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I can see 300 pages comin up here

Negative:
The apparent love affair that saw Joe Mennie playing in the first few games. A Grade spud.
Aiden Blizzard failing to reproduce his 2010/11 form.
The promotion of players who are just pathetic: Ben Dougall.
The continued selection of a spud: Cullen Bailey.
Callum Ferguson's form (Second innings of the current Shield game excluded).
The third seamer in the team (after George and Putland) is too hit and miss.
Not having a back up keeper to Crosthwaite.
Inconsistent batsmen: Klinger is one of the best batsmen in the Shield today. He'll make runs though, and do eff all for the next game.
The continued selection of Dan Christian in the top six.
Crappy grade set up not producing quality: We consider guys like Sayers a quality grade cricketer, but he looks distinctly spud like in the Shield level.

More to come...

Media Park wrote:Negative:
The apparent love affair that saw Joe Mennie playing in the first few games. A Grade spud.
Aiden Blizzard failing to reproduce his 2010/11 form.
The promotion of players who are just pathetic: Ben Dougall.
The continued selection of a spud: Cullen Bailey.
Callum Ferguson's form (Second innings of the current Shield game excluded).
The third seamer in the team (after George and Putland) is too hit and miss.
Not having a back up keeper to Crosthwaite.
Inconsistent batsmen: Klinger is one of the best batsmen in the Shield today. He'll make runs though, and do eff all for the next game.
The continued selection of Dan Christian in the top six.
Crappy grade set up not producing quality: We consider guys like Sayers a quality grade cricketer, but he looks distinctly spud like in the Shield level.

More to come...

LOL Christian is the leading run scorer in SS cricket this year.
He has improved his batting immensely! MP with a ridiculous post once again

Would love to know the stats over the last 20 years on the results when S.A. have Declared and set the opposition a target.

Having a guess, it seems like about -
Opposition Wins 60%
Draw 25%
S.A. Wins 15%

If it's anywhere like those figures, it would prove that the Captains over the years have little idea about setting realistic targets and also that our bowling attacks are over-rated as targets are continually chased down, quite often with EASE.

Media Park wrote:Negative:
The apparent love affair that saw Joe Mennie playing in the first few games. A Grade spud.
Aiden Blizzard failing to reproduce his 2010/11 form.
The promotion of players who are just pathetic: Ben Dougall.
The continued selection of a spud: Cullen Bailey.
Callum Ferguson's form (Second innings of the current Shield game excluded).
The third seamer in the team (after George and Putland) is too hit and miss.
Not having a back up keeper to Crosthwaite.
Inconsistent batsmen: Klinger is one of the best batsmen in the Shield today. He'll make runs though, and do eff all for the next game.
The continued selection of Dan Christian in the top six.
Crappy grade set up not producing quality: We consider guys like Sayers a quality grade cricketer, but he looks distinctly spud like in the Shield level.

More to come...

Mark Waugh said on Inside Cricket tonight he wants Christian to be selected for the 1st Test against NZ to replace Watson.

Might go ok against new zealand but would be quite humerous what india would do to Christians bowling.

Media Park wrote:The continued selection of Dan Christian in the top six.
More to come...

Despite his 108 and 49 in the most recent of matches.

Does anyone else think, like me, that they have actually improved a little this year? Hate losing but they dont seem as ordinary as they have been over the previous few years. Berry is going to take sometime to turn things around, not just 5 games.

Call me crazy but as a casual observer watching the results, I would say the Redbacks have improved this year.

Last year they were getting smashed from start to finish, getting bowled out for ridiculously low scores etc.

This year it seems to me that they are getting themselves in a position to win games. They have recovered from batting collapses to post reasonable totals. They have bowled out sides for chaseable totals at least 1 innings out of the 2. They even made a gutsy declaration in the last shield match in an effort to win overall.

