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16-01-2013 11:05 AM #1Coaching Staff
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80 years ago today ....
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16-01-2013 11:25 AM #2Coaching Staff
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I enjoyed the tv series of the late 80s,although not very historically accurate apparently.
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16-01-2013 12:20 PM #3@hibs.net private member
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My old Ganny's 80 the day aswell
''It's always been just part of the culture. Growing up, for most working-class kids, is all about football, music or clothes. You might not have much money, but whatever you have got, you're going to look good.'' - Paul Weller
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18-01-2013 12:00 PM #4Coaching Staff
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Originally Posted by hibsbollah
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I watched it, and I thought it wasn't very good. Enjoyable enough, but really not an accurate depiction of events or personalities.
Heavily slanted and too much of an Aussie whinge, IMO.
When I think of the Australian fast bowlers who've played in Ashes tests before and since ....
Pot calling kettle black, IMO.Last edited by --------; 18-01-2013 at 12:10 PM.
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18-01-2013 07:57 PM #5@hibs.net private member
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The Ozzies don't like it up 'em.
A nation of natural whingers.Space to let
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18-01-2013 10:38 PM #6Coaching Staff
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Originally Posted by Jack
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Just to be clear, I have no objection to watching fast bowlers causing GBH to batsmen.
After all, the batsman has a bat, and he can use that bat to protect himself, right? And he doesn't have to stand there - he can go back to the pavilion any time he likes, right?
And I am a fair-minded chap - totally impartial. I can watch Aussie bowlers knocking lumps out of Englishmen, or vice-versa. Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall were heroes of mine, as was the great Aussie fast bowler Lillian Thomson. Merv Hughes was a role model.
But if it's OK for Thommo to rap a 90-mph delivery into Bumble's family jewels - my how we laughed! - or crack three successive bouncers off the Derek Randall's nose, why wasn't it OK for Harold Larwood to do a bit of meat-tenderising at the MCG in 1931-2?
And why have the rules been changed to stop bowlers doing it nowadays?
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