posted Dec 24, 2007

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posted Dec 26, 2007

Warnie can say what he likes. Gilly can too, and so can Chapelli and Bux and anybody who pleases, if you are a master of your chosen trade. Because this is how we like it in Australia. Any addition to the summer craziness is expected, welcomed, delighted in, and appreciated.

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posted Dec 26, 2007

there are no gentlemen in australia (we all love our "girls"). Warnie seems genuine enough to teach youngsters, i guess the arrogance will die down in a few years. at the present stage spinners in australia deserve all the help they can get, think about cameron white, cullen bailey, dan cullen. they dont look very promising at all.

from recent pura cup matches, a crop of pace bowlers have emerged like noffke, hilfy etc. all look international material. the only exception to this trend is nathan hauritz. wonder why they didn't give him another chance.

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posted Dec 26, 2007

Australia must have felt void after Shane's departure to make him a specialist spinning trainer---and taking todays Kumble's performance they were right on target to unearth quality spinners in Oz.India should take lead to appoint batting bowling and fielding coaches to strenghten the team's performance.Lets hope our batsman will not let us down in Melbourne.

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posted Dec 26, 2007

Its amazing what can be seen when one steps back a pace or two isnt it

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posted Dec 26, 2007

Can we just enjoy a good contest and the cricket?

If these two teams play hard excellent cricket with advantage changing hands the cricket is the winner and we need not have to go overboard in either praise or condemnation of teams

We just lay back and enjoy it as cricket will always give twists and turns no novelist can invent!

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posted Dec 26, 2007

rshome I agree we Australians are too arrogant sometimes (and definitely worse than 10-15 years ago) but I think it's a bit over the top to say there are no Australian gentlemen.

Have you never seen an interview with Adam Gilchrist?!

That bloke is more of a gentlemen than anyone that's ever played the game, in or out of Australia. Well-spoken, polite, respectful, and a damned nice guy. You've obviously never heard him speak.

And blokes like Pat Rafter would also go down as one of the most down-to-earth sportsman to have ever lived. Never heard an arrogant word come out of his mouth.

But then you get people like Leyton Hewitt who spoil the image that Rafter created, and Ponting etc that spoil the image that Gilchrist creates etc

So yes the average Aussie is more arrogant these days, but don't label the whole country based on the bad behaviour of a few.

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posted Dec 27, 2007

hi bondibum

being an aussie guy, during my time as an antipodean last year and throughout the majority of this year, i learned there were two kinds of australians: ones that hung out at the walkabout and made only aussie friends, and ones that worked damned hard and whenever a bank holiday came it was nice to enjoy fjord hopping out there in the scandanavian islands

i was one that fell in the second category, ashame that things did not work out for me there

but in my time over there i learned to pull my resources that i wasnt the typical aussie guy and i could actually make friends with people from other cultures, and some of them dont even speak english as their first language

during my time in rome i spent all day with a girl from brazil and she spoke next to no english. i had a great time in turkey, especially in the south coast where the natives were friendly and spoke no english

still the point im getting at is, i reckon australians are a little caught up in their own little world too much, thinking what we have is bigger than everything else. especially when you leave cities like sydney and melbourne, the tolerant society tends to melt away. when you go to a city like perth it becomes scary when players from the local australian football club team claims ownership of the town

we are located all the way down there. only new zealand is a country which is more far flung away than us.

the point of this post is to be worldly. much like shane warne. i often thought he didnt have much of a brain for some of the stuff he committed but now im glad he played for us now

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