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Richo · Feb 10, 2007

I am amazed there has been little chat about our two losses to England in the one day arena.......I sure hope we win on Sunday - How do you guys think we will go ???

wjrwebber · Feb 10, 2007

Ass raping on the cards for the Poms tomorrow. Its been quite sometime that Australia has lost 2 ODI games in a row and they will be damned if they lose this one. If we bat 1st, expect a 350+ total.

martyaud · Feb 10, 2007

We lost on Friday cos we had too many changes from the winning team in the prelims....

losing symonds was a huge blow.... not picking White (another hitter) cost us big time in the last 5 overs where we needed some hitting..... Watson just coming back from injury is a bit harsh on the guy to play a final... Hogg is rubbish.....

but at the same time, if it wasnt for ponting & hayden.... would we be in the finals ?

hsv006 · Feb 11, 2007

Anythings possible...the poms are capable of winning if a few of there players step up...like collingwood did.
Hogg is alright at times but hes no shane warne:roll:

cliffy21 · Feb 11, 2007

We played like morons in the first final. What was Clarke doing? Not diving for his ground to start the rot! We were something like 4/220 after 40 overs the last 10 overs killed us. I don't like our middle batting order atm. Clarke, Hodge, Hussey, Watson - it looks too fragile. None of those guys apart from Hussey can make hundreds regularly. At least with Symonds if he got out early he went for quick runs. Clarke, Hodge always take their time to settle and just kills the surge our top 3 usually gives us and so when they get out cheaply they wasted some balls as well. Australia has some tinkering to do before the world cup now that Symonds is likely to miss some games.

ljandkg · Feb 11, 2007

martyaud said:
We lost on Friday cos we had too many changes from the winning team in the prelims....

losing symonds was a huge blow.... not picking White (another hitter) cost us big time in the last 5 overs where we needed some hitting..... Watson just coming back from injury is a bit harsh on the guy to play a final... Hogg is rubbish.....

but at the same time, if it wasnt for ponting & hayden.... would we be in the finals ?

Nope - they murdered my black caps twice!!!

Our team has a lot of problems. I think Aussies main problem is the bowling. If I'm not correct (and I often aren't!) They have shipped a whole lotta runs recently. There was the 340-330 Oz-NZ game, followed by Poms getting 290 and thumping Oz, followed by NZ getting 290 (and we shoulda had 300+ again) and losing cos of Punter and Hodge , followed by the poms chasing down 250 in the final after being 15-3.

It's possible that OZ does bat first and get 300 but if I were the poms I'd bat first and back myself to do the same.
Also last year in NZ, OZ scored 330 and won by 5 runs and then scored 330 again and lost with an over to spare....then there was the SA 440 run chase as well.
I have no doubt Australia has the batting to win the WC, I think bowling is their weakness.

I won't get into the black caps problems!!! Take too long....

cliffy21 · Feb 11, 2007

I agree mate - our bowling has been shocking a few times but then again there are games where we have bowled the opposition out for 150-200 but those games tend to get forgotten cos we usually blast past the totals with the bat. The reason oppositions usually get up to 300 is because our fielding was sloppy that day. We dropped a few catches (Mcgrath) in the first final. We also dropped Vincent twice the day the kiwis made 290. We dropped Gibbs early on when South Africa made 400 plus. I wouldn't say our bowlers are bad but our fielding should be better. I dunno if you are aware mate but the Kiwis always have been respected by the Aussies cos they always try to win and push us harder than any other teams who usually turn up with a negative mindset.. They have had more success against us than other countries (not recently though) Bloody Aussie team is not looking so hot right now

Richo · Feb 11, 2007

I tend to agree Cliffy ! Mcgrath & Tait's catch both cost us a lot of runs and possible a win....catches win matches !

Trey · Feb 11, 2007

Watsons got to go...the guys useless...on ya bike!

mattyj · Feb 11, 2007

he cost us the match the other night...3 overs to go 25 needed...he goes for 8 runs off the first 2 balls of his over!!! LOSER!!

that and when he went out he walked the wrong way off the ground, was hilarious!!!

ljandkg · Feb 11, 2007

u r right about the catches - they cost us a finals place no doubt. I've never seen worse catching than I've seen this series.

As a bowler I hate it when mongols drop catches.

mattyj · Feb 11, 2007

ljandkg said:
u r right about the catches - they cost us a finals place no doubt. I've never seen worse catching than I've seen this series.

As a bowler I hate it when mongols drop catches.

Yes its crap, i missed my chance (and probably only chance) at a hat-trick coz an idiot fielder dropped a simple catch at mid on!!

ljandkg · Feb 11, 2007

Mate that sucks!! I hope he shouted u the whole night......

mattyj · Feb 11, 2007

Nah he didnt speak to me much that night coz i turned around and blasted him about it on the field...probably not the nicest thing to do but man was i pissed!! LOL...

ljandkg · Feb 11, 2007

Haha!! He deserved it!

I've been lucky enough to have 2 hattricks - no better feeling in cricket...(see Bond Vs Aussie the other day - sheer glee even though he'd gone for 60!!)

ScottE · Feb 11, 2007

I hope the aussies put up a better effort in the field this game, and please get rid of Hogg and put Watson back in the QLD side to get some form up.

Allstar cards inc · Feb 11, 2007

scottsophie said:
I hope the aussies put up a better effort in the field this game, and please get rid of Hogg and put Watson back in the QLD side to get some form up.

Agreed....it's always felt like they've been forcing Watson to be an international player instead of letting him develop naturally. And it was always going to be a tough ask for Hogg to come in and play after just 1 preliminary game....why do that any way when White was in reasonable form anyway??

Magicman · Feb 11, 2007

Our problem lies with our spinning, we cant expect to win a world cup with Clarke and Hogg can we? I mean yeh Clarke is a pretty good bat but to have him bowl 7 or 8 overs a is a joke. Hogg is all we have unfortunantly and he is just crap lol.

Why wasnt Shaun Tait picked also? Cameron White gets droppped for Hogg?

Allstar cards inc · Feb 11, 2007

Magicman said:
Our problem lies with our spinning, we cant expect to win a world cup with Clarke and Hogg can we? I mean yeh Clarke is a pretty good bat but to have him bowl 7 or 8 overs a is a joke. Hogg is all we have unfortunantly and he is just crap lol.

Why wasnt Shaun Tait picked also? Cameron White gets droppped for Hogg?

That's why Symo is such a big loss...his bowling variety was more than handy. The belief is though that the pitches in the West Indies won't be that useful for the spinners.

ScottE · Feb 11, 2007

Get Watson off PLEASE. Good 1st over ya hack.

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