No matter what Clarke does, or how well he bats, it will not matter to those sort of people. Their stubbornness and immaturity will continue to get in the way.
Yep, it's been amazing hasn't it? A guy walks in at 3/37, badly needing a score for the team as well as himself, walks of at 4/659 with 329 next to his name ... and he gets bagged. Only in BigFooty .......
His declaration ... bagged for batting too long ... bagged for not batting long enough ... bagged because he was "trying to appear unselfish" ... geez
My personal favourite ... bagged because batting was too easy out there. Well, it wasn't easy until Clarke walked in, so what does that tell you? Looking back at any score of 300+ you can guarantee conditions were in favour of the batsman, so we may as well pay no attention whatsoever to Lara's 405, Hayden's 380, Sobers' 365, Hutton's 364 .. oh to hell with it, let's ignore Bradman's triple centuries and put them down to someone who couldn't really play and just had a lucky day now and then.
If you're bagging Clarke after his innings over the past 2 days, you really needs to find something else to do because cricket is not for you.