Posted by jrod on November 26, 2008 under VIC, WA | 
Sorry about the title, i just could not help myself.
Chris Rogers was obviously bored in Western Australia.
Last year he struggled a bit with the bat.
Couldn’t make any white ball teams, and looked flat.
Now he is an adonis of modern batting, and i am sure some newspaper has called his form bradmanesque by now.
Yet again he carries Victoria to a win over Western Australia.
Just a pretty little 75 before letting the big bear take over from there.
But this one has got to hurt Moody, because Rogers left to play white ball games, because WA didn’t let him.
It’s hard to blame WA, but with Ronchi batting at 7 this week, and Rogers running roughshod over them, its gotta hurt.
Victoria are happy now, some of the rabid faithful are even considering Rogers Victorian already.
Unheard of.
It took the big cheese 5 years to do that.
Victoria is riding Rogers, and their general top form, to the top of every ladder there is.
That feels good.
And they only thing that stopped them from going to India and winning was terrorism.
The boys are looking good.
Posted by jrod on November 24, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Chris Rogers burnt his home down on the 2nd day.
Well on the 4th day he burnt down the houses next door, the local school, the fish and chip shop and everything else he could pour petrol on.
Chasing 320 off 70 overs shouldn’t be easy, but with an over to spare and with two of the finest red nuts going around it was.
As if Chris Rogers killing the Warriors wasn’t bad enough, for most of the time the Future PM was with him.
Two former warriors coming back to town to steal the points.
Must be heartbreaking.
It’s happened to us enough times though.
Rogers is now in the sort of form that Jesus would be jealous of.
681 runs @ 88 with 3 hundreds and 2 50’s.
Ouch.
At the other end Future PM David Hussey is getting the starts, showing the dazzle, but failing to cash in.
3 half centuries this year. 9 last year, and only one hundred in that time.
Should we be worried, probably not half centuries from him are better than hundreds by most.
But we shall keep watching it.
Now the Vics go to India with a skip in their stride.
Posted by jrod on November 23, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Someone has woken up Marcus North.
It does happen, he seems to play 3 or 4 games a season where Johnny Cash couldn’t get him out.
This is one of those games, and now Victoria have a proper chase on their hands.
Obviously they should still win, and if they do they can thank Peter Sizzle and Fumbles Wade.
Their tailend shenanigans set the game up for Victoria before Marcus North grabbed some of it back.
I still aren’t convinced with Wade, but more 68’s will help ease my mind.
Peter Sizzle can hold a bat, and is a fair number 10 at first class level.
Then North happened, and while it wasn’t a one man show, he did score more than his team mates combined.
Luckily for us loyal Victorians, Gerard Wright was there to scoop up a 5 for, as Sizzle, Dirty Dirk, & Eyelashes Pattinson all struggled a little.
The Vics still have 3 wickets to get, hopefully that isn’t a problem, and then chase down 200 odd.
The points are there if they are good enough.
I think they should try chase down the total in 20 overs, will be good practice for next week.
Posted by jrod on November 22, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Nothing is tougher than going home after leaving your place in disgrace for another woman/parent/sect.
They know your every weakness, they are out for blood, and only by raising your hands at the end of the day can you truly win.
Chris Rogers now knows what that feels like.
He went home, and he said come and get me biaches, in his best gangsta voice.
Western Australia came hard, they cut down his partner like he was nothing, they took a sword to his number 3, and FPM, a fellow who knows all about going home was smashed in front of his many eyes.
He saw them all come, and he saw them all go.
But Chris held firm.
His red hair shining in the harsh sunlight and littered with the blood of his new brethren, and the stain of dodgy genetics.
He went there an ex warrior, he comes home, a bushranger.
There is simply no argument.
Now his former home have 115 reasons to hate him, and he can never truly go home again.
By the time he had spent himself all over the Waca, Victoria was in the place to pick up the 2 first innings points.
Those points, if they are collected, shall be known as Rogers forever after.
Posted by jrod on November 21, 2008 under VIC, WA |
Big day for Victoria, Dirty Dirk bowled the most mathematically improbable over ever, and James Eyelashes Pattinson came out with a bang.
Dirty Dirk and his shenanigans can be read about here.
But the real story is Eyelashes Pattinson.
I thought he was being held back for some reason or another.
We are a few games into the season and he hadn’t been seen yet.
Now he pops up, instead of Crazy Clint or the Angryman Harwood.
And the boy is good.
20 overs 6 maidens 3 for 43 type good.
His wickets weren’t top order, but Bandy and Ronchi were two of them.
This my friends, is some sexy fucken shit.
Considering the Dirskster was missing, 8/224 is a pretty good effort with all the firepower WA have in their top order.
Only Marcus North got away, but playing against the warriors, you have to expect that one of the big guns will take off.
Now is the time to finish off the tail, and gets about winning the match, at least Dirty Dirk will be well rested.
Posted by jrod on November 18, 2008 under TAS, VIC |
And about bloody time as well.
