Sack John Buchanan & Ponting before 5th Test please

[acker]

Drastic actions needed for drastic times Beny, 2-1 down, one test left and we must win to retain. I would consider bringing Steve Waugh back as a Mike Brearley type non batting/bowling just a brain on the feild role if it would get us over the line.

If we continue with the same squad we will get beat again, we must change.

[flanflinger]

The question has been raised who was the better Captain - Waugh or Border. For me it's Border, why beacuse when you have Warne, McGrath and Gillispie in your side it is much easier to make bowling changes

Buchanan suffers from the same problem he has "Coached" Australia to the No 1 spot. But what has he actually done? When you have Hayde, Langer, Gilchrist, Matyn and Ponting making up your batting as well, coaching Austrlia up till now has been a piece of P***.

So now things get hard, and what does JB do... well I am not sure. He has made a few idiotic staments, he has left Ponting to make a fool of himself over the subsititue issue, ( he really should be telling Ponting to calm himself down, rather than let him keep making more statements)

JB seems afraid to make the hard choices - Gillispie was out of form in the ODI's and has been mainted for three Tests. While Hayden seems glued to the crease and unable to change his game. Surely it's the coaches job to rectify this, or drop the players?

Ponting has looked desperatly short of inspiration when compared with Vaughan. Surely it is JB's job to get the best out of his Captain.

[Paoli]

Originally Posted by Rachael

There's so much going on in that delivery stride that the guy is unlikely to ever build real pressure: he might get the odd good spell when it all works each and every time... but most of the time he's goign to spray the ball around.. and that's unlikely to improve with experience. Get him on a pitch with a LOT of pace... and he might be a handful... and sure, if he can get reverse swing he'll get wickets... but he'll most ly just lose his side matches by going for 100+ runs in every innings.

For some reason, you can't accept that cricket is changing and becoming a fast bowlers game, where those who get speeds of 135kmh+ will take wickets. Kasprowicz is probably finished; he was never that good and is being found out by slightly-above-average batting performances.

So was Jeff Thomson a crap bowler? Please, Tait will bowl the odd crap spell, but have a look at the ball he bowled to Trescothick. He is capable of bowling quite a few of those. I've seen him uproot quite a few off stumps in his time; Younis Khan, Xavier Marshall and Sarwan amongst others, and he is clearly capable of becoming a world class bowler.

You're obsessed on a notion that a bowler who goes for a few runs is no good.

Originally Posted by flanflinger

JB seems afraid to make the hard choices - Gillispie was out of form in the ODI's and has been mainted for three Tests. While Hayden seems glued to the crease and unable to change his game. Surely it's the coaches job to rectify this, or drop the players?

Ponting has looked desperatly short of inspiration when compared with Vaughan. Surely it is JB's job to get the best out of his Captain.

Good point ff; and one man who had the ability to make tough choices was the late David Hookes. He dropped Darren Berry once for not rocking up to training and out of form players weren't spared either.

Had he still been with us to this day; I'd be calling his name as the Australian coach.

[acker]

Andrew Symonds should have been sent home, that desicion not to showed weak leadership.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

Well if they dont get sacked before the 5th test, if they lose or draw the 5th test, they'll be sacked then. Might end up in prison if they get hammered !

[acker]

Lose or draw the 5th test at the oval and the Australian team will under go more surgery than Michael Jacksons face.

[flanflinger]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cric...nd/4222376.stm

I love this quote

Originally Posted by BBC

to improve player confidence and, on this tour, held vocabulary lessons. The point of the drill was to teach his players how to work a list of poly-syllabic words into everyday sentences. It failed spectacularly, and Buchanan admitted "it was a step too far"

[Zainub]

Lol!!!!!

[acker]

Ian Chappell's now come out and blasted him publicly.

[acker]

Originally Posted by BBC
to improve player confidence and, on this tour, held vocabulary lessons. The point of the drill was to teach his players how to work a list of poly-syllabic words into everyday sentences. It failed spectacularly, and Buchanan admitted "it was a step too far"


I just had an argument with my other half (a school teacher) what a poly-phonic sylabil was, she told me it was a ring tone. I then re-read the post..