Maaaaate - you haven't seen Bourke in January!
Shane is good for another 10 years at least now that he's free of
family commitments. His 600th wicket was as good as his first and now
he can bat too! We just need to keep the supplies of baked beans,
blondes, VB and other stimulants up to him for a while yet.
AndrewF
On 15/09/2005, at 7:15 AM, Martyn Smoothy wrote:
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> You'll need more than that, mate.
> Shane will be pushing 40 by then & who else have you got?
> :-)
>
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> Sent: 14 September 2005 12:20
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Bad luck Oz
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>
> You are joking of course!
> Strategies I've suggested included highly specialised substitute
> fielders who will be on the field at all times; tests played on rock
> hard dust bowl pitches in Wagga Wagga, Kalgoorie, Bourke and anywhere
> else we can find that has a 45degC average midday temperature;
> offering the travelling Poms an outback hotel diet of burned chops,
> pie floaters and mystery bags (sorry mate, the regular chef's got the
> sandy blight!); at least two tests under floodlights in a flood;
> taking the teams off intemittently for harsh light and feral pig
> alerts; abandoning one test due to a native title claim; legislating
> that all visiting international players spend a mandatory two month
> quarantine in a migrant detention centre; introducing Freddy and that
> South African to a couple of Melbourne Pub bouncers...
> AndrewF
> (Some think that cricket is a matter of life and death or at the very
> least a metaphor for the whole of human endeavour - but we know that
> it's much more serious than that).
>
>
> On 14/09/2005, at 3:34 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
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>> Oh, and the reporter for ABC Oz, Maxwell or something, said that he
>> could not see the old down and outs on the Oz team winning against
>> the young up-and-comers on the English & Wales team in 18 months'
>> time! Hurrah:-))
>>
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