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And Ponting is gone.....

About bloody time. Cricket Australia needs to clean house. They should have started with the selectors and worked their way down. So much dead wood needs to be trimmed, for the first time in a long time Australia has no depth, but how are young players supposed to prove themselves when too many people who are way past their used by date are hanging around?

was watching the news conference and thinking when they handed over to pointing rather than explaining heaps of shit he should have just say "thanks for coming (pause) i quit" then walked away... :P

And Ponting is gone.....

only as captain yeah??

About bloody time. Cricket Australia needs to clean house. They should have started with the selectors and worked their way down. So much dead wood needs to be trimmed, for the first time in a long time Australia has no depth, but how are young players supposed to prove themselves when too many people who are way past their used by date are hanging around?

This isnt the mid to late 90's any more, there is literally no ready made replacements now. I feel the selectors really didnt have many options. The real issue is that they let the coaching staff of the cricket academy walk about 10 years ago and ever since the academy has not been the star factory it once was.

Sad but true Bunt. The academy was a victim of its own success. So many good players with nowhere to go.

We had an over abundance of top qual players to the point cricket aus didnt deem it neccessary to rely on the academy any longer.

More short sightedness from an org that specialises in it.

When you hve no depth and a shitty starting line up you need, more than ever, to be bringing any new talent into an arena where they can get better. You don't become a world class player if you are only facing local competition. I feel the selectors were too worried about public backlash to run untested players to give them a chance to gain the skills and experience they needed.

I won't argue the role the demise of the academy had on the quality of players available, that's fairly self evident. The selectors needed to be thinking long term, trying to foster talent when the academy was gone, and trying to show younger talent that they can have a real chance of playing representative cricket instead of discouraging new players with a culture of looking after the under performing old hands.

When you hve no depth and a shitty starting line up you need, more than ever, to be bringing any new talent into an arena where they can get better. You don't become a world class player if you are only facing local competition. I feel the selectors were too worried about public backlash to run untested players to give them a chance to gain the skills and experience they needed.

I won't argue the role the demise of the academy had on the quality of players available, that's fairly self evident. The selectors needed to be thinking long term, trying to foster talent when the academy was gone, and trying to show younger talent that they can have a real chance of playing representative cricket instead of discouraging new players with a culture of looking after the under performing old hands.

Couldnt disagree more, other countries have tried this for ages and more often than not the newb got worked over, lost confidence and was never seen again. I remember sitting here at home summer after summer seeing the next big thing from other countries come here and have thier careers shrivel and die before our very eyes. And even more recently our very own Phil Hughes suffered the same fate. Bowlers are a slightly different story as they get time in the middle regardless of wether thet are going well or not!

See if the selectors put him on a plane to Bangladesh next week.

His last outing was a pretty decent 100, he will be on the plane

But how else can you let someone gain the skills and experience when the academy is gone?

its still there, they moved it from adelaide to brisbane, they let all the staff walk and many of them went to set up Englands Academy...and we all know how that turned out. We just need our best coaches back in our acedemy not couching other nations sides or setting up their superstar factories!

Morning Mangs,

GP weekend = great success! You all should have come.

Shame M-Webb didn't do too well, but at least crash kid put the R31 on the podium :thumbsup: Also enjoyed seeing schuey have another shit race :).

Nothing compares to those 22 F1 cars driving past one after the other for the first few laps. Truly awesome.

Melbourne German club is not as good as ours, but is still awesome. Spaten on tap FTW. Also, one of the waiters looked a bit like Geoff, which made me LOL.

Not game to check my bank balance at the moment though, will wait until pay comes in tomorrow first :P.

Some cool shit I found in my travels:

1 - Prize on Thursday to whoever can ID this engine (Sexy Dave excluded):

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Hint - It is in this:

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2 - Also found this land crab for Noel:

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3 - Repco Brabham BT19:

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4 - Hard to see, but this is a random trough full of water in the middle of Melbourne, WTF? (Actually, I think it was on Batman St... lol):

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Also we bought Dan a souvenir, I think it suits him:

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RE: Ponting. Good move I think. I actually hope that now not being captain he manages to find a few runs.

RE: SAUQLD member pack. I got mine too :). Thinking I might put my stickers on the XF :P

End.

Incorrect.

Ah, upon looking at it on the computer instead of the stupid mobile sau site, I see it's only a four banger... so I have no idea now. Some carburetted precursor to the essarr?

LZ18 i think you will find

Edit:

makes about 150Kw na

nicely done sir. beat me to it.

P.S. welcome home McFly. I McDrove home from Melb in my new shitbox....

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