Opinion NMFC Board Cricket Thread III

[ferball]

you're normally a peace luvin dude Ferbs !

Piers Morgan shits me. Hacked people's phones and computers on behalf of Murdoch. Should be in prison.

 

[KiwiRoo]

Piers Morgan shits me. Hacked people's phones and computers on behalf of Murdoch. Should be in prison.

was that Piers ?
In that case break his other leg...

 

[Chip Scab1]

Nah. **** him.

He's one of your boys!! I never thought....

 

[Marstermind]

Steve Smith is one of the best Australian circketers ever. His talent, work rate and determination is second to none.

He's also a flog. If he wasn't Australian, we'd hate him. No matter his Sandpaper failings, but his mannerisms, his doing the umpiring for the umpires, his disrespect for fans (who pay his wages), and his unacceptance that anything got him out other than the pitch or his own failings sees him as a total w***er.

 

[DuckYeah]

Is the DL the most ******ed thing in sports?

Why wasn’t the forecast looked at and the game played in Melbourne? What a shit show

 

[ferball]

I wish some of that rain had made its way up here.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

I'm still of the opinion that country rep players should have to play a minimum number of tournament games to be allowed to play in the bbl finals.
Too often they just come in for 1 or 2 games at the end and dominate resulting in big swings.

 

[Themanbun]

Wtf was with Webster tonight. Shit attitude.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I'm still of the opinion that country rep players should have to play a minimum number of tournament games to be allowed to play in the bbl finals.
Too often they just come in for 1 or 2 games at the end and dominate resulting in big swings.

Smith and Starc are absolute cheat codes, should not have been playing. Same with Webster.

 

[Themanbun]

I clocked 114kph last night. Done two ACL reconstructions and haven't played since 2019. Bowled a handful of times since then. Happy enough but a bit of work to get back to my best.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

I clocked 114kph last night. Done two ACL reconstructions and haven't played since 2019. Bowled a handful of times since then. Happy enough but a bit of work to get back to my best.

That is awesome, serious effort for anyone.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Got the bowling yips about 16 years ago after being a handy right arm medium pacer (I once had a season where I bowled 19 overs, took 13 wickets at an average of 10), so I decided to switch bowling hands, pull the old front arm harder behind me and focus on running the fingers down the ball with the palm facing the desired bowl landing zone. Probably bowling 90km/h on an arm I have never bowled with. Quite happy about that.

 

[Themanbun]

Got the bowling yips about 16 years ago after being a handy right arm medium pacer (I once had a season where I bowled 19 overs, took 13 wickets at an average of 10), so I decided to switch bowling hands, pull the old front arm harder behind me and focus on running the fingers down the ball with the palm facing the desired bowl landing zone. Probably bowling 90km/h on an arm I have never bowled with. Quite happy about that.

That is an insane effort. Last time I attempted to even throw opposite handed my shoulder fell off in front of me, lol

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

That is an insane effort. Last time I attempted to even throw opposite handed my shoulder fell off in front of me, lol

Strained my left pec trying it 10 years ago. Took 10 years to overcome and strengthen everything.

I can still bowl both hands, bat right handed and throw left handed. Cricket is a weird sport like that.

 

[Chip Scab1]

That is some effort.

Is it your back or front leg (or both) during delivery stride?

If you don't mind me asking, how old are ya?

 

[Themanbun]

That is some effort.

Is it your back or front leg (or both) during delivery stride?

If you don't mind me asking, how old are ya?

33 now!

Back foot x2. First ACL was mid delivery when turning through before planting the front leg. I used to be very side on and feel like my brain has rewired and now everything is very linear, which theoretically should actually help me bowl faster given I've always carried a lot of momentum through the run up.

 

[Chip Scab1]

33 now!

Back foot x2. First ACL was mid delivery when turning through before planting the front legg. I used to be very side on and feel like my brain has required and now everything is very linear, which theoretically should actually help me bowl faster given I've always carried a lot of momentum through the run up.

Young buck, can't help you with your bowling (I was a keeper/bat lol). Good that you're still out there well not today if you are, but days between 17-28 degrees (Oct - November).

I once had to keep (& Bat 3) in 46 in Adelaide one day... so 40 should be a piece of piss haha

 

[Themanbun]

Young buck, can't help you with your bowling (I was a keeper/bat lol). Good that you're still out there well not today if you are, but days between 17-28 degrees (Oct - November).

I once had to keep (& Bat 3) in 46 in Adelaide one day... so 40 should be a piece of piss haha

I stopped playing after the knee because cricket is not fun as solely a batsman. Nick off early and you get one hit a month!

 

[Chip Scab1]

33 now!

Back foot x2. First ACL was mid delivery when turning through before planting the front leg. I used to be very side on and feel like my brain has rewired and now everything is very linear, which theoretically should actually help me bowl faster given I've always carried a lot of momentum through the run up.

I get it. Youngster!!

You're going well, 7-8 years left to win another flag!

... I was a keeper-bat so can't help ya!!! I was lazy as ****, had good hands and would be up the pegs as much as possible attempting to anchor the bats in their crease and bring LBW well into play facing all bowlers (except our U19 Aussie Opening bowler who was lightning) - who did get S Waugh out in a Shield game on the G so me standing back 25m to him and taking them over my head wasn't so cowardly haha

 

[Themanbun]

I get it. Youngster!!

You're going well, 7-8 years left to win another flag!

... I was a keeper-bat so can't help ya!!! I was lazy as ****, had good hands and would be up the pegs as much as possible attempting to anchor the bats in their crease and bring LBW well into play facing all bowlers (except our U19 Aussie Opening bowler who was lightning) - who did get S Waugh out in a Shield game on the G so me standing back 25m to him and taking them over my head wasn't so cowardly haha

Nothing used to hurt my ego more than when I moved to higher levels and then the keeper used to stand up to the stumps...but it was deserved

 

[Chip Scab1]

Nothing used to hurt my ego more than when I moved to higher levels and then the keeper used to stand up to the stumps...but it was deserved

lol. You would have hated me!!

Darren Berry was a Student Teacher at my school, once we met, he used to rip me out of German or Science and smash balls at me for an hour. I was ok until we met, but after he took me under his wing and worked on my footwork - I was pretty good.

 

[7577969923]

Piers Morgan shits me. Hacked people's phones and computers on behalf of Murdoch. Should be in prison.

Piers Morgan wasn't at a Murdoch paper, and claims he never hacked a phone and stated that he had not, "to [his] knowledge, published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone". I'm not sure I believe him, and it doesn't change the fact that he's a pompous w***er.

 

[ferball]

I thought a court found he did.

 

[RooInNorthLondon]

The UK court concluded in December 23 that there was no doubt Piers knew about the phone hacking in a case against his paper (The Mirror, not a Murdoch rag), prompting that denial. Pretty much everybody in UK thinks he was bang to rights but he has never been personally prosecuted for it.

 

[Marstermind]

I'm still of the opinion that country rep players should have to play a minimum number of tournament games to be allowed to play in the bbl finals.
Too often they just come in for 1 or 2 games at the end and dominate resulting in big swings.

I totally agree. All the Sixers have to do is hang in there until they get back and then they get an enormous advantage. It's like when Monty Burns got Jose Conseco and Daryl Strawberry et al to ring in for the Springfield Isotopes and leave Homer and his Wonderbat on the pine for the championship game.

But it will never happen. Fox and Seven have paid a gazillion on this, and CA wants its cash cow too. No way they're going to want to promote watching Jordan Silk and Mitch Perry playing whilst Steve Smith and Mitchell Starc are sitting in the stands fully fit and raring to get out there.