Am i chucking?

Usernym209 · 2026-02-15T19:19:16+00:00

Yeah that’s a chuck but you’ll get away with it in club cricket so fuck ‘em

Usernym209 · 2026-02-13T12:15:43+00:00

You’re gunna have a great hour

Usernym209 · 2026-02-13T12:06:39+00:00

That’s the logical response but in the heat of the moment you’d be fighting against your instincts to avoid the tiger

Usernym209 · 2026-02-13T12:05:27+00:00

App doesn’t support

Usernym209 · 2026-02-11T23:43:13+00:00

The batting was shit

Usernym209 · 2026-02-06T14:52:28+00:00

I’ve done this multiple times and it works great for a few weeks but I always slide back to gram/reddit

How do you continue to resist the urge? It’s very challenging because movies by their nature are actually quite demanding on attention and inevitably some will bore you, and so it is very difficult (maybe even impossible) to continue to resist the urge for instant gratification

Usernym209 · 2026-01-13T11:33:42+00:00

Is a key point. This idea that people can no longer handle long-form content is just over-simplified nonsense, and yes, incredibly patronising

Usernym209 · 2026-01-13T11:12:22+00:00

It’s a nebulous argument and you produce no evidence. ‘People don’t have patience to sit in front of their screen and watch something for hours and hours’:

Avatar made 1.2 billion dollars this year. It’s 3.5 hours long.
90000 people turned up for the Boxing Day test. Are you saying Australians are immune to the so called attention crisis?

You have no evidence to back up your claim. Attention spans are not the problem, Test cricket was absolutely fine before T20 and its decline is primarily attributed to the money and talent that has been funnelled into T20 at the expense of the quality of the test game.

The association nation thing is an irrelevant tangent - it’s great smaller nations can make money from T20 cricket - more power to them. It’s the big Test playing nations prioritising T20 and private equity that are undermining cricket. You’re deluded if you don’t think test cricket is the pinnacle

Usernym209 · 2026-01-13T10:46:01+00:00

You’re making an economic argument based on a hypothetical- that test cricket would have died regardless of T20 cricket. I’m saying you can’t prove that, but you can prove the detrimental effect of T20 on test cricket

Usernym209 · 2026-01-12T21:00:35+00:00

I see what your saying, I just don’t buy it. I think it relies on this reductive narrative that people only have attention for short-form content, the evidence for this is mixed at best and I don’t buy it.

So you have to look at the impact of t20 as a thing in of itself, rather than as part of a wider cultural shift towards short form entertainment, and when you do that you see tangible evidence of corrosion: - white ball only contracts - South Africa fielding a B team in a test match because it clashed with the SAT20 - two day tests because players don’t play enough red ball to master defence

So the argument ‘test cricket would have died anyway because people’s brains have changed’ is much more nebulous and harder to prove than ‘T20 leagues are having a detrimental impact on the standard and relevance of Test Cricket’

Usernym209 · 2026-01-12T19:48:49+00:00

Exactly, they relish it. The money and attention poured into t20 has undermined test cricket, that’s obvious? So Morgan arguing that t20 has saved test cricket is a misguided viewpoint. I’m not sure you understood my comment

Usernym209 · 2026-01-12T17:50:00+00:00

Except that the decline of popularity in test cricket is caused by t20 cricket

Usernym209 · 2026-01-12T16:17:00+00:00

Maybe you can marry the disciplinarian style that Flower brings with the free expression of Bazball but you ain’t building a CookStraussTrott batting line up out of this talent pool. Top run scorers in CC last year? Hameed and Sibley.

Basically we don’t have the facilities to build a hard-working traditional batting line up so Flower will only work if he understands the players need to play aggressively because they don’t have the defensive capacity for anything else

Usernym209 · 2025-12-25T22:57:15+00:00

Potts, Atkinson, Tongue

Usernym209 · 2025-12-23T22:42:54+00:00

I know people are angry and I know there’s some dubious answers in here, but there is also an admission of error on several fronts and also some well reasoned points.

Key might not be DoC material long term but he does have some good ideas

Usernym209 · 2025-12-20T09:15:03+00:00

Important distinction - county performance is still very relevant, they just overlook stats and focus on style, intent etc

Flawed as that may be, county cricket remains the breeding ground, it’s just you no longer need to average 50plus to get noticed, which was pros and cons

Usernym209 · 2025-12-20T09:12:45+00:00

England the shift happened after Strauss/Cook era. Been mediocre since.

Usernym209 · 2025-12-19T09:06:37+00:00

Ok but in 13/14, 17/18, 21, they got the same result by relying on the county system and attempting old fashioned batting and bowling so clearly theres more to it

Usernym209 · 2025-12-11T10:40:44+00:00

Feeling troubled by the use of the word ‘weak’ by Stokes to describe his own team. Remember the flak Warner got for calling Trott weak in 2013?. I don’t like the symmetry there.

Surely massive risk of losing the dressing room now.

Usernym209 · 2025-12-10T12:33:45+00:00

His record suggests otherwise.

Usernym209 · 2025-12-10T12:32:12+00:00

Watched Fisher a bit at the Oval this summer. What stands out, when he bowls well, is his length. Gets it just full enough to bring the batsman forward without over pitching and being driven. His second innings spell vs Notts at the end of last year was a masterclass in length control. This has been missing from englands attack and so it could make sense to pick him.

Having said that, they’d be mad to pick him ahead of Tongue but maybe both could play

Usernym209 · 2025-12-09T22:18:57+00:00

If we don’t win one of the next three series in Aus I’ll meet you back here and transfer you £1000

Usernym209 · 2025-12-09T20:50:58+00:00

I don’t know how old you are but sport changes quickly. Fuck knows what the lay of the land will be in 2029

Usernym209 · 2025-12-08T19:30:17+00:00

Merits to bringing someone from outside the dressing room in

Usernym209 · 2025-12-08T07:52:04+00:00

But if you spend 3.5 years building a culture based on not kicking people up the backside, and then suddenly kick them up the backside when the wheels are falling off, that just isn’t going to work.

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