Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[capcom]

Without doubt, Mark Taylor should sit in the chair

[Professer E]

Based upon what?  This is a problem I have,  what CV qualifies you for this job?  Moving in the correct political circle (from a cricketing perspective)?  Being from NSW,  being,  on the face of things a decent bloke? I would have thought that having a leading role within at least one of the state bodies was a minimum requirement.  Somebody like Shaun Graf who is plugged into all levels of state cricket not some nameless suit.

[LP]

Based upon what?  This is a problem I have,  what CV qualifies you for this job?  Moving in the correct political circle (from a cricketing perspective)?  Being from NSW,  being,  on the face of things a decent bloke? I would have thought that having a leading role within at least one of the state bodies was a minimum requirement.  Somebody like Shaun Graf who is plugged into all levels of state cricket not some nameless suit.

No different than the US voting in Trump.

The effectively nameless unqualified puppet suit that takes the media heat for the backroom movers and shakers! They don't give a feck what misery he makes for his people or the world, they are quietly raking in the billions in the same fashion as the very best Russian Oligarchs! The book gets a new cover, but the story doesn't change!

[DJC]

Based upon what?  This is a problem I have,  what CV qualifies you for this job?  Moving in the correct political circle (from a cricketing perspective)?  Being from NSW,  being,  on the face of things a decent bloke? I would have thought that having a leading role within at least one of the state bodies was a minimum requirement.  Somebody like Shaun Graf who is plugged into all levels of state cricket not some nameless suit.

Yes, I think someone who has done a good job with a state body would be best placed to get things in order.

Mal Speed will be on the wireless this morning and it will be interesting to hear his thoughts.  His comments a couple of days ago apparently galvanised NSW Cricket to tap Peever on the shoulder.

Mark Taylor has ruled himself out ... not that he should ever have been in.

[LP]

Mark Taylor has ruled himself out ... not that he should ever have been in.

Old Tubby, gets lampooned by his peers and the media, but he is smarter than they think. There is a reason he was probably the best Test Captain we've ever had!

[Professer E]

Where I am coming from is popular choice versus the correct choices.

Too many well connected suits running the game these days,  the disconnect from the interests from the game any the players is alarming.

Will say this though,  the money is filtering down to the lower levels.  All our club sides got new bags of kit this year.  It helps keep kids in the game.

[malo]

Where I am coming from is popular choice versus the correct choices.

Too many well connected suits running the game these days,  the disconnect from the interests from the game any the players is alarming.

Will say this though,  the money is filtering down to the lower levels.  All our club sides got new bags of kit this year.  It helps keep kids in the game.

One thing I do hope starts filtering down to the lower levels is the re-focus of the test side on sportsmanship & cutting out the on-field abuse.....the level of just abusive unintelligent rubbish that's going on in grade cricket these days is appalling...and I wonder where it came from ?

I played Grade cricket for almost 20 years (84-2003).....and I saw first hand the creep of this into the local game.  When I started as a 16 year old, I would no sooner think of sledging one of the older players than one of my own team mates !  And if there were any comments made on the field it was the senior guys that made them...and they were nearly always funny, not abusive in any way !

But in the last couple of years I played (post 2000) you even had snotty nose kids of 16 or 17 sledging guys who'd been playing for 15 years......& they weren't intelligent enough to come up with something funny, so they'd just swear at you.

Honestly, I'll be thinking twice about encouraging my 3 boys to play cricket until this sort of garbage is stamped out.  Sadly the umpires seem too scared to do anything about it at the moment, but if the change in attitude comes from the top (Aust test side), then maybe, just maybe this behaviour will be considered unacceptable at all levels of cricket sometime down the track.

[capcom]

Old Tubby, gets lampooned by his peers and the media, but he is smarter than they think. There is a reason he was probably the best Test Captain we've ever had!

Exactly ... briiliant captain, played for the cap, maintained team harmony and never flinched from the tough qiestions posed of him.  Pity he's ruled himself out

[Professer E]

The trash talking starts in U10s modified.  It really gets my goat as it's the same clubs everytime,  it's endemic.  Some kids are so inculcated about winning they just don't give aFuck about sportsmanshp, the game etc.  My daughter recently filled in for my sons team,  who were short.  The rubbish she received was unnecessary,  so much for this supposedly enlightened age.

Two swivel pulls for four and another smoked through extra cover didn't shut them up either.

There's also been a lot of racial stuff too,  and the perpetrators have all been kids of Indian background.  I was abused by a parent for giving their spoilt little prince out.  My kids love the game but there is some real trash out there playing it. If my kids walk away from it it will be for that reason.

[DJC]

Exactly ... briiliant captain, played for the cap, maintained team harmony and never flinched from the tough qiestions posed of him.  Pity he's ruled himself out

Yes he was a brilliant captain but what experience does he have as a board chairman?  I guess he knows his own limitations.