4 games we have dominated this year, and only 2 have we got maximum for, but this is looking good.
Not that the shaky isles didn’t put up one hell of a fight.
Brett Geeves got 99 not out, poor bastard was robbed I hear, but fuck him for making our boys work for the win.
Geeves is an interesting one, he has been known as an allrounder since he first made the grade, but oether than the odd cameo nothing has ever come of it.
Perhaps Victoria have created another Ashley Matrix style monster.
Fuck.
But we won this one, so lets not worry about allround monsters just now.
Crazy Clint McKay continues to take wickets against my better judgement.
And his 5 for gave him the man of the match award.
This is a very promising start to the season, and what a season this could be.
We could win all three Australian trophies and win an international one as well.
And trust me, I have just done a review of the Champions League for another website, we are a proper chance to win the whole damn thing.
But more importantly we are on top in the important stuff.
It’s more important as we have 4 home games to go in the season.
Maybe Ray Bright was right, but I doubt it.
Posted by jrod on November 17, 2008 under TAS, VIC |
Our boys are looking sharp.
I asked for them to bat on for 80 runs or so, and they got confused.
With 10 points Quiney getting an 80odd, and then Gerard Wright making another one.
Giving themselves a lead of well over 200.
A bitter cynical Vic fan may say that the tail often folds up like a tray table when we need them, but when the runs are already on the board they do this.
Either way, it means the result is in no doubt.
Especially after Crazy Clint, perhaps pissed I referred to him as a stock bowler, went macho and had them 3/18 at one stage.
By the close they had recovered to 5/145 with Dan Marsh and Ponting’s pet Butterworth at the crease.
It is hard to go through Dan, so Victoria have decided to go around him, and this takes time, but with a whole day to go, and half the team already out this should be a win.
So let me take this moment to mention Gerard Denton’s figures this year as a counter point to Klinger’s “Bradmanesque” out put.
Last year when Denton was fit he was the best quick in the land not wearing the baggy green.
This year he is averaging over 50.
See some players we do get the best out of.
Good to know.
Posted by jrod on November 16, 2008 under VIC |
SOT Jewell made another 90 odd, FPM Hussey cameod with a 70 odd and Victoria get 2 more points.
Now we have a 120 run lead, 2 days, and 10 points Quiney still at the crease.
Surely, Surely, fucken surely, this is the full points game.
The one that kicks Victoria onto the path to the righteous shield championship they so richly deserve.
Bat on for another 80 odd.
Then bowl them out.
It sounds easy, but they have been in similar positions this year and nothing has come of it.
The one problem is their lack of heavy artillery wicket takers.
Dirty Dirk and Eyelids can burn the house down quickly.
They still have the Angry man, but Gerard Wright & Crazy Clint are more stock bowlers.
2 days is a long time now.
Close it out boys.
Do it for Cam, he needs cheering up.
Posted by jrod on November 15, 2008 under TAS, VIC |
The Vics choked Tasmania without two of their main weapons.
Dirty Dirk and Eyelids were out, but Andrew McDonald stepped in with a 3 for to leave Tasmania 8 for 189 at the close.
George Bailey does his best work against us, I think all that Mick Lewis sledging early in his career really fired him up for a career of G scoring.
Luckily his 70 odd was the only score on the day.
Now that the Vics are home, this must be the 6 point game, first innings points are really starting to shit me.
Even more than the Australian saying that Klinger could be a chance to play for Australia and that his output has been Bradmanesque.
Funny twist wit the game to, starting it 2 hours late because all the players were flying back from the chicken promo game.
And Victoria caught a break because David Hussey’s batting gear didn’t arrive at all.
When I worked at Qantas that would have never have happened.
Posted by jrod on November 12, 2008 under NSW, VIC |
On the surface the warm up game between the two News (Zealand and South Wales) means very little anyone.
Just a warm up game before a test series, and we know how seriously people take warm up games these days.
But there is a little spice on this one, a jalapeno named Matthew Mott.
Just so you know that could be the most exciting way Matthew Mott has ever been described.
You see the Kiwis are taken with the worlds former most boring cricketer and want him as coach of their rag tag bunch of ICL auctioneers.
His work to turn a New South Wales team into shield champions with only 9 international cricketers (and one who will be shortly) has them excited.
Mott is not convinced though, he sees New Zealand as a step down.
NSWales has been wooing him hard, offering him a 2 year deal and mentioning that they were the ones that gave him his big break.
But a more attractive man, Prince Brendan McCullum, has been wooing him also.
Mott has to choose between the people who believed in him, nurtured him, gave him a light blue speedblitz cap. They are good god fearing people who can’t offer him a lot, but are salt of the earth.
Or New Zealand, who offer the glitzy life of international cricket with all its cocaine and hooker mentality. The sort of people that like to party hard and throw their money around.
It’s a tough decision, but I expect Mott to pick NSWales, they are the safer option for him.
Although it’s hard to say no to a prince.
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