There are individuals who are definitely in form slumps, and the bowling attack seems to not quite have the tanks to bowl a side out twice, but overall I reckon the Redbacks have shown a reasonable amount of ticker this season so far, as opposed to absolutely nothing last season.

It seems I'm in the minority with this assessment though.

Gingernuts wrote:Call me crazy but as a casual observer watching the results, I would say the Redbacks have improved this year.

Last year they were getting smashed from start to finish, getting bowled out for ridiculously low scores etc.

This year it seems to me that they are getting themselves in a position to win games. They have recovered from batting collapses to post reasonable totals. They have bowled out sides for chaseable totals at least 1 innings out of the 2. They even made a gutsy declaration in the last shield match in an effort to win overall.

There are individuals who are definitely in form slumps, and the bowling attack seems to not quite have the tanks to bowl a side out twice, but overall I reckon the Redbacks have shown a reasonable amount of ticker this season so far, as opposed to absolutely nothing last season.

It seems I'm in the minority with this assessment though.

I thought I was the only one this this point of view.

Brodlach wrote:

Gingernuts wrote:Call me crazy but as a casual observer watching the results, I would say the Redbacks have improved this year.

Last year they were getting smashed from start to finish, getting bowled out for ridiculously low scores etc.

This year it seems to me that they are getting themselves in a position to win games. They have recovered from batting collapses to post reasonable totals. They have bowled out sides for chaseable totals at least 1 innings out of the 2. They even made a gutsy declaration in the last shield match in an effort to win overall.

There are individuals who are definitely in form slumps, and the bowling attack seems to not quite have the tanks to bowl a side out twice, but overall I reckon the Redbacks have shown a reasonable amount of ticker this season so far, as opposed to absolutely nothing last season.

It seems I'm in the minority with this assessment though.

I thought I was the only one this this point of view.

This is hardly venting! We need more venting in the venting thread. Enough coddling! Vent!

Sorry, my bad.

Media Park wrote:Negative:
The apparent love affair that saw Joe Mennie playing in the first few games. A Grade spud.
Aiden Blizzard failing to reproduce his 2010/11 form.
The promotion of players who are just pathetic: Ben Dougall.
The continued selection of a spud: Cullen Bailey.
Callum Ferguson's form (Second innings of the current Shield game excluded).
The third seamer in the team (after George and Putland) is too hit and miss.
Not having a back up keeper to Crosthwaite.
Inconsistent batsmen: Klinger is one of the best batsmen in the Shield today. He'll make runs though, and do eff all for the next game.
The continued selection of Dan Christian in the top six.
Crappy grade set up not producing quality: We consider guys like Sayers a quality grade cricketer, but he looks distinctly spud like in the Shield level.

More to come...

Media Park wrote:SA 9/349 declared
Klinger 93- The run machine returns.
Christian 108- Second hundred of the Shield season.
Crosthwaite 44- A solid effort from the former Kick-a-Vic.
Gale 5/81- Related to David Saker. Similar bowler.

QLD 3/350 declared
Townsend 166- Too good.
Forrest 94- Can play a bit.
Lynn 39*- A fan favorite on this forum
Aside from Cullen Bailey, all bowlers kept it tight, which is all you should expect on King William Road Oval.

SA 9/260 declared
Some sill reason saw them go for runs and force a result. Honorable intentions, shit execution.
Christian 49- Now the leading run scorer in the Shield.
Ferguson 62- batting six, might have silenced a knocker or two for now.
Crosthwaite 54- Amongst fit Shield keepers, Wade is number one, Crosthwaite is now number two.
Boyce 5/110- Shocking bowler, lucky SA were having a dip.

QLD 6/260
Burns 74- Who?
Lynn 39- Vintage Chris Lynn.
Christian 3/67- Selectors, Where art thou?

MP at his best

Yeah nah.

Our scorers shed?

I managed to snap a pic of MP.

To be fair to MP, Christian is probably batting higher than he should be. If our top order was firing, he would be a sensational number 7 or 8