Steve Smith

[blackcat]

why did David Hussey never get a prolonged opportunity in the lower order?

I think the selectors must have marked his cards? Did David Hussey (edit:Matthew Elliot) also speak about what goes on on a Caribbean Tour and who held the half-century record for the tour to the wives of the tourists

edit: obviously i meant Matthew Elliot the lefty

 

[Caesar]

Dave Hussey had a pretty significant weakness against the short ball for a long period of his career.

Cam White gets a bad rap, people forget how much talent he had. His Test career was truly awful, but he'd been developed differently he could have been a quality batsman. Too much focus on his leggies and short-form slogging hurt him. Also reckon his captaincy of Victoria stunted his development; was forced to do what was best for the team instead of what was best for him as a player.

 

[KissKiss]

why did David Hussey never get a prolonged opportunity in the lower order?

I think the selectors must have marked his cards? Did David Hussey also speak about what goes on on a Caribbean Tour and who held the half-century record for the tour to the wives of the tourists

I thought that was Elliot who told his wife about what everyone got up to. Who then told all the other wives. And as such got black listed.

I agree though that DJ Hussey should have got a run despite his supposed weakness against the short ball

 

[Tulip]

The fact that Hussey didn't get a go is a disgrace, not saying he was going to make it long term but he was a victim of the youth policy that almost cost Rogers a career.

 

[blackcat]

The fact that Hussey didn't get a go is a disgrace, not saying he was going to make it long term but he was a victim of the youth policy that almost cost Rogers a career.

yeah, neither are victorians.


and hgh and other peptides, massive in cricket like the other sports.

which can elongate the life of a cricketer to ~40 for a batsmen, and 30ish test bowler, and 40 for 20-20.

 

[blackcat]

I thought that was Elliot who told his wife about what everyone got up to. Who then told all the other wives. And as such got black listed.

I agree though that DJ Hussey should have got a run despite his supposed weakness against the short ball

yeah, I meant Elliott talked about his shenanigans and could not deal with the guilt, must be catholic, and D Hussey had his cards marked.

And was Michael Klinger just not that talented? He was captain of underage Aus teams and played with St Kilda at 16. Seemed like a wunderkind like Brad Hodge. But did Klinger have more cerebral pursuits than running around an oval in summer?

And Brad Hodge had his cards marked for being a w@nker. Elliott cos he told his wife and was too intelligent to be a bogan in the dressing room singing under the suthen(sic) cross. he should have just done medicine when he left school after getting in, and they never offered him a spot at the academy in Adelaide.

Hussey was the big one. The selectors have yet to retweak (or were yet to retweak) their metric for selection when the teams were getting a little bit older, because, i) professionalism, and a professional and lucrative incrome (c: Steve Waugh and Mark Taylor), the exogenous hormones allowing talented players to prolong their careers ~3 years beyond what would have been (even without the professional $$$ incentive), and all the post-professional career opportunities remaining. like commentating, business opps in India, sports tours, etc, they never evaporated. Unlike in the 60s and 70s, when players who were on the fringe like Sheehan had to pursue his vocation instead of cricket.

 

[The Speaker]

Klinger never got a look in because he didn't start making runs until he moved to SA, ten years after his FC debut.

 

[blackcat]

Klinger never got a look in because he didn't start making runs until he moved to SA, ten years after his FC debut.

who was the Victorian keeper who tookover from darren berry, when he was about 19, he had big raps on him, circa 2000. But was not much of a batsman. And he only stood the stumps for the Vics for a few years i think.

any keeper decent, the media construct a narrative around, like the Queenslander Hartley or whatever his name is.

 

[The Speaker]

who was the Victorian keeper who tookover from darren berry, when he was about 19, he had big raps on him, circa 2000. But was not much of a batsman. And he only stood the stumps for the Vics for a few years i think.

any keeper decent, the media construct a narrative around, like the Queenslander Hartley or whatever his name is.

Adam Crosthwaite.

 

[blackcat]

who was the Victorian keeper who tookover from darren berry, when he was about 19, he had big raps on him, circa 2000. But was not much of a batsman. And he only stood the stumps for the Vics for a few years i think.

any keeper decent, the media construct a narrative around, like the Queenslander Hartley or whatever his name is.

Peter Roach? was he at Richmond after Dimmatina at Ricmond?

 

[blackcat]

Adam Crosthwaite.

that one, ta.

 

[blackcat]

Adam Crosthwaite.

yeah, so the decent vics go to SA like Klinger and Elliot and Crosthwaite and the decent sandgropers come to Vic.

Was not the last redback or SA keeper married to Tamsyn Lewis?

 

[Ashton Agar]

yeah, so the decent vics go to SA like Klinger and Elliot and Crosthwaite and the decent sandgropers come to Vic.

Was not the last redback or SA keeper married to Tamsyn Lewis?

Yes. Graham Manou.