Warnie to retire?

[Shedhand]

Is this allowed?

Have a look here if you're interested. Gideon Haigh ( who I think is widely respected as a cricket writer) on Warne.

I nicely balanced summary of the man and his game.

[Lignum]

Is this allowed?

Have a look here if you're interested. Gideon Haigh ( who I think is widely respected as a cricket writer) on Warne.

I nicely balanced summary of the man and his game.

Excelent read Sheddie It wont sink in for a while but its increadably sad to think we will see only four more innings of the greatest ever bowler the game has seen.


Imagine the lucky buggers on Boxing Day if the Poms win the toss and bat. When Warnie comes on to bowl ill bet every possession i own and all the money i have that the roar and fever of the crowd will have NEVER been as loud or emotional. They say big boys dont cry, but ill have a few klenex ready.

[masoth]

There must haved been an awful lot of rich buggers around when the bodyline series was on then, some of the attendance records from then have stood till this year!!

:eek:

P

Ordinarily I don't reply, but this time I'd like to point out my statement was regarding "sport" not cricket alone which was identified as 'the people's game', partly because entry was so cheap.

[masoth]

...........good English attack had to devise new tactics to defeat him, a move that led to a change in the rules (only Walter Lindrum of billiards has managed that feat).

Richard

er, in so far as bowling changes to the laws of cricket don't forget Greg Chapple ps: Ooops, should read 'Chappell".

[TassieKiwi]

Chapple? Who's Chapple? (Australian selective memory)

It's only a game fellas. You don't have to be too smart to play cricket.

Now rugby, there's a game!

[silentC]

Did you watch Rugby in the 70's on ABC last night? One of the guys said "people think the Wallabies hate the All Blacks. They've it all wrong. We HATE England more than anything else."

[Shedhand]

er, in so far as bowling changes to the laws of cricket don't forget Greg Chapple ps: Ooops, should read 'Chappel".

Jeepers Mas, 2 posts in one day...get back to the shed you lazy bugger...

[silentC]

Australian paceman Glenn McGrath hasn't ruled out extending his Test career beyond the Ashes series and says he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement.

So in other words, he said nothing at all. Got to love journos. The blurb on the home page is simply majestic:

Australian paceman Glenn McGrath hasn't says he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement.

??

[Driver]

Australian paceman Glenn McGrath hasn't says he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement.

So .... there are two possibilities here

(Leaving aside the many and varied potential future actions of Glenn McGrath)

1. The journo who wrote this convoluted piece of tortured gibberish is trying to be very clever and cover several angles at once, or

2. The journo who wrote it is a complete tosser with a barely adequate grasp of what is almost certainly his or her native language.

Anyone taking bets on which is correct?

[echnidna]

both

[silentC]

My first thought was that they meant to say "Australian paceman Glenn McGrath hasn't said he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement", which would confuse the hell out of anyone and heaven forbid any Russian readers should try to make sense of it.

Then I thought maybe it was "Australian paceman Glenn McGrath has said he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement", which makes a bit more sense, but still says nothing at all.

Maybe it's meant to be "Australian paceman Glenn McGrath says he won't necessarily follow Shane Warne into retirement", which is the same outcome as above - ie nothing.

No, in hindsight, I think you are right... The journo is a complete tosser....

[bitingmidge]

2. The journo who wrote it is a complete tosser

Murali is a journo now?

P

[Grunt]

I thought that this thread was about Warnie being a tosser?

[Doughboy]

Hasn't he left already!!!!

Pete