posted May 13, 2008

What a beautifully written, well balanced article ... well done, your primary teacher will be proud ... General? You'd be lucky to make Private ...

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posted May 13, 2008

Thanks Waikato yeah i always try and be impartial. Porky don't need any south Afrikans to beat your sorry mob.

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posted May 13, 2008

Private??? I didn't think ya would come back,
where were you, in the kitchen telling ya missus how good you are.

By the way how is Oz Ambrose going, he and Pieterson make England a half descent side don't they???

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posted May 13, 2008

scored a ton in his second game but it was against a poor attack so the jury is still out. Expect him to fill his boots this series.

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posted May 14, 2008

Okay, I'm not backing this guy up, 'cause even I know it isn't a walk in the park, but

"Have you managed to coerce a few more South Africans to play for you"

I think that's out of order. Pieterson - our only SA player - wanted to play for England partly because of the SA quota system. Also NZ have a SA convert of their own.

And no football digs! That's below the belt

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posted May 14, 2008

jimmy - NZ did have a SA convert, but we very quickly realised just how rubbish he was - he will now sink without a trace ... And not that I really want to stir this up again, but isn't Andrew Strauss a Saffa as well?

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posted May 14, 2008

Oh yeah forgot that one...but then he shouldn't be playing

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posted May 14, 2008

Yeah, put Prior in instead of Strauss!- hang on, where's he from?

La la la! ... I can see a recall for Jamie Dalrymple (Kenya) and Owais Shah (Pakistan), and Masceranhas (Australia) to go with Ambrose (Australia) ... As the crowd sung at the Oval test last year, 'you've got the whole world in your team'

Sorry, just being a little wum

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posted May 14, 2008

yeah but say Colin Cowdert was born in India and played for England

RanjitSinghji was born in India and played for England

England happened to go to every nook and cranny on the globe

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posted May 14, 2008

wendyballers got to love em.

I'd have

Vettori over Monty.
Oram over Collingwood.
Southee over Broad (well maybe in a few years).
Mills over Anderson.
McCullem over any English keeper.
Taylor if he plays straight (ie the last test series) over Bell (I expect some abuse from this one though).

Thats 5 to 6 players in the NZ squad ahead of the English. It's just that most of our other players aren't test class where at least all of England's are (in Sidebottom and KP 2 world class players).

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