner having a few Bacardi Breezers after a tough day of Test cricket.

Time to bring in the Marsh brothers as team beer drinkers.

 

[western royboy]

Time to bring in the Marsh brothers as team beer drinkers.

More chance under Boof than Arthurs/Clarke. Clarke's authority has been severely diminished as a result of this move.